Sunday, June 21, 2009
Healthy Mall Food???
Ya'll know how I love a challenge. Well I've added one more challenge to my journey to fierce fitness! I'm in Toronto visiting my siblings. My goal is to stick to my program as close as possible while on vacation. And I started off with a bang. I already found the gym I was going to go to before I left Calgary. So all I had to do is find a bus route and get there ... which I did. And a bonus: the gym was in a mall! So I had a great leg workout and was feeling good! I realized I had to eat a meal soon after and didn't think I'd get home soon enough after my workout. So I decided to venture into the dreaded food court. Maybe if I was lucky I could find something that was close to a so-so healthy meal. Maybe some stirfry? Or I could get one of those lame-o salads from Subway with the iceberg lettuce (might as well just be drinking water), the flavourless tomatoes, and the limp cucumbers (I'm not a fan of limp anything ... especially cucumbers ... heeheehee!) with a bland chicken breast. But at least it would be something halfway healthy. Then I saw it. The bright colors and rows of bananas caught my eye first ... a shake bar called Freshly Squeezed. Now this was no ordinary shake bar. You know why? Because I got soy protein powder AND soy milk!! (I don't do cow dairy). Oh happy day! I bought one right away! So the hunt was on for something a little more substantial since I decided to hang out at the mall for a while. I came up to this really long line up that twisted around a corner ... hmmm, I thought, this must be a good place to eat. Whoa ... maybe not ... you see the line up from hell was to Tim Hortons or what I like to call the Carb Cafe. Keep looking Cara. Funny thing, the place right next to the Carb Cafe had no line up ... no one was even looking at the food there. It was called Crispy Greens. It was salad heaven!!! My eyes lit up at the possibilities!! Spinach! Mixed Greens! Romaine! Oooo ... the toppings! They even had chick peas! I was so excited. I think the lady serving me thought I was weird. She tossed some spicy chicken on top and I was clean eating in a mall food court! Who knew!
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