Feed a Small Country

Let me preface this post by saying that I ate enough PB puffins to feed a small country today! ;) Well, the box is gone now at least! It's funny because in my last post, Anna commented:

And I'm impressed with your restraint around PB puffins... they don't last more
than 72 hours around me!

She just didn't give me enough time! haha!

Breakfast this morning was a banana, Odwalla Berries GoMega Bar (I LOVED IT!) and a homemade latte in a recycled Starbucks Cup! Yep, If I bring them home, I wash them out! Doooo it! For lunch, I was craving something fresh! So I piled my oblong blue plate with juicy Gala Apple slices, seedless cucumber slices, carrot chips, a LC for dipping and 4 turkey/cheese roll ups (Boars Head Smoked Turkey and 1oz Mild Cheddar). It was great! :D

I also tried a new water! Unsweetened Owater....it was refreshingly not sweet! There was simply a peach essence in the background. Pretty darn good!

Then I got crazy...baking crazy! These Oatmeal and Date bars are flipping amazing spectacular nutritious and delicious eats! OMG! PLEASE PLEASE try them! I wish I could claim them as my own, but I can't! Find the recipe here. I made quite a few changes...

• I omitted the skim powder and wheat germ (I didn't have any on hand).


• I added about 1/3c sliced almonds (GREAT addition)


• I used scant measurements of sugar and molasses (still came out plenty sweet).


• I used rolled oats (I don't know what "large-flaked" are, but I didn't have them!)


• I used 5 chopped medjool dates


• I poured in quite a bit of Almond Extract instead of vanilla and it smelled awesome!

I had about 1.5 or 2 of these bars throughout the day! One of them was plated up all nice and pretty....I took that big dallop of "frosting" (leftover from the filling of my mom's mother's day cake) off because this bar was CRAMMED with flavor that I did not want to disguise! This is where my "no-carb" lunch back fired! I don't care what Im craving, my body needs carbs! ENTER PB PUFFINS! haha I also had a toasted Kashi Heart to Heart Waffle with a bit of Promise Butter Spread.
Then I went to the gym and got my bootay kicked! I attended a class called "Body Pump" and it was basically weights, weights, weights...working different muscles! Let's just say that my legs were shaking! I need to work with more weights along with cardio! That was made VERY apparent tonight!

I came home and had a light dinner of shrimp salad! However, in all honesty, the shrimp got dunked in cocktail sauce and the salad was eaten alone! Shrimp Cocktail is the ONLY way in my book!

Wish Bone Romano Basil Vinaigrette :D

Then I had a 100 calorie bag of Popcorn, a bowl of Luck Charms (note to self: buy a healthier cereal and stop eating your brother's!) and this BEAUTY!

KEMPS Frozen Yogurt Parfait-Wild Blueberry Style

Well our History test got pushed back until Wednesday because he added a bit more material, which is fine with me because now I can hold off on studying! ;) I start work as a FroYo Girl Tommorrow! I wonder if we get free samples?! That would be BiTtErSwEeT!

GIVEAWAYS!!!

http://365healthyeats.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/rainy-day-giveaway/

http://runtothefinish.blogspot.com/2009/05/win-once-again-nut-butter.html

http://www.juliegolean.com/2009/05/not-so-sunnyday-big-s-farms-giveaway.html

http://strawberryshortstuff.com/2009/05/18/contest-announcement/#comment-1307