Friday, October 14, 2011

Me want food!

I know what you're thinking. "Me want food" is what Jenna Maroney says in Season 2 Episode 3 of 30 Rock after she's gained 40 pounds over the summer because her role in the Broadway production of Mystic Pizza required her to eat 8 slices of pizza a night. And I have most certainly not gained 40 pounds with all this running, I haven't actually lost a lot of weight, but my weight has been redistributed somewhere because none of my clothes fit. And on top of that, I am hungry ALL THE TIME!
So I've been searching around on the interwebs to see what foods I should be eating, since my normal 5-year-old diet of peanut butter and honey sandwiches, string cheese, and carrot sticks was leaving me wilting by the end of the day. All of my searches led me to what I already know, black beans, veggies, and rice are DELICIOUS! What I didn't know was that I should be eating them for breakfast, not dinner.
I had today off of work, so had time to be doing some actual cooking this morning before my run! I started out with getting some white rice (everything I read said go with the brown rice, but let's be honest, white rice is a perfect base, and I already had it in my pantry). While that was cooking I sliced up and started to cook two bell peppers. Beans and rice make for a pretty bland colored meal so I went with red and yellow peppers.
Once the peppers had softened I added a can of black beans (drained), a hefty spoonful of crushed garlic, and so green chiles.

About twenty minutes after I started, voila! Breakfast!

I just finished eating it, and it was DELICIOUS as I expected! Now I just have to wait a few hours to digest and then I will hit the trails and see if it works!
I will keep you posted!