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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!

Simple and yummy

Hey everyone its FRIDAY!!!

I woke up at 11:30 today!! haha it miight be because we were out hanging with friends till early morn last night and i may of had some beverages ;) but it was a lot of fun!

Even though my morning started late i still am getting stuff done!

• Cleaned the kitchen spotless
• did 35min of yoga- this was a yogaamazing podcast + some extra stuff i did. But the podcast is called summer flow. It was awesome! a lot of vinyasas which i did all the way through! i was finally able to do chaturanga to updog to down dog and i did a crow...for one breathe but i still was able to hold myself up! i was elated. especially since the boys were having band practice it was harder to stay focused 
• did a jumping routine,triceps,plank workout (for the SGBC)

Brunch 

Avacado/mango/raw corn salad

I was all raw! haha it was very yummy and made me feel very good and gave me a lot of energy.  I always forget that the simple, whole foods always make me feel amazing! And my house is now over loaded with produce and yummy healthy foods. I didnt know what i wanted it took a while to decided

Snackum in the boy's room

Protein smoothie

• Dark chocolate dreams PBU
• 7 ice cubes
• Scoop of vanilla protien powder
• banana

This is pretty fantastic it was the pefect choco pb banana smoothie. I LOVE all protien smoothies.

Giveaway:

Danica's daily

apple a day

Taste as you go

pac man...doughnut?

Hello Fabulous!

yesterday i had this yummy smoothie full of

• protein powder 
• cherries 
• cranberries 
• banana
  

On the side a banana doughnut w DCD...yummmmm i am now in love with dark chocolate dreams. today i made PBU using Dark chocolate dreams and almond milk. i can not wait till i thickens!!

Dinner:

(pic of zoe comp)

English muffin pizza with ricotta cheese and marinara sauce

side was blueberry applesauce no sugar added

Dessert- just munched on a spoon of DCD and 2marsh mellows and a couple pieces of Green and Black chocolate.( yes mother nature gave me a present today so that explains the whole munching on choco at night)

This morning:

I snacked on a couple pecans and date before i did yoga- yoga amazing podcast balance flow. i did soo well! i even was able to go down in a toad balance and stand back up directly to a tree pose! i was pumped. after this 30min class i did my OWN flow to kanye west and lil Wayne haha  it was there more mellow raps, worked well i was focused i did warriors,chaturangas,down dog, wheel and such. i will for prob 15min. it was a lot of fun i think i will try to add my own lil flows after practicing with a teacher. 

Brekkie:

PBU banana smoothie, with 5/6 ice cubes and 3 egg whites on the side

This was not a pretty looking brekkie do i didn't bother snapping a pic but the smoothie was AMAZING! i will be doing this with DCD PBU.

Lunch 

almost five hours later

 a humongous salad!

this all went with about 5 cups of spinach! 

• half an avocado i eventually mushed with a spoon of ricotta
• grilled bell pepper and onion
• grilled portabello mushroom
• tomato 
• 2 egg whites
• 1/3 slice of a natural pizza with out the cheese, i love the marinara soggy bread part of pizza.lol

which turned to this

this was so good i love grilled portabello mushrooms. my dad is making more tonight on the grill and they marinate it with a lil EVOO for healthy fat and balsamic vinegar! needless to say i am PUMPED.

GOALS FOR JULY:

1. start trying green smoothies
2. stop mindless snacking
3. no more diet cola, try for water and green tea(which i am sipping on right now)
4. No grocery shopping, the reason is i want to be able to splurge when i go to college so i can have plenty snacks and food options to stay healthy.
5. Summer glow bikini camp
6. of course at least 30min of yoga a day, i really like this goal! :)
7. HAVE FUN

Giveaways:

snackface

nutritious is delicious

glorious 1/2 day

GOOD AFTERNOON!

This morning i did an INTENSE 25 min yoga class with yoga amazing podcast call sun salutations. My arms were shaking after 25min. doing this class i think i get really deep into downward dog and my shoulder pop like no ones busyness, i dealt with it though and I also downloaded 3 classes from yoga today!

1. transforming fear into courage and self-confidence- novice - 60:13
2. strengthening and toning- yogi - 62:32
3. balancing for core stability and will- yogi - 60:28

I can wait to try these classes they are downloading now!

i want to use HEAB a coupon but i do not know which classes i should download? help!

