Yummy green egg scramble

Egg White Scramble

My hubby and I made a bunch of the recipes out of the book, Giada's Feel Good Food  and then I had to return it back to the library. He balked at our grocery bill inspired by some of the recipes, so I have to reevaluate some of these recipes and make them more frugal. Is it possible to eat well on a budget? Yesterday, for Mother's Day, I received my muse/inspiration book, Giada's Feel Good Food, and I was back to rethinking my meal choices. We had just driven back from a long car trip with kids and I felt like it was a weekend of noshing on the remnants left in our stock, which was a processed food pantry (Ritz, pretzels, etc). This book was the motivation I needed. 

 As a result, there was green on my plate for breakfast!




I felt very sophisticated this morning sauteing spinach with scallions at 7:20am. I loosely followed  the Egg White Scramble with Spicy Tomato Salsa (Giada's Feel Good Food, p. 47). I read through the recipe and it called for me to get out my food processor to make the salsa. Um. Sleeping kiddos. Hello? No way. So, I opted for a jar of salsa in my fridge. I didn't feel very sophisticated opening a bag of expired baby spinach. How exact are expiration dates? I just had to ignore it. This scramble has a nice salty bite to it and with salsa it makes a nice hearty breakfast. Without the salsa the scramble looks like green eggs. My 3 year old would not touch it and my 1 year old preferred cheerios on top?! Curiously, has anyone else noticed the new label on Cheerios where they say basically that they do have GMO's in their product?  It was 8am when I read this and again I just had to ignore that because getting breakfast on the table as a Mom is still getting things done. Plus, there was green on my plate and I sat down to eat an actual hot breakfast.