Another day, another ridiculously early morning wake up!
I worked the early shift at the gym today and arrived before 5 a.m. to get everything set up. I had my first appointment of the day at 5:30 a.m. and took a new member through the various strength machines to teach her how to use them properly and select the appropriate weight. I also trained one client and now I’m working on some more training plans and trying to motivate myself to sneak in my own workout before my next personal training session at 10 a.m.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning began with a LUNA bar in the car on my way to the gym. Taking pictures while driving obviously isn’t safe and it was still dark outside anyway, so I didn’t snap a photo. I suppose this recycled picture will have to do even though I ate a lemon flavored LUNA bar. Whatever works!
Whenever I eat LUNA bars, I think about running another race. LUNA bars are one of my favorite pre-race snacks and always remind me of early race day mornings.
It’s so bizarre how different foods remind us of different things.
Some of my food-associated memories:
- Monkey bread = Christmas morning
- Fluffy sugar cookies = My grandma’s house
- Gnocchi = Janessa and Ryan’s wedding (I first tried gnocchi at their wedding and was instantly smitten. That stuff is delicious!)
- Toaster Strudels = Breakfast as a kid (I’d always use two icing packets on one strudel and get in trouble.)
- Bagel Bites = Afterschool snack time (while watching TRL, of course)
- Cheez-Its = Sleepovers at my friend Carrie’s house
Around 6:15 a.m., I broke into a cup of 2 percent Greek yogurt topped with fresh raspberries that I packed and brought to the gym with me.
I’m already hungry again, so this breakfast obviously didn’t do much to hold me over. Thankfully I have a jar of peanut butter in my bag. PB to the rescue!
Question of the Morning
- Do certain foods remind you of certain things? Please share!
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Cinnamon rolls and egg casseroles remind me of Christmas morning! My grandpa always made cinnamon rolls, and they were the best! I keep working on them, but no one made them like him.
A jar of peanut butter is the perfect snack! When I first saw your post about waking up early, I figured it would be 5:30/6 am but wow before 5 really is early! I’d say salmon reminds me of home because it’s my favorite meal that my mom cooks. 🙂
Tostitos and salsa con queso (so delicious! so wrong!) remind me of playing Mario Golf after school. Golf! With the Mario Brothers! I also played Mario Tennis, but I was the MASTER at Mario Golf.
Mashed potatoes remind me of my mom because her’s are just soooooo good and it’s always been one of my favorite foods.
Smoothies remind me of summer time! Mac n’ Cheese reminds me of the years when that is all I ate. I won’t even touch it now. Yay for PB- you can never go wrong with that!
Oh my goodness yes! Foods, but more specifically the smells associated with them. Growing up, I lived near both a soup factory (Cambells) and cookie factory (Christie, who make oreo and peak freans in canada). Anytime I smell these smells, it takes me home!
Freshly baked bread is another nostalgic smell (Subway, anyone?).
Magnum ice creams of when I was growing up my Dad would come with one for me and my brother every Friday evening! Neapolitan ice cream of summers as a kid when my mum would make us ice cream wafer sandwiches! And pancakes…crepe style…always Pancake Tuesday! They were the only sort we had growing up.
I’m right there w/ you on the Pillsbury Toaster Strudels. I loved those things! Going to Rite-Aid for ice cream reminds me of summertime when I was a kid…Chocolate Brownie!
Chocolate frosted brownies remind me of visits to my grandmother’s house. Cream cheese casserole makes me think of Christmas morning. And doughnut holes remind me of childhood vacations at the beach. It occurs to me I don’t have any sweet memories that involve nutritious food. Ha!
I love how foods and scents remind us of memories!! As far as food goes–cinnamon and sugar toast, and top-ramen (weird) both remind me of after school watching TRL. 🙂 Scrambled eggs and toast remind me of sick days home from school, my mom used to make them for me! Annnddd Thai food reminds me of college days, eating take-out while studying for exams and what not.
ben and jerry’s smores ice cream reminds me of coming home from high school and watching TRL.
Grilled cheese with ketchup (I swear, it really is good!) reminds me of my summers at my overnight camp.
I love grilled cheese with ketchup! Everyone thinks I’m so weird, but I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one.
