WIAW #9

Breakfast Wednesday was a bowl of oatmeal with about 2 teaspoons of brown sugar stirred in.  I wish I could enjoy oatmeal without adding sugar, but it's just not the same!

On my way to work I stopped at Quick Trip for a pumpkin coffee.  It's the best $1.28 I'll spend many times this Fall.  It's technically pumpkin cappuccino with a bazillion grams of sugar.  For me, it's WAY too sweet on it's own.  So, I usually fill my cup 1/3 to 1/2 of the way with pumpkin cappuccino and then fill the rest with coffee.  Makes it healthier, and in my opinion, much better tasting.

For a morning snack I ate some red grapes.  Lunch was pumpkin ravioli with red pasta sauce.  I'm eating it twice a week, sometimes three times.  It's just so yummy!

Afternoon snack was some pumpkin salsa with sweet potato chips. 

Dinner was a much deserved glass of wine.  (I had a gym full of crazy middle school girls all day.  I remember there being 20 or 30 in my classes back in the day.  I had 52...with no whistle.  I whispered, "Dear Jesus, please help no fights to break out!" several times.  No fights and I survived!)  Anyway, to the food...I had a salad with mighty mini's and then grilled mighty mini's with squash, baked risotto and roasted cauliflower.   


This is going to be my last WIAW post for a bit.  With pumpkin season here and then Christmas coming there's just too much I want to post to waste time with what I ate.  Besides, if you haven't noticed I tend to find things I like and then I make them over and over again.  If I make something new, I always blog about it anyway.  So, that's it on the WIAW for now.  I still think it's a GREAT thing to do on your own to monitor what you eat and hold yourself accountable, but for now, let's focus on Fall and pumpkin recipes!  Can I get an AMEN?! 

Pumpkin Ravioli

Before you get excited, this isn't a post about making ravioli.  Although I have made pumpkin ravioli before, I'm yet to do so this fall.  In the same trip to Aldi that I found pumpkin salsa I also found pumpkin ravioli.  I'm telling you, I hit the jackpot!  (Yes, I could be an Aldi spokesperson...if only they would update that 1970's logo and horrible orange/brown tile.  It's like traveling back in time when you walk through those doors)  Anyway...Josh went to West Virginia for the K-State game with his Dad so I was on my own for dinner.  I had some pasta sauce in the freezer that I thawed and voila, easy game time dinner was ready.  Although it would be nice if these were whole wheat, even with the white flour, it's still better than pizza and beer, right?

 

You can find these in the frozen section and I don't remember how much they were, but they were cheap.  There's a recipe on the back for a sauce, but it was straight sugar so I opted for homemade red sauce.  I'm not sure if it's weird to put red sauce on it, but it tasted great to me!  I also put a couple ravioli in a bowl and drizzled some olive oil on top and sprinkled it with goat cheese.  That was a nice option as well.  Today in the World Market ad I saw a jar of pumpkin pasta sauce.  How exciting!  I may go buy a jar or I may look up a recipe for the next time I make these.

 

 

The serving size is 5 ravioli and they are big so I thought 5 was enough.  I still have some left, but I'll be stocking up on bags of this along with my pumpkin salsa on my trip to Aldi tomorrow.