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hello girls!

well today is Wednesday and i leave Friday at 7AM! ekkk needless to say i have been packing this week like a mad women. 

Packing = relizations 

1. i have A LOT of clothing
2. i have A LOT of tea
3. I have A LOT of food
4. I have A LOT of make up

Ekkk but of course being Nicole i am bringing 98% of it. haha

OK anyway on to food...

yesterday i mad nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies. 

Any one else out there obsessed with friends?

It is a tradition in my family on the 1st day of school my mom bakes these cookies so when we come home we have right out of the oven cookies with milk and discuss our 1st day. This year my mom had a very busy day so i made the cookies, it went well but of course it is different then when my mom made them.

I had one with a strawberry protein smoothie as my lunch

seriously soooo yummy, home made chocolate chip cookies w/almond milk is probably my favorite dessert sooo good.

TODAY.

I ate a yogurt mess for brekkie with some coffee. But it was nothing special. so i am going to show you another ezpz recipe. I am roasting nuts to bring with me to college for healthy snacking. This is how i roast them and they are soooooo good. raw pecans are yummy but these are AMAZING! 

EZPZ RECIPE:

healthy roasting pecans

1. preheat the oven 350 f
2. spray baking sheet with pam or butter if you rather
3. soak raw pecans in luke warm water for 5 min. the water is going to be slightly brown.
4. use a Coriander to strain the water and repeat soaking the pecans 2 more times.
5. spread the pecans on the baking sheet, one layer try to make the pecans not over lap too much.
6. sprinkle the desired amount of salt on top of nuts
7. bake for 20 min stirring the nuts every 5 minutes. make sure they do not get too brown.
8. take out and let cool

optional: you can add any spices to the nuts, or even sugar before baking them i just wanted to keep them simple and yummy.

Easy and yummy!

Have a great day girls!

Funniest new toy!

*please excuse this announcement your regular food post will continue after this announcement*

a breast feeding doll?!?!?! Yea i kid you not the doll is called Bebe Gloton...

"Berujan's "Bebe Gloton" is designed to promote breastfeeding as a natural part of motherhood, but some wonder if it's a little over the top. Bebe Gloton comes complete with a tie on "apron" for your child to wear -- the bra-like top has flower-like "nipples" to activate the doll's sucking sounds and movements."

Seriously???? I started cracking up with laughter when I saw this on the news. it is supposed to

show that breast feeding is natural but i just thought you guys would find this funny. So if you are in a rut for conversations today bring this doll up...or not.

Brekkie:

oatmeal cookie!

• 1/3cup oats
• 1/3 cup almond milk
• some golden raisins
• scoop cashew butter
• 1/2 scoop protein powder
• 1 date
• lots of Cinnamon
• topped with cherry and strawberry jam.

Again amazing, i love oatmeal cookies for brekkie. but tomorrow will prob be different since i do not want to get bored of this yummmy meal! 

Today's to do:

1. work
2. gym
3. library
4. yoga
5. clean room while jamming to some tunage(its a serious mess)

Have a great day everyone!! be back after to do another post!

eat for fresh skin!

Pamper me Monday:

This week i decided to show you girls a list of food that are good for you skin,hair,nails and etc.

• For moisturize, avocados,wild salmon,eggs,walnuts,canola oil,soybeans. this is because of the omega-3, and omega-6 fatty acids
  
• prevent wrinkles,minimize radical damage: oranges, red peppers, broccoli
  
• keep skin smooth,fresh looking:red/green fruits and veggies(sweet potato,cantaloupe,carrot,squash,tomatoes. and believe it or not Dark chocolate!
  
• sun protection: sunflower seeds, almonds.because of all the Vitamin E
  
• anti inflammatory:green tea

Work:10-3

Work today went super super fast! Today's task was making the Levi's department in the children area beautiful and sorted. Took the WHOLE time but it felt like i worked for only an hour.beautiful!

