Hello! Still trying to get used to WordPress. It took me an hour to upload andinsert pictures today. I also don’t like that the space to type the post is so small. I know I can make it into full screen mode but then it does not let me type around the huge pictures. On Blogger, you can type around the pictures when it is not in HTML mode. On WordPress, I have to switch back and forth between Visual and Html to see what I’m doing. I’m probably missing something but right now this is frustrating! I don’t like computers!

Okay, I’ll stop complaining. I promised you the rest of my weekend recap!

Saturday I started out with this:

I used tons of oranges to make 2 full glasses of juice.

I also had a bowl of Cheerios with bananas and raisins.

I was in a hurry because I had to take Daisy May to her 2nd vet appointment!

Now I am poor. The price for each visit is seriously insane. She has to go again this Saturday too. I don’t know what to do. It’s basically my entire week’s paycheck! Ahh.

Saturday night I had my friend’s birthday dinner. It was at Olive Garden. There were 15 of us. We got to wait an hour and a half to eat since there was a party of 45 right before us! That gave me plenty of time to get a little buzzed!

I got a Strawberry Limoncello Martini- Smirnoff Citrus Vodka, Caravella Limoncello and strawberries.

It was the best drink ever. I got 2 of them.

Eventually we finally sat down and got a bunch of wine for the table.

I had a breadstick to start. YUM.

Best part about Olive Garden-unlimited salad.

I probably finished off an entire bowl myself. The dressing  there is my favorite.

For my main course, I got the Venetian Apricot Chicken-Grilled chicken breasts in an apricot citrus sauce. Served with broccoli, asparagus and diced tomatoes.

Delicious! I loved the apricot citrus sauce on the chicken.

Ready for some food porn??

We pretty much got every dessert on the menu to pass around the table.

White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

Raspberry-swirled white chocolate cheesecake topped with slivers of white chocolate.

Black Tie Mousse Cake

Rich layers of chocolate cake, dark chocolate cheesecake and creamy custard mousse.

Tiramisu

The classic Italian dessert. A layer of creamy custard set atop espresso-soaked ladyfingers.

Zeppoli
Soft, traditional Italian doughnuts dusted with powdered sugar, served with chocolate sauce for dipping.

I had a bite of every dessert but the Zeppoli was definitely my favorite. It was like dipping a funnel cake in warm chocolate fudge!!

Delicious dinner!

I slept over my friend’s house that night since I was pretty intoxicated! On Sunday she woke up and made everyone pancakes!

It is nice having traditional buttermilk pancakes every now and then!

She also made pumpkin pie. She actually carved a real pumpkin to make it. She said it took her hours but it was worth it!

We watched football all day and stopped at WaWa for some lunch.

My favorite turkey hoagie comes from WaWa. I got it with cheese, mustard, sweet peppers, lettuce, tomato, and pickles.

I got back to my apartment around 8:00 at night and made a nice salad for dinner.

I added corn, rice, mushrooms, squash, peppers, avocado, and Pepper Dog salsa. A big salad was definitely necessary after all the junk I ate all weekend! I am getting back to the gym this week!

I am off to go play with the blog some more! Stay tuned for a giveaway tomorrow!!

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I’m sure you all know that I am a huge salsa fan. I eat it most nights out of the week for dinner. I was thrilled when I received 4 new jars of salsa from a company called Pepper Dog Salsa.

About Pepper Dog Salsa

Pepper Dog Salsas are all natural products made without onions or vinegar and has a smooth consistency and smoky flavor, giving you a delicious alternative to traditional salsas. This salsa is good on chips & can be used in cooking and makes a great condiment for hot dogs & hamburgers. There are 3 levels of heat: mild, medium, hot.

I talked about the medium salsa once before but wanted to do a full review now that I tried each flavor.

The first time I tried the medium, I used it over a salad. Pepper Dog is the perfect salad dressing since it is smooth and does not have huge chunks like other salsas.

I was shocked at how spicy the medium was! Sometimes medium salsa is not hot at all. It can be hit or miss but I liked that it had some spice to it. Okay, my mouth was on fire but it was still very enjoyable!

I also used the medium salsa to add some extra spice to Lightlife BBQ Tempeh.

This was my first time trying tempeh by the way.

I topped everything over a salad with hummus and broccoli.

The tempeh was pretty good. I liked the soft grainy consistency. The salsa made a great sauce to give the tempeh some extra flavor. It is perfect to use for cooking as a marinade since it is so similar to sauce.

I tried the mild a few days ago.

Once again, I used it as a salad dressing….only 10 calories by the way!

