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 NYC Half marathon on st patricks day! and i have the green plaid lulu shorts and their green top but woe is me: NO GREEN BAND! and I have A LOT of Bic and Sweaty bands but not one green one??!!
My st. patty memory would have to be when I was in the hospital with my nephew waiting for him to be born. I was my sisters coach since her husband couldnt be in the room (he said he would pass out). I spent the entire night with her helping her through the entire process, I watched my nephew be born even though he was born on the 18th it was still a st. patricks day I will never forget. What an amazing moment!
my favorite thing to make for st. patty’s day is guinness cupcakes with bailey’s frosting!
Every St Patrick’s day, my friends and I always go out wearing the ridiculous neckless, earings, green shirt and have a blast!
I love to make shamrock cut-out cookies with my kids for St. Patrick’s Day.
To have a day that celebrates my favorite color is a win in my book!
I’m Irish…I remember visiting my Aunt every year and watching a parade that went by her house with cousins. Of course, after that we stayed for a huge meal of cornbeef, cabbage, & soda bread. Love the BICBands!
My favorite st pats tradition is visiting a little Irish town nearby and participating in all of the fun st pats activities. Love going to the parade and bar hopping with friends and family. Usually the weather is getting warm here in the Midwest, so that makes it even better to go out and enjoy the beautiful day!
I love Irish Soda Bread!
My rehersal dinner was on St. Patty’s Day and lots of green beverages were consumed! Mainly by the boys though 🙂
My favorite memory of a St. Patrick’s Day was when one of my daughter’s came home from school super excited that the leprechauns had visited her classroom and left a mess. She was SO excited and couldn’t wait for the next year to have them visit them again.
My favorite thing to eat on St. Patrick’s Day is mint chocolate chip ice cream 🙂
We always make teen cupcakes with green icing 🙂 not healthy–but delish!!
tradition: green beer on Greenville avenue!!!
I’m running in the McGuire’s 5k in Pensacola, FL. I love BIC bands and have turned my friends on to them too. All thanks to reading about them on PBFingers!
My husband and I are both Irish so we try to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in some form every year. I am a big fan of vanilla protein shakes and I like to start the morning off with a Green Shamrock Protein Shake on St. Patty’s…:)
I love Bic Bands! My favorite St Patrick’s Day memory was in Buffalo, NY. I was visiting one of my best friends and we convinced one of her guy friends to come out drinking with us for St Patty’s Day. During the day they were disagreeing over the location of another bar, so I insisted the winner owed the loser dinner. My friend won, the guy cooked her dinner a week later…and the rest is history! They have now been married for 2 years!
Oops! I meant green!!
Shamrock cookies are my favorite tradition!
It’s my grandma’s birthday so we all go to her house for dinner! This year she will be 88!
I am a born and raised Chicagoan and every year I head downtown to watch the dying of the Chicago River green. It’s a tradition and last year it was 80 degrees in Chicago in March!
my mom always made corned beef and cabbage when i was growing up at home! now that i’m a vegetarian, i just enjoy the carrots and cabbage for st. patrick’s day, but it’s still deeelicious. 🙂
My favorite thing to eat is soda bread! And mint chocolate chip ice cream 🙂
My aunt made me green eggs and ham once when I was little. It’s not a tradition, but it was super fun as a child!
Shamrock shuffle 5k. And as kids we always used to eat green eggs and ham on st Patrick’s day. Corned beef was waaaaaay to scary back then! 🙂
My family and I always do a snowshoe trip the weekend of St. Patty’s. We rent an awesome cabin in the middle of nowhere and pack in what we need, it’s always so fun! Hopefully there’s some good snow for us this year 🙂
Every St Patrick’s day our local bagel shop would have green bagels and my mom who hates mornings would always wake up early and get them and bring home green bagels for breakfast. I always look forward to my green bagel!
My friends wedding was on St. Patrick’s Day. That was a fun day
Setting my PR at the Irish Jig in Grand Rapids, MI last year on St. Patrick’s day! Oh, and did I mention it was 80*?? In Michigan? Best St. Patrick’s day ever 🙂
I just ran in a St. Paddys race where we were trying to beat the world record for largest kilt run. I wrote about it on my blog.
I also just partnered with race junkie. She’s a ton of fun. We are working on something that’ll be posted on my site this weekend. 😉
Guinness cake on St. Patty’s Day = best tradition ever
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day tradition is celebrating my mother – in – laws birthday:) That and green beer and the green river in Chicago are my top 3:)
Love the Bic bands! My favorite thing for St Patty’s is cupcakes with green frosting!
I love my mom’s green Creme de Menthe cake!
Running the DC rock n roll half marathon this year! Just bought a black BIC band to try out during my training after seeing them mentioned on your site and I’m hooked!
I love to just hang out with friends and family on St. Patricks day! I am looking for a race to run still in the sarasota area. I thought there would be a lot, but there is a half marathon that morning, so it’s not looking good. I keep meaning to buy the bic headbands and actually saw them today at Pure Barre, I’m dying to try them out!!
Shamrock shakes from McDonald’s!! I started a tradition of having one a year for St. Patty’s. This will be year three!
I loved my St. Patty’s day my senior year of college, it was just so fun The morning of, I had put corned-beef, potatoes and carrots in the crockpot so that my friends and I could all have an awesome meal after a day full of green beer. It was too perfect
I love going to my downtown on St. Patrick’s Day because they dye to river and waterfall green!
Running a St. Patty’s 5 mile run with my running buddy, Rachael. Always fun to have a good friend to run with. 🙂
A favourite tradition when I was a kid was green milk… my mom would add a little food colouring at breakfast and it was a fun way to start the day.
As a college student, St. Patty’s Day is lots of fun. I am a senior this year and hope this final one (while in college) will be a good one!! I adore the St. Patty’s Day bicbands and would love to sport them during the festivities 🙂
My favorite tradition is running the Shamrock Run in Oregon. Bystanders cook bacon along the course and hold it out for passing runners. Definitely a unique running fuel experience!
I love St Patricks’ day because it’s such a whimsical and fun little holiday. When I was a kid, I would always slip green food coloring into my brother’s milk on St Patrick’s day and tell him that the leprachauns did it, it was our cute little tradition!
I love corned beef and cabbage! I can’t get enough cabbage! I would love to wear a green BICBand while eating cabbage.
My favorite St. Patricks Day memory is from 1st grade- my teacher was Irish and had us start to make leprechaun traps the week before the big day. When we came to school that morning there were green little footprints painted on the ramp, the portable, and even on the carpet in the room. The whole room was a mess- traps and chairs overturned and there were gold coins and glitter everywhere! I’ll never forget it.
My favorite thing to make on St. Patrick’s Day is fruit skewers with all green fruit (kiwi, grapes,etc.) At parties, everyone loves them because they are cute and healthy!
We always have corned beef & cabbage with a green drink (green milk when we were younger, green beer when we were older)! I would love to try a BICband!
Being a teacher, I have always combined Dr. Seuss’s birthday with St. Patrick’s day, so of course, green eggs and ham!!! LOL And I always have a treasure hunt that ends with a pot of gold full of goodies for my students!
Don’t really have a favorite St. Patrick’s Day food, but corned beef and cabbage do sound yummy! Maybe I’ll give it a try this year! 🙂