One thing I loooooooooooove about being on vacation is not having to cook. We were lucky to be travelling with our friend who's a frequent flyer so we had all access to the members lounge at our hotel. Makoto and I had no shame....we were there numerous times a day to gorge on their daily breakfast/lunch/dinner/cocktails & cordial presentations.....pain au chocolat, waldorf salad, tuna tartare, grouper with roasted vegetables and berry mousse galore. I was in heaven.
Then we came home and the last thing I felt like doing was cooking dinner. We went to our usual fave Korean restaurant for dinner then forced ourselves to go grocery shopping. BEST thing we could have done. We knew that we wouldn't want to make any involved recipes so we grabbed:
1. lots of arugula salad
2. Chicken and Salmon - for quick grilling and topping our salads with
3. Rice pasta that I can quickly cook and toss with bolognese sauce that I had premade before the trip
4. lots of bananas and avocados for making smoothies with hemp protein powder we have at home
5. brown rice (sprinkled with sesame seeds and eaten with nori makes a surprisingly healthy and satisfying lunch!)
Thankfully, Makoto had made 2 huge batches of tom khaa and a vegetable bean soup before we had left so we had several mason jars of these deelish soups for quick lunches at the clinic.
It's already Friday and I'm proud of us for having eating healthy, non-take-out meals for the entire week. What's the lesson learned? Force yourself to go grocery shopping as soon as you get home from trips to prevent a week of eating sodium/fat laden takeout!
Now...we just have to get our butt's back to the gym.
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