I kept to my diet over the weekend. It's getting easier saying no to the things I used to say yes to, like soft drinks, sweets, processed foods. We ate lunch out and I skipped the soft drink, opting for water instead. Saturday's breakfast was my famous bowl of Cheerios heaped with fresh fruit and my ever faithful cup of chai tea. Lunch was Qdoba tacos, veggie style, minus the cheese and sour cream but heaped with pico and lettuce. Yum! Dinner was leftover vegan lasagna...so creamy and still delicious! I finished the chocolate chip cookies, so there was an emergency on hand. Baking was definitely on the agenda for Sunday.
Sunday's breakfast was a favorite for me and my youngest: steel cut oats with blueberries and cinnamon. My 2 year old an I eat 3 servings of this easily! It's so warm and delicious, it almost tastes like a blueberry pie.
Lunch was a simple PBJ with pickles and apples.
And dinner was a favorite, Spaghetti No's with Mini Lentil Meatballs. I don't have a picture, but Isa's photo is great. I'm working on getting approval from Ms Moskowitz to link to her site. Once I hear back, I'll add in the link.
I noticed I ran out of popcorn, and my pumpkin seeds were long gone, so I was starting to panic...what was I going to snack on?!? Nuts and dried fruit to the rescue! Cashews, brazil nuts, dried cherries and apricots did the trick.
I did some baking, chocolate marble banana bread...heavenly. And, as of Monday night, it's gone. I'll have to make another loaf because everyone loved it. I didn't have everything I needed to make the cookies I wanted, so that went on the back burner. Chocolate banana bread stood in well as dessert Sunday night.
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Today's breakfast was a vibrant green smoothie with toast topped with pumpkin butter. I'm loving my green smoothies. I admit, I was a little scared at first. But, if you add enough fruit, and most of it should be frozen, then you can't taste the greens. I like to use kale partly because I still have some in my garden, but mostly because they have a great amount of absorb-able iron. And, I tend to be iron deficient. I used kale, pineapple, cantaloupe, pear, flax oil, and hemp seed. You can add flax seed in place of the oil and hemp seed. I just used what I had on hand. If you want it to stay that pretty green color, be sure not to add anything purple or red. Blueberries taste delicious, but they do turn it into a dark purple color, just an FYI.
Today's lunch was a big salad. And, I forgot to take a picture! Crazy! Not to worry, I'll be having another one tomorrow. More details tomorrow on what I like to put in it too.
Dinner was leftover lentil meatballs with velvety cheesy sauce. You gotta try that recipe, I'm just sayin'.
Now, on to the fun stuff. The boys have been raking leaves all weekend. They've been disappointed that my extremely efficient husband has been, up until now, munching up the leaves before they've had a chance to play in them. So, we had a talk and asked Daddy to please leave the leaves so they could get their fill.
Daniel is saving some leaves by keeping them on the deck. My two year old was then jumping off the deck box into the leaf pile. sigh
Fall is in full swing. It gets dark now as we're eating dinner and the first forecast for snow is in on its way for Wednesday night. We could quite possibly wake up to snow on Thursday. Hooray!
Until tomorrow, enjoy your evening.
Sunday's breakfast was a favorite for me and my youngest: steel cut oats with blueberries and cinnamon. My 2 year old an I eat 3 servings of this easily! It's so warm and delicious, it almost tastes like a blueberry pie.
Lunch was a simple PBJ with pickles and apples.
And dinner was a favorite, Spaghetti No's with Mini Lentil Meatballs. I don't have a picture, but Isa's photo is great. I'm working on getting approval from Ms Moskowitz to link to her site. Once I hear back, I'll add in the link.
I noticed I ran out of popcorn, and my pumpkin seeds were long gone, so I was starting to panic...what was I going to snack on?!? Nuts and dried fruit to the rescue! Cashews, brazil nuts, dried cherries and apricots did the trick.
I did some baking, chocolate marble banana bread...heavenly. And, as of Monday night, it's gone. I'll have to make another loaf because everyone loved it. I didn't have everything I needed to make the cookies I wanted, so that went on the back burner. Chocolate banana bread stood in well as dessert Sunday night.
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Today's breakfast was a vibrant green smoothie with toast topped with pumpkin butter. I'm loving my green smoothies. I admit, I was a little scared at first. But, if you add enough fruit, and most of it should be frozen, then you can't taste the greens. I like to use kale partly because I still have some in my garden, but mostly because they have a great amount of absorb-able iron. And, I tend to be iron deficient. I used kale, pineapple, cantaloupe, pear, flax oil, and hemp seed. You can add flax seed in place of the oil and hemp seed. I just used what I had on hand. If you want it to stay that pretty green color, be sure not to add anything purple or red. Blueberries taste delicious, but they do turn it into a dark purple color, just an FYI.
Today's lunch was a big salad. And, I forgot to take a picture! Crazy! Not to worry, I'll be having another one tomorrow. More details tomorrow on what I like to put in it too.
Dinner was leftover lentil meatballs with velvety cheesy sauce. You gotta try that recipe, I'm just sayin'.
Now, on to the fun stuff. The boys have been raking leaves all weekend. They've been disappointed that my extremely efficient husband has been, up until now, munching up the leaves before they've had a chance to play in them. So, we had a talk and asked Daddy to please leave the leaves so they could get their fill.
Daniel is saving some leaves by keeping them on the deck. My two year old was then jumping off the deck box into the leaf pile. sigh
Fall is in full swing. It gets dark now as we're eating dinner and the first forecast for snow is in on its way for Wednesday night. We could quite possibly wake up to snow on Thursday. Hooray!
Until tomorrow, enjoy your evening.
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