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 memory was in college on a cruise to the Bahamas!! Drinking lots of green drinks 🙂 so fun!
I really don’t have any St. Patrick’s Day traditions – it’s just never been a holiday I’ve thought about very much. This year my friends and I want to plan something to do, though, so I’m excited about that. Cleveland always has a big parade but I’ve never been. I do remember when I was in elementary school that leprechauns would come during the night and mess up our desks 🙂 I also really love this weird old movie about leprechauns called Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Thanks for this nice giveaway, Julie – I’d love to try out a BICBand!
Making corned beef and cabbage! I’ll be drinking green ginger ale this year 😉 but a good guiness has been my tradition
Whoops! GUINNESS*
One of my favorite memories of St. Patty’s Day was when we were in Kindergarten and we went to our classroom in the morning and the “leprechauns” had completely turned our classroom upside down, chairs were on top of the desks or knocked completely over. There were gold chocolate coins everywhere on the floor and we were sent on a “mission” around the school to go and find the pot of gold so that we could see a real “leprechaun.” I remember having so much fun trying to really find that pot of gold but apparently we were not fast enough and the leprechaun had escaped before we saw him. My friends and I were so determined to find a real leprechaun we went home and dug up almost my entire front yard because we had heard that they lived underground. We were so convinced that if we were just a little bit faster that we would actually find one! We got in a quite a bit of trouble that day for destroying the yard with our toy shovels looking for the leprechaun like the one on the front of the Lucky Charms box.
Thanks for your blog, you continually inspire me and so many others in more ways than you even know!
When I lived in Portland, the official race season always started with the Shamrock Run – a 5K, 8K and 15K road race. It’s my favorite and I’ve done it the past 2 years in a row… now that I’ve moved away (and really, since your post just reminded me), it’s time to find a new local St. Patrick’s Day inspired race!! 🙂
My uncle passed away on St. Patrick’s day a few years ago so we started the tradition of going to the beach as a family. He loved the beach so it is nice to get away as a family and remember him. 🙂
My favorite memory was two years ago for St. Patty’s day, we had everyone over and made Corned beef and cabbage, colcannon, guiness cupcakes, and of course green beer and hard shamrock shakes 🙂 worst memory of that night: being the guinea pig when they tried to make Irish Car Bombs. {They mixed it wrong and it curdled right before I drank it… blegh}
ummm does guiness count as food?? irish soda bread is a close second 😉
Last year was a lot of fun because it ended up being a girl’s weekend. It was probably that much better also because the weather was so amazing that we could be outside all weekend celebrating and playing cornhole!
My parents would always mess our house up and write messages from leprachauns and dye iur milk green. So much fun waking up on st pattys day !
I used to go to the St. Patricks day parade in New Orleans when I lived there with my family. It was so much fun! Almost as much fun as mardi gras!
I lived in Savannah from when I was 4 – 7 years old, and my parents would take me to the parade because everyone dresses up, and they dye the river green. People even dye their dogs green, which I think is maybe taking it too far. Anyway, I have heard that St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah is also pretty fun as an adult, so now that I’m 30, I’d like to go back!
The St. Patrick’s Day that stands out in my mind is when I was young, my mom made my sister and me green milk and other green food for lunch. It was awesome!
I am running the “Get Lucky Half Marathon” in the Twin Cities next weekend. I ran this race last year, and it was a HOT day (~70 F) for March, and it was a bit painful as I was acclimated to 40 F running weather. This year, I don’t think the same temperature problem will exist.
I will be making shepherds pie this year for St Patrick’s day, it’s a family favorite!
Green banana smoothie
My favorite memory is the time I ran a St. Patty’s 5k with full green garb on. I was one of the only ones and I loved it! Everyone thought I was super cute.
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory was March 17th, 2011 when my husband asked me to marry him. We lived in NE Ohio then and it was an uncharacteristically warm day, so we hiked around Brandywine Falls before he nervously got down on one knee and popped the “lucky” question.
This was (2) weeks before I was relocating to Maryland and we would be separated (except for occasional quick weekend trips back home for wedding prep) until we were married 5 months later in August. Everything went off without a hitch! Talk about “Luck O’ the Irish”. 😉
St Pat’s Tradition: Mexican food for lunch and then the St Patty’s Parade in the afternoon!
