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 was all excited one year to make an Irish Cream cheesecake! It turned out being a huge bust, so we went and got shamrock shakes instead!
Actually last st Patrick’s day was awesome! My 2 little girls and I enjoyed our city’s awesome parade. And we went out for green ice cream that night. This year my 5 year old is running her first race and I’m super excited!! (Leprechaun lap). It’s 0.1 mile long.
I definitely miss my college St. Patty’s days. I love all the green and mint flavored desserts!
I will be running the Shamrock Half Marathon in Saratoga Springs, UT. A little hier altitude (4,500+ ft) and hills for this FL sea level flatlander!
My favorite thing about St. Patrick’s Day are the shamrock shakes at McDonalds. Growing up my mom would take us there every year to pick one up and I’ve continued this tradition on my wn. It makes the day special and makes me so happy.
I am running a 6k on St. Patrick’s Day, I need to work on my outfit!
All my favorite memories on St Patty’s Day are in my college days. The good ol’ days 🙂 I also love Shamrock Shakes from Mickey D’s !!!
Green pancakes for dinner! Well I tried to make it a tradition but my family wouldn’t have it. They were too weirded out by eating something green lol
Every year I go to this one fraternity (they’re all like my best friends) who hosts “AM Irish.” They basically drink from 10am til the day is over. I don’t partake because I don’t drink, but it’s always kind of funny to see drunk people at 12pm. Don’t know if that’s appropriate… hopefully you won’t judge me! haha
My husband, sister and I are all running the Shamrock Shuffle in Chicago but it is not till April 7th…a little after the fact, but the luck of the Irish is year round, right ? In terms of food on St. Patty’s, my mom used to always put green food coloring in the gallon of milk so that it was green for our cereal in the morning and say that a leprechaun did it! We would have corned beef sandwiches for dinner — YUM! Those BIC bands are adorable and totally my style!
My favorite St. Patty’s Day food is corned beef and cabbage. I’m not sure why I never think to make it throughout the rest of the year because it’s such a good, hearty meal! I made it in the crockpot for the first time last year and it was even easier – and I had tons of leftovers! Good luck at your race!
St. Patty’s is a BIG tradition in Chicago. My friends and I have a tradition of heading downtown to watch the Chicago River be dyed green and then off the bars we go!
I’m doing a St. Patty’s Day race this year in Sarasota, FL. The Sarasota Half Marathon. My running buddy and I have been looking for St. Patty’s Day gear. We found an awesome pair of compression socks and are looking for the rest of our outfits. 🙂
I’m running in a St. Patty’s Day 5k tomorrow! The race is giving out cute long sleeve technical shirts that I’ll probably wear, and I’m thinking I need to hit up Target for those socks!
Lucky charms is my breakfast of choice on st. Pattys day. And every other day.
for several years a couple friends and I ran in the fake St. Patty’s day run in Manhattan Kansas.
My fav. St. Patty’s day memory is last year visiting my friend in Nashville and running a 5k race in our St. Patty’s gear after staying out way too late the night before! After the race we spent the day lying around her pool and then went out for night #2 of fun!
My favorite/best St. Patrick’s Day was in 2005. That’s the first one after my husband and I got married and we got our first puppy. We tried to come up with a good irish inspired name but failed, we ended up naming her Audrey. 🙂 On a completely unrelated note, our son who just turned 2 is named Patrick. 🙂
Those St. Patrick’s Day Bic Bands are super cute! Our mascot in high school was the “shamrocks”, and these would have been perfect to wear on spirit days! I’ve never been one for corned beef and cabbage, but I wouldn’t turn down a green beer. 🙂
I love eating lucky charms on St Patty’s Day! Not exactly traditional I know… 🙂
I just moved to Boston so I have a feeling this year might get a little intesting. Previously in NYC my office was right on 5th ave so we would hear bagpipes from the parade alllll day. I would cross through Grand Central filled with people decked out in green for the parade and leave the office to a stumbling crowd & crowded pubs!
Despite being a “Mc” I’ve never had corn beef & hash (which I am plenty ok with!)
My favorite Saint Patrick’s Day memory is from when my brother and I were little. We would spend the night before Saint Patrick’s Day making “leprechaun traps” and would set them up before bed. Magically, the leprechauns always narrowly escaped the traps but would leave some gold candy coins for us behind!
