Even though Monday is my day off from training, it is my busiest and longest day of the week so I still wake up super early to get my stuff together, eat breakfast, and make myself look presentable.
Monday’s also usually mean a quick breakfast.
While I love making a good breakfast and often wish I had more time to cook before leaving for work/school, on Monday mornings I want absolutely nothing to do with the stove or oven. In fact, I’m usual so tired that if you put a pot in my hand I’m not sure I’d know what to do with it.
Enter cereal, my unofficial Monday morning breakfast of choice 
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This bowl was stuffed full of Toasted Oatmeal Flakes, Brown Sugar Maple Mini-Wheats, raisins, 1/2 an unripe banana (my favorite), walnuts, chia seeds, and unsweetened almond milk. There’s also a peanut butter spoon hiding in the back!
One of the many things I’m loving about the oatmeal flakes is that compared to other cereals, they actually keep me full for a long time. So long in fact that I wasn’t ready for lunch until nearly noon (and I ate at 6:30 this morning!).
For lunch I packed an arugula salad topped with peanut sauce roasted chickpeas and TJs Peanut Vinaigrette.
I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I really threw a ton of chickpeas in there. Consider my chickpea craving more than quenched. Unless they come in falafel form, I will not be having chickpeas for awhile.
I also packed a honey greek yogurt with a little Love Crunch granola and a couple honey roasted sesame almonds.
I love those almonds, so good!
Like I mentioned before, Mondays are my long days that not only entail a full work day but also a 3 hour evening class on randomized clinical trials. I’m sure you’re all so jealous 
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Anyway, when I got home, I threw together the easiest and simplest dinner ever, pasta leftovers.
The pasta tasted just as good tonight as it did on Friday.
Oh, and why the title of the post? Because today Chicago had temps in the low 40′s. That may not seem super warm, but to Chicagoans in mid-February, this is a near heat wave! I celebrated the unusually warm weather by wearing my Tom’s without socks!
I did have to suffer the cold heading home tonight, but it felt so good to not wear boots all day! Fingers crossed I didn’t just jinx the weather!
Have a great Monday night!
What’s your busiest day of the week?