The mild was still pretty spicy! If I had to choose, I would go with the mild since it still had a kick to it but did not set my mouth on fire. Might be one of the best salsas I’ve had in a while. I really loved it!

Last night, I decided to make a Mexican salad for dinner. I knew I had to try the hot but was a little nervous since the medium was so spicy!

I dipped a little on a blue corn tortilla chip.

It was actually not that much different than the medium. I was still on fire and needed 5 more chips to calm my mouth down but I guess I was expecting a little worse! Next time I am falling asleep and need to wake up, I am going to eat some of the hot! Would definitely do the trick!

I also tried the Verde on a chip.

The Verde is made with tomatillos, peppers, lime juice, garlic, cilantro, and spices.

I really enjoyed this one. It had a little spice to it but nothing I could not handle. It had a delicious flavor and mixed very well with the mild salsa for a salad dressing.

My favorite salad ever! I added steamed broccoli, mushrooms, cheddar cheese, peppers, corn, and rice.

Can’t have Mexican without a beer!

Pepper Dog Salsa can be found here. This stuff is good!

I cooled my mouth down with some banana soft serve a little later in the night.

Daisy watched

Well I am off to go catch up on some blogs! Let me know your favorite salsa brand before you go Have a good day!

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Hey everyone. Thanks for your great response to my ZEVIA giveaway! It seems as though so many of us are still hooked on diet sodas and want to get away from artificial sweeteners. Of course I recommend water before anything but ZEVIA is a great alternative to soda! Check out the giveaway here if you have not entered yet!

SUNDAY RECAP

I did not eat breakfast till about 2:00 in the afternoon since I had a long night of drinking the night before! I did have 2 Z-bars when I got up a few times. Finally I made a bowl of cereal!

I added bananas and raisins.

I drank a Vitamin Water too. Slightly addicted to those things.

The cereal was too good not to have a 2nd bowl! I stole some of the boy’s Cocoa Krispies too

We pretty much watched football and did laundry all day. It was one of those lazy Sundays. We did walk to the mall and back so I got maybe an hour of activity in. We saw this girl holding little turtles the day before and she said she got them outside the mall. They were so cute but of course we could not find them on Sunday! They were selling little frogs but apparently the boy has a huge fear of frogs! He said he would not sleep over anymore if I got one! Oh well. Now I am working on a kitten…

We decided to cook dinner since we went out to eat way too much the past week. The theme was Mexican! We started off by making a ton of squash, peppers, and zucchini!

We added Lightlife Smart Ground to the veggies.

We also made some mushrooms and peppers on the side for me since he won’t eat mushrooms.

I also made steamed broccoli.

Along with brown rice.

And corn.
I made one ginormous Mexican salad!

I had a Blue Moon as well which I could not finish because the salad was so big!

Delicious and of course we had tons of leftovers!

We both wanted ice cream a little later. We only had a tiny bit left so we both had an ice cream sandwich with a scoop of ice cream made a sundae!

With whipped cream

MONDAY

I made oats and used the other half of my Justin’s maple almond butter.

I need to buy more. It makes my oats so much better.

I did not bring lunch so I went inside the Chelsea Market and decided on Hale and Hearty Soup.

I made a wonderful chopped salad!

Mesclun greens with carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, avocado, and goat cheese. The best part about the salad was the dressing!! It was low-fat carrot ginger. It tasted just like the stuff they give you in Japanese restaurants!

I got some overpriced popchips to munch on too. Remind me to buy my popchips before I walk into that store next time! I need to go back there again because they had all of these amazing looking wraps. There was a roasted red pepper goat cheese wrap and a new hummus wrap. Today I was good and brought lunch or else I would go there again!

I went right home from work instead of the gym because I had an hour left with the boy before he had to head back to work for the week. Check out the leftovers we had!

I made a fresh salad with mushrooms, peppers, mozzarella cheese, and cucumbers.

The boy made a fresh bag of rice and we topped everything over our salads again!

Sorry about the smoke! That is definitely the best dinner ever.

He left and I was too lazy to go to the gym so I decided to do a workout video. I rented Jillian Michaels “No More Trouble Zones” from Netflix last week so I decided to give it a whirl. It brought back major Shred memories. I only lasted 20 of the 40 minutes but my legs are sore today! The entire 20 minutes was squats and lunges so it is no surprise that I can barely walk. I was tired and probably did not let my food digest long enough so I just stopped the video in the middle. I am sending it back and getting another workout video to try next. Gotta love Netflix.

I spent the rest of the night trying to fix my laptop. I found the problem on Google. It is a fake virus program that claims you have 40 viruses just to get you to pay the $60.00. There was step by step directions on how to get rid of it. I did them but was unsuccessful so I will try again tonight! I was angry so I went in the kitchen and got dessert.

