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A Perfect Day
Hey y’all! How’s your day been? Mine’s been right at perfect. I felt rejuvenated and alive and happy all day. Yesterday’s rest and step out of the comfort zone paid off!
Breakfast: a Sexy Bowl
- 1/2 Haas avocado
- 1 tbsp tahini
- organic pink lady apple
- 2 chopped dates
- cinnamon
Workout today: RPM (45-minute format), BodyPump, BodyFlow, taught Zumba
Then it was lunch time!!!
Look at the plate I found in the cabinet!!! Mom told me tonight that it was my baby plate, but I love the size of it for portion control, and the dividers help me keep my food from touching (I am weird about that). Do y’all care if your food touches on your plate?
Our refrigerator is full from last night’s leftovers, so I’m trying to clean it out. I made some kale chips, heated up my leftover butternut squash, a scoop of chicken kelaguen, and some hummus and the tahini dressing I made over carrots/cucumbers/celery. I really like the dressing!
Lunch dessert: check out this tea that my sweet friend Lindsay brought me to try! It’s almost like hot chocolate!
plus some grapes, 1/2 apple, 1/2 orange, and a black bean brownie. I like the brownies better cold for sure!
For snack today, I had the Green (Bay) Juice that I was going to sip on at last night’s party. I guess today I can call it Super Bowl Champion Juice 😉
LOOK WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL, an early valentine’s gift from one of my best friends!!! Thank you soooooooooo much, Steph! You are the best!!! I can’t wait to have this for snack soon. I’m saving it! (P.s. I LOVE your stationery, Steph, and your address label!)
After teaching Zumba, the “baby plate” came back for din din…my salad beast of the day with balsamic tofu and mushrooms/carrots/celery/cucumbers/spinach and a tbsp of tahini garlic dressing. Plus some mixed berries (black ones, blue ones, and straw ones) hehe.
Dinner dessert: get this…start with pumpkin maple oats (1/4 cup, water, almond milk, and organic pumpkin; 1 tsp chia seeds; a little sea salt and maple extract), then crumble up a black bean brownie on top…
…then top with 1/2 chopped nanner and 1 tbsp Naturally More.
Put in your UNC mug so you can eat it while the women’s b-ball team beats DUKE!!! YAY FEAST!!!
Hey, a girl’s gotta have her oats! It was a wonderful dessert. Now I’m sippin’ on some bedtime Yogi tea. The inspiration on it tonight is “Truth is everlasting.”
I know it seems like nothing super, over-the-top fantastic happened today maybe, but it was a perfect day for me.
Getting excited for one of my best friends in the whole world who has a very special birthday tomorrow… 😉
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I have officially run out of space again for pictures on the blog, and I don’t want to delete old pictures because it removes them permanently…what do I do? I can’t afford to splurge on a space upgrade…new URL? Have any of y’all run into this problem?
This is How We Do it…Super Bowl Par-tay! February 6, 2011
Hey y’all. So, you know I love y’all when I’m blogging during a football game. What a halftime show! I love some football.
I know, Denver isn’t playing, but I still have to wear my jersey and represent Tebow!
After brunch, Mom and I ran errands to get ready for our party. We stopped for lunch/mid-afternoon snack at Marmalade Skies for some fro yo. I rolled with Vanilla yogurt with kiwi, raspberries, and dark chocolate chips. As I was deciding about what to get, I sampled (of course!) blueberry that was advertised as nonfat, all natural, …, BUT as I read the ingredient list, it included high fructose corn syrup and things like red number 6. How in the world can they advertise it as all-natural with high fructose corn syrup and dyes? I’m a little upset and glad that the ingredient list was included. The vanilla had 12 more calories per serving but a lot less ingredients and things I could actually identify.
All Natural Lowfat Vanilla
Serving Size 4oz. cup
| Calories | 80 | Fat | 1.5g |
| Protein | .75g | Cholesterol | 0mg |
| Sugar | 11g | Sodium | 30mg |
| Carbohydrates | 17g |
Ingredients: pure crystalline fructose, extra grade sweet whey, malt dextrin, non-dairy creamer, natural gums, yogurt solids, natural flavors, whey protein concentrate
*All-Natural, no chemicals or preservatives
*Gluten Free
*Active Yogurt Cultures
*Kosher
Like our shadows in the background? 😉
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So, as usual, dinner didn’t go as I had planned, which may be a good thing. I ended up skipping the Green (Bay) Juice “Cocktail” and just went with the food. We didn’t use my tahini dip afterwards, but I’ll use it on salad later this week. It’s good to have some stuff ready for the week. I ate some “uncomfortable” foods in moderate amounts, and, honestly, I feel fine right now.
Let me show y’all how we throw down ’round here…
1. The veggie display that I made. I love this cutting board that doubles as a display for dips as well. Our dips are 1) my Mom’s mexican cream cheese dip, some plain hummus (yay!), and my Mom’s guacamole.
2. Chicken kelaguan that one of our best friends always makes. It’s a traditional dish from Guam that is soooo good! It’s got chicken, coconut, and tons of veggies chopped really small.
3. Family and friends…
4. Wings and chicken tenders with biscuits…
…that Daddy looooooves
5. Nachos and beer-battered hot dogs…
…mine are the ones with blue corn chips and “cheeze” that I made out of heated almond milk and nutritional yeast.
6. Dessert spread (minus my Black (and Gold) Steel-my-Heart brownies)…key lime pie, 10-layer chocolate cake, chocolate cookie cake, monster mash and black M&Ms.
7. TV
My first plate…veggies with my guacamole and hummus, chicken kelaguen, and my nachos (blue corn chips, “cheeze” sauce, ground beef and black bean mix, olives, rotel, greek yogurt).
My second plate ;)…more of the same.
And dessert at halftime…a small piece of key lime pie, a black bean brownie, and the football out of the cookie (yes, I’m that girl that just cut the football out) 😉 plus some bedtime tea and a little almond milk to drink.
Watchin’ the rest of the game…
Gotta love football.
What was your favorite game food today? Or did you not watch it at all? How do you party?
Back to the game…
ansauls
ashley avenue 
