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Fridge Traffic JAM

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It’s officially the first work-week of May!  Where has this year gone?!?  For that matter, where has today gone, it’s all felt a little rushed.

Adam and I both had another lackluster sleep last night 😦  Isn’t it just the worst feeling to toss and turn when you’d like to be resting up?  The morning felt like it came way too quickly and the snooze buttons were pressed several times.  I had to drive the husband to school so I could use the car to run errands, so I rushed out the door with him.  How happy am I that it’s finally throw on a sundress season?

I was a little irritated to have to go to the post office when I hadn’t even eaten breakfast but it ended up being a good thing because my parents send me an amazing package!  It was Carnival in St. Thomas last week and they sent me all sorts of goodies –

I packed the soursop jam away into cabinet before I could even look at it.  I have a problem –

Seriously, Emily?  6 open jars of fruit spreads!

However, I tore into the stewed tamarind immediately.

A few spoonfuls in I managed to stop myself and actually assemble breakfast.

Stonyfield plain fat-free yogurt with stewed tamarind and 1/2cup raspberries.

I couldn’t get over how pretty it was and the taste combination was amazing!

Eat More Fruit Tip # 1 – Instead of buying “fruit on the bottom” yogurts, make your own!  Plain fat free yogurt with berries and fruit spread stirred in has less sugar than the ones you buy at the store, and is a whole lot tastier too!

Lunch was pretty gorgeous as well.

Eat More Fruit Tip # 2 – Smoothies are a very tasty way to eat your fruits, just be sure not to add too many high-calorie/sugar additives.

I had a whole slew of annoying phone calls to make and the morning slipped away while I was on the phone.  By the time I was headed out the door I was already late so I made myself a to-go smoothie for lunch.  1 small frozen banana, 1/2cup frozen blackberries, 1cup calcium + vitamin d oj, and 1/2t xanthan gum.

The smoothie was supposed to be swim fuel but sadly that didn’t pan out.  When I got to the pool all of the lanes were full and I was too late picking up Adam to wait. 

The swim no-go is especially annoying because I don’t want to swim, I want to run, and I can do that any where.  My hopeful date to start running again is May 10th and I’m getting a little nervous because my leg still hurts.  The doctor said it would hurt up until it was healed (and then I could get moving again) but I’m so afraid that the 10th with come and go and I’ll still be stuck.  I’m so eager to run again that it physically hurts when I see other people out on a job.  I made get-well wishes on several of these today.

What would you wish on a dandelion for?

Fruit eaten so far today:  3cups

Banana Bread Makes It Better

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My funk yesterday evening ended up lasting all through the night.  My sleep it off theory was a bust, because that involves actually getting some sleep!  I was feeling fine at bedtime but I woke up at 2am and did not go back to sleep until after 6, ugh.  I actually got up and out of bed at 3am to take a shower hoping it would somehow help me relax!

Fitful sleep or not, 8:30 was the latest I could sleep in and still get today’s (final!) Chemistry assignment in on time.  I knew breakfast had to be my cure-all.

Banana bread for breakfast makes bad moods better.  And if a sentence has that much alliteration – b,b,b,b,b – you know it’s got to be true 😀  My “cure-all” contained Stonyfield Maple Vanilla Low-Fat yogurt, 1 chopped banana, and 1 smallish slice of crumbled banana bread.

I feel ready to take on the world!  Which is a good thing because I’ve got a Chemistry final to take on at 8am this upcoming Saturday.  Off to hit the books!

What is your favorite alliteration breakfast?  One time I mixed together blueberries, strawberry yogurt, wheatberries, and a banana for breakfast; I was pretty thrilled.

Surprising Satisfactions

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I was surprised and satisfied when I woke up at 6am this morning to register for summer school and I got into all of the classes I need.  Whoopie!!!  My exams at UB end May 6th and then here is my class schedule for this summer –

  • Sociology 100 – MTWRF 10:30-12:40, June 1st – June 26th
  • Anatomy Physiology – MWF 3:00-4:50, June 1st – July 17th
  • Introductory Nutrition – Online, June 28th – July 21st

It’s going to be a really challenging summer but I’m so excited to get started.  I just hope I’m as lucky with registration for fall classes next week.

I was surprisingly satisfied by how tasty my in-the-car-breakfast was.  A huge hunk of coconut banana bread,

and a Greek Gods Fig Greek Yogurt.