 For brekkie i made

squash pancakes

• 2 table spoon pre mix pancake mix
• 1 1/2 cups of spaghetti squash
• 2 egg whites
• dash of milk
• make it on a griddle like you would a regular pancake

that made these two large yummy pancakes. half had jam and half had cheese 

almost 4 hours later i got hungry so I just snacked on a banana choco PBU smoothie with...

(no pic looks like a smoothie you have seen on my blog)

• 5 ice cubes
  
• Jay Robb choco protein powder
  
•  banana
  
• 1/3 cup of pbu bc i wanted it really peanut buttery
  

I did not want to finish this smoothie it rocked my socks! seriously it was soo creamy and delicious. make it!!!

i just found out that Kailey at Peanut butter swirl  gave me this award!

i do not know if i pass it on or what but i will give this award to Jenny

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!

Man o Man

This morning i did the Yogatoday.com free class of the week for hamstrings and such . I was going to have an off day but my legs were really tight so i wanted to stretch them out. This class was good lots and lost of leg stretches(obv) which i did need today so that was good

Observation: I really enjoy doing flows the best, not just concentrating on one muscle. it is a lot of fun, kinda reminds me of a weird dance.

Brekkie:

PB choco banana smoothie

• Advantage choco protein milk(like half the carton)
• A frozen banana
• Lil extra coco,and ice
• scoop of naturally more PB

I also enjoyed a small blueberry pancake with strawberry jam.

Today is a busy boring day but i really need get ahead of the game and get as much of this college stuff out of the way so when the time comes i can be done with it all.

To do list:

Make doughnuts 

Make flax and oat breakkie muffins

Finish math placement test

Housing note

finish thank you notes

Figure out meal plan for FIU

Do Loan Note for FIU

Send in that i finished loan counseling

buy camera cord

Another yoga class probably some where in there so i can d-stress from all this college stuff.

Eat me

IT'S FRIDAY!

Yesterday i went to a Cardinals and Marlin baseball game in Miami with my dad and sisters then went to Lincoln Road. So i did not have a chance for a post, sorry guys but look at this burger!

My dad grilled one vegan boca burger and on all American meatless boca burger. This tasted JUST like a hamburger! soooooo good and sooooo filling. You got to buy these! i always put two together bc one doesn't fill me up. (this was wed night)

Thursday!!!

Before leaving for Miami i had my savory oat bran.

• 2microwaved egg whites (no time to make runny yolk)
• lil cheese on top
• 1/3cup of water,almond milk, oat bran
• ground pepper
• franks red hot
• 1/3 cup corn

this is one of my fav meals for brekkie. Oat bran reminds me of grits but better for ya.

Then once at the game i started sweating like no other. It was an INFERNO. Everyone around me was dripping and had a lot of embarrassing sweat stains. thank goodness i was wearing a white top! i snacked on a lararbar

we left 7 inning it was an oven!

we left for Lincoln road and walked for 3 hours!!!

we stopped for lunch/dinner (4:30) at van dyke restaurant. I got this Ahi Tuna burger...it was COLOSSAL! I had the burger with on side of bun (these were the jumbo hamburger buns) w/ a side of veggies. I asked them very light on oil and no butter but they poured butter all over it yuckkkk. I tried taking oil off, it was to much work so i had a couple pieces of broccoli. That was all i had and i was full for the REST of the night!

but at 10 i felt like i needed to eat even though i was still not hungry so i managed to eat some chocolate apricots and some fruit.

plus a banana

Today:

I woke up and enjoyed this...

Hamburger bun (publix bakery...love doughy bread) half with barney butter/banana/coconut

and half with strawberry jelly

then Went to grocery shop. I was trying to make him get healthier foods but i had to force him to get grapes. haha he past right over the veggies and fruit and went straight to the processed chef boy-r-d. He does not like healthy food. Hey i tried!lol

After i made a hummus bread with potato bread/and banana peps.

And cherry/raspberry cake smoothie! I love the cake smoothies!

And tonight i am just got to enjoy my summer night with friends and boy <3

Giveaway: jogging my memory

reviews and costco

The rest of yesterday i long boarded to blockbuster to drop off "how to lose a guy in ten days" and it was a sight. picture me in a knee length skirt and lacy tank long boarding haha. but lots of fun.

