- I'm Carla Hall and this is "Everything I Eat In A Day."
The first thing I do when I wake up is go to the bathroom.
(laughing)
I don't know, it's 'cause I'm old.
I actually eat first thing the breakfast that I
have every single morning because I really need
to beef up my protein, no pun intended.
Okay, maybe it was a pun intended.
So I have a protein oatmeal.
I love oatmeal.
And when I was told that,
"Oh, you can get more protein in your oatmeal,"
I'm like, "Yeah, no, I will be making my rolled outs
with half milk and half water."
Okay, no, I don't do that because I eat so early.
I do the maple and brown sugar protein oatmeal,
and then, I put it in the microwave
for five minutes and I have a gigantic bowl
because the oatmeal usually boils over
and I mess up that whole process at least twice a week.
And then, I put in cinnamon, a dash of salt,
and then I do 100 grams of fruit.
That could be a banana, blueberries.
Blueberries and bananas is my favorite.
I generally work out at seven.
I do strength training four days a week.
On Mondays, it's upper body, Wednesdays, it's lower body,
Fridays, it is total body.
And then, on Saturdays, it's glutes.
And then, we throw in mid body.
I call the stomach the mid body.
You know what the mid body is?
It's the stomach.
So the mid body.
so people always ask me, "Do you drink coffee
or do drink tea?"
I don't drink coffee or tea in the morning.
The first thing I drink is water.
I don't like coffee, but when I'm drinking tea,
it's really to enjoy the beverage with a cookie
or a sweet or something like that.
But I don't have any caffeine in the morning.
Surprise, surprise because I know it probably seems like
I drink a lot of caffeine, which I do not.
I have my second, I call it my meal two.
That's my second breakfast, so I call it brunch.
And that consists of tilapia, egg whites,
baked sweet potato, diced up and sauteed zucchini.
Just yesterday, I had some leftover vegetable soup.
Actually, let me tell you,
Child, I don't even cook at home.
Matthew, my husband, does most of the meal prep.
So the fish will have curry
or it'll have some shawarma spice on it.
I just found this new spice blend with the sriracha
but in dry form, delicious on fish.
So that went into the soup.
It was delicious.
I think that's gonna be in the rotation.
I am a snacker.
So whenever I know someone is going over
to the UK or Europe, I'm like,
"Please pick up some peanut M&M's from duty-free."
I had a bag that was given to me, like a two pound bag.
And when I have the M&M's, I'll just reach in
and I get like three or four,
and I just had the last one yesterday, aah!
I'm squeezing the bag.
I'm like, oh, there was one M&M hanging out in the corner.
And whether you know this or not,
it's Girl Scout season and you have to help the girls.
So I'm helping by eating the new cookie
which is called Toast-Yay!
It looks like French toast and it has a glaze,
like a milk glaze on it, and it's cinnamony
and short bready and crunchy and delicious.
So that.
Oh my gosh, and guess what else I discovered?
I'm never in the potato chip aisle,
so I just discovered the Lay's Poppables.
Oh my God.
It's just, excuse me.
Hey Mama.
Mama.
I'm on an interview.
I hear you.
(laughing)
So I just discovered Poppables because I had
to do a Super Bowl thing and you know,
it was Lays and all of this.
So I go down the aisle and like, oh, what's this,
these little waffle balls of goodness.
They have the salt and vinegar.
Oh my gosh, child.
Those things are so good.
And then, when you're saying,
"Okay, I'm just gonna have four more," not just one more,
I'm gonna have four more because you have
to like put them in your mouth
and just crunch, crunch, crunch.
It's the kind of thing that you're loud and you're crunchy.
I enjoy them and eat them with love.
Yes, so am I a snacker?
Yes.
So I have six meals a day.
So three and four are chicken
and we generally use the same spicy mix.
Make it in the air fryer.
Vegetables, well, it's generally broccoli,
either roasted in the air fryer because everything
goes in the air fryer 'cause it makes everything so easy.
Okay, let me tell you about the air fryer.
I've had an air fryer for two years.
During the pandemic when we had to keep cooking,
I'm like, I know we have an air fryer.
We go up to the attic and dust off this box that we
had up there for two years.
It's like finding religion.
You become a disciple of the air fryer.
So you want to get everybody into the air fryer game.
Even though an air fryer is a glorified toaster oven,
but then when you get a toast of it, it is not the same.
I should do an air fryer commercial.
But I did have some complete fails in the air fryer because,
at the beginning of COVID and I was testing the boundaries
of the air fryer, what if I did like crackers with cheese,
almost like a baked cracker, crouton, cheesy thing?
I brushed my crackers with butter and then,
I put great cheese on them and I just pressed them.
And then, I put that in the air fryer, turned it on,
and I hear (popping).
Child, those crackers were blowing in there
like they were in a windstorm, in a tornado.
And when I opened the air fryer, I mean,
they were a complete mess.
So my favorite late night snack that we do
every single night and I call it the nighty treaty...
Before I do that, I actually have my meal five,
which is tilapia and green beans.
And then, I have my nighty treaty around nine,
sometimes 10, is 10 ounces of almond milk, unsweetened,
a scoop of whey powder or casein, peanut powder,
a scoop of collagen, four ice cubes.
This is all done in my little Ninja.
And then I screw the top on and it
is so good and so delicious.
Sometimes, with the peanut powder,
I'll throw in dehydrated bananas or dehydrated strawberries,
'cause I want to get that PB and J thing.
So good.
I mean, so good.
I get hangry, 100%.
If you ask me if I'm hungry, I'm like,
"No, I'm not hungry, I'm fine."
And then 10 minutes later, I'm like,
"Oh my God, I'm so hungry."
I wouldn't have admitted that until my mother,
I heard her talking to one of her friends and she's like,
"Well, you know, Carla,
she's nice until she's hungry or tired."
(laughing)
So yes.
I actively avoid liver.
I don't like it.
I don't like stinky cheeses.
Yeah, ugh.
I mean I can, ugh, ugh.
Yeah, no.
Oh, favorite food city, that's so hard.
Right now, I'm in Nashville, which is where I'm from.
But I'm sorry, Nashville,
I'm going to have to choose Chicago.
Chicago, oh my gosh, I love Chicago.
When I go there, I know that that there is no shortage
of the kinds of foods that I'm gonna have.
I love Stephanie Izard, so anything Girl & The Goat,
Girl & The Little Goat, Girl & The Goat et,
whatever the goat is.
I love Chicago pizza because I love yeast and bread.
And before somebody says, that's not pizza,
that's a pie, whatever.
Okay, whatever.
And that's everything that I eat in a day.
Thanks for watching.
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