Three's a Crowd

Best feeling in the world….

Waking up in the middle of the night to pee and realizing that you still have hours left of sleep.

Worst feeling in the world….

Waking up in the middle of the night to pee and realizing that you have 15 min before your alarm is set to go off.

So naturally, the later of these two occurred last night.
Don’t you just absolutely hate when that happens? It’s so not worth it to go back to bed but yet the extra 10 min of awake time seems dreadful.

Anyways, I digressed and proceeded for my morning run, wide awake and ready to go.

Today was much like yesterday, busy and productive all morning. I made it a point to leave my desk for lunch and drive home for the essential reason of getting a head start on tonight’s dinner.

Last night, I prepped everything for White Turkey Chili and put it all into the Crockpot bowl for the fridge. At lunch, all I had to do was run home and pop the bowl on the crock and turn it on. Easy as 1-2-3 and dinner will be waiting once we are home.

Here is dinner pre-cooked....

But since I was home for lunch, I heated up a quick favorite of mine. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I adore these.

Amy’s products are probably one of the few “packaged” foods that I will eat. They never disappoint me and are perfect for a nutritious, filling, quick and tasty lunch. I need to try more varieties but I can’t stray away from the Spinach Pockets….they are just soooo yummy!

Especially when dipped in marina sauce. And on the side, there was crudités (carrots, broccoli, and snap peas) with spicy hummus and a bundle of sweet red grapes.

I just loved this well rounded lunch.

After work, Toly and I hopped over to the gym for an intended stregnth workout; however shortly after we began, we were faced with company. A group of people decided they wanted to work out tonight too. It is a public gym, but it's very very small and kind of uncomfortable when more than 2 people are in it. Trust me, 3 is a crowd in these situations.

In all honestly, in the 1 1/2 we've lived here, we hardly ever see another soul in this gym so we usually don't have this problem.

But regardless, Toly hates to work out when other people are using the gym at the same time. I understand, it really does break your concentration and stamina when you know that other people are anxiously waiting to use your machine.

Does anyone else feel this way when working out at the gym?

Ugh, anyways, we ended up leaving and decided to come back and do an intense 20 min ab workout instead and then took Sammy for a walk.

When we got back, dinner was practically on the table!

I needed to find a use for the leftover ground turkey breast and for some reason, chili came to mind. I know that I don’t eat meat often, however, I do eat certain poultry on rare occasion. I say “certain” because it is important to me to buy organic, naturally processed, grass fed animal products.

This package of ground turkey breast contained no artificial ingredients or antibiotics and was 100% organic! Way to go Wegmans! I really do admire Wegmans commitment to providing natural meat and fish products, which is why I support buying our meat there. The White Turkey chili is a standard recipe of mine. I actually don’t really follow a recipe, I just kind of throw together whatever I have.

Here is dinner after cooking for several hours in the crock....


The meat part is more for Toly and all of the veggies make their way into my bowl. So it’s more like a white veggie chili for me, and a turkey and bean chili for Toly. We are very good at adapting with two different eating styles.

For a quick and tasty addition, I threw together another batch of fresh bruschetta. The key into making bruschetta is fresh, homegrown tomatoes, I am convinced. I used my yellow baby tomatoes for this batch with fresh basil, garlic, and balsamic on toasted Cibatta.

I love having chili after it has been cooking all day. The flavors become so enhanced as it slowly cooks.


Well, one more day down and 3 left until our AWESOME weekend!

Can you tell I’m a little excited?