Wine Labeling & What I Ate Wednesday

Hi friends!

I’m blogging as I watch the ESPY Awards, feeling really inspired by all of the amazing athletes in this country and excited for football season to start pretty soon. I just watched sports journalist Robin Roberts receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and what an amazing woman she is!

Today I’m doing a What I Ate Wednesday post since I have not shared my daily eats in a couple of weeks, but first I wanted to share a few pictures from the project that my hubby and I worked on last night: creating wine labels for our homemade merlot that we bottled a few weeks ago, and getting them on the bottles (mostly!) straight:

We’re calling our wines “Daniella Cellars” after my middle name, Danielle. The emblem on the top of the label is a crane after our last name (which is…Crane), and the photo of grapes is one that I took while in Napa. All in all, I’m happy with them!

Now onto food…

Breakfast included one of my current obsessions: almond butter. The Trader Joe’s brand with sea salt is just so yummy. I had some on an english muffin with banana and sprinkled cinnamon:

Lunch was a fruit-packed meal: strawberries, blueberries, and a peach with cottage cheese & granola.

My snack a couple of hours later was a typical pre-workout one, a chocolate peanut butter protein shake. In the mix:

• 1/2 scoop chocolate protein powder
• 2 TBSP PB 2 powdered peanut butter
• 1 TBSP unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 cup chocolate almond milk
• 1 packet Stevia sweetener
• 1/2 frozen banana

I must say that I never get sick of drinking this shake!

Post-workout I drank a packet of Vega Sport Recovery Accelerator. I feel like I often have achy muscles, so I decided to try out a box of these in hopes that it’ll help me recover faster from tough workouts. I am really not a fan of the taste, but if it helps I think it’s worth it. I’ll post more about these at a later date!

Dinner was a veggie burger topped with a slice of provolone cheese + mashed avocado, with sauteed potatoes & spinach. I only added the spinach once I realized that I hadn’t eaten any green veggies all day – whoops! Hey, sometimes it happens.

And there you have it for this edition of WIAW. Good night!