1 frozen banana with carob chips and whipped cream. There might be an ice cream sammy hiding under the whipped cream too!

I was stuffed after that and should have went to bed. Instead I grabbed another snack.

A Z-Bar and Blueberry Oikos with a ZEVIA Root Beer. Also when the Z-bar was gone and there was still more yogurt left, I went in the kitchen and added more Kashi Honey Sunshine into the cup. Blah. I know they are all healthy snacks but I was beyond full after the salad so they were just part of my mindless eating habits.

This morning I decided to pull out my food journal from last year. Maybe it will help more if I have to write these snacks down with a pen and paper. I will try it for a few days and see because I am tired of eating everything in sight after dinner. Obviously taking pictures is not enough for me. There is also a little comments section so I can write how I feel the next day which may help.

Have you ever kept a food journal? Did it help you?

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Check this out…..

Best bowl of cereal ever? I’d say so. Sunday morning I decided to mix my boring Kashi cereal with the boy’s Trix. I added bananas and raisins and it was one fun bowl of cereal!

I mentioned yesterday that there was one more pie the boy insisted on buying from Metro Cafe. Major food porn below:

Oreo Cheesecake Brownie Pie. Ahhh. I can die happy now. I don’t think I need to say anything more about that.

The rest of the day I stayed in bed since I had a fever. We watched Adventureland and Coraline. Both cute movies. Eventually it was dinner time! We decided on pasta.

I had a Blue Moon too. Had to get some Vitamin C from the orange right?

I made organic steamed broccoli on the side. The boy was in love with the broccoli. I used to only make him the frozen kind so this was a huge difference.

I made a big salad with mozzarella cheese and cues for the side of the pasta.

We added mushrooms and red peppers to the noodles. Yum!

Very good! I only ate half of the pasta you see there so we had lots of leftovers!

Look what came in the mail!

A spiralizer! I have all of these Amazon gift cards and this was very inexpensive! I am very excited to make zucchini pasta! I sat there for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to work the thing with a cucumber. I definitely was not doing it right but finally it worked with a lemon!

So fun! I still have $165.00 to use on Amazon so I am considering a juicer but still deciding! I could just get a million new books. We’ll see!

Boyfriend requested a milkshake for dessert so I agreed!

Yum! They were so good that we both had 2! That was a mistake! We both felt so sick after. I don’t know why I chose that ice cream either since I know I can’t handle the artificial crap but I just grabbed the first vanilla/chocolate one I saw. Oh well! I will stick with Turtle Mountain from now on since that never causes me problems.

Monday

I arrived at work to a shoe box on my desk! It was filled with tons of fun goodies!

Gina from The Candid RD sent me the goodies from Special K’s SHARE YOURSELF Challenge. Thanks Gina! I am very excited to try Oat Bran! I don’t think I’ve ever had it before!

The best thing in the package was Gina’s homemade granola! I added it to my oats yesterday!

The granola had nuts and a yummy peanut butter taste to it! I also added bananas, skim milk, and cinnamon.

The boy did not have work till midnight last night so he was able to meet me for lunch! We were craving some hummus so we went to Pita Grill.

We started with hummus and whole wheat pita.

I should have just ate that for lunch! I must have had 4 pitas and so much hummus. It was so amazing. I was full from the appetizer but still managed to finish off my lunch!

I got the Grilled Vegetable Athena Platter: Grilled herb marinated zucchini, red and green peppers, sweet onion, eggplant, with mesclun greens, feta cheese, dried cranberries.Topped with lite roasted red pepper vinaigrette.

The dressing is so delicious there. Definitely my definition of a perfect salad!

The boy got the garden salad with blackened tilapia.

His tilapia was great but he was not as happy with his meal. I told him he should have gotten the burger with sweet potato fries!! (I may have just wanted to steal his fries). At the last minute he went with the healthier option. Oh well, I should be happy since he usually just wants pizza!

We got some fro yo for dessert.

Strawberry and vanilla mixed.

And we sat outside and enjoyed!

I was thinking about going to the gym last night but I felt like I could pass out at 6:00. I was exhausted and dizzy again so i just went home.

I made some leftover pasta and salad.

Blue Moon is fun.

There was ice cream leftover too. I added carob chips, banana, and chocolate syrup. Probably not the best thing when I skip the gym but I have a huge sweet tooth.

I may have had a little more after that! Luckily all of the ice cream is gone now. I am skipping the gym tonight and tomorrow too since I have plans but eventually I will get back into workout mode! Do you ever get into workout ruts?

