Yesterday I dragged the younger Page all the way to Saratoga for a visit.

Holy wow.

Plum Dandy’s is a completely do-it-yourself frozen yogurt bar. You pick from 8 daily flavors of fat-free tart yogurt, fill up your bowl as much as you please, then top with anything from blackberries to gummi bears to flax seeds to carob chips to hot fudge.

It was a big day.

As promised, I got my butt out of bed for a run before work this morning. I only covered about a mile, plus some extra walking. I took along a speedy running buddy to keep me motivated.

Dogs are so enthusiastic about running and being outside!

The run was on the shmeh side, truth be told, but it’s a starting point. Better one mile than none at all!

Sid wanted to go for a run, too.

I”m not allowed to have any fun!”

I came home and fixed myself a blue green monster.

The blueberries turned it an odd color. Perhaps no more odd than a green beverage, though. In the mix: a frozen banana, spinach, soy milk, a few spoonfuls from the bottom of the plain yogurt container, a splash of juice to thin it out, and frozen blueberries from The Boyfriend’s mother. When she came to visit this weekend, she brought a bagful of frozen fruits and vegetables. She must know that I love the convenience of frozen produce almost as much as I love her son.

On my way out for a half day of work!

And then the Roommate blessedly brought home an avocado and a tomato so it turned into this (the corn clearly had better things to do than participate in my photoshoot):

At least I got some vegetables in with this monster wrap.

I also enjoyed my very first Oats in a Jar:

The jar fit quite handily into my lunchbox for a portable breakfast.

And then, last night I, like Heather, broke down and found myself in the supermarket. I only spent $10 and it was actually pretty necessary.

I get a lot of my daily protein from my morning oats (always made with some type of milk) and yogurt. And we were out of both. I admit I bought the Greek yogurt because it was a dollar and I want to see if Yoplait can hold a candle to Chobani. The cheese is getting paired with frozen dough and leftover sauce for pizza tomorrow night. You know groceries are sparse in my house when we have no cheese.

Speaking of sparse, check out the slim-pickings of my lunch tomorrow:

There’s not much green in there! Short of bringing an onion to munch on for lunch, I have to rely on the veggies in my orzo tuna salad. We have run out of granola as well, so that greek yogurt has to deal with always delicious but less nutritionally sound peanut butter Puffins. Ah, well. Can’t win ‘em all.

Since I went to bed late I planned ahead and made overnight oats to grab out of the fridge and eat at my desk in the morning. Behold:

Again, it’s not too pretty on the eyes. Hopefully if I throw some peanut butter in there it will suffice until lunchtime.

I think it’s safe to say the lunch is always greener in the other lunchbox.