Major Procrastinator!

I love procrastinating. (NOT!) I had a two page paper to write today (it's due at 4pm) but I got called into work last minute! Somehow I managed to bust that thing out in 30 minutes! Luckily, I had read the material beforehand.

Work was good! I worked with first graders on speech therapy. I love speech therapy! I actually want to eventually work in speech-language pathology. I went to speech therapy in elementary school for about a year. All sorts of issues with my vocalic R. Which is pretty typical for first graders. Most just sort of grow out of it.

Anyways, I won't bore you!



This morning I made myself a smoothie with 8 frozen strawberries, one banana, 2 tbsp flax seed (too much!), 4 oz of POM Wonderful juice and a splash of vanilla almond breeze. I had to drink it on the way to work!



With flash. It was dark in our apartment this morning!



Lunch was a chicken caesar wrap with avocado from Camille's. I love their wraps.



This wrap clocks in at 450 calories, which isn't terrible for take out!

Congratulations to Christine, who guessed correctly that my blog title from this morning came from a Tori Amos song. I'll be sending out her V-Day Prize tomorrow morning!

I have to go to class now and then do Day 3 of Couch to 5k Week 4. It's going to be brutal!

1. Do you like working out in the evening? I hate it! It's going to take lots of willpower!

GRUMPY SMOOTHIE!!

I. AM. SO. GRUMPY!!!!

This morning I decided to use up some of the plain oikos greek yogurt I was sent to sample. I got out the blender, 1/4 cup of cranberry-pom juice, mangos, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and started my smoothie.

I added the tbsp of ground flax that Dr. Fuhrman suggests. (Btw I'm currently reading his book "Eat to Live" and semi-following his suggested diet plan.)

Anyway I was excited to have a smoothie this morning until our stupid blender decided to stop working!!! It took me 15 minutes to blend the smoothie!!

Moral of my story: It's time for me to indulge myself with a high powered blender. Vita-Mix please?



Smoothie of death. It's too chunky to be good. UGH!



I switched the straw for a spoon. ha!

Time for more blogging and "Eat to Live" reading.



Have you read this book? What do you think? I'll post a review soon. I actually have quite a few books to post about.

Also congratulations to my sweet almost-husband (18 days!!!!) for completing his first year of being a high school teacher! I am incredibly proud of you.

Yesterday I made another Pom Smoothie but used frozen pineapples and strawberries. I let 'em thaw while I attempted to do a shred video and some cleaning. I hurt my ankle doing jumping jacks and it's been KILLING me!



I used the last of our crunchy pb too. Sad!





Not to worry, I have 2 jars of the stuff in the pantry!

We went to lunch with Andy's parents at Camille's and I forgot to take pictures. Blah.

Lunch was at Jersey Mike's Subs. I liked it but all of their wraps have over 600 calories. I'd rather make my own! I had a buffalo chicken wrap.





Like I said, it was good but not worth all of the calories and fat! I need to start looking at nutritional facts before eating! DUDE! I'm sure I could have saved a bunch by asking for no blue cheese dressing. I didn't realize dressing came on the wrap. Lesson learned!

I have a CRAZY day planned for tomorrow so I'm going to finish my homework and relax a bit. I'm going to observe a middle school class for six hours. Blah.

Pom Wonderful

Rose's Pink Smoothie inspired me today!



I put together half a banana, fresh strawberries, 1/4 cup dry oats, and 1/2 frozen mixed fruit.



Added in 3 tablespoons of plain nonfat yogurt.



And 4oz of Pom Juice courtesy of Pom Wonderful. Thanks for sending me this guys!



And blended until smooth! It tastes amazing! Thanks Rose and Pom!

Easy breezy berry-full

I dreamt about smoothies last night so when I woke up this morning, I knew what I had to do.
I busted out our new blender and some ingredients and went to work on a new recipe. I figured I might as well share with you!

My first experience with Almond Breeze.

Amanda’s Very Berrylicious with a hint of banana smoothie. (I’m insane I know)
1/3 unsweetened vanilla almond breeze
½ banana
½ cup lowfat plain yogurt (clearly you can use nonfat but this is all I had)
10 fresh blackberries
1/3 cup fresh blueberries
½ cup mixed frozen fruit (instead of ice) I used a berry medley from Trader Joe’s.
Nutritional Stats (entered on sparkpeople)
280 Calories
51 grams of carbs
5 grams of fat (like I said you could lower the cals/fat by using nonfat plain yogurt. I will next time!)
12 grams of protein (I'd love to use plain nonfat greek yogurt for more protein)
8 grams of fiber


From the top of the blender. I mixed everything together before deciding that I needed to add a bit more low-fat yogurt. I originally planned on adding 1/3 cup but it was not creamy enough for me.

Proof of the fresh berries in there. Blackberries have a ton of seeds. Just fyi if that stuff bothers you.

The finished product! This recipe made 20 oz of smoothie. Enough to tide me over until lunch I hope. Let me know if you try this smoothie or if you have another recipe for me to try!

***I didn't add any sugar/fake sugar to this because the banana sweetened it up pretty nicely. I bet some agave nectar would go nicely though if you are into that sort of thing ;)

Now that we actually own a blender, I want to make more smoothies. I will need to invest in some protein powder and ground flax seed to make them healthier. I'm sure you'll be seeing more smoothie recipes soon.