AM in the PM (and AM too)

What could be better than a day full of ALL breakfast food! I heart breakfast food the most...I had a yummy cup of joe with a vanilla organic probiotic soy yogurt. This brand was so/so. I bought a few different brands of soy yogurt the other day to try them out, but I don't know if I am going to like them...so far I have liked 1 of the 3 (not the best average).


Here's a recap of the soy yogurt trial up to now:


O'Soy = good

Wildwood = so-so

Silk = yuck



Lunch was pure laziness - peanut butter jelly time!! I actually had 2 of these sandos with the REST of the Smucker's natural peanut butter..yes, I finished the jar of PB!! (also, I finished the jam, which was Kyle's grandma's blueberry rhubarb)

Dinner was more breakfast. Wake-y wake-y, eggs and bac-y!! (and by that I mean egg beaters and soy bacon but that doesn't really work with the rhyme)



What a boring blog day - I should really not be so lazy on days off...



More coffee? Sure, why not. Hey, throw some soy milk in there.


Dessert was a bag of dates...too many maybe?

soynut butter goes with everything

Weekend, finally. I bought a jar of soynut butter yesterday evening (after work grocery shopping is dangerous). I finished the jar today. That's unacceptable!

I started the morning (ok, afternoon) with coffee (ff vanilla creamer, skim plus, and stevia).

Then I dug right into the soynut butter...I put it on EVERYthing I could get my hands on (including spoons by themselves). I finished off the Ezekiel bread with it (hmmm...approx 7 slices?) which was GREAT with a nice glass of silk soy milk and left me waaaaay full.

Then I decided I should probably get some fruit in my diet.

So I cut up an apple to dip in more soynut butter. This stuff is goooood.

Later on I snacked on a massive bag of yogurt covered pretzels. They are so rich, I can't believe I finished the entire bag (oh, who am I kidding, of course I knew I would polish the whole thing off)! But it was way too much food, and at this point I was really uncomfortably full.

Dinner, or whatever meal I was on at this point, was more carbs, and more soynut butter.

I got a new cereal! Nature's Path is SO good. I love all their products, so I was really excited to try this one out. It has a ton of different types of cereal grains in it and is low fat and high fiber. The official review: this is my new fav cereal!!! Omg it was good (see zoomed in photo of yum).

I added a bit of banana + soynut butter (obvi) + silk soy milk = mmm...heaven

I also finished the soynut butter at this point. Maybe I shouldn't buy this again for a while?

Then I had a nice fruit salad, with pineapple, cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, blueberries, and strawberries!

At this point I was ready for a steamy Starbucks run! So I got a venti soy latte, which was everything I wanted and more.

Then as we were doing the laundry I had one last bowl of my new obsession. This time I added dried cherries and raisins with the slik soy milk (I didn't have any soynut butter left)!

Here's the final product! Perhaps I should try to get back on track tomorrow? (I have been saying that for 4 days now I think).

Good night!

i need green

Sooo, I had to work this Saturday. Working weekends is usually kinda a bummer...but today was slow, so I didn't really mind. I guess the crashing economy affects heart surgery too?

I made my lunch the night before, and I tried something new. We were out of lettuce, and since I hate sandwiches that don't have greens, I had to make do with what we did have. I used the remaining green peppers left over from the quiche and broccoli. Then I put the smart deli turkey on top of that.

The sando was MASSIVE. I definitely got carried away - I couldn't even fit it in my mouth!

The rest of my lunch is shown below (apple, nanner, raisins, yogurt covered raisins). Plus, a venti soy latte (kinda a given).

After work I skipped the gym and got a BIG 'ol iced coffee, to which I poured in a cup of vanilla silk soy milk and some stevia. It was so so. In all honesty, I think the barista at Starbucks kinda messed this one up...he told me (after I had already paid) that the iced coffee wasn't ready yet, and (even more annoying) it would be 15 minutes if I wanted to wait. If I wanted to wait?? What? Ummm...I just paid, do I have a choice? So there I am twiddling my thumbs waiting for my coffee like some kind of caffeine junky - long story short I got a not-yet-ready cup of iced coffee (not so tasty).

Of course this will not affect my starbucks relationship...nothing can, I'm hooked!

Then after that I ran to the store for more vegan goodies. Since I was at my newly discovered (and now fave) health food store, I was scanning the aisles for new products. I FINALLY found something I have been looking for FOREVER! Honest Foods' granola planks! I have seriously been on the hunt for these for a few months now, so I immediately knew just what I wanted for dinner. The down side=every flavor had nuts :( So I chose the one with the fewest kinds (almonds are the most tolerable of the nasty food group when the other choices are walnuts and cashews). I get nautious just THINKING about it.

I went with the maple almond crunch. :) They are like big long granola slabs - that are the perfect combo of crunchiness and chewiness. Not too hard to bite into, but able to hold on to quite the pile up of toppings!

I got a jar of soy nut butter to spread on the planks, too! (so excited to try all these new fun products)

Here's the plank pre and post soynut butter layer

The planks were so good, I couldn't help but eat the entire box (with about half the jar of soynut butter).

Jar of creamy soynut love...

Slathering it on...

