Update
Let me update you on a few of the goings on in my life as of late.
#1 I am now the proud owner of my own domain!
This means I’m just laurenlovesgoodfood.com now. If I had known how little it cost to get rid of that whole .wordpress thing I would have purchased my domain MONTHS ago.
#2 I had a good run!
5 miles in 47:35. Again, the Garmin only says 4 miles because I did a warm-up mile inside on the treadmill. This has been saving me in the cold weather!
I assure you it went well so I don’t know why I’m making this face.
I immediately scarfed down an organic honeycrisp upon returning.
#3 According to my camera, I’ve only been eating oats for the past two days.
I had a wonderful Friday lunch date with Beanie at Whole Foods. Amazing black bean soup, juicy red beets (I have the stains on my hand to prove it), sweet potato fries and literally a bite of pumpkin pie because they had just put samples out!
Unfortunately, I forgot my camera at home! 😦 Usually, if I don’t have pictures it’s because of bad lighting, unappealing food, awkward situations (i.e. sitting in the crowded student center) or because I just plain forget but it’s never because I don’t have my camera. How unlike me!
Feel free to use your imagination with that pitiful description I just gave of my lunch.
**Truth be told, I snapped some camera phone pictures but I’m feeling lazy and let’s be honest, they probably aren’t good.**
#4 I’ve fallen head over heals for maple syrup!
This could be an expensive addiction…
This may have been my best bowl of oats to date. I kid you not.
Do you want to know what’s in it?
Okay, so it’s just the usual.
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/3 cup milk
- 3/4 cup water
- pinch salt
- 1/2T ground flax
- 1/2 banana
Topped with:
- Peanut butter baked apples — chop apple, top with 1T pb and microwave for ~45 seconds-1 minute, then stir
- 1T of the good stuff, aka maple syrup.
Gah! So good 🙂
#5 The inside of a walnut is so weird.
#6 Cookies and milk for breakfast is totally allowed.
Not to mention awesome.
Topped with 1/2 of a crumbled pumpkin choco chip cookie. I was about to pour on some maple when I thought “wait, what’s a cookie without milk?” and on went the almond milk. And maybe some maple too…
Post-hot shower I sipped on some hot tea and I’m finally feeling warm again. Friday ended with trivia per usual.
Happy Saturday 🙂
Abs, Arms, Oats
In lieu of my recent runner’s block and inspired by Caitlin, I’ve decided to do a sit up challenge AND a push up challenge. I’m actually not all that concerned with being able to do 100 push ups or 200 sit ups but this will at least get me to do some arms and abs 3x a week.
In lieu of the snow (or dusting as it were) I pulled out a new box of tea.
It was appley with a kick of spice and it warmed me right up!
I guess I was in the apple mood! Cooked 1/4 an organic honeycrisp in the micro for a minute and they came out nice and soft 🙂
Almost the same bowl as yesterday except I reduced the oats to 1/3 cup and reduced the liquid to 1/4 cup almond milk and 2/3 cup water and nixed the banana.
Topped with almond milk, Earth Balance, maple syrup, apples and cashews.
All mixed up.
For some reason this just wasn’t as good as yesterday 😦 I think it may have had something to do with the fact that it was cold by the time I was done topping and snapping photos so I microwaved them but then they were too hot so I stuck them in the freezer for a few minutes. Oops!
I brought leftover chickpea bites for lunch, but this time they went in a pita. I stuffed the pitas with hummus, tomatoes and spinach then wrapped them in tin foil and stuck the bites in a microwaveable container.
Come lunch time all I had to do was take my foiled up pitas out of the container and pop the bites in the microwave then add them to the pita.
Beanie was busy chowing down on a turkey burger and she obviously didn’t have a knife to cut it with.
The library staff lounge does not make for good pictures…
Dinner went from this
to this.
I may have also had dessert in the form of a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie and milk before dinner because sometimes dessert can’t wait.
It’s finally Friday!!
Drool-Worthy
Today’s eats were drool-worthy.
Don’t believe me? Check it out.
Pumpkin Moat Oats:
(Adapted from here)
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/3 cup almond milk
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 banana, broken into chunks
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2T ground flax seeds
- 1/2t vanilla
- 1t pumpkin pie spice
Toppings:
- 1T almond milk
- 1T maple syrup
- 1T cinnamon granola
- cashews (these were an after thought but were awesome!)
- Mix oats, milk, water and banana chunks in a pot over medium heat.
- Once mixture begins to bubble, stir to break up banana then add pumpkin and flax.
- Turn down heat and cook 5 minutes.
- Turn off heat and add vanilla and pumpkin pie spice.
- Pour on toppings and devour.
All mixed up.
How good is maple syrup? It definitely made this bowl of oats. Repeat tomorrow? I think so!
Lunch was not drool-worthy and I fully intend on ignoring it entirely.
I came home to this.
Cripspy Chickpea Bites.
Chickpea overload? Maybe. Drool-worthy? Definitely.
Thank you for this recipe, Angela. That woman is the chickpea queen!
I’ve been searching for a healthy pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe all week so when Teri’s recipe showed up in my google search I knew I’d found a winner!
I kid you not, just as I was pulling these out of the oven Joey came sprinting out of our room yelling “fresh cookies, fresh cookies!!” No wonder I like him so much.
These were fluffy, cakey and delicious.
I made them to bring into work so we controlled ourselves and split one. I could have eaten 4 more. But there’s always tomorrow.
Snow, really?
Happy Thursday!
Lauren Loves Good Food 