I am going to an exciting event tonight so stay tuned for a recap tomorrow! Have a lovely Tuesday!

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Hello!

Yesterday was such a fun day with my boss! In case you missed my last past, we got to go on a team building retreat together. We got to skip work and pick whatever activities we wanted!

I woke up at 7:00 and went to the gym since I had a feeling I would not want to go after our retreat! I did 50 minutes on the elliptical. I got back and made myself some breakfast. I made an egg white omelet with mushrooms and American cheese. I also had a slice of Dave’s Killer Bread with Crofter’s Superfruit spread. I made the omelet small since I knew I would be eating a big lunch at noon!

At 10:30, I met my boss in the city at a nail salon. We both got manicures and pedicures!

It was so much better getting a pedicure during work hours! I was just imagining everyone else sitting at their desks while I was getting pampered. So nice!

We then walked over to a nice seafood restaurant called Pearl Oyster Bar in the West Village. It was very cute inside! We sat at the bar.

We both got beers to start..also awesome during work hours! I got shrimp cocktail as an appetizer. The shrimps were huge and there were 6 of them!! My boss got raw oysters but I did not try any because they scare me. My boss brought out her camera and said we should have taken pictures of our delicious food! I got so excited! I think she read my mind!!

For my main course, I got the Prince Edward Mussels with wine, mustard and cream.

They were some of the best mussels I’ve ever had. I’m sure the cream sauce helped give them their delicious flavor. There were so many too! I could barely finish them!

My boss got the Pearl Lobster Roll with Shoestring Fries. The restaurant is supposed to be famous for it’s lobster roll.

She shared half of her fries with me. They were the best fries ever. So thin and crispy! She also gave me a bite of her lobster roll. It was full of mayo but very good. There was huge chunks of lobster in there. The restaurant was pretty pricey but had amazing seafood!

After lunch we headed downtown to the World Trade Center and found our sail boat! We took the ShearWater sail boat cruise!

My boss and I…

We were very surprised when we got on the boat and they said it was open bar! On the website it says that just the first drink is free! I had 2 Stellas.

That is Johnny Depp’s yacht! Our captain saw him that morning! I wanted to sit outside and wait for him to come out but I resisted haha.

It was perfect outside




I had a very big issue happen while sliding myself across the boat! My pants got caught on some metal thing!! I can’t believe I am showing you this but it was bad!!

I was wearing cute blue undies…not sure why they look like that! Yes, so embarrassing. Luckily I had a zipper down with me to wrap around my butt!!!

The boat ride was 2 hours long. It was so relaxing!

My boss left me with a dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s! Perfect!!

I got home around 6 and took a walk with my roommate to run some errands. Around 9 I finally got hungry for dinner so I made an Amy’s burrito.

I melted American cheese on top and had salad, salsa, hummus, and sweet potato chips on the side.

I also made some broccoli (with lots of hummus).

Dessert was a Yoplait Delights cup with grapes.

Don’t forget to enter to win my Yoplait Delights Gift Pack!

I am off to go read blogs!

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I have a very exciting day today! First of all, no work! But..I am still getting paid to work! I am spending the day with my boss! Every department gets to go on a retreat so we got to choose whatever we wanted (with a spending limit of course). We had about 6 different ideas and finally picked 3 of them! I am going to save the details for tomorrow’s post but I can’t wait! For now, I will recap back to Monday and Tuesday!

It’s been very chilly outside this week so I went back to good old oatmeal! I used one packet of Quaker Organic oatmeal with cinnamon, a banana, and Back to Nature Wild Blueberry Walnut granola.

The granola made the oatmeal so good! Loved the blueberry chunks!

For some reason, this only filled me up for 2 hours. Okay, I do know the reason. I forgot the protein! Oops! Well I was dying of hunger so I dug into lunch at 11:30! My lunch is supposed to be at 1:00. Lesson learned!

I made turkey and cheese roll ups with Miguel’s tortilla chips!

I knew I’d get hungry again since I ate lunch so early so I treated myself to a lovely afternoon snack.

Starbucks decaf iced coffee with skim milk and a big bowl of fresh fruit. The fruit is not from Starbucks since they give you half the size for more money!

I was planning on going to the gym after work until my roommate asked me to have dinner! Monday’s are the only days we can ever have dinner together because she goes to church groups every other night so I agreed! I knew my legs needed the rest anyway since I ran 4.4 miles on Sunday! I did walk to her work which took 20-25 minutes..every little bit counts right?

We both agreed on the amazing $2.99 sushi place across from our apartment! I started with Miso soup.

We shared edamame!

I also got a salad with ginger dressing. Some things never change

I got 2 brown rice rolls, Sweet Potato and Alaskan.

