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Asian salmon with pickled cucumber, roasted broccoli, and rice
May 15, 2020

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Hi friends! I’m glad many of you found my Intuitive Eating While Working from Home post useful. If you have any other intuitive eating or nutrition myth busting questions/topics you would like me to write about, please let me know!

And now, here’s some of what we ate this week. First up: lunch.

sandwich made with turkey, broccoli slaw, cheese, arugula, and hummus

We had a lot of sandwiches for lunch this week, mostly with turkey, cheese, broccoli slaw, mustard, hummus, and arugula. 

If you like sandwiches and want more ideas, see this post: Mix + Match Healthy Sandwich Recipes. 

I also made us a Mediterranean-themed quinoa salad for lunch one day and ate the leftovers again the next.

salad made with quinoa, kale, peppers, chickpeas, and vinaigrette

It had quinoa, chickpeas, a little leftover brown rice, chopped kale, feta cheese, diced bell pepper, cucumber, chopped olives, and a homemade balsamic vinaigrette with extra lemon. 

ingredients laid out to make a mediterranean quinoa salad

Here are a couple products I’ve been loving lately: the SimplyNature (from ALDI) 90 second Seven Grains and Fillo’s brand microwave beans (from Mom’s Organic Market, although they are sold elsewhere too).  

bag of microwave rice quinoa mix and bag of microwave Mexican-style beans

The combination makes for an easy lunch! I added some microwave-wilted spinach underneath, plus some diced bell pepper and avocado.

easy lunch bowl with avocado, beans, rice, quinoa, yellow bell peppers, and wilted spinach

Riese had a deconstructed version. 

toddler meal of rice, quinoa, beans, yellow bell peppers, and avocado

For dinners this week, we’ve been on the Blue Apron train. One night we had some really good burgers (made with beef and lots of chopped spinach) with roasted potatoes, and we added an unpictured side salad as well.

homemade spinach beef burger with roasted potatoes on a white plate

Another night we had roasted broccoli with pickled cucumber, rice, and an Asian-y salmon. 

It reminded me a bit of my Sheet Pan Asian Salmon with veggies – one of my all-time fave blog recipes!

Asian salmon with pickled cucumber, roasted broccoli, and rice

Last night was our final Blue Apron meal – a cilantro-infused chicken dish with rice. Yummy!

chicken with farro, carrots, and cilantro sauce

We also did takeout one night for dinner – we grabbed salads from Stomping Ground. It was a nice fresh and light meal for a warm evening!

arugula salad with beets, radish, cheese, hummus, and bread

The salads had chicken, beets, arugula, cheese, hummus, and a lemony dressing, and we added some toasted leftover bread (it came with the pizza we ordered over the weekend) to the mix too. The bread was really good with the hummus – Matt brushed it with olive oil and sprinkled on a little salt before toasting it and it was good as new.

I will leave you with a funny picture of Riese attempting to offer Story Time, but her audience was not exactly super engaged. 😉

toddler reading a book to a cat

We also had fun this week painting some shells with watercolor paint. This probably only entertained her for about 5 minutes, but hey, I tried.

toddler painting a shell with watercolor paint

Have a nice weekend – see y’all back here on Monday. 

- anne
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7 comments
  • Sharon May 15, 2020 · 12:09PM:
    Looks like a lovely week of food. I have an activity idea for Riese, especially now that it is getting warmer. Buy some larger paint brushes and a small pail. While outside...let her "paint" with water. You can paint shapes and let her fill them in, she can paint the fence, sidewalk, etc. I used to work in early childhood development and the children all loved this activity.
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    • Anne
      May 15, 2020 · 1:32PM:
      I love this! Thanks for the idea - will def try it!
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  • Ana May 15, 2020 · 12:12PM:
    I made your Mediterranean sheet pan chicken Weds and it was delish! The olives are definitely key - next time I’m adding even more. And LOL on Riese’s unappreciative Story Time audience!
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    • Anne
      May 15, 2020 · 1:30PM:
      Awesome! That's one of our favorite recipes!
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  • Amanda May 15, 2020 · 5:55PM:
    We had the burgers and salmon from BA this week too! When I first saw the photo at the top of your post I was like wait, that looks familiar!
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    • Anne
      May 16, 2020 · 12:59PM:
      Love it! Delicious.
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  • Roadrunner May 16, 2020 · 11:07PM:
    Laughing at the little story reader and her inattentive audience!
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