If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd be having lettuce wraps for dinner in the future, and enjoying them, I'd expect myself to turn into the cleanest eater I could have ever imagined. But, I'm not the cleanest eater out there, and I did have/enjoy the lettuce wraps I made for dinner last night. I can't even bring myself to stick to the 80/20 rule when it comes to nutritional decisions. I'll be doing great during the day, but at night? The food freak comes out at night.
A few weeks ago, I made a full breakfast [eggs, grits, turkey sausage, AND waffles] at 12:30am. I was literally shaking my head at the clock while I cranked up the stove. I do that - tell myself I could do better as I continue to not do better. Waffle House had nothing on me that night. Then I probably had a protein shake for my actual "start-the-day" breakfast later on and made something healthy like lettuce wraps for dinner that night... then ate way too many cookies or had too many glasses of wine that evening.
It's a wicked little cycle. It's times like last night, when I opt for a large leaf of romaine instead of a flour tortilla and stop myself at one glass of wine, that I really feel like patting myself on the back.
For the wraps, I used:
- Romaine lettuce
- Heats of Palm
- Matchstick carrot slices
- Thai rice noodles
- Grilled chicken
- Blue cheese vinaigrette dressing [not pictured - just slightly drizzled on top]
They took all of five minutes to prepare and all of two minutes to devour. Let's see how long I can keep this up.
♥