I Smell Like Pickles

So… I’m eating dinner… now. Whoops.

Let’s see how this came to be:

I went to EQUINOX and took that yoga class. It was called Warrior Flow.
LOVED IT! My legs and arms were all shaky afterwards

It was a challenging class, but I’ve been doing yoga on and off for some time now so I know a lot of the basic and some of the advanced poses. Before I came to NYC I was doing a lot of hot yoga. I am a huge fan but I feel like there is some controversy over it.

What are your thoughts on hot/bikram yoga?

After yoga I did a 10 minute cool down run on the treadmill followed by some ab exercises using the stability ball including “The Hand Off” shown here.
Love that one. I usually do 2 sets of 15 reps.

Lunch was salad beast with lettuce, organic carrots and celery, tomatoes and mushrooms topped with some leftover quinoa and some amazing cheese I bought called manouri cheese. Dressed with my usual (evoo and apple cider vinegar) Very yummy!

This afternoon I went to my favourite spots in the lower east side.

First stop was The Pickle Guys to pick up a quart of their amazing full sour pickles.

This is what it looks like inside. Just a narrow space filled with barrels of pickled veggies.

The owner asked me why I was taking so many pictures and I said “They’re for my food blog!” ha!

I love The Pickles Guys, this was my second time there, and both times they’ve insisted I take a free pickle for the road
I definitely smelled like pickles for the rest of the day!
(I may have also eaten one when I got home)

In terms of nutrition: Pickles don’t really have a lot of  true nutritional value. They’re not bad but they’re not great. I enjoy them once in a while as a low calorie snack. Just don’t have too many because they can contain A LOT of sodium.

I should take my own advice. I’m going to have to control myself around these amazing pickles. Seriously, if you like pickles and are in NYC. THIS is definitely a visit you want to make.

Next stop was Russ and Daughters.

They carry a lot of fancy fish, caviar, spreads, chocolates and baked goods. But I went there for the dried fruit. They have the best. I decided on a bunch of medjool dates. I had one on the way home and… wow… amazing. It melted in my mouth.

I am also going to have to control myself around these dates or they will be gone in 5 seconds!

The loot:

I must have taken my sweet time in the LES because by the time I got home I had to leave for my GRE class! No time to eat dinner, let alone prepare something to bring to my 2.5 hour class! I quickly made myself half a banana with almond butter (one of my favourite go to snacks) and had plans of bringing a larabar with me but totally forgot in my rush to leave.

I ran out of the apartment and grabbed two KIND bars from duane reade on my way to class. These bars have fairly good nutritional stats.
In the Almond Apricot there are: Almonds, apricots [apricot paste, glycerol (vegetable based), pectin , apple fibre, citric acid] honey, shredded coconut, coconut chips, glucose, puffed rice, chicory fibre, soy lecithin.

I try to avoid foods with soy lecithin (actually I try to avoid almost all soy foods except for fermented ones such as tempeh – something I will get into in another post). But otherwise the stats aren’t bad.

I had one of the bars during class hoping it would tide me over. But I didn’t get home from class until 10:30pm!

As soon as I walked in the door I threw some chickpeas, organic carrots, organic celery, tempeh and some of that delicious cheese I bought into a bowl. Topped with the regulars. I also added some Herbes de Provence (savory, thyme, rosemary, basil, tarragon and lavender flowers).

The carrots and celery are hiding somewhere under there

Can’t forget the side of water bottle!

In conclusion: That is how I am eating dinner… now… at 10:45pm. Well actually, I’m done And now I am off to find a (very late night) snack and go to sleep!

Goodnight!