Happy Friday!
I’m really looking forward to this weekend. Lots of fun stuff on the agenda!
Workout
Today started like any other Friday in our household… with a sweaty workout.
Ryan and I headed to the gym an initially hopped on side-by-side ellipticals, but when Ryan’s machine started clicking and making funky noises, we hopped off and decided to do 20 minutes of incline walking on the treadmill instead.
I honestly feel like walking on an incline can be harder than running at times. Phew.
Treadmill time was followed by an upper-body workout that included the following exercises:
- Superset One: Lat pull downs + Upright rows
- Superset Two: Incline bicep curls + Overhead press
- Superset Three: Tricep dips + Chest press
- Tricep pull downs
- Bicep curls (3 minutes non-stop, inspired by BodyPump)
- Mac raises (Also inspired by BodyPump)
- Ab work on the exercise ball
My arms feel like Jello now!
Breakfast
You know the drill…
Clearly I’m still on my egg sandwich kick. Mmm.
Awesome Whole Grain Month Giveaway
Two weeks ago I first blogged about Whole Grain Month which is going on right now. Whole grains are not only nutritious, but they’re delicious to boot.
Two of my favorite whole grain recipes include:
This post is part two of my partnership with Quaker Oats… and it features one of the most valuable giveaways I’ve ever featured on PBF.
What a great way to kick off a Friday!
First things first, in case you missed my prior post, be sure to check out a neat sweepstakes going on right now on the Whole Grains Council’s website called the Whole Grains Stampede.
Entering the sweepstakes is simple. You simply tell the Whole Grains Council about your favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner that bear the Whole Grains Stamp (you can see a list of the products here) and then you’re entered to win the following:
- One year supply of Quaker products and $5,000 of grocery money
- Apple iPad 2 loaded with food apps
A more detailed description of the sweepstakes may be found here and you may enter here.
But guess what? You have another chance to win an Apple product right here, right now!
One PBF reader will win an Apple iPod Nano and an assortment of Quaker products.
I use my iPod Nano every day at the gym and and love it for its small size and large memory. I am so pumped about this giveaway!
To enter, simply comment on this post telling me about the last meal you ate that included whole grains or tell me about a meal featuring whole grains that you plan to eat this weekend.
For an extra entry you may…
- Tweet some variation of the following: I entered @PBFingers amazing giveaway: http://ow.ly/6CL0t
Please be sure to comment back on this post telling me that you tweeted because I will select the winner from the comments section using Random.org’s random integer generator.
I will announce the winner tomorrow morning. Good luck!
Disclaimer: I was one of three bloggers selected by Quaker Oats to promote the Whole Grain Stampede during the month of September. I have been compensated for my contributions to the campaign, though my opinions are my own. I only agreed to this partnership because I am a frequent consumer of Quaker products and feel that whole grains have an important place in a balanced diet.
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I just downloaded a whole bunch of “overnight oatmeal” recipes and plan to make at least one or two of them this weekend…especially looking forward to the pumpkin spice oatmeal!
steel cut oats with peanut butter, almonds, and granola for breakfast this morning!
Oatmeal for breakfast! Perfect fall meal.
Made some french toast this morning out of Whole Grain Bread to have with my eggies!
I am currently pregnant with twins and loving anything with oats!! I have a bowl of oats for breakfast every morning, made some oatmeal coookies the other day that I’m snacking on non-stop, granola bars, oats in my meatloaf…yuuum 🙂
This morning I had oatmeal with peanut butter for breakfast!
I eat oatmeal every morning. Whole grains to the face!!!!
Wow! This is amazing! I am actually eating whole grain toast with almond butter on it right now! Ugh, so so good!
I had a big delicious bowl of hot oatmeal with banana and almond butter this morning. Best way to start the day : )
oatmeallll! 🙂
I just had oatmeal this am!!! yum! thanks for the chance!
I had some freshly made whole wheat pita from the Ramallah market with my dinner!
I had some chocolate peanut butter overnight oats this morning for breakfast! Soooo good.
I had oatmeal with brown sugar for breakfast this morning. Filling yet delicious!
I had a tuna melt on whole wheat bread for lunch- boring but so good and so filling.
lentil and brown rice with veggie burgs!!!!
I had a Turkey sandwich last night with whole grain bread!
I just tweeted also!
I had a bowl of oatmeal this morning for breakfast! 🙂
A whole grain roll at lunch today!
Just had some oatmeal for bfast! 🙂
Whole wheat bread with peanut butter for breakfast…yummy!
I had oatmeal squares this morning! yum
Not too inspiring but oatmeal with raspberries and cinnamon but it keeps me full till lunch.
I ate whole grains for breakfast this morning as I inhaled a delicious bowl of oatmeal topped off with blueberries, brown sugar and granola! Yum!…I’m really feeling oatmeal again now that the weather is getting cooler. 🙂
I had whole wheat pasta salad for breakfast! YUM!
My pumpkin oatmeal this morning!
Well I am planning on making your lovely pumpkin oatmeal muffins to celebrate the first day of my favorite seaon… Fall:)
This morning I had an oatmeal square! Yum! 🙂
Quaker Oats for breakfast this morning. And oatmeal raisin cookies are baking as I type!
Also, I tweeted! 🙂
I used some old fashion oats to make some nutella granola I’ve been munching on all week!
Yesterday I ate oatmeal with apples and cinnamon. 🙂
Oatmeal!
I just made your pumpkin oat muffin receipe and LOVE it~!!
This is an awesome give away! This morning I had pumpkin banana oats to start off the fall season right ; ) and for lunch I had an avocado, tomato, and sprout sandwich on whole wheat sourdough bread!
Love my overnight oats with chopped apple and cinnamon. Sometimes I add greek caramel yogurt (oikos brand) ..and it’s like a caramel apple! Tastes amazing!
I always use whole grains whenever possible! The last meal I ate was a veggie wrap so of course the wrap was whole wheat :]
I had an egg sandwich with free-range uncured ham and laughing cow swiss the other morning on a whole grain english muffin.
And I had Quaker oatmeal squares this morning, too! 😉
mmm i had apples and cinnamon oatmeal!
I had overnight oats yesterday for breakfast and made your peanut butter granola for a work party today! 🙂
What a great giveaway!
I ate my hot oatmeal with strawberries, chia seeds, brown sugar and unsweetened almond milk (and a dash of cinnamon) and have the fixings to make turkey meatloaf this weekend (I use oats in my recepie).
I don’t think there’s a day when I don’t include whole grains in one way or another…
I’m eating whole grains in my cereal right now!
I had pumpkin pie oatmeal!
WOW! What a giveaway, Julie! Thank you! My last meal with a whole grains was breakfast (only had part 1 of my lunch which was a smoothie, sans whole grains): oatmeal, protein powder, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, some almond milk, and 1/2 nectarine. Love it!
PS – just tweeted (@bonnielang) 🙂
I eat whole grain pasta all the time! I love to top it with roasted veggies, tomato sauce, and ricotta…delicious!!
I plan on eating a Whole Grain/Wheat Wasa Crispbread with Peanut Butter and Bananas before my race tomorrow morning. 🙂
I had a big bowl of Quaker Oats for breakfast – with a spoonful of Nutella. 🙂
I tweeted this giveaway @run4margaritas