They were both amazing! The sweet potato roll was basically fried sweet potatoes with rice and seaweed! Yum! The Alaskan was salmon, avocado, and cucumber.

We went home and had every intention of walking outside. My head started pounding and her tummy hurt so we got lazy and decided to eat ice cream instead!!

Turtle Mountain Chocolate Peanut Butter So Delicious ice cream with a banana and mystery cookies! (Cookie review at the end of the week!) I was staring at the freezer after my bowl because I reallllly wanted a 2nd bowl. My roommate had to keep telling me to fight it. We both knew how full I was so she took my bowl and washed it. I need her every time I eat ice cream from now on!! I definitely would have had more if I was alone!

Tuesday I had some more oaties! This time I had 2 packets instead of one. I also added Artisana Raw Cocoa Bliss nut butter! Yum!!!!

I stayed full till lunch so 2 packets and some nut butter did the trick!!

Lunch was an opened-face turkey and cheese sammy on Dave’s Killer bread. I wanted to save room for a big portion of Lesser Evil Krinkle Sticks!

My afternoon snack was dark chocolate (3X what you see there), a nectarine, and green tea.

I went to the gym after work and took a spin class. Okay, I got a great workout but the teacher was horrible!! I should have taken a different class as soon as I saw a substitute. Hmm, just imagine Fran Drescher teaching a spin class.
The teacher had the most painful laugh and thick New York accent. She was SCREAMING into the microphone the entire time. Omg, I had such a headache. Seriously she felt the need to sing to the music or yell every 30 seconds!! I really needed ear plugs. I also have this hatred for Bon Jovi (sorry if you like him), especially the songs they play in bars that everyone sings to. You know…”Shot to the heart, and you’re to blame…..” Well, that is all she played. She sung (or screeched) every word. I would have left but I was getting a nice workout so I tried to block her out (very hard). Luckily she works at a location that I will never go to! I burned 428 calories so at least I got something out of the class!

I made a yummy dinner when I got back!! Morningstar Farms crumbles with mushrooms, salsa, and goat cheese!

I had the best chips ever on the side!

All over a salad with organic steamed broccoli.

Delicious!!

More ice cream was enjoyed for dessert! I added some watermelon too!

Well I am off to go hit up the gym before my exciting adventures today! I have a feeling there might be a few drinks involved so I figure I should get the gym out of the way first! Don’t want drunk Missy falling off the treadmill later!! I also ate a lot more after I typed this last night blahhh.. Something like 3 bowls of Zoey’s granola?? No idea why, very mad at myself. Oh well, I am off to go do cardio.

Come back tomorrow to read the details about my day off! But first, enter here to win Yoplait Delights, slippers, a bathrobe, spa mask, and lunch bag!

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Hey everyone! This is what I feel like today…

I am exhausted! I got 7 1/2 hours of sleep which is not terrible but Core Fusion mixed with not many carbs yesterday is not a good combination! I am going to stick with it till the weekend but I will just be a very tired girl.

Core Fusion was great last night but very tough! The room was extra hot too so I was drenched and had a hart time holding onto the bar since my hands were sweaty! I think I was also still sore from kickboxing on Monday. I am really feeling it today which means it worked! It just hurts to walk, sit, and climb stairs! The only issue I had with the class was that the teacher played annoying 80′s music the whole time. Usually they play dance and house music which is all I ever listen to even when I am not working out so I was not as pumped. Other than that, it was amazing and a killer workout!

For breakfast yesterday I decided to make an omelet before I left the house. I added turkey and mushrooms too. I brought it in a little to-go container so it actually stayed warm during my hour long commute! It was so good because the mushroom juice soaked up the omelet and gave it a great flavor.

I also snacked on some Flanigan Farms cashews throughout the day.

During lunch I took a nice long walk outside. I think I went 20 blocks up and 20 back. After my walk, I finally got hungry. I made a turkey and ham lettuce roll-up. No cheese since the deli guy gave me Swiss instead of American! Swiss cheese is on my list of the top 5 foods I dislike. By the time I realized it, the deli was already closed so it was a waste of 1/2 a pound of cheese! I couldn’t exchange it yesterday either because of Core Fusion so oh well!

I had Snapea Crisps on the side!

Yummy!
I had a piece of dark chocolate too for a little pick-me-up!

I keep a bag of those in my desk and have 1 or 2 every day after lunch.

I got home from Core Fusion around 8:45 starving! I made another big, fun salad! I steamed broccoli and added spray butter and Parmesan.

I also made a Morningstar Farms Mushroom’s Lover burger.

