What happens when you run out of fresh food?

So the last time I went to the grocery store was September 29th, so I've been filling up on Subway, campus food, generally unhealthiness, and frozen/canned food at home. It's been crazy with exams (I just wrote one yesterday, one this morning, and one more tonight!) and I'm sure everyone has those stints with other things that make food less of a priority. So, what did I do? 

I bought some canned diced tomatoes flavoured with garlic and olive oil and so I made myself a bruschetta with defrosted olive bread. I wish I still had cilantro to top that one off..

For one of my dinners, I had a steak dinner, and every ingredient was from the freezer. I still didn't manage to cook the steak fully through without adding water at the end so it wouldn't burn...gotta turn the temperature down next time and cook it for longer (my new stove is super-powerful). I marinated this steak with some steak spice and finally with BBQ sauce at the end (thank you Ribfest :D)

For the veggies I just boiled them in some chicken broth for flavour.

A nice pink on the inside :) mmm.....

And finally to today, this was my meal post-workout. The smoothie's got frozen mangoes, frozen raspberries, orange juice, and vanilla protein powder. My soup was also from the freezer, boiled in half water, half chicken broth. I modified this one so that I'd throw in the scallops, corn, and peas last. Before I threw in all the veggies together but had to wait for the beets and sweet potato to soften, and so the peas and corn would overcook.

 I'm looking forward to grocery shopping tomorrow and then back home for Thanksgiving for some delicious home food! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

The AM Snack

Being the Chinese guy I am, I was terribly craving some food so I made some instant noodles (NOTE: these noodles are not found in a cup and microwaved: those are GROSS. Who wants dehydrated veggies paper shredded into tiny squares? I successfully laid off of cup noodles since first year university *shudder*). My angry stomach may/may not have been caused by my Exercise Training class where we had to do some 1 mile runs, max weight workouts, and I was generally very sore from the day before too (hence I was yearning for protein).

So....I added some frozen scallops to the noodles for that protein. The noodle pack also came with those soup bases, but they shoot up the sodium levels on these noodles to 79% of your daily intake...which is insane. I added maybe half of that and some sesame seed oil and presto! Late night snack.

PS this totally breaks many rules of my new nutrition plan where I eat 2 serving of veggies with every meal and carbs only for breakfast/post exercise....but I was reading articles on hamburgers so the hunger got to me.