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’m running the shamrock marathon in virginia! Super nervous and excited. Thanks for the fun ideas!
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory is definitely the holiday in 2010, when I was studying abroad in New Zealand! My friend Erika and I really wanted to go experience the celebrations in the city (Christchurch is a very English/Irish city in NZ) but it was freezing out and the rest of our friends bailed. The two of us dressed up in all our green, went on our own, and had the most amazing Kiwi St. Patty’s Day ever! 🙂
guilty pleasure: shamrock shake!
my favorite memory of st patties day is when i wen to new orleans for st patties day and saw lots of parades stayed in a hotel on Bourbon St. it was so much fun.
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory is when a few friends and I dressed up from head to toe in St. Patrick’s day attire and threw a St. Patty’s Day BBQ. There is always great memories with my friends!
Favorite St.Patty’s day food is Corn beef egg rolls…stuffed w/ cabbage, corn beef and swiss cheese with a side of thousand island dressing for dipping! Yum! Yum! Yum!
So excited for the Chicago shamrock shuffle this year! And even though I’m vegetarian, corned beef is a must on st. Pattys day 🙂
I always have a shamrock shake! It’s the only day of the year I ever have one!
Last year girlfriend’s bachelorette party in Chicago was best St Patty’s day
My sister owns a local business so we take part in the parade. SO many families come out and we have lots of fun throwing goodies out!!
Fun ideas! I’m running the Shamrock Scurry 5K in Tallahassee and will be sporting my shamrock BIC Band!
St Pattys day parade in South Boston! It’s a day filled of partying on roofdecks/in the streets. You best believe there’s plenty of beer and green jello shots 🙂
As of college, my St. Patrick’s Day tradition is to get together with friends and enjoy good food and drinks all day. This is our senior year, so we have to make this one count!
I come from a huge Irish family. My grandma and grandpa had seven sons, one of which is my dad. Our family always gets together and celebrates our heritage with my grandma’s corn beef and cabbage. It is not quite the same since my grandpa passed away, but it is always a great time when my loud, crazy, Irish family gets together 🙂
Green beer is my must have for St Pattys day! My bachelorette party was last year on St Patrick’s Day and was a blast!!
My favorite memory was spending the weekend in Chicago with my parents (didn’t even realize it was St. Patty’s weekend). We got to see the river turn green! It was crazy. Lots of people partying and wearing their crazy green outfits. Loved the atmosphere!
I am running a st. patricks day race that weekend, it is the third year we have run it, so its becoming tradition!
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memories are all the years spent celebrating on the streets of Ann Arbor during my time at school. Happy (and unusually beautiful weather) days spent celebrating and drinking outside with friends. That even includes the one year I broke my foot – nothing was bringing me down!
My girlfriends and I have made these the past few years for St. Patty’s Day-they are soo good! Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys buttercream frosting filled with chocolate ganache 🙂
I paint my nails glittery green for St. Patty’s day…
And the only race I’m planning on for SPD this year is between me and my family to get to all the potatoes and carrots before everyone else… (I don’t eat corned beef for ethical reasons)
My favorite saint patrick’s day memory is definitely waking up every morning and having a chocolate “gold coin” trail leading to another little present. My brother and I would also find that the “leprechaun” messed with all our household furniture! My favorite year was when my parents rolled a bunch of toilet paper (clean) around our house and down the stairs. I’m going to miss that this year as I’m in my first year of college!
Every St. Patrick’s Day so far I have traveled somewhere new! Boston, Savannah, Columbia, and now Charleston!
My parents made us green pancakes when we were little! I can’t wait to continue that tradition with my new little one:)
I have a love/hate relationship with green beer. It’s fun and festive, but never leaves me feeling well. And I always feel like I’m sweating it out for days after when I work out! But oh well.
On 3/16 I will be running MY FIRST HALF MARATHON! RnR in Washington DC.
I’m running the Kinsale St. Patty’s 4 miler!! I ran it last year and lived it!!
Favorite memory: My husband proposed to me on St. Patty’s Day almost 4 years ago in St. Augustine! That’s a memory that I’ll always cherish 😉
I don’t have a tradition for St Patrick’s day. My birthday is right around that time and I usually end up making a week long celebration so I guess you could say it is part of my birthday week 🙂
I need one of those headbands to go with the abundance of green beer we drink every year!
My favorite St Patty’s Day food is corned beef and cabbage followed by a green beer!
Irish potatoes are great st patty’s day treats!
st patty’s day tradition: eating corned beaf and cabbage!
Green beer! Does that count as a food tradition? haha
Love corned beef hash for st patty’s day!! 🙂
St. Patricks Day was one of the first time I hung out with my husband before we started dating! It’s been one of our favorites holidays ever since!
1/2 day on Dairy Queen then a few drinks!
I love Irish soda bread.
My fav St pats day memory was a few years ago out at a bar during a bad storm and the bar lost power. Fun night!
My favorite memory was when I was little and my dad pretending to be a leprechaun by talking through the air vents telling us he was going to bring us lucky charms.
My favorite St. Patrick’s day memory is from last year – it was our daughters’ first St. Patrick’s day and we had a great breakfast with great friends 🙂
bring on the corned beef and cabbage! I also LOVE any holiday that encourages people to dress up!
Pick me pleasse! I’m a proud owner of 3 already and they’re the only suckers that stay put on my odd shaped head wheb I run!
I’m running the Gate River Run 15k this Saturday (you should add this to your schedule next year!). While it’s not St. Patrick’s Day themed, it does involve running over the “Green Monster” (a mile long bridge) at mile 7.5!
I love making a green monster smoothie and wearing festive socks!
Okay, so ignore the e-mail I just sent you. I figured out where to comment 🙂 Ha ha – sometimes I swear I am a total idiot.
So, my favorite memory from Saint Patrick’s Day was going to Savannah with a bunch of my college pals and my sister. Green is my favorite color so it’s always been a fun holiday for me.
My husband and I like to celebrate with his family since it was his Grandpa’s birthday! We just hang out together and have a few green beers and lots of food!
My favorite St. Patty’s memory is hunting for leprechauns with my best friend when we were like, 7 years old. Our parents told us that if we wore all green, the leprechauns would come out from hiding. so we went all over the neighborhood determined to find one.
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day meal is the old standard corned beef and cabbage and some nice cold Guinness!
I am planning on running the St. Louis St. Patrick’s Day 5 mile run, as long as my throat cooperates…I have no voice right now! I ran the race last year, and it was a lot of fun and a great training race for half-marathon season!
Growing up my dad always made a corned beef dinner with shamrock shakes for my brothers and I. I sure miss that! 🙂
Charlotte’s annual St. Patty’s Day pub crawl. Hands down the best time.