Lunch today snuck up on me!
Before I knew it, my stomach was grumbling and I needed food!
Fact: This meal looks horrendous.
But lots of shredded cheese has a way of making me overlook an unattractive dish!
I began by sautéing a chopped chicken sausage in a skillet while I steamed some cauliflower in the microwave. I then added leftover roasted Brussels sprouts to the skillet, followed by the mashed steamed cauliflower and a boatload of shredded cheese.
Easy, satisfying, ugly and delicious!
March Book Club
With the majority of the votes, the winning book for the PBF March Book Club is…
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. We’ll be discussing this book on the blog on Friday, April 5. I can’t wait to start reading!
Now let’s talk about St. Patrick’s Day running gear…
St. Patrick’s Day Running Gear
Are any of you out there planning to run in a St. Patrick’s Day race?
Ryan, my sister, my sister’s boyfriend and I will be running in a 10K on St. Patrick’s Day and ever since we signed up to participate, we’ve been sending each other costume ideas. You know we like to dress up for races together!
Here are some winners:
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This guy gets a gold star for running with a pot o’ gold.
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Make your FACE into a shamrock. I like her style.
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I admire their commitment to the color green. (Bonus points for the Lucky Charms boxers.)
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These girls look so cute in their green tutus!
More St. Patrick’s Day gear that caught my eye…
I saw a bunch of women wearing fun sparkly skirts over their leggings or compression shorts at the Women’s Half Marathon a few years ago and thought they looked awesome! (Bachelor fans, I think we know Tierra would be all about this one. Sparkle.)
You guys know how obsessed I am with these headbands by now. When I saw the shamrock headband on their website, I just had to have it. A headband that doesn’t slip that’s also peppered with lots of little shamrocks!? Oh yes! (Get psyched because YOU have a chance to win a $40 BICBands gift card that you can use toward one at the end of this post!)
- Target $1 Bin Finds
Surely I’m not the only one out there who gets suckered into the Target $1 bins? I found a bunch of goodies in the $1 bins last weekend that I picked up for our upcoming race, including blinking bracelets, wigs, light-up rings and more. I was especially pumped about the neck ties!
Just in case your running shorts are a little too big.
I’m not gonna lie, these PRO Compression shamrock socks shamROCK my socks off. (Sorry, I just can’t help myself.) I saw Monica and SkinnyRunner blog about them last week and was so excited when they sent me a pair to try! (You can use the promo code MARCH for 40% off any of their marathon socks or calf sleeves right now!) I can’t wait to wear them during next Sunday’s 10K!
- More Fun Knee-High St. Patrick’s Day Socks
Target comes through in the clutch again with a bunch of knee-high St. Patrick’s Day socks for only $5!
I found this little gem in the Race Junkie’s Etsy shop and thought it was adorable!
BICBands Giveaway
Now for the giveaway!
One PBF reader will win a $40 gift card to use on BICBands.com to pick out a handful of awesome workout headbands! (Just FYI, the owner of BICBands is offering all PBF readers 10% off BICBands throughout the month of March with the use of the promo code PB312!)
To enter this giveaway, simply leave a comment telling me about one of the following:
- A favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory
- A St. Patrick’s Day tradition you have with your friends or family
- A St. Patrick’s Day race you’re planning on participating in this year
- Your favorite food to enjoy on St. Patrick’s Day
I will randomly select a winner on Monday.
Good luck!!!
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i was an irish dancer growing up and every year the month of march was spent at different parties performing with my dance school. We loved to stay up late and have fun dancing to the great music. The best memory i have was spending a few st patricks days in ireland and dressing up in green like crazy and looking like a crazed tourist because NONE of the locals dressed up in green shamrock gear!!!
A favorite St.Patrick’s Day memory of ine was bringing in cupcakes and making foam rainbows with the pre-schol class I was volunteering with!
Last St. Patrick’s day my friend and I ran 20 miles and then went to an Irish Pub to refuel and have some fun!
I would always bring st patty’s day decorated cupcakes to class in elementary school; the kids and teachers loved them every year!
I am a sucker for holiday-themed socks. My husband knows of this illness and gets me a pair for every holiday! I am also excited to start some St. Patrick’s day traditions with my 1 year old daughter 🙂
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory was the first time I remember my parents taking me to downtown Chicago to watch the river dyeing. Now I go every year and can see it from my building at work!
I am going to run the Madison Shamrock Shuffle 5k! I actually registered early this year! Last year it filled up before I could register!
Awesome giveaway! A favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory was doing a bar crawl with my friends.
Every year we start St Paddys Day with green bagels! Then its off to my town’s annual St Paddys Day parade which always ends at the Hibernian Irish American Club with corned beef and cabbage and guiness! Its my favorite holiday!!
One of my favorite St. Patrick’s Day memories was celebrating in downtown San Diego one year when I was in college. My friends and I met so many fun people that night. It was a blast!
My fav St Patrick’s Day was a couple years ago. I got to spend the whole weekend with my BFF drinking all sorts of beer before she moved up to Maine. Great times!
My favorite St. Paddy’s Day memory…I had just moved from my beloved east coast to CO to be with my fiancé and CO had the biggest snow storm in years! We were completely snowed under getting more than 3 1/2 feet! It was so fun being snowed in together! We didn’t even own a snow shovel, we had to try and dig out using a garden spade! Fun :):):)
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day is every St. Patrick’s day at Notre Dame!! It’s always fun to celebrate as the Fightin’ Irish! 🙂
My family always goes to the south side Irish parade in Chicago!!
