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Random

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I have not gotten near enough done today (unless you count the huge stack of magazines I powered through as an accomplishment) so this post needs to be quick.  All of my food choices have been unbelievably random today.

“Breakfast” was the last serving of Food Should Taste Good Lime Chips.

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For lunch I followed last night’s theme and did some more using up.  The last Flat Out wrapped around the last Boca Spicy Chik’n Patty, with lettuce, carrots, cheese, and buffalo sauce.

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For fruit I made a smoothie – 1C passionfruit pulp, 1 fat free plain Oikos, big splash oj, drizzle honey.

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And I snacked on a Healthy Hazel Boomi Bar sample.

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I’ll be back after class this evening.

Tell me one random thing about yourself.  I’ll go first – My middle name is Helen.

Pizza Party Part Deux

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I haven’t gotten much work done but the rain was the perfect atmosphere for watching some “tv.”  In the hours after breakfast I was starving so I ate a Cookie Dough Balance Bar.

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These are seriously the best things on Earth!

Lunch was inspired by leftover pizza ingredients and these guys.

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I was excited about these Boca Spicy Chik’n Meatless Patties, but a little concerned by this warning –

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I read through all the ingredients and have no idea what this is about.  Does anyone else know?  I combined spice + pizza for one super sandwich.

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I rolled a patty in a Flat Out with ~2T each pizza sauce, shredded carrots, 2% colby jack cheese, and Anchor Bar Buffalo Sauce.

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I ate some leftover peppers from last night alongside.

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Quite a good lunch.

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Dessert was pretty good too.

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Purely Decadent Non-Dairy Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream with Crofter’s Superfruit North America Spread.

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The skies are looking a little less foreboding so I might make it to the gym today after all.  My other focus of the day is chemistry.  See you for dinner.

For Funsies – What is your favorite animal?  In no particular order, I love duckbilled platypuses, spiny echidnas, otters, and pigs.

Crossing My Fingers and Toes

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I actually got in bed before 10pm last night, but when we wake up 8bazillion times a night you kind of are tired no matter when you go to bed!  I wouldn’t have mattered when I woke up today though, I let my sadness over my foot kind of take over my whole day.  Not good, Emily, not good.

For breakfast I made 0% Fage with a heaping teaspoon TJ’s Sun Butter.

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And lunch made tasty tasty use of leftovers (and made leftovers for tomorrow!).

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I chopped up cooked lasagna noodles and stir fried them with broccoli, carrots, seitan, evoo, soy sauce, and chipotle oil.  It was super tasty, but I don’t think I like seitan as much as I once did.  I used this package from West Soy, and it just tasted a little off.

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All in all the plate was still pretty good though.

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Adam came home early from school (a class was canceled because of a big test this week) and we watched “Boogeyman” together.  It was a strange movie, but the eating of 4squares of this greatly upped my enjoyment.

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I got to school in time to print off class notes and purchase a stuffed buffalo for my niece.  We are visiting Adam’s brother in Ohio this weekend.  I also gave Jamba Juice a second chance.

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Much better.  When I got home from class I supplemented “dinner” with these pretzels.

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Tomorrow is a big day, I have my first lab, my first quiz, and hopefully my first day back at the gym.  Wish me luck!

What are you crossing your fingers for this week?

Bye, Brooklyn Bloggers

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Our mini-meet-up was a success; good food and great company!  Diana, Vani, Sarah, and I met up at Organic Heights, a vegan spot near the Bergen stop.

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It was a cute little restaurant although the menu was also pretty little.  I am a Reuben (turkey Reubens only) fanatic so when I saw tempeh Reuben my order was obvious.

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I ate none of the salad and 95% of the sandwich.  It was de-lish-ous!  The bread was sourdough, which is always fantastic, and they got the tempeh chewy and wonderful in a way I never could.

To drink (my third bought drink of the day, I think I went a little over calorie/$ budget in liquids today) I got a Vita Coco.

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It was great getting to spend a final bit of time with that group of girls.  I have met some really wonderful people through this experience.  We sat after dinner and had a big chatfest which is exactly what I needed this stressful week.

Diana was a sweetheart and brought us all homemade, vegan, chocolate chip cookie/brownie bars.

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They were delicious.  They did not deter me, however, from getting suckered into Haagen Dazs which is across the street from where Adam and I had to go after dinner to deposit a birthday check from my grandma.  I got a mint chip dazzler.  I couldn’t take a picture due to drippage but think of the biggest sundae acceptable for a grown woman to eat and multiply it by 3!  I threw away half of it and it was still a ridiculous serving.

On a similar note, I think the thing I am most excited about in the move is shaking up my routines.  This year (and the last month especially due to move circumstances) we have done so little cooking.  I really do love my time in a kitchen.  When people play the ‘if you won the lottery….’ game with me the very first thing that pops into my head is culinary school.

Our exercise schedule, or lack thereof, could also use a good shaking.  I am 24, the amount of stiffness and lack of energy I currently have is unacceptable to me.  Even if I hadn’t recently discovered that I’m 10+lbs over where I want to be, I don’t like the way I feel.  Aside from long-term health benefits and looking good I like to be active because I enjoy the way I feel in my body when it is in shape.  The CPR instructor yesterday did a quick heart health speech and he made a very good point – this is the only body you have.

So now I’m going to try to take my only body and actually get it in bed a reasonable time!  Peace y’all.

What do you need to shake up?

P.S.  Who doesn’t want Chiobani????

The Not-So-Ugly Truth

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It is late (for my new goal of actually having a bed time) and I have a random tummyache so this should be quick.

Activity # 3 of my birthday day – 7:45 showing of “The Ugly Truth.”  This movie was fun and cute; I am usually more for raunchy comedy than romantic comedy but this had some pretty funny moments.  I think Hiegel is a great actress.

We were naughty and snuck dinner into the theatre.  We were going to go out for Thai food but later in the week we will have to go out because everything will be packed so I figured we should save some money for now.  The main meal component was sandwiches, the star of mine was –

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TJ’s Chickenless Pulled Chicken on two slices of white bread, perfection.

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I also packed a sliced Jazz apple,

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and some baby carrots.

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A pretty excellent movie dinner I would say.

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For dessert I brought half of this Newman’s Orange 54% dark chocolate bar.

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This was tasty but my stomach is super bloated and hurts like crazy and the only thing I can think to blame it on is the candy bar.

Peace out yo!

What did you think of Knocked Up?  This was one of my favorite movies on earth!  Hiegel wasn’t even on my radar until this movie and now she is one of my favorites.  I know that some people thought it was too dirty and had too many curse words but honesty (sadly) that is how I talk!  I thought the scene where they were smoking with the gas masks was genius!