Lunch was:

heart thrive date flavor, kiwi( and another one), lil bit of cheese, and a blackberry/blueberry smoothie. I was craving a lot of things so i made a plate full. i also had a brownie(unpictured)

Review: Heart Thrive date

INGREDIENTS

OATS, DATES, BROWN RICE SYRUP, BROWN RICE FLOUR, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SOY FLOUR, INULIN (CHICORY ROOT EXTRACT), RICE BRAN, NATURAL FRUIT JUICE, DRIED PLUMS, DRIED APPLES, DRIED PEARS, CALCIUM CITRATE, GINGER, CINNAMON. 

Nutritional Info: per heart: calories-158, fat Cal-13, fiber-5g, protein-6g and calcium 189mg

VERDICT: this was sooooo yummy it did taste healthier cake. like a dense date cake. chewy,dense,moistish. this heart is thick and not a wimpy serving at all. It did keep me satisfied i didnt eat untll 5 hours later, granted i was hungry 4 hours later but was fine.

So yesterday at 5 the boy and i decided to go to the beach, and yes it was storming but we thought it would stop by the time we got there....

We were wrong! hahaha but i did snag some video of the boy and his friends skimming but as you can tell from the pic i got chilly and decided to read my fitness magazine!

after the beach my tummy was grumbling so i made a small sweet potato w/light sour cream and PB and a boca vegan burger! 5 for $10!!! score!!!

 review for bocaburger vegan

Ingredients: WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEAT GLUTEN, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF METHYLCELLULOSE, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, DRIED ONIONS, YEAST EXTRACT, SESAME OIL, HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR (NON-MEAT), DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE. CONTAINS: SOY, WHEAT, SESAME.

nutritional info- per patty. calories-70, cals from fat-5, dietary fiber-4, protein- 13!

Verdict? this was yummy and has a lot of protein for such small amount of calories, i think i will be using two pattys for a burger in the future. It tasted like well done burger but not as juicy. I would defiantly buy this flavor again. taste like a burger and it doesn't have veggie chunks in it, which i like because i was feeling burger without meat.

     4 out of 5 because of the skimpy size.

We went to a friends house and the boys decided to play poker at 12! i some hoe passed out in all the ruckus and was woken up at 4am. zoey got second place in poker!!!!

No workout this morning but i do plan on walking a lot today/cleaning randomly. 

 For some odd reason my hunger has been very small the past couple days and i do eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm satisfied. but this morning i was not hungry at all but after cleaning the kitch and living room i grabbed an apricot heart thrive warmed it up and put a lil dab of PB.

i also had a couple bites of my sisters apple turnover. :) 

I went to Costco today with zoe to get his mom an ipod touch. I also took a picture of the bar aisle

pure protein,larabars,trio bars, go lean,cliff,zone,cliff kids and mucho more! 

Now i am just waiting to get hungry so i can make sweet potato fries.haha

QUESTION! what is the diff between whey and egg white protein? i love jay Robb's vanilla but i want to buy a whole cartoon instead of the pouches. I just do not know what to buy or which one is better for you or if they even are diff. 

give away: holey doughnuts 

dad cookies

of course the zesty blog giveaway!

new obsession

First things first. giveaway notices

• missy maintains is having one for coffee/protein drink
• honey nut lo needs support for her challenge!
• Krista's kravings is haveing a full bar giveaway
• healthy on the run is having a bar giveaway

from now on i am really going to start trying to blog everyday because i love blogging. I have been just so busy but blogging is my "me" time where i can just relax and write about whatever i want to write about.

lets catch up 

• i have fallen in love with a protein powder... jay robbs vanilla whey/egg protein! This stuff smell like birthday cake, it is glorious. Now i am a huge choco lover but this stuff is awesome and so i made a smoothie.

Red raspberry cake smoothie

a lil over cup of raspberries

a couple peach slices(only had like a 1/2 cup left)

1/4 cup coconut flakes

packet of Jay Robb vanilla protein

3/4 cup of almond milk

topped with some homemade granola.

This is my favorite smoothie right now, i have had one every day and it keeps me full all morning. I usually have it after a workout or just when i need some thing refreshing.

