thinking

Im sitting here thinking of what to write. I see all these amazing blogs that teach me so much and share their interests in many things. I want to share fun yummy eats but i also want to share my creative/girlie side so i guess get ready for a shmorgishnorg of girlie yummy foods and pretty things and who knows?! I'm excited i hope you are too!

Zoey came home which is another reason for the MIA, I'm so happy he is back, now i am moving in 12days! ekkkkkk scary.

Food:

I have been in a funk the past couple days. I am not eating the way i like and munching out on to many not so good for me foods. Its all ok but i just miss all my healthy healthy eats.

But a day or so ago i made the best salad yet!

Best salad yet

• roasted  brussel sprots
• roasted tomato
• roasted onion
  
• steamed broccolli
• 1/2 smushed avacado
• salt/pepper/balsamic vinager

Today's brekkie was PERFECT

• coffee
• banana
• red ORGANIC grapes
• 2 hard boiled egg whites (the yolk is too weird a texture for me)
• lil over a 1/4 of avacado

snack: fresh seedy roll from a farmers market

Sad news: zoey lost my USB cord (im not mad) so i will still be taking mac pictures, but i will try to figure out how to use my phone to take pics that are not at home. sorry.

Its my dads bday so im off to have a family dinner, ill be back tomorrow!

its so healthy i feel... guilty?

Hey girls!

just got done with 40 min of a yogatoday.com video (Balancing posture yoga) legs tingling

 I got to make this short but sweet , I am going to whole foods with my best friend so we can buy yummy foods for din din! But i am writing this post because the AMAZING people at amazing grass sent me a huge package!!!!

Take a look...

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

You cant see it but in the corner is their on to go cup for shakes! i have been wanting one of these! They generously gave me two of everything....SCORE. 

of course i had to dive into a packet right away, i got off of a 7 hour work day with only a borba water and choco chip cookie dough balance bar to eat! (it was only supposed to be 5 hour work day but i had lots of projects to do) So i picked up the chocolate super greens! 

"Our Chocolate Green SuperFood is a delicious chocolate drink powder to help you achieve your 5 to 9 daily servings of fruits and vegetables. 

A full spectrum of alkalizing green superfoods, antioxidant rich fruits, and support herbs unite with organic Acai, Maca and Cacao to provide a powerful dose of whole food nutrition with a delicious dark chocolate taste. Complete with pre & probiotics and digestive enzymes to ensure rapid nutrient absorption and healthy digestion. 
Chocolate Green SuperFood: All natural and organic ingredients include organic wheat grass, organic barley grass, organic alfalfa, organic spirulina, organic spinach, organic chlorella (cracked cell-wall), organic broccoli, organic dutch cocoa, organic redwood cocoa, organic cacao, natural chocolate flavoring, organic acai from Sambazon, organic maca, organic carrot, organic beet, raspberry, organic rose hips, pineapple, green tea, acerola cherry, organic flax seed powder, organic oat fiber, apple pectin fiber, F.O.S. (from chicory root), L. acidophilus, alpha and beta amylase, protease, lipase, lactase, cellulase, siberian eleuthero root, peppermint and organic sea salt.
100% Vegan."

my AMAZING smoothie/shake

( i know I'm not tan and i live in south fl...its too hot to go out for longer then 20min, cant blame me.lol)

• choco super green packet
• scoop of protein powder
• cup of peaches
• tbsp of coco, 1 splenda packet (hey don't judge ;) )
• 1 tbsp of dark chocolate peanut butter(almost out!?!)
• 2 dates for chew
• 5 cubes of ice

OMG!!! best smoothie yet! i didn't even taste earthiness at all! i was prepared for some earthiness (which i am fine with) but none just chocolatly goodness with some sweet hint of fruit. Buy this stuff! its so healthy i feel guilty, because it taste like dessert!

tomorrow i plan on packing one of those chocolate covered bars for snack at work.

*excuse all the capital words and exclamation points. but i seriously stoked to have received my first blogger review package*

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!

best brekkie cookie ever!

work:

man o man i am beat! lol From 10-4:30 i was standing up and walking around with prob about 20min sitting down. i went to work, which totally organized and rearranged the juniors jeans. that task took 5 hours, but it flew by! i don't know why but i LOVE projects, and being in charge of something. Then i had to go to walmart to get refreshments for the Kids day at dillards this Saturday, which i am also responsible for. 

Finally i am home and letting my late lunch digest before i do some yoga.

Food:

brekkie

BEST brekkie cookie EVER!

• 1/3 cup oats
• 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
• some dried fruit (cranberry,coconut,papaya)
• scoop of fresh cashew butter (best nut butter yet!!)
• 1/3 cup almond milk
• 1 tsp sweetener of choice
• 3 cashews, diced
• banana icing, mushed banana and heated for 30 seconds

after the cookie hardened over night place it in the micro for 30 sec and top it with the warm mushed banana, and enjoy!

 it is so good that i sat down to take a picture of it but forgot about the picture until i had a couple bites left.

oppps

Snack:

(google image)

although this brekkie cookie holds me over very well i got hungry around 1 so i decided to pull out my PB&J lara bar!

review: omg this is my FAV larabar or at least tied with pecan pie bar. seriously girls this taste JUST like a PB&J sammie, it was unbelievable. yummmmm! it was chewy with ALOT of peanuts in it and whole dried cherries. since i love cherry jam this would be my idea PB&J. 

BUY IT NOW

Lunch:

veggie burger wrap

• flat out wrap
• garden burger
• lettuce
• lil bit of sharp cheddar
• salsa
• with a plum and cashew butter date on the side.

it was ok i was just soooooooo hungry since when i got back from walmart, i just needed to make something quick.

Dinner:

haven't had it yet but when i do it will be a green monster of some sort.

Giveaway:

everything in moderation

missy maintains

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

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

peace out girl scouts

San Fran be prepared!

The boy is gone for the week :( 

This is going to sound very lame, but we have never been apart for more then 2 days in the 14 months together. so it is weird but then again I'm leaving for college in a month so it is a little practice.haha

anyway yesterday was another band show i took pictures, but i gave zoe the camera to take a lot of pictures of San Fran. But of course i will still find a way to have food pictures don't you worry!

This morning consisted of making sure i packed enough munchies for the boys (all junk food of course they want nothing green for the road trip go figure) and then he was off 

brekkie:

fruit bowl 

• plum
• red grapes
• banana
• lil granola

I will prob be posting a lot this week!