I topped the salad with salsa and had edamame and hummus on the side! If I was doing the extreme Phase 1 South Beach Diet, I would not be allowed to have carrots or the black bean and corn salsa. I don’t think that is necessary and I need some sort of energy!

Dessert was sugar-free pudding with whipped cream and unsweetened carob chips.

I went back in the kitchen after and filled the cup with more whipped cream and carob chips!

Besides needing chocolate at all times, this is not hard for me at all. I will let you know if I dropped any poundage by the end of the week! My dress is actually ready to be picked up from the tailor today but I don’t think I will go get it till tomorrow since I have my first
Beam Green meeting after work! Very excited and I get to see some fellow NY bloggers!

I am off to go grab another cup of Awake tea! I will leave you with some giveaways!

Kelly Turner is giving away a Free People gift card and Sonoma Crisps!
NikeandPonytails Lunch Giveaway!

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Hello! I must start off by talking about some amazing cookies I received over the weekend to test out! They are from Late July Organic Snacks, a wonderful company dedicated to making wholesome organic snacks and helping out the community. The cookies they sent me are called Mini Endangered Sandwich Cookies.

Product Description

Late July’s New Organic Mini Endangered Animal White Chocolate Sandwich Cookies take smooth white chocolate and blend it to perfection, pack it with extra calcium and then sandwich it between delicious mini whole grain chocolate cookies. Seven different endangered animals are featured on the cookies and 10% of the profits go to the Jane Goodall Institute to help with their efforts in endangered animal awareness.

All of Late July’s products are produced without synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetic engineering, antibiotics or added growth hormones. Our Mini Sandwich Cookies contain no trans fat, no hydrogenated oils, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, and are lacto (dairy) vegetarian.

The cookies are:

• Good Source of Whole Grain (8g per Serving)!
• Good Source of Calcium (10% RDI)!
• Good for the Earth—Organic!
• ”Good For All” Seal—Dr. Jane Goodall’s seal for ethically produced product

I like that 1 serving is 10 cookies so I can eat a bunch without feeling like I overdid it!

I tried the chocolate ones first since I am a chocolate addict.

They are so cute with the animal faces on them! They were delicious and so fun too eat! They had a yummy cream center like Oreos! They also made a wonderful addition to my Chobani!

I also added the white chocolate cookies to my yogurt. Check out the cute monkeys

They were very good too. They had a fun chocolate filling. I am definitely in love with these cookies. Both boxes might almost be gone! You can purchase them at Whole Foods and most health food stores!

Monday Breakfast

I forgot to bring toppings for my oatmeal so it was kind of boring but still good!

I made Quaker Old-Fashioned Oats with lots of cinnamon and skim milk. I had Tazo Awake tea on the side.

I made my new favorite wrap for lunch!

How good does that look? It was especially delicious yesterday because it was in the fridge overnight so the bananas got all soaked up in the peanut butter! Yum!!!

I also brought some crackers to munch on for the side.

I need that wrap every day! I also had 2 dark chocolate squares but did not take a picture.

Gym!

I decided on kickboxing last night since it’s been a few weeks and I love the teacher.

I did 30 minutes on the elliptical before class since I got there early. My new heart rate monitor strap came and the smaller size made such a difference! It worked the whole time for once! I burned 550 calories between the elliptical and class. I am thinking about going to Core Fusion tonight since Tuesday is usually a strength training night for me anyway! I’ll see how my knee feels by the end of the day!

Dinner

I knew I wanted a big salad since I basically ate carbs all day. I stopped at the store after the gym and picked up some veggies and a few Morningstar Farms products. (They do not sell fresh fish or chicken at the store by the gym).

I made the strips on the stove with some balsamic vinegar to give them flavor.

I tried a piece after a few minutes and was not impressed. It had a very rubbery and soft texture. Kind of gross! I decided to let it cook for 5 minutes longer than the directions said to burn them and make them harder. They were much better after that but I don’t think I would ever buy them again!

I also steamed up some broccoli and mushrooms.

I topped the “chicken” and veggies over a salad with hummus and salsa.

It turned out to be a very good salad despite the rubbery fake chicken!

I haven’t had pudding in a while so I caved and bought a pack!

I might have had a 2nd one since they are so small! I am used to my huge bowls of pudding I used to make every night!

This Week’s Food Plan

My sister’s wedding is this Sunday so I am trying to eat fewer carbs until then. I do not support crazy crash diets in any way. I just know that it will make me less bloated for the big day. The bridesmaids dresses are very pretty but they are not the most flattering thing for the tummy! I also know that trying to eat less carbs this week will prevent me from going crazy with snacks at night (cereal, Holey Donuts, chocolate, popcorn). I did really bad with it last week so I need a set plan to prevent me from going into that kitchen late at night. I also have a no gum rule starting Friday! Gum is the one thing that makes me the most bloated out of everything because of the artificial sweeteners. I have a bad addiction but think I will be able to stay away from it Friday through Sunday!