Going...

Going...

Gone.

I'm sorry but I didn't get pics of the rest of my dinner...I was scooping soynut butter straight out of the jar!

brrr...i heart comfort food

So, the weather here has definitely changed. It is cold. No two ways about it. And yet, I still found it in me to start off the day with iced coffee?

Plus vanilla silk soy milk. I am thinking I should just start investing in bigger silk cartons, since it has been established this will be a staple in my diet. Who am I kidding, this isn't just a phase...

Here's the iced coffee + silk soy milk

For breakfast I had some dried fruit (the rest of the papayas, I finished the pineapples a while ago). I tried so hard to get my butt to the gym, but it was just too hard. I decided to make up for my laziness by being productive in the apartment though...lots of long overdue cleaning went down.
Later for lunch I decided I needed some serious veggies. It has been way too long since I have had a "big salad." I had an organic lettuce blend with fresh broccoli and carrots that I chopped up. Then I threw in some cherry tomatoes and mushrooms (obviously also organic, plus all the veggies were locally grown). I topped it off with some dried cranberries and raisins, and voila!

Dinner was a pasta experiment. I steamed some fresh broccoli (I bought a crap load bc it was cheap so you'll notice it in a ton of upcoming meals/recipes), then I made Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted whole grain penne pasta. For a sauce I tried to make a fake cheese/parmesan topping (I have heard quite a bit about the brand "Vega!" but still haven't found it in stores). I used a big spoonful of Earth Balance's soy garden spread PLUS the entire bag of "Veggie" blended "cheese" shreds of Parm, Mozz, & Romano flavors. I also added a bit of ff plain Chobani to get the right consistency.

How real does that cheesy pasta look! (I should note, there are a few things I would tweak with this recipe next time). First of all, it was good, but not that flavorful. I needed a lot of salt, which I don't really like doing to home made recipes. Second, it was really expensive in the end, all those products were $$$ and the yield wasn't multiple meals worth (at least not with my kind of appetite). And finally, I don't really feel like it was that healthy. Granted I was in the mood for some warm comfort food, which by definition is not healthy, but still...I will try to modify this again later. Maybe a different soy cheese product?

Dessert (not pictured) was yogurt covered raisins (a LOT) and regular raisins. Mmmm...

phelps has nothing on me

Give me food...I'm a hungry hungry hippie!


I literally ate everything in the apartment and more, so today is not exactly one I recall with fondness. Back on track tomorrow!!

the pink month

Welcome to October, my favorite month.

No work today, woohoo! But, my stomach was unhappy for some unknown reason, so my day off was not so fun. I spent most of it on the couch, and the rest of it in bed. I did manage to crawl to starbucks for a soy latte, which (surprisingly) settled my stomach momentarily.

Later I had some oatmeal. Arrowhead Mills has good stuff. I especially love their oatmeal. I mixed one of the original packets with flax with a maple apple spice packet. Then I added in a hunk of Kyle's peanut butter (BAD Elise), a packet of Stevia, and a handful of raisins.

I swear I took a photo of the entire bowl?!? No idea where that went...

Anyways, I snacked on yogurt covered raisins and dried dates throughout the day. These bags are SO big, and yet I still managed to finish them off like it was nothing.

Kyle made dinner all by himself. Tortilla espanola in honor of my sister (she's abroad in Barcelona). We have made it before. The recipe is so simple, and yet, it's SO good!

All you need is 6 eggs, 1 Idaho potato, 1 yellow (or spanish) onion. First cook the diced potato in a pan with olive oil, then add in the chopped onion. Once the onion is cooked add in the eggs. Naturally, you can season as you want with S+P. After the bottom looks cooked and the eggs are almost cooked through to the top, it's time to flip it (this is a very tricky process, which everyone does differently I think). We found the best way for us, is using 2 pans that are the same size. So when one side is done we just flip it into the other pan until the other side is done.

And here's what you get!


Dessert was kettle corn.


Note to self: Tomorrow I need greens badly, I feel overly carb-y.

day-o-sando(s)

Another day of work. Another home-made sandwich.

You know the drill. Subway to work, starbucks run for an AM caffeine dose (grande soy latte), work work work work...

Here's the rest of what I packed for myself. The apple was HUGE which is why I sliced it (to enjoy in multiple sessions). With lunch I had a soy latte and then another refilled cup of plain soymilk.

I (again) skipped the gym - this week is just NOT happening in the work out department! Instead, I had some dates and another soy latte on the way home from work. So much better than running on the elliptical!

New bread!!! (sorry the picture is so dark)

The newest product I bought to try out was sprouted soy crunch bread by Alvarado Street bakery. It is made with organic and live sprouted grains PLUS has extra soy protein. More importantly it is GOOD. This is by far my fav bread now. It's soft, unlike Ezekiel's breads, and I love the crust with the crunchy grains, as well as the nooks and crannies in the bread that allow more places for condiments to catch in...mmm.

I had a few pieces with hummus...

and a few others with a fresh organic avocado...

and finally a few more with avo plus vegan "chicken" spread...

Then I had a few more pieces with the last bit of hummus...this bread is dangerously good.

Dessert was dried edamame.