Beef stroganoff always makes me think of the night my parents told me and my sisters that my mom was pregnant with my brother (I was 11 and naturally thought the world would no longer revolve around me with a new baby in the house and was VERY upset!). Beef stroganoff is what my mom had made for dinner that night. I spent the entire pregnancy “hating” my parents for doing something so “horrible” to me and then instantly fell in love when I met my brother for the first time at the hospital and I can’t imagine our lives without him! To this day beef stroganoff is one of my favorite family dinners!
That’s a sweet story! 🙂
Oscar Mayer bologna (I know, gross) reminds me of elementary school lunches. Confession: I still love it to this day. Actually had it for lunch today!! 🙂
Beef croquettes remind me of my mum and visiting a tulip festival each year with her and my sister as she is dutch. At the festival they always serve traditional Dutch food. Eating Greek food always reminds me of my best friend who dad is Greek as growing up whenever I went to her house we always snacked on lots of Greek food.
My Mom’s Pecan Sticky Buns – Christmas Morning
Lucky Charms – Breakfast Growing Up
Tostino’s Pizza Rolls and Kraft Mac&Cheese – Friday Night dinners when Mom & Dad would go on a date
Orange Jell-o: The only thing my brother could eat when he was 9 and sick with pnuemonia
Appletinis: Ex-boyfriend (ZOINKS!! haha! 😉 )
Crabcakes and Football: Maryland 🙂
I’m going to have to make your Mimi’s Sugar Cookies! They look so fluffy!
You may have already gotten this question, but I’ve been out of the loop lately. Are you getting a lot of clients? Personal training is something I’ve wanted to do but am nervous I wouldn’t make enough money doing it.
Gnocchis remind me of my best friends house. Her mother is from Italy and would make them by hand. It was the best day when she made them. Kool-Aid reminds me of summers at my babysitters house by the pool. Yoohoo reminds me of highschool lunches!
Catfish and perogies remind me of my childhood! Such a random combination but all I think about is my grandparents house as a kid when someone offers me a perogie.
Peanut butter balls= Christmas!
Broccoli soup= my nephew’s first birthday
Steamed Shrimp= Christmas
Oh my god I LOVE Monkey Bread! It reminds me of weekday mornings as a kid…my mom would always make it and I could smell it baking when I rolled out of bed.
Love the name of your blog by the way….I’m a huge fan of peanut butter (and almond butter…and sunflower butter) as well!
cheez itz and pepsi…my friend charlotte in highschool….she would get a headache if she didnt have her pepsi and her cheez it s box was as big as me!
Bagel bites and toaster strudels, yes and yes! Very similar memories and experiences with those two. Pizza rolls were another major favorite of mine, although those will always remind me of college. One of my guy roommates my junior year would eat them straight up for dinner all. the. time. Yea, he was pretty cool haha
When I swim (which is not too often), I always seem to have a hankerin’ for Hot Dogs & Cheetos. Yeah….real nutritious, I know, but very nostalgic. 🙂
Eggs, biscuits and pancakes remind me of cooking with my dad every Saturday morning when I was growing up! 🙂
Peanut butter is and always will be my favourite comfort food.
Sugar cookies always make me think of Halloween! My mom and I always made frosted cut out sugar cookies in October 🙂
Cherry 7-up = Christmas (We put out cherry 7-up and homemade cinnamon rolls for Santa)
Beef stew = Camping
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup = babysitting (I sat for a kid who would ONLY eat that)
Pokey Stix = College!
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls= holiday meals
Nutella=breakfast in Italy when I visited at age 8!
A specific brand of crackers (not sure which one though!)=figure skating practice
Pesto=dinner while watching TV in middle school
Ling Ling dumplings=potlucks/piano recital receptions
This was fun to think about! 🙂
Isn’t it funny the different food memories we have? Monster cookies make me think of high school volleyball tournaments, sausage balls make me think of Christmas morning breakfast and going to the beach.
So funny the different traditions families have!
OMG I used to watch TRL everyday after middle school. I had sports practice once HS came around, but along with TRL I could down a bag of Doritoz! Wow, wish I could do that now and not gain an lb! Here is a few of my memories
Lasagne- Family gatherings
Cinnamon Rolls-Christmas Morning
Chicken and Stars soup while watching the Price is Right (after 1/2 day Kindergarten)
Totinos Pizza -my grade school friends house after swimming
Many others but those came to mind after reading other peoples posts!
So I just had a toaster strudel with two icing packets yesterday and got in trouble with my husband! hahaha.
Luna bars always remind me of high school. I wouldn’t wake up with time to eat breakfast at home. So my entire sophomore year I brought one to school and ate it during first period.