Greek Gods is my very favorite yogurt brand.  The texture and flavor is the absolute best in Greek yogurt and the packaging is adorable.

I ate in the car because I headed to school with Adam this morning.  My production level at home is abysmal and I have work that has to get done today.  While I was taking a computer break I was surprised and satisfied to see that I earned a 94% on the last Anthropology exam, go me!

Walking around campus I was surprised and satisfied to see all the signs of Spring in spite of the especially cold April weather.

I hung out in the campus library from 8-12 and then when Adam got out of class we headed over to The Spot and continued the study session there.  I was satisfied but surprised by my Mikes (egg and cheese) Bagel Sandwich.

Tasty and filling but I’m not sure it why it looked like such a hot mess.

The plan for the evening is a dinner that’s quick and easy (just like your boyfriend! ba doom ching!) and cuddle on the couch tv time.  With a big scoop of excitement mixed in – we are getting dessert from Dolci!  I’ve had my eye on it all year and we are finally trying it out.

What were you surprised and/or satisfied by today?

Summer Goals

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Another excited yet lame blog post from Eatventures?  Nah, you’ve got to be kidding me!  And I’m not going to lie to my readers and say “it’ll be better soon.”  Because it won’t.  I’ve got finals folks, and now it’s time for me to learn all of the material I’ve been ignoring the last month!  But I do promise to keep posting at least daily (because people would totally die without reading about my lunch?!?!), and to work on stepping it up this summer.  In fact, I’ve got all sorts of goals for this summer –

  • start running again (slowly and carefully!) once my leg fully heals
  • get into a daily exercise schedule before I start full-time school
  • post more regularly on the blog
  • purchase a domain name and go all official (fingers crossed)
  • rock out my summer school classes
  • find a new, better apartment and move into it
  • turn 25!

This morning’s goal was to tackle some issues with my financial aid.  I was trapped on the phone all morning so I ended up eating a bun spread with a little bit of Smart Balance Light.

And that candy bar was decimated.

When I was finally free I made a real breakfast.

Plain non-fat yogurt topped with honey and a sliced plum.  This guy was a little too sour but I am so excited about plum season; they are my favorite fruit yogurt topper.

Unfortunately I ate so late that I wasn’t hungry for lunch.  And even more unfortunately I failed to plan ahead.  So lunch was most of this trail mix eaten during Anthropology.

I ate ~500calories worth, so it certainly covered lunch, but not in any sort of healthy way.  Plus I ended up feeling totally ill.  Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Bellyache be damned though, I wasn’t passing up an on-campus opportunity; bubble teas are few and far between in Buffalo.

Strawberry milk tea with bobba.  It was way too sweet but I was kind of in love with it anyways.

Classes are done, whoopie!  Now I just have to huge finals before I’m through with UB.  (Dear God, that was not supposed to rhyme)

Dinner was leftovers, with a twist.

I didn’t want to use another bun so I ate my sloppy joe mix in a bowl, topped with 2% colby jack, Siracha, low fat sour cream, and the last of the homemade pineapple salsa.

This mix of flavors was so darn good!

That glass of sludge is plain non-fat Kefir with cinnamon-sugar swirled in.

I’m posting so late because Adam and I went on a Buffy binge, but also because I did some baking.

Coconut Banana Bread.  I followed this recipe but skipped the glaze.  Make this, make this, make this!  The flavor profile is spot on.  I might have had a slice or three.

Bed time?  Bed time!

What are some of your goals for this summer?

Pineapple Paradise

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In spite of getting to sleep long after 3am – due to a combination of difficult homework, frivolous blog reading, and annoying insomnia – I knew I needed an early morning to finish my assignment on time.  I knew it, but unfortunately Adam’s reflexes didn’t, and he turned off my alarm before I even woke up.  Thankfully my little bad influence’s own alarm was set for 8:30 so not too much time was lost.

I got right to work and managed to finish up by 10am, 2 whole hours before the due date 😉  I will say that I’m pretty darn nervous for my Chemistry final.  And more than a little bit ticked off; the amount of material (and degree of difficulty) they are trying to squeeze into the last week of class is a bit ludicrous.  I would feel a lot more comfortable if we had some review of the concepts, but sadly the final will be the first time we are tested on them.

