It’s been a strange couple of days around these parts.  My hunger has been really weird and I was in a random bad mood all day yesterday.  I’m sorry for not posting yesterday.  One thing’s for sure, I did NOT spend all of last night finishing the final season of “Buffy” with the husband instead of studying for my sociology exam.  Definitely did not.

We went to see “Killers” (ugh, waste of $) Sunday afternoon so I ate lunch via movie snacks – a big baggie of baby carrots and 2servings of spice drops.

I also ate this Himalayan mint – raw honey, unsweetened chocolate, peppermint oil – en route to the theatre.

When we were home, watching not watching Buffy, the craving for popcorn finally hit so we hiked over to Walgreeens to get a bag.

We also split a sherbet melon.

I was really excited about this new fruit but I think we let it get too ripe because it ended up basically being a mushy cantelope.

Dinner was another frozen meal from the Tandoor Chef line, Channa Masala –

While not as delicious as the veggie pad thai it was still ridiculously tasty, and the nutritional stats were a bit better.

I ate the whole box, or 2 servings.

This morning my move did improve drastically when the husband cracked open a young Thai coconut for me.

I drank some straight from the source but the rest of the water and flesh I blended with ice cubes and cinnamon-sugar for a fabulous smoothie.

Did you know young Thai coconuts only have ~200calories?  I finally looked it up, but I’d been assuming that the number was much higher.

I also ate a Thai Peanut Primal Strip in the car.

It was ok, but I prefered the flavor of the bbq.

The husband dropped me off at school today and took the car to the lab.  The benefit of that is twofold; 1. I had more time to cram study for my sociology exam, and 2. I got the incidental exercise of the 2.5mile walk home.

I was all set up to study in the food court when my stomach starting growling howling.  My smoothie and Primal Strip added up to ~300calories which isn’t a huge breakfast but is definitely able to hold me over on many a day.  Well not this day.  I seriously got panicked when it looked like I wouldn’t find a snack and I almost ate my packed lunch!  Thankfully I spotted a humus/pretzel pack at the coffee shop.

After scarfing the snack pack (and drinking an entire Sigg’s worth of water) I finally felt full enough to tackle my book.

I ended up being really confident about the information but the test only went alright because the questions were worded really poorly.  I feel like as a teacher for two years I’m qualified to comment on that and seriously, the test sucked.  Still, I got the best grade in the class, by a lot.  For reals kids?  I could also school you in how Buffy ended!

I stopped midway during my 2.5mile walk home to sit at a coffee shop and study for a few hours.  Since I knew the vegan pickings would be slim I packed my own lunch, a Kona Moka Pro Bar.

The flavor (a little touch of sweet) and texture (a lot like a Lara/Kind bar hybrid) were definitely impressive and it was pretty filling.  At 360calories this was more of a meal replacement than snack bar.

When I got home (after finishing my walk) I snacked on 2servings of yellow tortilla chips with 4T of chunky salsa.

Now I’m doing some organizing and waiting for the husband to get home and help me chop dinner.

Wow.  That was an insanely whiney post!  Any Monday complaints you’d like to whine about?