Author Archives: Emily

The Good Snow

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Last night was ridiculous; it was past 2am when I finally stopped tossing and turning.  Needless to say, my 6:30am alarm was promptly shut off.  I have to leave for volunteering in just a bit, so my homework assignment is still looming on the horizon.

A good breakfast can always make your forget your troubles, at least temporarily!

This bowl was Dannon Light and Fit Toasted Coconut Yogurt, topped with 1/2 cup blueberries, some crumbled banana bread (from my bloggie Valentine package) and 1t coconut flakes.

I’m getting a little sick of snow, but this lookalike was too gorgeous to hate!

Gotta jet!

How do you like coconut?  My friend told me she hated it yesterday and I almost couldn’t believe it.  Coconut is in my top 5 favorite, although I think it’s best to use a fresh young coconut for cinnamon smoothies.

Me: 0, Hunger: 4

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I’ve been super busy (and stressed) all day and that paired with my intense hunger somehow led to me eating 4 full meals today, whoops!  The amount of school work I have to do over the next few weeks (particularly while I’m home, boo) is sort of staggering.  I’m actually looking forward to seeing whether or not I rise to the challenge 🙂

I was feeling a bit empty still after breakfast so I grabbed a Yoplait Light Red Velvet Cake yogurt.

This wasn’t my favorite flavor, but I was pretty entranced by the color.

My study session ended up being split between two coffee shops.  First Starbucks, where I ate a low-fat egg white, spinach, and feta wrap with a nonfat tall latte.

Then the Spot where I had a Cajun Turkey Wrap (ww wrap, sliced turkey, pepperjack cheese, cajun sauce, l/t).

I ate 2/3 of the sandwich plus a 2nd diet coke.

Finally Adam picked me up around 7:30 and I headed off to get my “real” dinner.  We were so excited to try this newest location of …..

Moes!  I’ve been seeing the Florida bloggers gush about this place for years so I was super excited to try it out.  Adam and I were NOT disappointed.

I did some damage on the huge bag of chips the gave me,

but my main meal was this fellow –

A Junior Homewrecker (burrito – little bit of rice, black beans, tofu, cheese, salsa, cilantro).

Yum, yum, yum.

I would say it’s been a good day but I’m going to try to bang out some of my online Chem homework so my day seems far from over.  I hope everyone else had a great weekend!

What’s your opinion on “Fourth Meal?”  Just for Taco Bell or awesome idea?

March Madness

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Good morning!  Since most husbands and wives don’t stay up to all hours of the night watching Buffy reruns I assume my breakfast post will be read during lunch for most of my readers 😉

Even though it’s noon I figured I’d start my day with a beautiful breakfast –

A blueberry bagel with light cream cheese and Crofter’s Superfruit Spread.

And most of a Cara Cara orange.

Delish.  I really enjoyed my 2 week vegan challenge – and I plan on doing a post on it tomorrow – but I am excited to get back to dairy.

I’m also excited about flying to Florida this Thursday!  I can’t believe how busy the next 2 weeks are.  Thankfully/sadly the husband doesn’t have the same spring break as me so he can hold down the fort and be my personal airport shuttle.

  • 03/03 – Chemistry quiz
  • 03/04 – Fly to Orlando (to stay with two of my best friends of all time)
  • 03/07 – Die trying to run in the Disney Princess Half Marathon
  • 03/09 – Fly back to Buffalo; get in a 8:30pm
  • 03/10 – Fly to St. Thomas; leave at 5:30am
  • 3/15 – Fly back to Buffalo
  • 3/19 – Chem Test
  • 3/22 – Anthro Test

Yikes.  I’m really excited though.  I’m also really behind, I have a TON of reading to do while I’m home.  And today I’m meeting Caroline at the Spot for a study session.  Dinner is going to be posted late but we are trying out a new spot and I’m really jazzed about it 🙂

What are you excited for in the upcoming month?

Lovin’ Like Buffy and Angel

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It’s been an absolutely fabulous day with the husband!  We are mid-Buffy-marathon though so I’ll keep this quick.

When we did our grocery shopping this afternoon we got salad bar for lunch.

Green beans, roasted brussels, cauliflower, steamed veggies, and spicy tomato tofu.

Yums!  I love veggies so much.

Today is the last day of the vegan challenge and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited about eating a bagel with cream cheese tomorrow 🙂

When we got home the husband got straight to work on this bad boy.

This was our first pommelo experience and we were both pleased.  Adam and I split this huge plate of gorgeous goodness.

And dinner ended up being amazing as well.

The tofu was marinated in tamari, evoo, chipotle oil, garlic, and green onions.  Then I sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked at 450* for 25minutes.  For the veggies I sautéed some frozen green bean mix in the tofu marinade.  ‘Twas good.

Dessert was also exciting.  This small self-bag of gummi candies had my first Easter candies of the season.

See you in the am!

Did you watch Buffy in the ’90’s?  I didn’t really (although one of my friends was beyond obsessed) and Adam had never seen it.  We LOVE it now though.

Rufflemania

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I am so glad that the blondies are out of the house – I relooked over my posts and realized that I ate 4 Thursday!  Come on, could YOU resist this?!?!

