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Frothy

by Eating Bird Food on December 29, 2009

Before leaving the beach house yesterday morning I had a frothy non-fat cappuccino and a bowl of Kashi go lean creamy truly vanilla oats with blueberries.

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Do you spy my knitting project on the table? I can’t wait to show you all my first “real” knitting project once it’s complete. Any guesses as to what I’m making?

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We drove straight home, I hit up the gym, worked on my knitting and went to bed early. (I’m such an old lady.)

The coolest part is that I wasn’t going to bed early because I had to work this morning! One of the perks of working for an educational software company, at least the one I work for, is that I get off the week between Christmas and New Years. So instead of waking early for the office, I was waking early to meet up with my high school girlfriends for brunch in Northern VA.

I wasn’t starving upon leaving the house but I decided to get a little beverage to tide me over until my first meal of the day.

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Tall, non-fat latte with 1 pump of sugar-free vanilla. Hot, frothy and muy delicioso.

It was v. fun to see all my ladies!! We don’t get to see each other as often as I would like, but we always try to get together around the holidays when everyone has a bit of time off. This year we decided to meet up at the Silver Diner – of course the company was awesome, but the food wasn’t too shabby either.

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I ordered the low fat vegetarian omelette. It came with a sesame bagel, fresh strawberries and a cinnamon sour cream dipping sauce. I strongly dislike sour cream so I wasn’t expecting to like the dipping sauce, but to my surprise, it was sweet, cinnamony and tasted nothing like regular sour cream. I ended up dipping the majority of my strawberries in it and even spreading some on my bagel.

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Overall, this was a delicious and healthy option as far as restaurant breakfasts go.

After gabbing about what we’ve all been up to and filling our bellies, we parted ways. A couple of the girls and I headed to a mall nearby to take advantage of the after-Christmas deals. I wanted to check out Ruehl, however it turns out the store was closed and apparently unbeknownst to me, Abecrombie announced earlier this year that the whole chain will be going out of business. It’s a shame, because although they were expensive they had some quality clothing, bags, and a wonderful perfume (that I currently use everyday). I’m thinking I might need to buy another bottle before their website shuts down! We did get to visit the other store I was interested in though- Martin and Osa, a brand concept developed by American Eagle that targets 28-40 year olds. They had some cute stuff and I ended up snagging two tops that were on sale. Gotta love sales!

I hope everyone had a lovely Monday!

- Brittany

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DC Living

by eatingbirdfood on June 28, 2009

This weekend I decided to make a trek up non-scenic, traffic laden I-95 to visit my love- he is spending the majority of summer living in DC for a training program. What was suppose to be a 2 hour trip took me 3.5 hours (lots of traffic)-  it’s cool though I was able to catch up with both of my best friends from college, a new friend from blog world, and listen to some of my new favorite jams… I highly recommend this compliation album as there are a ton of great artists on it including some of my favorites, plus it’s for a good cause, not to mention it’s cheap!

Before leaving on Saturday I woke up early, went to my usual Saturday morning spin class. After getting the heart rate up I did a quick weight workout and then headed home to pack up everything including ms. Olive who is spending the weekend at Isaac’s parents’ house.

For lunch I decided to try the Natalia’s Green Lemonade:

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Foamy… IMG_1078 Ummm….. I wasn’t impressed. The smell was a little off putting and the taste was even worse. I found it hard to choke down the whole container and I actually didn’t end up finishing it. I don’t  know, maybe I did something wrong or maybe romaine would have been a better than celery or more apples? I used 1.5 Jazz, which is a sweet variety, similar to fujis. However, they were small. Perhaps I need to give the green lemonade another go. For those out there who have tried it… do you like it? Do you use celery or romaine? Is it something that grows on you?

Once I FINALLY arrived at Isaac’s place I was starving. The green lemonade, carrot sticks, and raw almonds I had packed just weren’t cutting it. Isaac was excited to fix me up a sweet treat from goods he had purchased at the Farmer’s Market earlier.

Toasted sunflower and flax seed bread topped with homemade creamy peanut butter, homemade apple butter, and some local blueberries and strawberries.

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The perfect snack… the bread was so dense and being topped with both pb and ab- this snack had some staying power. It kept me full well past dinner time.IMG_1081

Isaac showed me around his home away from home. He is subletting a room from a friend at a community house shared with 5 other tenants. It’s a HUGE old house in Mount Pleasant (NW DC) and everyone living here is vegetarian/vegan and VERY eco-friendly. (I guess Isaac won’t be eating much meat this summer!)

They have a roof top garden and 2 compost bins in the back yard. They make their own laundry detergent, ride bikes or walk, and have a water/power usage graph hung in the kitchen. They share food as well, and are members of a CSA. Someone in the house is in charge of making a Vegan meal each night for dinner and tonight is Isaac’s night so I’m going to help him prepare something delish. Quinoa will be involved!

I don’t think I mentioned it, but I’m actually staying in DC longer than just the weekend because I have a conference to attend for work  here on Tuesday. It just so happened that I planned on coming this weekend to visit and the conference was this week. I’ll work from “home” tomorrow, go to the conference Tuesday, then head back to Richmond. In other big news… I finished my first nutrition course and start my next one tomorrow- wish me luck!

Isaac’s napping now, but later we are headed to  a drum circle. I’m not exactly sure what a drum circle entails, but I’m assuming it will be fun! Then coming back to the casa to cook our meal for the house.

Hope eveyone is having a lovely weekend.

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Busy Up in Here

June 24, 2009

As most of you know I’ve been extremely busy, but with that said, I’ve still had to time to create some delicious eats. For instance, the breakfast below is what I like to call The Lean Banana Split – all the flavors of a banana spilt but with less calories, more protein and fiber, and [...]

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Fro Mac

May 23, 2009

3 day weekends are the best, no? I am pretty excited about it if you can’t tell. We have some plans- my Dad is coming to visit and 2 cookouts to attend. It should be fun. Backing things up to Friday. My stomach was still out of wack and I didn’t have much of an [...]

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Berry Bounty

May 20, 2009

Today went by really quickly at work because things were busy. At lunch I ran by the post office and ran home. I only had time to prep my salad so I decided just to take it back to the office and eat at my desk- which apparently is the worst idea germ wise. The [...]

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Serious About Cereal

May 20, 2009

So, around 9PM last night I made myself eat a little something for dinner. I have a TON of fresh veggies but I couldn’t stomach eating those so I went with what I was craving. Cereal, of course. 1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean, and 3/4 cup of Barbara’s PB Puffins, 2 berries, and SILK PLUS [...]

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