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WIAW – Protein Pancakes

08/07 by Leigha 10 Comments

Avocado Turkey Salad
Lake Antoine Classic 15k

Does anyone else’s Bloglovin’ mess up? It never shows me new posts until long after they are posted, and sometimes it doesn’t show me posts at all! Anyway, it’s time for WIAW! Thanks for hosting, Jenn!

You guys should be extremely proud of me. I putย effort in toย all three meals!ย Say whaat? Yep! A much better day than last week when I ate the same meal twice in one day.ย 

Breakfast was a new recipe. Protein pancakes!

pancakes

Just put 1/2 cup oats, 1 egg, 1/2 banana, 1/4 cup cottage cheese, a scoop of Greek yogurt, and 1 tbsp whole wheat flour in a blender. Pour on a low/medium setting griddle and top with whatever you like! Each side takes quite a while, so don’t worry about burning them.

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Then I went on a 5 mile run, and when I got home I was just starving! I threw together a favorite –

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This was my first time adding chia seeds to my toast and I loved it!

I felt ambitious at lunch, too, and it resulted in this –

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Whole wheat rotini with peas, spinach, tomato, pesto, feta, parmesan and an egg! Totally random but very good!

As i went to snack on grapes, I was disgusted to see:

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mold. In the garbage they went.

I was on a bike ride when my grandma called and asked to go golfing. I’ve only been out once this year so of course I was in! I had an apple (not pictured) to hold me over to dinner. I golfed a 68. (For those of you that don’t know, a par is 36. I’m not a very good golfer ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

I’ll admit, I was thinking about dinner the whole time we were golfing. I may or may not have been crabby when I got home due to hangryness.

I didn’t have to wait too long for this plate of goodness:

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Grilled salmon, corn on the cob, salad, and avocado! The best part was definitely the corn. Avocado in second, salad because I needed some greens, and salmon… I didn’t like it very much. It has an odd taste. I still ate it though, because it’sย soย healthy. Why don’t I grill more often?!

I was greeted with many, many of theses babies during the day.

cowpie

 

Cowpies. Please tell me you say cowpies and not no bakes?!

So, that was my (very successful) day of eats!

What is something that you eat every single day?ย 

Have a fabulous Wednesday!

Avocado Turkey Salad
Lake Antoine Classic 15k

Filed Under: All Posts, What I Ate Wednesday

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  1. Alex@Veggin' Out says

    08/07 at 1:28 pm

    We must have very similar taste buds because all your eats sound like meals I would LOVE!! Although I’m sorry you weren’t a big fan of the salmon – just send it to me next time. ๐Ÿ˜‰
    And I love your cat peaking in at your lunch. Too cute!

    Reply
    • Leigha says

      08/07 at 2:12 pm

      It’s all yours next time! ๐Ÿ˜‰ He is always sniffing at my food!..I may occasionally let him have a bite, lol!

      Reply
  2. Liz @ The Girl on Fire Now says

    08/07 at 4:34 pm

    I eat yogurt pretty much every day ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Leigha says

      08/07 at 7:14 pm

      I try to, but I haven’t found a yogurt that I really like yet!

      Reply
  3. Kathryn @ Illustrated Nutrition says

    08/07 at 11:38 pm

    My Bloglovin’ doesn’t update for an hour or two after I post (which I heard is common). One time my feed completely stopped updating and I contacted their tech support. They were really efficient and helpful and fixed the problem within a few hours. Anyway, enough of the tech talk…your protein pancakes look amazing!

    Reply
    • Leigha says

      08/08 at 11:31 am

      Thanks Kathryn! I’ve still got a lot of work to get my photos to look great like yours! ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply
  4. Kailey (Caffeinated Runner) says

    08/08 at 10:57 am

    I love how your protein pancakes all have different add ins – certainly adds some nice variety!! And corn on the cob? LOVE that veggie right now – so delicious.

    Reply
    • Leigha says

      08/08 at 11:33 am

      Next time I’m going to add walnuts – I think that would be fantastic! I can’t get enough corn – It’s grown right here, so it’s soo fresh!

      Reply
  5. Brittany @ Dulce Vie says

    08/09 at 12:18 am

    Seriously everything you ate looks ridiculously delicious! I need to try those cowpies.. they look amazing!!

    Reply
    • Leigha says

      08/09 at 8:16 am

      Thanks Britt! My mom used the generic recipe but cut down on the butter and sugar, and they still taste great!

      Reply

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