Reuben sandwiches have corned beef in them…does that count?
My favorite St. Patty’s memory is by far being in Chicago celebrating with one of my favorite cousins. We didn’t do anything too extreme, but the long walks and catching up with each other was absolutely incredible. There’s nothing quite like being with family while being surrounded by some of the craziest St. Patty’s celebrators ever!
I’m running a 7k with my sisters-in-law this St Patrick’s Day. I’m really excited! It’s my first race too 🙂
my favorite st. patrick’s day memory is last year: i was in the hospital, with a 10-hour old baby. <3<3<3 my little nephew came to see us, and he had a "first st. patrick's day" bib on, which is the only reason i even remembered it was st. patty's day.
My grandpa’s birthday is on st. Patrick’s day and we’re Irish so we’d always get together and celebrate his birthday and st. Patrick’s day.
I plan on running a 5K decked out in green! Green BIC band would just perfect the look 🙂
A memory I have from st. patty’s day was from my Freshman year in college. It was during our spring break and since I was going to school out of state I was unable to come home for it. To my surprise, my mom sent me a package with all st. patrick day themed items, including shamrock shaped lights! 🙂
My favorite st pattys day memory is going downtown and watching the parade with friends!
I love corned beef and cabbage! The first time I had it was also a favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory of mine…I met my boyfriend’s parents for the first time and his mom prepared the fanciest St. Patrick’s Day meal I’ve ever had.
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I’m hoping to run our local Shamrock Shuffle – but for some reason it’s not until April this year. So I’ll definitely need the green gear to get in the belated mood.
those headbands are so cute! i love eating irish potatoes…making them is a tradition between my gram and I!
I remember being in Elementary school and every friday we had bagel day. The week of St. Patricks day they would always have green bagels! I thought it was the coolest thing.
One of my favorite memories is my grandma making me green eggs and ham with super sweet coffee for st. patrick’ day. I felt so grown up drinking coffee and yet still fun with the green eggs and ham 🙂
Dressing up in green with my husband and my two little boys and meeting our parents for dinner! (We’re Irish)
I enjoy Guinness shakes on St Pats! Guinness + vanilla ice cream blended together! YUM
When I was a kid, we used to wake up to two little green footprints on the toilet seat and the toilet bowl filled with green liquid where the leprechaun had left us evidence of his visit to our house. Then we would run downstairs to find more clues and our pot of gold (baskets of candy). I can’t wait to do this with my own kids!
I’m excited to try some green beer!
We have a large parade here every year. Love going with my friends and then having a fun evening out!
Running Barley’s Saint Patrick’s Day 5k March 17th in Knoxville, TN!
Every year my mom makes a pistachio cake, actually more like 10 of them to give to family/friends! It is the only time of year we are allowed to make/eat the cake. It never fails to impress year after year!
I attended St. Patrick Catholic School in Largo, FL for seventh and eighth grades and always enjoyed the special masses full of St. Patty’s Day songs and cheer!
we always like to eat some mint ice cream or a shamrock shake!
Last year, my sorority held their spring pancake breakfast on st pattys day! We had lots of fun chatting with other students who came to support our philanthropy and enjoyed dancing around our house kitchen trying to make green shamrock pancakes!
Hmm…my favorite foods for St. Patty’s Day are something involving cabbage and Irish beer, of course. And maybe an Irish coffee or coffee w/ Bailey’s…yumm!
We make green milk and eggs for the kiddos St Pat’s Day morning!
Last year’s St. Patrick’s Day was the best. I was getting a second Masters at Trinity in Dublin. A true Irish St. Patrick’s Day! Had drinks with friends, saw the insane parade, and had to jostle through more tourists than I’ve ever seen in NYC. Hands down the best!
Eating all things green (with the help of food coloring)! And of course a big bowl of lucky charms does the trick of getting me into the spirit 😉
My favorite St. Patrick’s Day was spent in Vegas! So much fun!!!
Looking forward to the Shamrock Run here is Portland! Hoping to win some BIC bands as well! 🙂