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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My favorite St. Pat’s food is definitely the shamrock shake–sooooo unhealthy, but so tasty! (Besides, it’s only once a year!)
My favorite St. Pat’s Day memory is from last year… we were on vacation in Maui and my boyfriend (now fiance, as of last weekend.. yay!) convinced his mother and I to take Irish Car Bomb shots. I think my future mother in law was pleasantly surprised by the taste and ended up having a few of them. Glad I stuck to just one 😉
My mom and I make Baliey’s chocolate chip mint cookies EVERY year! They are my absolute favorite! I’ll never forget my first St. Patricks’ day at college when she sent some in a care package for all of my sorority sisters to share! It felt like I was right at home!
Hi Julie,
Thanks for all the great St. Paddy’s Day gear ideas. I am running in a St. Paddys day 8k with a friend and will definitely be hitting up Target. Also, great giveaway I have a small head and very fine hair so every headband I use always slips I will definitely be using the promo code for the Bic bands on the chance I don’t win the giveaway. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
The St. Patrick’s Day after graduating from college, I thought it would be cool to go to Boston to see the parade. None of my girlfriends had “real jobs” yet, so quite a few of them joined me. We drove to Boston late Friday night, spent all day Saturday walking from bar to bar in the pouring rain on a crazy pub crawl, and left early Sunday morning because 1. we were hungover and 2. it was still raining and we didn’t think the parade would be too much fun. We had such a good time that we ended up in Boston for the pub crawl again the next year!
Anytime I can get to Savannah, Georgia for their St. Patrick’s Day celebration always equals a good memory made!
Mint Oreo Blizzards. 🙂
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory growing up was leaving my shoes out on the porch the morning of and coming home from school to find money stuffed inside! Such a fun tradition haha 🙂
I have worked with intellectually and developmentally disabled adults for years- until this past year when I quit to work for a large hospital to be able to go to nursing school. I miss it dearly, but one of the thing I truly miss is the annual St. Patrick’s day party I would have with my clients. We would drown our whole classroom in green, dress up, I would cook up an Irish feast, and we would party all after noon. Typing this makes my heart melt a bit. <3 my absolute favorite memory is a picture I have of one of my clients. I always made "shamrock shakes" and he had it every where except his mouth, but darn it if he didn't look cute as ever!
Thanks for the awesome blog I look forward to reading every evening!
My two boys are very excited about those pesky little leprachauns so I put trails of glitter and shamrocks from their bedrooms to the breakfast table where a St. Patty’s day feast awaits us. I dye the milk green and we all have bowls of Lucky Charms and green pancakes! Then we hunt for gold coins (those gold foiled chocolates) that the leprachauns dropped when they were making a mess of the house 🙂
Green beer! Can’t pass that up! Actually I really could, but it’s kind of fun to artificially color your booze. A grasshopper is more up my alley. 🙂
Corned beef and cabbage that my mom would make and it always stunk up the house. It was delish and sweet for her to make the family each year, even though we aren’t Irish :))
I love corned beef and cabbage!!
Our family has a couple of traditions. First my husband make homemade corned beef with cabbage…delicious! We also attend the annual parade and watch the river turn green. Lastly, I usually make some kind of candy treat for the kids that they have to hunt for. All in all it is a great day!
I can’t help it, as cliche as it sounds, I love corned beef and cabbage. It’s delicious! I think I will make it for my cast this year, they’ve never had it!
We are starting our tradition this year – we picked out our shamrock spirit t’s and I will be starting an annual tradition w a local shamrock shuffle 10k 🙂
soda bread for sure!
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory is playing hookie from school with my dad, my best friend, and her dad. We all went skiing and the mountain had made green snow! It was such an awesome day and it was fun to skip school and spend the day with my dad 🙂
Okay, corned beef and cabbage is definitely in my top 5 favorite meals of all time so it’s no surprise that this is what I look forward to with St. Patrick’s Day! I also jump on any occasion to deck out in festive colors so my outfit on the 17th will be everything green 😀
St. Patrick’s Day is my birthday and when I was little my mom used to leave a trail of “shamrock dust” (green glitter) that would lead me to a surprise present that she said was left by a Leprechaun for my birthday. She always made the day very special–and very Irish! 🙂
I know it doesn’t qualify as a “food” per se, but my favorite St. Patty’s Day treat is Guinness!
