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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!

2nd post in the same day?

Yes it is and ba da da da da im lovin it!

(Mac Donalds tunes on a health blog...who is this girl?!)

I have a job! 

kindda...

 my dad is the manager of Dillards and he said if i am his levi jean rep(fold and make people buy levi jeans which i do love) then I can get $10 bucks an hour! But no more then 30 hours a week, score! 

So I will keep myself busy all week by..

• working 
• going to to gym for some cardio/book reading
• being crafty with clothing

(inspirations)

• being a chef/baker
• defiantly some yoga
• Friday a girls day with my best girl friend 
• Thursday and some Friday babysitting

as you can see i am very much a look on the bright side person! thank goodness

well today has been very Lazy/relaxing. I tanned and continued reading the mandatory book for FIU, thank goodness it is an interesting read. And i ate a yummy 

lunch!

Huge salad

• some tilapia my dad grilled
• grilled onions
• Romain lettuce
• 1 egg
• tomato
• lemon, salt, pepper (as dressing)
• roasted Brussels sprouts ( a new love) recipe below.

Snack (no pic) 

a lil piece of fresh panera bread i got fo free. (i got connections haha)

some Jif natural and banana

Roasted Brussel sprouts 

 (its EZPZ)

(not my pic but exactly how they looked)

1. trim gross looking ends(not to much you don't want it all to fall apart)
2. preheat oven to 325*f
3. cut in half, and put in a bowl
4. lightly pour in olive oil (just enough to lightly coat the sprouts)
5. add salt,pepper,balsamic vinegar for taste
6. coat baking sheet with oil (pam works perfectly!)
7. place sprouts flat side down cook for 15 min
8. flip and cook for 10 more min
9. ENJOY

Me airbrushed!

If you want a good laugh, i am in the uniform advantage catalog and look a good 15 years older with bright red lipstick/barbie looks body( can you say airbrush) find me I'm thorough out the magazine.

Why would i embarrass myself(actually i find humor in it)? 

to show you girls how much air bushing is done in the real world! and this is just a small Uniform company if I am this airbrushed that means all these models are airbrush as much and what does that say about magazines? so if you are on of those girls who compares them self to models ( i know i do from time to time) STOP! they models have just as much/quite possibly more insecurities too.I know that is hard to believe but trust me. Models have the difficult task to show their body to (usually heavier then themselves) people and those people will tell them they are too fat/ugly or whatever. Then the model who is gorgeous doesn't see that! It's crazy but i have seen girls in my agency come crying to the casting people saying how they are not beautiful! 

rewind to the main purpose of this ramble, everyone has insecurities so instead of trying to shed those "pesky" pounds embrace your body and feed it whole,yummy foods when your hungry. and if you are craving a chocolate cake like no other buy a great piece of chocolate cake and savor each yummy bite. You only live once so make your life the happiest,yummiest,no regrets life possible.

watch this 

 

But seriously check out the airbrushing, my hair is even blonder! haha

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also if you have a twitter tell me i want to chat it up with all you awesome girls!

Alright girls I'm off to get my zen on.

peace out girl scouts

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!

eats eats and more eats

So I am going to show you some of my eat the past days(not all of them) just ones i enjoyed very very mucho!

Banana,dried cherries,strawberries,kiwi,blueberries with coconut flakes a lot.

butternut squash,corn,black beans,sour cream

banana,best brownies ever!,a dove dark chocolate,G&B milk chocolate

Butter nut squash!, peanut butter, banana,graham cracker

fav fav smoothie, rasberry cake smoothie

TODAY

this morning i went to my fav class at my gym body plus, but the reason i love it sooooo much is the teacher is very nice but makes sure we are sore the next day. one of the excersises was lunges with wieghts across the room 2x ,and then side squats 2x. That was maybe 5min of the hour! soo much fun and she is funny when she does some work out she says "if you have issues do this(shows an easier excersise) and now i don't mean boyfriend,work,etc issues" haha always make me laugh

then i cam home hungry(before workout i had a pineapple ring,dried)

spicy cheddar broccoli bran

• 1/3 cup oatbran
• 1/3 cup of water
• 1/3 cup of almond milk
• 2 egg whites
• 1/3 cup boccoli
• lil cheddar mixed in
• lil cheddar on top
• some reds hot buffolo wing sauce

went over to zoes to make him brekkie(he likes the unblog like food) i think i may start taking pics of what i make him. he is trying to gain weight.

then not to long ago i went to publix to get frozen cherries and this PB.

the smoothie

Blueberry cherry pie

• 1/2 Cup frozen blueberries
• 1/2 Cup of frozen cherries
• scoop vanila protien powder
• homemade granola sooooo goood
• dried cherries(for a bottom treat)

REVIEW

Naturally more PB

Ingredents,Nutritional info:

Verdict: i usally hate grainy,natural pb that i have to stir. But this stuff was great! it has the flax seeds and tasted just like roasted peanuts that i get a a ball park game and it had the stick on your roof nummy effect. (this is key for me, i have to have this effect or i do not like PB) this is def going to be my PB to go to

5 out of 5!!!

Have a great day!!! and thank you so much for the comments on my last post i do not talk about my feelings/rough patches with people but i feel comfy with you all since we all have the same feeling, which is to just be happy and healthy

giveaway: apple a day

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