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I am not going to talk about the Royal Wedding. I’m sure there’s plenty too much talk about it already.

And I only watched a few snippets of it.

And I only did that because for some complete unknown reason I happened to wake up at 6:20 am and couldn’t for the life of me fall back to sleep. I had absolutely no need to be awake that early. Apparently that darn Royal family has so much power that they’re able to drag me out of bed even when I am virtually indifferent to the kerfuffle in the first place.

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So despite my intentions, I sort of took interest in this morning’s “historical moment”. It was…formal. But cute. And her dress WAS pretty lovely.

 

Oops. I started talking about it after all. CUT.

 

To other lovely things this week:

Like fresh flowers with breakfast.

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And grand amounts of chocolate bunny spawn…

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Aka Cream Eggs.

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Best consumed with coffee.

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Seriously. BEST with coffee. Chocolate + Coffee = perfect love match.

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I also successfully made it through a week of drinking green sludge every single morning for breakfast.

Okay fine, it was actually only four days since I started on Tuesday. Monday was still Easter time. And I wanted bread with leftover Easter chicken and cheddar. Rolled with it.

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But by Tuesday I was right into the green sludge. And by green sludge I mean delicious smoothies with spinach. It was hardly suffering. Except visually. These aren’t that pretty.

The first two were mocha-style. Cocoa powder and instant coffee do not one vibrant smoothie make.

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We eventually got prettier when mango and strawberry protein powder were used.

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Then we got uglier again when cocoa powder and chocolate instead of strawberry protein powder got added back into the mix. If you think you like banana in your smoothies though, try frozen mango.
Best one of the week: 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup almond milk, cocoa powder, chocolate protein powder, frozen mango, ice, spinach, dash of cinnamon, dash of barley grass powder, and the gums.

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I know, four mornings of smoothies in a row, I’m so hardcore right?

I was really just aiming to set out some structure to my breakfasts since they’ve been pretty all over the place lately. I wanted to see if I could follow through with the same(ish) breakfast every day. It kind of worked. I’m looking forward to some chew again tomorrow though. Hellooooo oatmeal.

 

Aside from smoothies there was plenty more chocolate.

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A lot of studying…and study snacking.

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Pumpkin, yogurt, frozen berries, random cereal, random crumbles of whatever else is dug out of the depths of the fridge & freezer…solid snack I’d say.

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There were some veg somewhere in there too.

Sometimes with falafel balls added in.

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And sometimes dipped in delicious mixes of barbecue sauce and mustard. Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it.

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How about some microwaved sweet tater with sour cream, salsa and feta?

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Or a giant bottle of liquid chemicals?

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Not gonna lie, I used to drink these a lot. And not really care. I don’t very often anymore but I bought one today out of thirst and…they’re cheap. Like a whole litre of fizzy sweet sparkling beverage for half the price of half the amount of a normal diet pop. And I needed a big bottle for big water refills later. So I bought this. And downed it all in not much more than an hour.

1 hour, 1L of pure chemicals. This time I felt a little guilty about it. I’m no food saint and I have nothing against the occasional diet pop. But I feel like this is a diet pop on crack.

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That was hours ago though. I’m still alive. I think we’re good to go. But next time maybe I’ll just buy plain water. Or just not chug a whole litre of this stuff in one sitting? Hmph.

 

And on the topic of finishing things… I also finished that whole university thing. I had my last two exams ever of undergrad this week. Yikes? Where to go from here? Perhaps more on that one a bit later.

But for now… a granny-esque Friday night bed time pour moi. I lost all semblance of a social life this past month…heck this past TERM. So I’m banished to nothing more than blogging and sleeping tonight. Anybody out there? Life? Come back?

 

Back briefly to the topic of the day week month… were YOU all up on the Royal Wedding hype? What did you think?

Three Days…I spent sitting on my bum studying this weekend. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. My legs are sore.

Three Midterms…I have this week. Monday (today), Tuesday, Wednesday. My brain is sore.

Three Muffins…left out of this batch I made on Friday…erm make that two now. My taste buds are happy (Recipe here. I used raspberries).

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Three Giant Sweet Potatoes…in this scalloped sweet potato dish that we had for dinner last night.

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Three Veggie Plates…that I munched on this week.

Snack plate with mustard, BBQ sauce and ranch dressing dippers (+ a dumpling on the side)

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Spinach, red peppers, mushrooms, pickles, sundried tomatoes, mustard and a bagel thin with hummus.

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Spinach and roasted butternut squash dipped in homemade ketchup (tomato paste, water, apple cider vinegar and a few random spices. First try of the homemade…who needs the bottled stuff?!)

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Three Breakfasts…that I woke up to this weekend.

