Fatty Fat Tuesday

Every Fat Tuesday since I started at TESSCO we would go to IHOP or Bob Evans for pancakes at lunch to celebrate fat tuesday (aka Pancake Day) (aka Mardi Gras) (aka Paczki Day - "Poonchki").  Today was the first of many traditons I will miss due to my new job.  I'll admit I was a little sad this morning remembering our fun.  However, I planned to make the best of my day, pack my lunch and make healthy choices.  I packed a yogurt, some tuna/triscuits, my crustless quiche, an english muffin, some chili and an apple. 

The day started good...I had my little quiches with an english muffin (crustless quiche recipe to come...I want to tweak it a little more).  They were really good though :)

Around 10:30am I had some tuna salad with triscuits (which avoided the camera).  Then I was on a conference call when I looked out my window and what do I see???  A FOOD TRUCK!  Not just any food truck "Miss Shirley's Food Truck" which had an enormous stack of blueberry pancakes painted on the side.  HOLY CRAP...did I just hit the jackpot or what?!?! Well...I couldn't not get pancakes when I was so sad to be missing out on the tradition with my girls.  What did I do?? 

stole a picture from Google

then ate Blueberry Pancakes and THEY ROCKED!!! 

The good news?!  I was stuffed for the whole afternoon.  The bad news?!? (a) I carb crashed and needed coffee to recover and (b) It was Dee's birthday and Liz made cupcakes...Mmmmmmmmm   This cupcake sat on my desk until 4pm.  Around 4p I couldn't stand it anymore so I dug in. 

 I figured today is a wash, right???  Good thing lent starts tomorrow and I've ordered a tall stack of discipline for this lenten season.  I will go into more detail tomorrow :)

This morning I put some potatoes, carrots and onion into the crock pot with a whole chicken.  Added some seasoning on top and voila...Dinner was ready when I got home.  And DELICIOUS!

 To round out the day...I had some ice cream after my 2 miler and...

a bowl of kashi and almond milk

C'est la Vie

A busted day is a busted day...tomorrow will be better and at least I still exercised, right??

That is all for now...I'm drinking a camera shy glass of wine to try to recover from the crazy day at work and getting ready to hit the hay.

TTFN

Note: I've bailed on the collage format for my food b/c I think it is weird...