What's on your plate?

[lylysa]

Hello there, ladies and gents!

Keeping in line with all the fun and interactive threads asking about your most recent halls, items you have your eyes on, what you're currently wearing, what's your hair routine, and more, I've decide to branch out and ask:

"What's on your plate?"

The beauty world doesn't just stop at skin care and cosmetics, it also goes hand in hand with your overall health and well-being, so with that, I'm curious to see what we're all chowing down and snacking on be it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, or inbetween!

For those with apps that help count calories or to those who just want to keep a log, here's a place to share, possibly find and share some recipes, and even tips on maintaining a balanced diet.

Don't just share food items, but even drinks! I'm a huge fan of tea and at least have a cup of green tea a day (anti-oxidants) and drink plenty of water.

For lunch today, I had:

-Brown rice

-Steamed egg

-Steamed red snapper with green onion, sesame oil, and black pepper

-Gai lan (it's a type of Chinese vegetable/greens)

Now, tell me, Beauty Talk world, what do you have? 😄

[lylysa]

I can imagine the buckwheat  would darken up a bit, the same goes for my whole wheat pancakes.

50 First Dates is a cute movie...now I wanna build/eat a waffle house!

Once you nail down a recipe for the biscuits I'd love to hear it!

[redwagon44]

My dinner tonight! Lentil and brown rice pilaf with cucumber and pepper salad 🙂 I'm trying to cut down on dairy to see if it will help my skin, so I resisted the urge to make the cucumber salad with yogurt and cover the pilaf with feta! So hard for this Wisconsin girl 😉

[lylysa]

I love making cucumber salads like they do in Japanese restaurants/sushi spots!

Thinly slice cucumber rounds, drizzle some rice vinegar (you can melt a touch of sugar in it if it's too sharp on its own), top with crab meat (most of the time it's the artificial crab stick at sushi places), and sesame seeds! 

[redwagon44]

Mmmmm, that sounds so tasty! And a great use for some of the cucumbers I've picked up from the farmers market.

[lylysa]

Sure is! I hardly touch cucumbers, except for when they're in sushi rolls or when I get the cucumber salads. Play around with the sugar/rice vinegar ratio to your liking. I heat up the vinegar a tad to make the sugar dissolve better and you can even have the vinegar/sugar mix pre-made and kept on hand for whenever you want to toss in some slices of cucumber into a bowl and chomp away!

[malday]

1 Giant white peach

1 Banana

Homemade almond milk

Chia seed

So delicious!

[RandeeBT]

That looks delicious, malday! I always put chia seeds in my smoothies too! I find that they really help keep me full. 🙂

[lylysa]

Chia! ^_^ 

Mmmm, white peach!

[kevinbt]

Here is my lunch today! I'm obsessed with the poke from Bristol Farms. It's the best that I've tasted outside of Hawaii! 🙂 And underneath the perfectly seasoned poke is a bed of chilled brown rice, topped with cucumber slices and a cut of delicious avocado.  And next to it is some Salmon Nigiri! I was too full to eat it, so I will save that for dinner. lol 

[lylysa]

Kevin...I'm jealous and you didn't even have to do a hair flip in my direction! 😛

That looks delicious (and I'm sure it sure was)! I'm still on the hunt for killer ramen that matches or even beats what I had in Hawaii....ughhhh, fatty foodie problems right there! 

[malday]

If you're ever in SoCal I can direct you to many delicious ramen places lylysa! Or better yet I can take you to a ramen fest!

[lylysa]

Ahhhhhh! Now I need a trip to SoCal! For awesome company and awesome ramen!

[RandeeBT]

This looked so amazing! I passed by Kevin's desk as he was eating it and I definitely did a double take and commented on how delicious it looked ;). I may need to get this for my lunch one day too!

[lylysa]

Send Kevin on a lunch run for the office, he's got yummy tastes! 

[Zpsid91]

You guys make me so hungry ALL THE TIME! Feel free to come and make me food anytime you wish 😉

[kevinbt]

Me too! I can't look at this thread before lunch. haha

[lylysa]

I just had some cashew crunch bits ^_^

What's on your plate for today, Zpsid91?????

[Zpsid91]

I had 2 doughnut peaches and a Clif bar - so far that's it 🙂 We may be going out to dinner later tonight though!

[lylysa]

What kind of Clif bar?

[Zpsid91]

Chocolate Chip! We went to Rodizio Grill for dinner, a Brazilian steakhouse place - so yummy! Unlimited salad bar with an overwhelming amount of options and yummy meats to choose from too 🙂

Today was a bit better - BLT for lunch and a chicken lasagna thing for dinner tonight

[lylysa]

Oooooo, Brazilian steakhouse! I went to a new one for my birthday last month (my cousin also celebrated his birthday so it was a big family dinner) and I ate myself stupid! Hahah!