corn off the cob

Even though I spent a good portion of my last post complaining about how much my stomach was hurting from the pumpkin pie soup, I still couldn’t resist eating some of the leftovers. I know, I’m such a rebel right? No really I just figured if I didn’t devour a big bowl at one sitting it wouldn’t effect me as it did before. Thank goodness I was right because the addition of the pumpkin pie soup to my b-fast was pretty much the best thing eva.

1/4 cup oatmeal, 1/4 cup oat bran, 1 cup h20, 1/2 of a banana, and a sprinkle of cinnamon cooked stove top with 1 heaping spoonful of better n’ PB and a couple drizzles of ultimate orange resulted in one delicious bowl of Pumpkin Pie Oats!!

This held me over ALL morning and I went home for lunch later than usual.

I currently have a HUGE container of Earthbound Farm’s Organic spring mix from Costco so you’re going to see a lot of salads on this here blog as I race against the produce clock to eat it all before it gets all wilted and slimy on me.

For my lunch snack I had more pumpkin pie soup, this time mixed with some Trader Joe’s Nonfat greek yogurt and kashi go lean. I’m still not keen on the sourness of plain yogurt so the pumpkin pie and cereal helped.

A bite close up

Yesterday evening I went to the gym for a quick arm workout and then met up with a friend/co-worker.

We spent a fun evening together grocery shopping and cooking! I taught her how easy it is to make homemade Thai Spring Rolls with peanut sauce and also got her to try the super grain, quinoa (keen-wa)!

The spring roll ingredients consisted of romaine, avocado, cucumber, carrot, mint, and basil.

We also put some shrimp and rice noodles in the wraps, although they were camera shy.

I cooked the quinoa with h20 and tomato juice from home canned tomatoes and topped it with steamed broccoli. I also added black bean garlic sauce and soy sauce to the steamed broccoli so the dish would have more of an Asian flare.

Dinner was delish and I had a ton of fun cooking with a friend. After the dishes were clean and my friend had gone home I finished off the pumpkin pie as dessert. I don’t think that deliciousness would ever last more than two days in my house. I already want to make it again.

Speaking of friends, I woke up this morning and found this little guy hanging out on my back deck.

I hope he wasn’t trying to steal my herbs…. he was awfully close to the basil and rosemary!!

I had a Lean Banana Split for breakfast. And it was yummy per the usual.

I’m excited because I have big plans to do an awesome abs class this evening and then just hang with Olive.

I hope everyone is having a lovely Tuesday!!

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Today was a lazy Sunday, minus the sun. We went to bed quite late, but I still woke up early- I got the whole internal clock thing going on and even on weekends when I go to bed later than normal I still wake up early. It was rainy out- no morning run in sight and I didn’t want to make a lot of noise so I postponed eating breakfast and got started on some school work. Once the house was bustling and it was safe to run the juicer I juiced a chunk of beet, 4 carrots, 1 fuji apple, and some cucumber.

Here’s the magic potion…

I shared a wee bit with Isaac and enjoyed the rest. I definitely dig this combo. With the juice I had a banana with some AB and thought that would be my full breakfast, but then Isaac got out the Kashi Go Lean waffles. I took a bite of his and decided I wanted one for myself. So I had one. With syrup.

My friend headed back north mid-morning and Isaac and I settled into school work. I broke for lunch around 12:30.

A salad of spring mix, corn off the cob, carrots, avocado, bell peppers, broccoli, grape tomatoes, cucumber and TJ’s Goddess dressing… since I’m a goddess and all (totally kidding).

Post lunch I ran out to do some errands and to workout. After a unsuccessful shopping trip and a successful workout I came home showered and started making dinner, which strangely resembled dessert. I’d seen this recipe featured by both the G’s- Gena and Gina and had been wanting to try it.

Natalia Rose’s Pumpkin Pie in a Bowl

Oh man this chilly soup lived up to it’s name and each bite was filled with pure deliciousness. It’s amazing how much it tasted like pumpkin pie without having a speck of actual pumpkin in it. Besides the fact that my juicer got a little clogged from the boat load of carrot pulp, the recipe was really easy and fast. Unfortunately I can’t post the recipe because it is published and I followed it exactly. But I will let you in a little secret, some folks don’t seem to care about copyright so you can easily find it with a little goggling.

With the soup I had a salad, which was very much similar to the salad I had for lunch. I’m loving sweet corn right now- especially in salads!

So dinner was amazing, and it was pretty much love at first bite with the soup. That is until my stomach almost instantly started to feel really bloated and painful. OUCH! I’ve had stomach issues before and at one point thought that it was caused from eating the skin of a baked sweet potato. There was sweet potato in the soup, but no skin so now I don’t know. Maybe I ate the soup too fast or maybe I’m actually allergic to sweet potatoes. It would be rare because it’s not something people are often allergic to, however definitely still possible and it’s the only thing in dinner that I can link to the pain – especially after having the same problem occur before with sweet potatoes. Now I’m scared to even eat the leftovers tomorrow. :/

Plus, I’m sad because I simply LOVE sweet potatoes. The good news is that the soup can be made with a sub for the sweet potato. I’m actually certain that Gena subs the sweet potato with b-nut squash. I didn’t even think about it because my stomach hasn’t acted up in a long while, but had I been using my thinking cap I would have just used Gena’s sub from the get-go. Oh well, ya live, ya learn. I’m off to lay down, as that’s the only thing that makes my stomach feel semi-better.

Hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I know I surely did.