I am excited about the wedding but have extreme anxiety because I have to give a speech in front of hundreds of people!! If you’ve met me before, you would know that I am shy in person so public speaking is not my thing. Hopefully I will be okay if I have a few drinks in me! I know it means a lot to my sister so I am going to do it but make it short and sweet!

I should probably go try to write the speech now since it is in 5 days! Bye!

Giveaway!

FeedMeImCranky’s Monday Giveaway!

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FlaxMatters Winners!

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:

3
17
Timestamp: 2009-08-14 14:00:01 UTC

The winner of the Pancake and Waffle Mix goes to #3…

One Step at a Time- “Those pancakes look SO DELICIOUS!! I would add the flax seeds into my daily bowl of oats for some extra nutrition. ”

The winner of the SmoothOmega Milled Flax goes to #17….

Tra- “In my oats and in pancakes of course! i wonder if i could just eat them straight up.”

Congrats! Please e-mail me your name and address so I can ship out your prizes!

Breakfast

Today was the last day of the promotion at Energy Kitchen for the free breakfast sandwich with the purchase of a coffee. Every day the employees have been very nice and friendly to me. Today it was a guy I’ve never seen before. He gave me quite the unpleasant experience for first thing in the morning!

I walked in and said hello but he did not greet me back. I then asked for the sandwich and handed him the coupon. He read it for a few minutes and seemed completely clueless about the promotion that has been going on for the past 2 weeks. He rang me up and it came to $3.24. Um no. I told him it was $2.17. He did not say a word; just retyped something in to his computer and took my money. I gave him $5.25. He handed me $2.08 back. I told him he was a dollar short and once again, he did not say a word. An apology would have been nice. He just opened the register back up and handed me my dollar. Did he think I wouldn’t notice?

Every other morning, the employees asked me if I wanted condiments for my sandwich. Today he did not ask me or put any in the bag. Usually they put a coffee sleeve around my coffee. He did not give me one so I kept burning my hands on my walk to work. He did not thank me for coming, say bye, or anything at the end. He was one miserable guy! Don’t worry, I already wrote a nice little letter to Energy Kitchen At least the sandwich was still yummy! Luckily I have a full view of the kitchen so I know he did not spit in my food! (I worked in a restaurant and that does happen!)

Thursday Dinner

I said yesterday I used up all my fresh food for the week. I decided to just stop at the health food store and get more instead of eating junk! I got grapes, Oikos, Sabra hummus, salad, carrots, mushrooms and almond milk.

I started off by steaming up some mushrooms and broccoli.

I decided I was in the mood for a protein shake while the veggies were cooking.

Once again, it came out like a milkshake! Yummy!

I then made a salad with mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, Mary’s Gone Crackers, and loads of Sabra!

Delicious and super filling! I loved drinking the protein shake with dinner since I felt like I did not need an extra dessert after! The only problem with drinking it so late at night was that it made me have to pee every 20 minutes! It was like drinking coffee! I don’t know if it kept me up either because I went to bed at 11:30 and was still awake at 1!

Finally I took some melatonin, did a little reading, and fell asleep. At 2:30, I woke up again because I had to pee SO bad. I don’t think I can drink them anymore at night!! I could not fall back asleep and felt a little hungry so I decided to have a bowl of cereal. I know some people are going to say my dinner was not substantial enough which is why I woke up hungry. Honestly I was soo stuffed after dinner and could barely finish my salad. Just the slightest bit of hunger keeps me up in the middle of the night so I gave in and ate.

Those are the evil Jumbo Rice Krispies I’ve been talking about. I had more than that one bowl but whatever. The box is done so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. It did put me right back to sleep though! Now I just can’t let my roommate’s Frosted Flakes tempt me this weekend. Why must she buy the best kid’s cereal ever?? She refuses to hide it anymore so I guess I just need to have some control! Very hard when cereal is around!

Onto a more fun topic…celebrities!

I’ve never mentioned this before, but I get stopped at least once a week by someone telling me I look like Jennifer Aniston or Sarah Jessica Parker. Yesterday during my lunch break, these random old guys said, “OMG she looks like Sarah Jessica Parker!!” I guess our hair is similar but I don’t see it as much as other people do! What do you think?

I prefer the Jennifer Aniston comments since I love her hair. I usually tell the person cutting my hair to make it like hers! I definitely hear Sarah Jessica Parker comments more though!

