Boooo Berry Vega

 

 

Monday.Coffee.’nuff said.

 

 

 

I’m getting quite adventurous with these smoothies I have to say.  Adventurous enough that I decided I’d try one of these Vega packets in place of my usual protein powder.  The entire shake consisted of:

• 1/2 frozen banana
• 1c frozen strawberries
• 1 tbsp sprouted chia seeds
• 1c unsweetened vanilla almond breeze
• packet of berry Vega
• 3c baby spinach
• water to make it wirl

 

The verdict?  Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I am NOT a fan of this berry Vega stuff.  I tried to save the smoothie by adding some cashew-almond butter and some PB2 but I only drank half of it and I decided I wasn’t going to force myself to drink something I didn’t like.  I am just barely getting over the colour of the them with the spinach, so I felt I’d just leave it at that! 

By mid-morning I had half of a Cosmic Cookie and life was good again:

And some more fresh berries (of course):

 

  Who doesn’t like oranges?  You’re nuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the lobster sub is back at Subway (as you may have gathered from my impromptu blackberry post at lunch time today.  I couldn’t help myself because they are AMAZING!  If there’s any time to ever ask for “double the meat,” this is it:

These baked southwestern ranch chips aren’t bad either:

  

Supper was awesome.  Remember the Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette I made that went along with the guest post on ZestyCooks blog today?  I became the world’s best glaze for brussels sprouts!  I had the other half of the leftover file of salmon and a scoop of homemade potato salad and the brussels sprouts were the star by far:

 

And my favourite dessert in the world, strawberry shortcake:

Not the most figure-friendly version in the world (homemade whipped cream and everything), but worth every single bite:

Dang it was good :-)