But that was a whole day ago, what happened to Friday?  My internet was down again, yay!  Really though, it’s ok, I’m sure no one needed to see a grown adult eat a bag of chips, some fries, and a grape soda and call it a day.  Whoops!  Plus our friends somehow convinced me to see The Crazies with them so I spent my evening checking corners 🙂

Today has been deemed a “Adam and Emily” day.  I can’t even tell you how excited I am to spend the day with the husband.  We are grocery shopping and watching Buffy, nothing too exciting, but I will do a eats recap post this evening.  I tried my best to look cute on a Saturday for “our day” –

Apparently cute = ruffles to me.

Have a great day!

What’s your personal opinion on ruffles?  I apparently can’t get enough.

Like Ice Cream Topped with Honey

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Good evening!  I hope everyone had a great day.  Mine had some hits and misses.  Like apparently I’m missing the gene that allows you to cook kale without burning the life out of it –

My lunch ended up being a tiny plate of roasted cauliflower, boo.

But I hit the nail on the head with my latest layered look –

My great aunt thrifted me this cashmere cardigan when I moved to NYC and I love it.  The buttons are circular except for the one over my heart.

I LOVE little details like that.  I am obsessed with Volcom because they always do nifty things with the stitching and inner patterns.

Classes went ago, I’m a couple of days behind on my Chemistry reading and I was pretty confused in class today.  I’ve got loads and loads of work to do this weekend.

You know that I inhaled a blondie the minute I walked through the door.  I’m making the husband take these to his friends at school tomorrow so they won’t be in the house any more!!

Dinner was pulled straight from the freezer.

I randomly bought this Kashi Mayan Harvest meal awhile ago so I was thrilled to notice recently that it was vegan.

Ok, I know that looks disgusting, but YUM.  I love plantains so freaking much; I can’t believe it’s less than 2weeks until I’ll be home eating them for real.

For dessert I put two blondies on a plate.

And I’ve told my sweet tooth that the kitchen is closed for the night.

P.S. The title relates to nothing except for the fact that I’ve been singing Lady Gaga ‘Beautiful, Dirty, Rich’ all day.

Dreena Burton, I Love You

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Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!  Can we talk about the fricking Maple Pecan Sticky Blondies?!?!?!

I only had 1/2 as much of the pecan topping as the recipe called for – the best part – and they were delicious.  When I make them again with the full amount I’m pretty sure my head is going to explode.  They are chewy, and almost spongy, the topping is the world’s best mix of sweet and salty and the molasses adds a fabulous layer of complexity.  I had two.

And the minute I woke up this morning, before brushing my teeth, and even before I peed, I ate another one!  Buy Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan.  Do it NOW.  Make these blondies.  If you are worried about the “strange” ingredients don’t be.  I subbed out the ‘regular’ stuff for half of the ingredients in the recipe and it worked out fine.

Gah!  I’m still kind of not over it, but I can’t talk about blondies all day, you want to hear about breakfast. 

Last night I mixed up 1/3 cup oats, 1/3 cup plain skim soy milk, 1/4 cup soy vanilla yogurt, and 1T maple syrup.  I am not a soy yogurt fan but it was leftover from the blondies.

This morning I topped the bowl of with a sliced banana and a spoonful of pb.

Pretty tasty.

I have class this afternoon and leftovers are on the dinner agenda, overall it looks like a low-key day.  By the way – I’ve decided NOT to run before my race.  I am not going to be able to increase my fitness in 10days, but I can give my leg a chance to rest up and heal.

Blondies or brownies, which are your favorite?  To me brownies = ick, blondies = yum.  I will say though, that ALL of my favorite blondies have been vegan.

No-So-Small Smalls Will Make Me Not So Small

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We are the proud owners of new (safer, eco-safe) pans!  Nothing else today has gone according to plan though, mostly in a good way 🙂

I ended up only taking a few sips of my Naked juice because the husband picked me up much earlier than expected.  It was good because I got to blow that joint, but I had hoped to be forced to do a few more hours of studying.  When I offered Adam a sip of my juice he randomly fell in love with it and I let him have it.

After our Target trip we randomly decided to go on a date ❤  We had to stop at Wegmans to pick something up so we hit up the salad bar.

Chan Marsala with Naan (YUM!),

roasted veggies and a little bit of tofu.

So good.  Whenever we do the salad bar the husband and I always share a diet soda, awwwwww!

Can you guess what we did next?

Bowling!  I am so terrible at it but I enjoy it so much.  My first game was beyond embarrassing.

But I started to get the hang of it.

And by the 3rd game I beat the husband!

He had a pretty serious thumb injury at that point but I’ll take what I can get 🙂  While we were bowling I munched on this entire “small” (4serving!) bag of buffalo wing pretzels.

I need to basically never pick up a bag that has more servings than I plan on eating at that moment.  In general I only eat things that aren’t healthy when I choose to, but I have no control with those “small” bags.  I did the same thing with a bag of trail mix yesterday 😦

I planned on eating dessert this evening, Maple Pecan Blondies (another E,D&BV recipe), but a mid-way run down the block for flour meant they aren’t done yet.  I’ll probably nibble one before bed and I’ll give you a review in the morning.

What foods do you lose control with?  What have you done to combat the problem?