• I am going to be selling a lot of my stuff i have not used online/craiglist/possibly ebay i will also put pictures on my blog if anyone is interested. I just have to start saving money before i moved to Miami. and there will be a wide range of things from a Louise vuitton laptop/book bag to sky dress to forever 21 top a tissue cashmere cardigan and random things every thing i will be selling though i have never worn and more then likely will still have its tag.
• Summer is going great! i love being a graduated high schooler. Its pretty neat. But i have finally started partying with my friends again which i love. Last night we went to a pool in a new neighborhood and we partied like rock stars,haha of course only soda ;) and then the boy and i went to WENDY'S haha i really needed some food/munchies and i was craving a plain baked potato with pepper and a lil f no fat sour cream. i ate only half then went to bed.
• I also tracked my package to my secret blogger and they should be getting it in two days!

Now on to today and some eats

brekkie

red raspberry cake smoothie

a lil handful of dried fruit one of my fav snackums

I am pretty full satisfied after this 

today's plan is to chill maybe mall, and then going to a chocolate/wine tasting/restaurant tasting festival at 4:30-8:00 i will be bringing my camera and snapping pictures

camera cord back in action

Happy Monday! 

I did not post yesterday because i went on a day trip with the boy and his mom to islamorda, fl to pick up a boat! and we went jet skiing/snorkeling. I couldn't bring my camera since i didn't want to lose it but this was an awesome trip! I swam with...

ekkkkk heck yes i was scared but i was with the boy and got much braver.

I am defiantly sun burnt now. I hate being sunburned! :( 

but that was yesterday and now on to to days eats! that right i got my cord!

tried waking up to go to kickboxing but slept in, my body needed it i woke up yesterday at 4:30! and was walking alot/swimming.

so i ate

2 small pancakes (PB & J style), choco/half banana protein smoothie w/coconut

i tried Green smoothie but i think i did something wrong because it was not good at all and i was very sad about this , im sure i will try again tomorrow probs

then i went over to zoes who's car wouldn't start and his sister needed a ride to take her high school exams! in my book education is very important, so i took her while zoe finally started up his car to get the much needed gas.haha

We cleaned the boat which kindda looked like it belonged in the trash but after 2 hours of scrubbing it down like mad people it looks sooo pretty! i can not wait to bring it out.

lunch was a salad

spring mix/corn/black beans/tomato/bbq shrimp/hummus as dressing.

this was o soo yummy

also today i was in publix an a man gave me a free hoffmans milk chocolate bar! i absolutely love chocolate dark is the best but milk is defiantly more creamy this will be my dessert for sure tonight.

rest of today

Post office

dinner

bowling?

party?

Costco trip

Happy tuesday! I am writting this blog watching food network with my boy snoring next to me covered with pillows.haha totally snuck a picture

 

So this morning i woke up very sore and decided today would be a nice rest day since i didn't like the classes at my gym this morning. SO the boy and I decoded to go thrifting at goodwill and then costco!!!

Breakfast

 Toasted English muffin,1egg +2egg white, 3 yogurt pretzel,and a lil strawberry jelly.

I was still hungry an hour later so i had a banana and was good to go for the morning

We went to Costco and i got trio bars! dried cherries, these are so tart and juicy love it, and a 2lb bag of pecans(my favorite nut) ill add pictures later left all my goodies at the boys house.

I was about to buy so many other things but I'm not rich. 

Did you know they were selling Lara bar boxes,cliff bars,balance bars,zone bars? and a lot of organic products! i was amazed to see all the healthy foods, they even had fafel balls, and veggie burgers,chobani. Costco is defiantly blogger approved!

Lunch

a choco protein shake this is the best protein shake like milkshake...yummmmm

by the way the shake was filled to the top it was just to good! 

• chocolate muscle milk light (got  sampler at Costco)
• handful of ice
• splash of milk
• lil scoop of choco protein 

and in the bowl i wanted some things to munch on as i was perusing your blogs.

• dried cherries 
• lil pecans
• 1/2 peach
• small banana

then my boy and i went to Starbucks to try to sell his mac pro to someone interested...the kid has to ask his mom *fingers crossed*

and the boy treated me to a green tea! nice and hot

 I think i am going to take my boy out for dinner if its not storming to much out here.