Freudian Slip?

Talk about oatmeal on the brain! I was showing my boss something this morning on the computer and I attempted to ask her to click on her “outlook” and instead I asked her to click on her “oatmeal” lol :-D How funny is that?!

For Breakfast I had to have oatmeal this morning because I stocked up on large flake oats. Today I topped it with Chocolate PB2, toasted sliced almonds, blackberries and a few Peanut Butter Puffins for a little crunch on top:

I like the Peanut butter Puffins. There is a definite similarity between the crunch of puffins and corn pops!

There was something a little different added into the mix this morning though…

I saw this organic coconut flour and thought that I would include a tablespoon of it in my oatmeal to see if I noticed anything different. My mistake though was not adding it at the very beginning with the oats. Instead I added it in at the end with the flax meal, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and sf syrup. There was a slight “gluey” texture that I didn’t particularly care for, but I bet if I added it in the beginning to cook with the oats, it would be a different story.

All in all though, I bet this stuff would be great for baking! You can sub this for some of the regular flour used in most recipes apparently. I’ll get back to ya on that when I get some baking done.

Lunch today was another dip into the deep freezer to see what I had already pre-made and frozen. I settled on the last serving of the Italian Wedding Soup that I made a month and a half ago and if you’ll notice, I heated it up in a real bowl (for my anonymous commenter who pointed out concerns about microwaving plastic). I’m not perfect with following those kinds of rules, but every little bit is better than none at all, right?!). The soup froze extremely well and was great. I had a few crackers and a cut up 60 cal Cracker Barrell cheese portion and a sliced kiwi.

(I ate my lunch at my desk today)

I noticed that my pom seeds were reaching the end of their freshness, so I used up the rest I had in the fridge with a few blackberries and blueberries over a mini Strawberry Liberte No Fat Probiotic Svelte Yogurt and some drizzly Chocolate PB2:

I got home from work (car-pooled with hubby because the roads this morning were a sheet of ice and I ended up getting stuck sideways going up the hill out of my sub-division which was not cool and the 5 other people also stuck going up the hill didn’t think it was cool either). I did not want to do any exercise at all because I got home later than usual – just wasn’t feeling it. But since I really didn’t technically get a “workout” in at yoga last night, I knew I had to! So I got changed, turned on Jillian and then she, her two friends and I got shredded. She said so herself at the end that I was “well on my way to becoming shredded” :-D I can already feel my quads and biceps getting harder and stronger. My quads are always sore these days.

Before gettin all shredded, I got out a few things for Supper and one of them was a bun for my bella burger. While I was getting a good sweat on, down comes Lucy with half of the bun in her mouth doing laps around me taunting me knowing full well that Jillian is not going to let me stop because “I have to make those 20 minutes count” rather than just “calling it in at the gym” and the little frigger made away with my bun! Hubby chased her around a bit, but the little bugger won. Good thing I had more buns cause I would have been SAD if I couldn’t have had this:

I made my fav bella burger again and it was delish as per usual :-) On the burger from bottom to top:

• toasted foccacia bun
• arugula
• thinly sliced tomato, red onion
• portabella mushroom cap marinated in aged balsamic, EVOO, S&P, dried oregano, dried basil, grilled on the grillpan
• 1/2 roasted red pepper (from the jar in water)
• square of kiri goat cheese spread on the top bun toasted

I also had some leftover eggplant from last night, so I soaked up the rest of the balsamic and EVOO leftover from the mushroom cap and grilled those on the grillpan too. I topped them with a dolop of Liberty Tzatziki (OMG I loooove that tzatziki):

The only thing the meal needed was some added protein so I decided this time to top my salad with some chick peas. Today’s salad consisted of:

• handful of meslin mix
• a few thinly sliced red onion
• julienned carrots
• julienned fresh beets (I love my new julienne-r thing)
• english cucumber
• crumble of feta cheese
• 1/4c chick peas
• drizzle of aged balsamic
• dolop of tzatziki
• = awesome

I was totally full of course, but apparently my sweet tooth lately is still hanging around, so rather than dig into one of those awesome brownie cookies that I could practically see through the cupboard door, I finished off my blackberries from Costco. Methinks I need to make another Costco trip this weekend just for the berries & pom!

And here I am sipping away on another cup of the chocolate hazelnut stash tea (without sweetener) and blogging to you guys. I didn’t happen to notice any other chocolate flavours while I was at Planet Organic by the way, to the commenter who asked me. But PO does have a huge selection of teas, I’ll tell ya that! Note to self: I do not need to buy any more tea in the near future!

Have a wonderful evening my lovelies!