My dad works near St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, so every year he’s able to score cathedral seat tickets to the St. Patty’s Day Parade. The years we’ve spent there are some of the best memories I have with my dad! We usually have breakfast somewhere in the city before, and head home after for corn beef, potatoes, cabbage, and SODA BREAD!!
Last year our ‘going-out-plans’ fell through, so we made our own green beer at home with some food coloring. Relaxing, but still fun and festive!
I’m running a 5k with Athletes Serving Athletes in Baltimore…we do a bunch of races each year and this is our first of the spring. I definitely have to pick up some St. Patty’s Day gear!
A favorite food for St. Patrick’s Day is homemade spinach pasta… so festive!
My grandpa was 100% Irish, so every year my dad’s side of the family would all get together and have Corned beef & cabbage…and of course beer.
Hi Julie, sweet give away! I bought bic bands on your recommendation and they are seriously the bomb. I don’t do too much to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day but I will probably have as much green as possible, i.e. scrambled eggs and asparagus (yum), green smoothies, and split pea soup.
Green beer (:
My favorite tradition is every year my mom and I send each other a St. Patrick’s Day care basket full of every green candy or crazy knick-knack we can find – she’s my best friend always makes me happy, even from far away!!
My favorite memory is going to the St. Patrick’s Day parade every year. I always love seeing the dogs with fantastic costumes. So cute!
I go to Chicago to visit my sister for St. Patty’s Day! I love seeing the green river and everyone is out celebrating, it is always a blast!
Last year my dad and I ran our first 5k for St. Patrick’s Day. Last weekend we ran our first marathon so it was the start of quite the running year!
Both my finace and I have a lot of Irish in our blood, but we’ve never really done anything special for St. Patty’s Day… pretty basic: wear green and eat/drink greens stuff. :b It’s still fun, though!
My favorite St. Patricks Day memory is walking downstairs for breakfast when I was still in school and seeing all of the decorations my mom put up for the holiday. Being from a big irish family this has always been one of my favorite holidays!
My mom used to make sugar cookies shaped like a shamrock and dyed green. Somehow they always tasted better than regular sugar cookies because they were green!
I think I will be working on St. Patrick’s day this year, but usually (even though my family and I are not Irish) we make delicious corned beef and cabbage. So yummy! Those headbands are too cute, I think no-slip is what I need since I always end up having to adjust my headband several times at the gym!
My favorite st Patrick’s day food– guiness!
My favorite memory: when I was little, my parents would sprinkle green fairy dust (I still don’t know what it was to this day…) around the house, and make little footprints in it. They’d put some of the toys in our room out of place…. all due to the Leprechaun that visited us during the night, of course!!! Then we’d come downstairs to eat green pancakes with green milk 🙂
I love green jello shots!
I studied abroad in Australia in a very large Irish immigrant town. We pub crawled throughout all the Irish pubs in town, at lots of fish & chips, drank one too many beers and learned the jig! It was my first legal St. Patrick’s Day and the most fun!
I love having a Shamrock Shake on St. Patty’s Day!
I’m dying to try these bic bands! Running the Shamrock N Roll 5K in Atlanta 🙂
My favorite food on St. Patrick’s Day is corned beef and cabbage!!! I love, love, love cabbage so it’s the perfect meal! I’ve also been inspired by PBFs Crockpot Challenge to make this year’s corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot 🙂
I’ve been wanting to try these headbands for a while now, they look awesome!
I LOVE corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂
Growing up I always had a volleyball tournament on st. Patty’s day weekend so my mom started a tradition of buying me st. Patty,s day socks of all kinds. I still have most of them and wear a pair every time. I’m starting that tradition with my husband this year in our first year of marriage. I also am a traditionalist and make corn beef and cabbage:)
Our family tradition is to go to the local pub and have green beer. We have fun necklaces that glow, and always wear green. We travel to Florida in March, so we are always together on this fun day!
I LOVE bic bands, and want to add to my collection!
i am not a very fun person on st. patrick’s day. 🙁 my mom always tells me to wear red since i am 50% italian. i have always had school so i hope to one day see what all the excitement is about. i love bic bands and these are so fun!
I love eating green starburst jelly beans 🙂
A family tradition of mine is to eat something green:)
My favorite St. Patty’s day memory involves a party in college. It was a beautiful spring day…there were no races run…just lots of beer pong and green beer
Always have to wear something green and pinch those who don’t.
Corned beef and cabbage and green beer! Yum!!!
I’m running a 5k sponsored by my school’s SGA to raise money for needy families in our area! Such a great thing the kids are doing, and I can’t wait to see all the green while running 🙂
I’m running the Rock and Roll USA Half Marathon on the 16th – so not an official St. Patty’s day run, but the only one I’m doing that weekend =). I definitely always make sure to wear green so I don’t get pinched and back when I was at school, I ate the green eggs and ham =).
My favorite St.Patty’s day memory was having paries in elementary school. We would bring green food and wear all our green clothing and spend part of the day playing games. I also spent a St.Patricks day in Victoria with an old school friend. We had a blast!
My favorite St.Patty’s day memory was going to Chicago with my best friend and seeing the river dyed green and of course drinking green beer! I have never done a St.Patty’s Day Race–sounds fun tho…I’ll have to look one up!
I remember how excited I was for St. Patrick’s Day in elementary school because we would have green eggs and ham. Now I’m a vegetarian so I just make a vegan shamrock shake and call it good. 🙂