Eats:

BREKKIE

oatmeal cookie

• 1/3 oats
• 1/2 protein scoop
• 1 scoop WCW peanut butter
• sprinkle of dried fruit and dried nuts
• some almond milk
• smooshed and heated banana

BEST brekkie cookie yet bc of the icing!

snack:

kids chocolate brownie bar,pineapple ring

linner:(5:00)

Green Monster

• 1/2 peach
• 1/2 plum
• scoop vanilla protein 
• lots of spinach
• 2 dates
• less then 1/4 of granola

on the side of grapes, yes I'm watching Icarly.lol

Work out:

went to the gym  today. this was my first cardio in more then a month. I did 20 min of the StairMaster on level 8. Later i am going to do some yoga once my linner digests.

whole foods:

went and got some awesome yummy food

• dates (sooooo good, im addicted)
• CASHEW BUTTER!, and it was about $5 a pound, at the "grind yourself" station. I have been wanting this for a while, super excited i have it now.
• got 75 cents off two larabars! got the pecan pie and PB&J! cant wait to munch on them
• 2 for $1 balance bars got choco chip cookie dough and peanut butter, i know they have some weird ingredients but for 50cents a pop had to grab two.

GIVEAWAYS:

iowa girl

Jacksons world

long but good

Hey guys I feel so far from the blog community since i d not post as much as i want to let me explain/vent ...

Everyday i get on blogger to do a post but then

a band members GF/ (friend-plant) comes over and i HAVE to of course be nice and accommodate her. I just feel so awkward because i know she just talks about me when it is over and she does not talk to me unless it is gossip. I really don't know why i am posting my vent it just irritates me, because i love my "me" time where i can read blogs, write a blog, do yoga. I have learned to enjoy my company since all the girls in my city are drama fanatics, and have become more independent. 

These interruptions have shown me that i have changed since last year for the better. All you girls are the sweetest nicest girls i have ever "met" before. I love all the support you give each other so sorry for not commenting or such recently but i have been lurking your blogs and when i get the chance i plan on getting to know you all better. 

Thanks for letting me vent! haha now on the food....

Yoga

I have still been doing yoga almost everyday for at least 30min , mostly hour videos. I have a funny yoga story for your enjoyment

• I do yoga at Zoe's now while he has band practice, and one day I was doing a yogatoday.com video and he decides to set the mood for yoga and lights up a couple birthday candled on a Styrofoam plate. it was a cute/sweet idea but while i am in downward dog i smell the candles More powerfully and i look up and see a small fire on the plate! i blew it out but it was defiantly growing. After it was out i started laughing and cleaned up the little mess on the table. here is a pic of the poor Styrofoam plate

• Man o man if you have not tried yoga yet go to yogatoday.com and try their free yoga class now! they begging seems slow, but it is just to get you into a breathing pattern then it will move faster into poses and give you enough time to stretch and get stronger.
• Saturday i am going with my friend to a HOT yoga class which is exciting for me since i have never been.

FOOD:

 I have just been munching on fruit and whole wheat bread and smoothies recently since I do not want to buy my own groceries anymore since i do not have a job. But my eats have been very yummy to me, but not great to show everything in a food blog. 

But i have found a very yummy bread/bagel i like

Nutritional info: calories 240, fat 20. Fiber-7g! Protein 10g! sugar 7g. calcium/iron 10%. Thiamin/niacin 15%.

My review: def more bready then bagley if that makes since. But it it very yummy and made from all ingredients i know! I do not think these were fried at all since it does not have that harder/carby outside that regular bagels have. Overall you are prob better off buying whole wheat bread. But def worth it if buying on sale. I liked it and prob will buy it again if i get a bagel feeling.

This morning was a brekkie cookie made last night and heated for 30 sec this morn.

WOW heating it up a little makes  a HUGE difference! I thought they were already yummy but after microwaving it gets a gooey cookie texture bc if the peanut butter and oatmeal. FANTASTIC! 

• 1/3 cup Oats
• lil over 1/3 cup of a milk water mix
• sprinkle of splenda...sue me ;)
• less then a 1/4 of chopped dried fruit mix
• scoop of naturally more pb (sooo good in the cookie)
• 1/2 scoop of protein mix( i didn't want it too protein powder tasting)
• In the morn topped it with a sprinkle of granola
• side of jam

some melon on the side :)

Lunch will be a green monster since i just finished an hour of yoga. yumm got to get spinach now though. Dinner will be a bagel with tuna/egg/or something

Life:

Since zoe's friend is off tour for 2months we have been hanging with him a lot which is always fun. Last night we went to see G force in 3-D! (yes you read that correctly) It would of sucked if not in 3-D but it was awesome s=because of it. It actually looked like things were flying toward us. Pretty awesome and there was also car crashes and car stunts in a kid movie with gerbils talking? odd but funny.