I teach and love having shamrock floats with green sherbet and sprite. My students love them!msharing holidays with kids a
Make them more fun.
Since I was an Irish Stepper back in the day my favorite memories are the shows my cousins and I use to put on for family and friends. Now that I am older some of my favorite memories are watching my friends try to perform the jig I taught them on our yearly pub crawl!
I had a really awesome St. Patty’s day at a bar crawl once..it started at 5 PM so there was a nice and early bedtime!
These headbands are so awesome! I would love to sign up for a St. Patrick’s day race this year. I am going to look for some in Houston. Thanks for the idea 🙂
My favorite St. Paddy’s Day memory was last year. I ran in a 5k bar crawl and it was so.much.fun. Partly because I live in Iowa and it was warm enough to wear shorts and a tshirt!
I will be running a 5k on Saturday the 16th!
My fav St Patricks memory, hands down, it was 2008’s I met my now bf on a trip to NYC with a group of friends.
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day food is GREEN BEER!
I LOVE my family’s tradition of having delicious corned beef and cabbage for St Patty’s day every year!!
Anything mint!! well almost anything. Preferably mint chip icecream, mint Oreo blizzards and shamrock shakes! 🙂 oh and spinach.
Favorite Memory: In 2nd grade our teachers came in early and tore up our classrooms and hallways leaving little pieces of green paper, green packing peanuts, and gold coins everywhere. We were all so excited that a leprechaun had come.
I always look forward to corned beef and cabbage on St. Patty’s day and a glass of green milk. Green beer is always a plus too 🙂
I’m so excited for St. Patrick’s Day this year! My family hasn’t really celebrated much in the past, but this year I’m in New York and plan to go watch the parade!!! Can’t wait!
my favorite st. patrick’s day treats are bailey’s brownies–SO good! i also never say no to a little seasonal splash of actual bailey’s in my coffee 🙂
I love eating shamrock shakes from McDonalds on St. Patricks Day! As a little kid, my mom used to always hide “pots of gold” filled with candy and such and leave little leprechaun trails to them for my brother and I to find!
My favorite st. Patrick’s day food is the shamrock shake!
I love to make cabbage on st Patrick’s day. It is one of my favorite foods.
Annual St Patricks Day Party!!
I’ll be running F5 St. Patrick’s Day Dash out here in Seattle in my Shamrock Procompression socks!
I used to live in Hawaii while attending grad school. Just about every St. Patrick’s Day it rained, lol. We’d still go out anyway–there’s always a block party in downtown Honolulu. We’d have so much fun even in the pouring rain!
Oh I love Irish soda bread. Definitely going to pick some up this year. Won’t be running – gave that up as I’m 25 weeks pregnant. But I still workout and I LOVE BICBands!
Not exactly food, per se, but green beer!
Irish soda bread…yumm!
I am a 2nd grade teacher and we make shamrock shakes every year and they make leprechaun traps and we go all over the school and trying to catch a leprechaun. Then when we come back to the classroom and the leprechaun (thanks to the help of fellow teachers) has messed up our whole classroom and left us magic green powder (pistachio pudding) to make! Fun times!
I am running the Lucky Leprechaun 5K, which will be my friend’s first race! I’m hoping the festiveness of the race gets her hooked!
I used to be TERRIFIED of leprechauns, because the thought of little men with accents running around and stealing gold was a little unsettling… One time “they” locked my mom, my first grade class room-mom, in the storage closet at school, and that definitely didn’t help my fear! (I later found out she just locked herself in on accident, and it happened to be St. Patrick’s Day. Thanks Mom.)
My mom would leave a trail of gold Hershey kisses from my bedroom to the kitchen. She would always leave me a basket of green goodies — apples, candy, socks…basically anything green!
A St. Patty’s Day tradition has become to meet up with my friends for a huge brunch of traditional Irish food to pad our bellies before going out on the town. We live in Boston so we know beers and drinks are always going to be in order so the kegs and eggs every Saturday before st. pattys is a must!! (plus the parade on sunday!!)
ps-love these bands!!!
My first serious boyfriend’s birthday was on St Patrick’s Day lol! Still remember him every year.
Green egg bagels are my fave!