It’s a little before 6pm on Monday and I’m closing my kitchen for the day! On Monday nights, I’m trying to take the Sweat Box class offered at my gym at 7:30 pm. This makes for a bit of a strange eating schedule, but is so worth it – this class rocks! 
I typically eat breakfast before work, then a snack around 11, workout at noon, lunch after that, mid-afternoon snack and dinner later at night. On Mondays, it’s all out of whack. My mid-morning snack usually gets eliminated as I patiently wait for lunch (if I bring it to work, I often dig in around 11:30) and then dinner is super early so I can digest before class. Today I went home for lunch to assemble a crock pot dinner, so it was ready for me at 5:20 when I got home. I hope it digests quickly – I got some sweating to do soon 
BREAKFAST
A maple cranberry goat cheese filled muffin (say that 10 times fast ), 1/2 cup of 4% cottage cheese and a sweet ripe persimmon + coffee
[408 calories]
LUNCH
TJ’s whole grain flax seed wrap with Laughing Cow wedge, 2 turkey slices and red grapes + fresh cauliflower, baby carrots and a few extra grapes 
[271 calories]
Wrap close-up… I love this combo! Sweet + savory = delish
Today’s photo-set up…
Hardcore, I know! 
SNACKS
A handful of raisins from this little box
[~42 calories]
Hershey’s chocolate snacksters (from a very old stash – still good though )
[100 calories, duh]
DINNER
Star ingredient: grass fed beef chuck stew meat
I did a little research for crock pot recipes and found this one from Cooking Light for beef daube provencal. This recipe was featured on their “All Time Best Recipes.” Sounded promising 
There was quite a bit of prep-work but then I could leave for work and it cooked itself. Perfect!
The beef was super tender. I liked this… I don’t know about the best recipe ever, but both Adam and I enjoyed it
Dessert – 3 squares of the dark chocolate bar filled pear caramel (from my xmas stocking )
+ a little pack of roasted almonds (I think you’ve seen enough pics of them, right? )
[dinner = ~600 calories, all together]
Total calories consumed today: ~ 1500
Time to kick some butt!!!! What’s your favorite crock pot recipe? Hook me up, peeps! 
I have a few. My favorite is actually stuffed peppers, which sounds odd, but it is so delicious. Let me know if you’re interested and I can get you the recipe.
This is NOT a healthy eating suggestion but if you are going to an event any time soon I have a crock pot recipe for buffalo chicken dip that is insane.
This chicken and corn chili recipe is divine! http://goodtastehealthyme.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/vampires-chili-and-cleaning/
You’re doing so awesome! I’m not kidding. I know it takes alot of stamina to keep the counting up. Way to go on another successful day!
Travis – yes, yes!! I’m interested
Emily – not what I had in mind, but please do share. Who doesn’t love a buffalo chicken dip at a party (except for vegetarians
)
Good Taste – thanks! Can’t wait to try it.
Diana – thank you but it’s really not that bad. I used to do it for years, so it’s all coming back to me.
i just got a crockpot from santa so i’ll be making a crockpot dinner tonight as well! first time ever
i’ll let you know if i find anything worthwhile….. ssooooo psyched!
Haha I love your photo set-ups… I’m not sure if I could brace the cold even to snap a picture! (ugg, its -3* today!!)
It looks like a really delicious day of eats!
I love my mom’s pulled pork – she uses the crockpot for that. I’ve also cooked a whole chicken in the crockpot which was easy! (I just hated touching the raw whole chicken but I’ll get over it!)
I love this pulled pork recipe from The Pioneer Woman! The name is a little deceiving as it is not very spicy, but it is easy and delicious! You can use a boneless pork loin instead of a shoulder if you prefer. It is good for a crowd!
http://kitchenbelle.com/2008/11/06/pioneer-womans-spicy-pulled-pork-crockpot-style/
gotta work in those workouts! I like to do a hip hop class that is around that time so it’s important to have enough time to digest
I’m actually making that beef daube provencal this week too!!! lol but I like to use lamb instead. I’ll be cooking up some crock-pot recipes since I got a new one!
I have on my site a recipe for some slow cooker hawaiian short ribs that I absolutely love.
Dinner looks great!
I love this applesauce. It is so easy and I love it on my whole wheat toast instead of jam.
http://twopeasandtheirpod.com/crockpot-slow-cooker-chunky-cinnamon-applesauce/
Love that chair and the natural lighting
Hope you had a great workout!
Innz – awesome! Can’t wait to hear what you make
Mae – yikes. It’s 30* here – not too bad!
Nicole – what’s the pulled pork recipe? I think my husband would LOVE that!
Kitchenbelle – thanks. Perfect
EatingRD – yeah, I definitely didn’t have enough time to digest. It was quite the mistake. I’m sticking to smoothies or maybe PB&J sammies before class next time, not beef and noodles
Kelly – that sounds great! I’ll search for it.
Maria – thanks! Not quite dinner but it still sounds delicious
Kerstin – thanks, I did. I hurting today though. The class is no joke
This website has amazing recipes but these are my 2 faves
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/11/crockpot-granola-recipe.html
and
this is seriously the best soup ever
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/08/restaurant-quality-crockpot-tomato-soup.html
[...] agreed SO much better with my stomach than the beef provencal I had before the last sweat box class. This is going to become my pre-sweat box dinner from now on. [...]