My favourite St Patricks Day tradition is drinking green beer!
One my best friends from college, Michelle’s, birthday is St. Patrick’s Day. We always have the best time celebrating her birthday and St. Patrick’s Day together. Looking forward to next weekends festivities!
My husband and I are running our very first half marathon on St. Patrick’s Day this year. I’ve been dying to try Bic Bands and this would be super awesome if I won!
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory is from last year – when I ran my first half marathon in Washington, DC!
Every year my family and I try to go somewhere different to celebrate our Irish heritage. This year we will be traveling to Savannah, GA to participate in one of the biggest St. Patty’s day celebrations in the US! I am super pumped and ready to rock all the silly, green St. Patrick’s day stuff I bought to wear! 🙂
I usually run the St. Patty’s day run which will be next weekend…this weekend is Fake St. Patty’s day pub crawl 🙂
My favorite St Patrick’s day was the time I got to play the bagpipes at a local bar through a Guinness promotion event. They were much harder to play than it looks, but I managed to make some type of sound come out (although maybe not the most pleasant)!
Love all the St Patricks day running gear! Being Irish this is one of my favorite holidays, the parades and parties are so much fun. Also the holiday is not complete without corned beef and potatoes, oh and of course a shamrock shake 🙂
It’s fun to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Green Beer! 🙂 This has to be the best giveaway yet.. I have been wanting to try BIC Bands ever since you started talking about them!!!
I always wear green on St. Patrick’s day but no special traditions. I would love to start a race tradition, but not this year. My childhood friend is getting married the day before. Would love a shamrock headband to calm my hair the day after.
I always get green bagels for my students and turn the cream cheese and butter green! They also get to drink green juice!
I am planning on baking and enjoying chocolate cupcakes with baileys frosting! yum
a green smoothie is a must on st pattys day! my friends and I also have a competition every year to see who can where the msot outrageously green outfit, and dog on whoever forgets! (: I’ve been dying to try BIC bands! My headbands ALWAYS fall off and I have bangs = double annyoing!
LOVE having a frosty mug of green beer on st.pattys day cause I’m classy like that. ;p
My favorite food to eat on St. Patty’s Day is green eggs and ham for breakfast!
Irish soda bread
I always loved in elementary school when the teacher would decorate the bathroom in the classroom. They would put green glitter everywhere and say a leprechaun had come! My sister is about to be an elementary school teacher and she says teachers still do this. So cute!
My friends and I are volunteering at a half marathon instead of running in it this year. We are manning our own aid station and their is a costume/aid station competition.We are trying to dress all out and win!
I would love to run a St. Patty’s Day race, but this year, I am going to be cheering on a team of friends at a mini marathon! So excited!
-AJ
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Mmmmmm. I love shepherd’s pie!
I was an Irish dancer from preschool through high school, so my favorite memories of St. Patrick’s Day involve getting out of school alllll the time in March to dance in shows!
A favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory- Going out with my friends and drinking lots-o-green beer
A St. Patrick’s Day tradition you have with your friends or family- Usually drinking green beer 😉
A St. Patrick’s Day race you’re planning on participating in this year- I am not running race for St. Patrick’s Day this year.
Your favorite food to enjoy on St. Patrick’s Day- cornbeef and cabbage! And green beer.
For sure fav memory of St. Pats was when I got to actually spend it in Ireland! We don’t really celebrate at home and it was c.r.a.z.y.!!!!!!
We have a big traditional Irish feast! We’ve enjoyed introducing this tradition to friends we’ve made while living in Guam since St. Patrick’s Day isn’t even on most peoples radars over here!
I’m doing my first St. Patty’s Day race on March 16th in Wilmington, NC! I’ve been looking for socks and headbands everywhere! I’m so glad I found your blog.
I’m excited to run the 5k in South Boston on St. Patrick’s Day with friends. I’ve always wanted to run it and haven’t yet. Then after we will enjoy the parade and festivities. Great blog by the way!
My favorite St. Patty’s Day food is the Shamrock Shake! I’m not registered for a run but this post gets me all hyped up for one!