Have you ever been told you look like someone famous??

Send me some pictures and I will post it on the blog and turn it into a possible giveaway! Have a great weekend!

Giveaways!

HealthHappinessHope’s Back to Reality Giveaway!

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Check out my new toy!

I got an iPod touch finally! I bought one from eBay a few weeks ago but it was a scam. After I put in a dispute to PayPal and got my money back, I was thinking about getting the nano instead. I heard that Verizon was coming out with an iPhone so I thought maybe there was no point in spending the money for the touch. After thinking about it, I decided I like having a simple phone without touch screen so I probably would not want an iPhone anyway! I had a Blackberry for a few weeks and hated it too! I won a new touch on eBay a few days ago and love it!

I spent an hour last night browsing through the applications. So far I downloaded the Price is Right Game (best show ever!), Twitter, Facebook, and iFitness. I haven’t used iFitness yet but you can track your workouts and can choose a body part you would like to target. It then shows you tons of different exercises to do! It will definitely be helpful if I want to use my weights at home or learn some new ab moves. Any other great apps I should know about?

Back to Monday’s eats…

Breakfast was a lovely bowl of banana-cinnamon oats!

My oatmeal likes to explode in the microwave. My coworkers probably hate me.

During lunch, I went to Associated to buy some cookie sheets for my gluten-free goodies. I walked by the salad bar and it looked pretty good and cheap so I went for it!

I added all kinds of toppings:

• Spinach
• Broccoli
• Artichokes
• Kidney/Garbanzo Beans
• Red Peppers
• Tomatoes
• Green Bean Salad
• Strawberries
• Pineapples
• 1 little chunk of crab meat

All of that for $5.50. Not bad. Of course I prefer my Whole Foods salads 100 times more!

After work I went to the gym and took a spin class. It was another substitute but she was really good. I came home with quite the appetite!

While my cookies were baking, I decided to try out my Biggest Loser Steamer that I received a few weeks ago! I bought fresh broccoli for the first time! I’ve been making the frozen kind for years now!

I washed and chopped the broccoli and put them on the bottom layer of the steamer.

I filled the bottom with water until it reached the maximum level. The steamer came with a little booklet that tells you how long to steam every kind of food. I believe the broccoli was around 20 minutes.

The buzzer went off after 20 minutes and…….wah lah!

Freshly steamed broccoli!! Yes, I get pretty excited when things are successful in the kitchen. I am used to taking the easy way out of cooking!

The broccoli came out soft and delicious. I plan to experiment much more with my steamer. It says you can make hard boiled and poached eggs so that is next! I also want to try steaming fish, sweet potatoes, kale, shrimp, everything! Fun!

I added the broccoli to my salad of the week! Once I open up one of those LightLife packages, it is pretty much a given that I will be eating the same meal 3 nights in a row!

I had LightLife “Steak Strips” with salad, hummus, carrots, grilled mushrooms, and wonderful steam broccoli. Yum!

And of course a million cookies for dessert which you probably don’t need to see 2 days in a row!

Tuesday!

I started off the morning with a green monster.

I used a banana, almond milk, milled flax, and Pomegranate Mango Amazing Meal.

Delicious!

I decided to try something new for breakfast at work instead of the usual oats.

I microwaved the egg beaters in the microwave for a minute and a half and melted the Laughing Cow on top.

They came out great! It was a very nice change from oatmeal!

The only problem was that the smoothie and eggs only held me over for about 2 hours. I snacked on some pistachios around 11:00.

I dug into lunch an hour early too. I will probably have to bring 2 of those little eggbeater cups next time.

I had no bread at home for lunch so I made turkey, cheese and ham roll-ups!

I actually only needed 1 roll up to fill me up. I think I stuffed them with extra meat since I was scared they would not fill me up without bread. I saved the rest for today

I also had tortilla chips and carrots on the side.

I also caved and bought a Synergy!

I’ve been trying to save money and not buy them but I was realllly craving it yesterday. I could not resist when I walked buy the health food store!

I snacked on a gluten-free cookie and some fruit later in the afternoon. Someone got one of those Edible Arrangements and let everyone have some fruit! Those things are the best!

After work I went to Total Body Conditioning class at the gym. It was the regular teacher so it was a great workout.

I went home and made my 3rd repeat salad except I added salsa today to give it some more flavor.

Delicious again! I will change dinner up tonight!!

Dessert was gluten-free cookies and cherries!

I had double that but the cookies were too good to stop and take a picture! They are still soo soft that they melt in your mouth! Enter to win some here!

Also be sure to enter Kelly Turner’s KidGlue Giveaway!

Lunchy time! Have a good day!

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