Happy {Short Week} What I Ate Wednesday!

Happy {short week} Wednesday! Do you all have some lovely plans for this coming Easter Weekend? Derek and I have lots of plans with friends and family and most of those plans involve EATING! For me, it's super easy to overeat on these types of weekends, but by adding more veggies to each meal, I'm planning to keep all those extra calories on the table and not in my belly :)

This month's What I Ate Wednesday focuses on adding one extra cup of veggies to your meals each day. Trust me, it's not as hard as it sounds. When I first started thinking about this post, I didn't think I'd ever be able to show you some veggie-ful ideas because I've been under the weather with a less than stellar appetite, but once I started browsing back through some of my pics from earlier this week, I realized that I still had lots and lots of veggies included in my meals! Could it be that I have become a veggie eater by habit?! I dare say that I have :)

Breakfast

My personal opinion is that this is the easiest meal to add veggies to. Just whip up a green smoothie full of spinach and celery and voila! there's your veggies. You've seen tons of green smoothies here on Vegvacious, but this week I've had absolutely no taste for one. To soothe my throat, I have been LOVING Angela's Homemade Berry Sorbet. Oh.My.Heaven. This sorbet is gooo-oooooddddddd!

Lunch

All I have to say about lunch is: Soup, lots and lots of soup.

All my soups are full of veggies. Lately, my faves have been cream of asparagus and cream of leek.

Snackage

I've seen these Snapea Crisps on other blogs and I've been dying to find some to try for myself. I found this bag at the Bulk Barn and it lasted maybe 48 hours. They are tasty and very addicting!

Apparently they are awesome as a salad topper. Mine didn't make it quite that long hehe.

Dinner

Last night was the first time I actually felt like cooking in about 10 days. I wanted to make something fabulous, low in fat and full of veggies. What I ended up with was half a steamed sweet potato and Jenn's Quinoa Veggie Fried Rice. YUMMY!

Not bad for a sick chick, huh?!

If you're looking for more ways that you can add veggies to your meals,

check out Jenn's WIAW page to see some ideas that other bloggers have come up with.

How can you add one more cup of veggies to your daily eats?

What do you have planned for your Easter Weekend?

WIAW ~ Carbolicious Dinners

Happy Wednesday bloggieland!

I'm super excited for this week's WIAW Extravaganza because it's the first Wednesday since Fall has officially arrived and I'm hoping to find some seriously amazing new comfort foods to try out as the weather starts to cool and my oven calls my name. If you're looking for some inspiration too, head on over and visit Jenn to see what other bloggers have been whipping up this week.

Today, I have 3 super delicious dinners to share.

First off we have my grandma's famous homemade Mac N Cheese. It's the simplest recipe ever and I promise I'll share in the very near future. This is the epitome of comfort food.

Next I have some three cheese tortellini mixed with sundried tomatoes and oven roasted tomatoes and then tossed in a tomato basil pesto. Can you tell I'm trying to fit in as many tomatoes as I can while they're still available at the farmer's market?? On the side we roasted an acorn squash. Oh gosh - squash is another one of those Fall-time foods that makes me swoon!

And finally, to balance out all those carbs, I fully intended to whip up a Honey Tofu Stirfry....but my husband
brought home this.

I <3 PIZZA

I think it's safe to say that veggies, and lots of 'em, are on the menu this week to balance out last week's carbolicious meals!

When you think of your epitome of comfort food, what's the first food that comes to your mind?

Fave thing you ate this week?

Have a great day....we've only got a little ways to go before we make it to the weekend!

Andrea