Spinach smoothie – water, almond milk, ice, spinach, chocolate protein powder, frozen raspberries, gums + granola topper

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Double Green Smoothie – almond milk, 1/2 frozen banana, big bowl of spinach, sprinkling chocolate Amazing Grass powder, sprinkling Barley Grass Powder, sprinkling strawberry protein powder, small chunk leftover roasted butternut squash (I’m trying to kick a cold. Loading up on them greens!)

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Toasted whole wheat waffle with blueberry Greek yogurt and strawberries

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Three Quotes…I like today (I save a lot of quotes)

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What are your Top Threes of Today?

I handed in my last take-home exam at 10:00 AM this morning and I am DONE! And I am excited. And wiped. And packed full of sugar.
HELLO HOLIDAYS

And hello POPCHIPS!

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Most exciting knock at the door all week. Thank you! So pumped.

 

I did manage to get a small dose of holiday spirit before exams were over. Saturday night Ugly Christmas Sweater Party? Don’t mind if I do.

Even though I may have had an exam the next morning at 9am. Yes, a Sunday morning exam. Didn’t know that existed? Neither did I until my exam schedule said so. But don’t worry folks! I studied plenty beforehand. And no I did not drink. A late night out before an exam is one thing but writing an exam hung over? NO thank you.

And it IS possible to have a fun time despite being likely the only sober character in a house of drunken holiday hooligans.

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Even when they’re rocking tight sweaters and mad Christmas bling

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On the food front…

Not going to lie, I haven’t been getting nearly enough of this lately:

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I blame it on the holiday spirit alongside the spiritless Grinch that is Exam Time.

But I have been getting plenty of this:

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However I’ve squeezed in a nutrient or two (albeit not many green ones) here and there:

Microwaved sweet potato + hummus, cottage cheese, salsa

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Dippy egg, toasted english muffin, ketchup

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and obligatory coffee.

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Honey Mustard Butternut Squash – do it up! + zucchini slices

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And today I got to have my first COSTCO trip in a couple months now?! I have had NO time to make the adventure to one of my all-time favourite shopping quarters and today, first day of holidays, was the day.

A nice big leafy plate is always necessitated after a trip to Costco, which brought the spinach, tomatoes and hummus to the plate. I also ate plenty of Naan bread and popchips along with this.

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I don’t know what I would do without Costco double packs of my absolute favourite hummus. Actually, I’ve been living without it for at least a month now and it’s been troubling to say the least.

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I have never tried a hummus comparable to Fontaine Sante.

Umm… can I also talk for a second about THIS…

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First NEW Larabar sighting alert! I had not seen these anywhere yet. Then again, I’ve hardly left the house this whole last half of fall term…but whatever. I found a box of the new Larabars. These holidays are starting out well!

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I also got some of my Christmas shopping out of the way which is a relief. Hadn’t had a chance to do that yet either. I don’t know how some of you balance all of the stuff you have on your plates, I accomplish nothing outside of school work when the term gets busy.

 

To keep my raving sweet tooth satisfied without the mad chocolate high that I keep getting from all the goodies and sweets that seem to never stop rolling in this month, I’ve tried baking a few slightly healthier goodies to keep on hand.

It hasn’t worked, but they tasted pretty good anyway.

I made Elise’s Pumpkin Banana Bread only halved and with a bunch of changes because of what I had on hand.
My changes: I had no coconut oil or stevia baking blend so I added 1 T creamed coconut, 1/4 cup FF vanilla yogurt and 2.5 T agave to the mix, and carob chips on top of half instead.

Elise’s is likely a lot better but this turned out a-okay to me. I’d make it again.

I also baked it in a square pan, not a loaf pan. It’s flat and lovely.

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I also de-bittered Alex’s Grain-Free Bitter Chocolate Cake for One. I’m definitely not 100% dark accustomed…yet. Someday! Though it might take a little while to wean my taste buds off of all the sugar after this holiday.

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I had no squash puree so I used fat free sour cream…working with what I’ve got! Sweetened up a bit with sugar free eggnog syrup (Bad idea. I don’t love this syrup), and a packet of stevia (this helped). Plus milk chocolate chips. What can I say.
This was good though! I think I could almost handle the full bitter version (maybe with just one packet of stevia…) mixed into yogurt or even oatmeal or something. Future experiments to come…

 

But first, sleep time.

Only THREE DAYS left until CHRISTMAS. I hope you’ve all got your shopping done, your cookies baked, and your Santa hats on.

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Falalalala…

Happy Holidays!

Hi Guys!

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Just a quick note to announce the winner of the Tetley Colour Therapy Giveaway:

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Congrats Jennifer!

Please email me your address and I’ll send that out to you asap :)

 

And for a little visual fun, foods on the menu lately include:

A salad or two.

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Tortilla pizza.

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Vast amounts of homemade hummus.

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Oats warm

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And oats cold.

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Plenty of skin-“tanning” orange foods

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And a hunky dory amount of cereal.

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I have just about finished a take home exam that is due tomorrow and I think I’m now about ready to call it an early night :)

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