Lunch at Panera Bread

With all that been going on lately with school ,work and life, i decided i needed  a little break to do nothing for a whole day.  That lasted for about 2 hours till my mom suggested we run some errands. Let me be the first to tell you that there’s nothing like running errands , that aren’t really your errands on your day off . Being the team player I am though, I got dressed and went . While running around the city with my mom, my sister called and said “lets do lunch at Panera”. I gladly accepted and brought my mom for the fun as well. So we met up with my sister at Panera Bread and  we had the best daughter  and mother lunch you could ever have. I ended up trying their new summer shrimp roll and their summer corn chowder and my sister had her usual.I generally don’t like eating cold shrimp sandwiches and chowder but this was the exception, It was everything that you would expect from Panera Bread  and more.I like switching things up every once in a while and this didn’t disappoint, but I’m still sticking with my tried and true tomato mozzarella panini and broccoli cheddar soup . But who am I kidding, you can never go wrong with Panera Bread.

Breakfast at Panera

Finding good wholesome breakfast on the go can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. While on an early morning outing, my fam and i decide to get some breakfast so we decide to grab some Panera Bread. This was my first time actually going to Panera bread during breakfast so i knew that this was going to be very interesting.  Way before i even became vegetarian, i  had a bad gag reflex to eggs. The smell of it , the taste of it, boiled, scrambled, poached, it didn’t matter i  just couldn’t eat eggs.  So my breakfast options growing up has always been limited, so when i got to Panera Bread i knew my only option was going to be a bagel. But once at the counter, I was please to see that on the menu was steel cut oatmeal.  I’m not gonna lie the oatmeal was a bit pricey but compared to what you find at you local drive thru. This oatmeal was out of this world, real ingredients,  fresh fruits and pecans and also vegan friendly too. I paired it with a wheat bagel and black coffee and had the most nutritious and delicious breakfast i had in a while.   If you’re an oatmeal fan and haven’t tried Panera’s  oatmeal you don’t know what you’re missing.  What your favorite Panera bread item?

Thanks but no thanks

So these past few weeks I’ve been on a carb overload… Thanks to my mom who had a craving for bagels, there was a baker’s dozen from Panera Bread  lying around the house.  I’ve been known to chug a green smoothie with the best of them but I’m not that strong when it comes to bread especially when they come asiago cheese and cinnamon crunch flavored.

Any-who yesterday my sis and I was in an adventurous mood after church , so instead of our usual Chipotle we decided between Pei Wei or Gyroville. Never having either we chose Pei Wei,I had some Pei Wei Spicy Shrimp while my sis had Caramel chicken. At first  i was so intrigued by their soda machine that offered different flavored sprites and cokes, that i forgot all about the food. But i digress, The food was good but it was a bit on the high sodium side for my sis and I.  I truly believe its cause our body hasn’t been use to sodium levels like this in a long time ,since 75% of our daily intake is low in sodium or close to natural as we can get.

It was an interesting experience, but a few hrs later my sis and i felt like crap and i had a burning sensation on my chest that wouldn’t go away….All in all, Thanks but no thanks Pei Wei  -_-