But also since we are hanging out and out all the time now(not complaining about having things to do) I have to plan my meals more and that is why I already know what i am eating through out the day basically since i pack everything before i head over to zoes.  As long as i get my hour of yoga in i am a happy camper.

I hope all you girls are having a great summer! 

Question:

In th morning and during the day when i stand up i get dizzy/light headed and sometime it goes black for like ten seconds. it is not not ALL the time but def enough to notice.does this happen to you? why does this happen, how can i stop it?

camera cord is back in business

 I found my camera cord!

This is what i have been eating(not all of it just the highlights) since last time you saw the pics.

ICED COFFEE

All blended in a magic bullet

• coffee
• caramel sugar free syrup
• handful ice
• lil almond milk
• Cinnamon 
• whipped cream

I love this! since it is sooo hot over here this drink is very refreshing when i want a cold yummy drink without a heavy smoothie.

This is the apricot/coconut/pb oatmeal cookie.

Also very good will be making more oatmeal cookies in the future

I have been having a lot of salads. This one was AMAZING

LEFTOVER SALAD:

• romaine lettuce(no spinach left )
• tofu that was marinated in my dads home grown hot sauce (very spicy but sweet)
• lil steamed broccoli 
• yellow bell pepper
• roasted tomatoes
• grilled red peppers/onion
• raw corn (I'm in love with raw corn now)
• Hummus as dressing

I think that's all, i basically just looked in my fridge and added everything i could find that was a veggie. so i would call it leftover salad

sweet potato, and English muffin with toaster oven toasted marshmellows 

I love this sweet snack/dessert.

Oat bran with banana, WCW PB, Choco chip PB

Sweet/savory sweet potato fries:

• Half with mozzarella cheese, hummus
  
• Half with Cinnamon,lil sugar, WCW peanut butter

I love sweet potato fries/anything sweet potato. I think they are my fav veggie or tied with broccoli.

Some kind of smoothie with whipped cream ( yummmmmm)

This is a Pancake pizza

• pancake
• WCW peanut butter
• lil strawberry jelly
• coconut

This was fun to make i love bready goodness

Speaking of bready goodness...

These are the banana baked doughnuts i made yesterday. 

Banana doughnuts

The recipe can be found here

Review: these are DELICIOUS. But they are more bready and dense then regular airy,fluffy doughnuts. But for approx 160 cals these are great as a snack or brekkie paired with fruit.

Zoe liked it too as you can see he likes to ham it up to the camera.

I had one yesterday as a snack,today with brekkie,and later prob a snack with smoothie. I love it!

Thats all for right now

 have a great day!

Heat warning

Man it is hot over here yesterday was a down poor of rain and today we have a heat warning. You know this girly is staying inside...until it is pool time

FOOD:

I made a Oatmeal cookie for brekkie yummmm

• 1/3cup oats
• 1/2 scoop whey vanilla protein powder
• 1 nice scoop of naturally more pb
• scoop of coconut
• 2 dried apricots diced
• 1/8 cup milk

Lunch stirfry:

• Broccoli
• sauteed tofu with honey teriyaki sauce
• lil cheese
• roasted red peppers and onion
• half English muffin with a dab of butter

It was very good i cant believe i haven't made one before, since it is so hot here i cant have a really hot brekkie or i get even hotter, no go for me.

YOGA

This morning i did 2 yoga amazing podcast.

1. Yoga for creativity- approx 25min. The teacher just did whatever moves he felt like doing, he was being creative and letting his body move. It was fun he even did the crow which i cant do YET.
2. Yoga for weight loss- this one was a lot of fun, it was Vinyasa flow,fast and sweaty. It was approx 25min ( this was a lot of fun)

After i was done i felt so good, and refreshed and calm. I started doing my to do list for collage and what needs to be done before i go to orientation in a couple of weeks. ekkk I'm starting to get nervous.

Question: When you can not do a pose do you just practice the pose over and over again or do you just keep doing classes and soon enough are able to do diff poses?

I am very sorry about no pictures, i have been tearing my room apart, but no worries whenever i make something really yummy i snap a pic so there will be pics up once i find the darn thing.

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