I have ZERO complaints about this morning’s breakfast though.

1/2 cup plain, fat free yogurt with Crofter’s Superfruit Spread stirred in.  Which isn’t exciting at all.

But it becomes exciting rather quickly when topped with this –

We have some leftover canned pineapple rings from a recipe last week that weren’t exactly thrilling me.  So I sprinkled them with brown sugar and roasted those bad boys!  Everything is better roasted, period!

I ate three tasty rings atop my yogurt.

Perfection.  The pineapple ended up not being too sweet or too tangy, and finding carmelized bits in your yogurt is pretty exciting.  Plus the texture was perfect, almost a bit chewy like dried fruit.

On the agenda for the rest of the day?

  • Anthropology studying (ya know, for my test tomorrow)
  • a swim work out at the UB pool
  • putting away the dry cleaning we picked up more than a week ago
  • some baking fun; fingers crossed!

Do you have any pineapple recipe recommendations for me?  I’ve still got half a can left!

Curd You Guess

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Good morning!  I am not even going to talk about the ‘work’ I did on my mini-hiatus.  Let’s just say it is actually stunning how little work I’ve managed to get done in the last month and leave it at that.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that today will be the day I break the losing streak 🙂

Either way, at least breakfast was a winner.

Plain, fat-free yogurt topped with fresh raspberries and lemon curd.

These are my first fresh berries of the season which is pretty excited.  But I’m feeling bummed that the curd is almost gone; I need to make another batch asap!  I’m thinking I’ll try tangerine, or key lime, or something extra exciting.

Have you ever made/tried any ‘fancy’ curds?  I’ve only tasted lemon but I imagine that the possibilities are endless.

One-Pot Wonder

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I am so sorry to rush through this post but the husband is working at the hospital tonight and I know if I want to get any work done at all I need to tear myself away from the computer immediately!

The morning was spent at an open house at Buffalo State.  None of the breakfast options really appealed to me but I did snag a big plate of fresh fruit.

When we got home the husband made himself a plate of green tuna enchilladas (and smushed it all up with his fork) which he then decided he didn’t want, so I ate them for my lunch.

This was the last of the leftovers and they will be missed, definitely a keeper recipe.

However, my mouth was on fire (our green salsa was a bit too spicy)!  I was so hot I finally pulled this box out of the freezer –

These ice pops traveled with us from Brooklyn to Buffalo unopened!  I tried the Dr. Pepper one today,

and I don’t know what I was waiting for; it was sweet and mouth-cooling all for 35calories.

While grocery shopping I tried a small bread + cheese sample,

and when we got home I opened up a Dannon Light and Fit Apple Pie Yogurt.

There was some major artificial sugar taste but the strong cinnamon and huge pieces of apple pretty much made up for it.  Plus anything with a SunButter spoon is good!

I also ate a small bowl of popcorn while we watched the 100th episode of Bones.

Anyone else a Bones addict?  What’d you think?????

Dinner was this recipe from “Rachael Ray Magazine” – Chicken Chutney One-Pot.

My changes; based on Adam’s tastes and our pantry –

  • we only used 1lb of skinless boneless chicken breast
  • 1T (vs. 2T) evoo
  • 1potato subbed in for the apple
  • skipped the ginger
  • skipped the cumin

I did serve the dish with some crusty bread though, smeared with roasted garlic.

I followed Ms. How Sweet’s garlic technique, she’s kind of a culinary genius.

And a side of roasted green beans.

Made for a very tasty dinner.

I will probably do a bit of snacking while I (hopefully) study this evening, I’ll update later if so.  Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

Do you read any food magazines?  I’m subscribed to Cooking Light and Rachael Ray, but I love to pick up Bon Apetit too whenever I can.

*****Updated – Unless eating ice-cream on the couch counts as tedious, I didn’t get a lot of work done last night.  I’m sure I’ll find other means of distractrion, but I’m taking the computer out of the equation for today; see you again Monday!

Can you get me a choco-banana…..Foster?

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7:30 is a much nicer time to wake up than later hours.  For one thing, it gives me more time to make an out of this world breakfast!

That would be a sliced banana cooked in 1T of butter, over plain 0% yogurt with a sprinkle of brown sugar, drizzled with honey.

Oh man!  Bananas Foster is pretty much one of my favorite desserts and I almost never get to eat it, so a similar taste for breakfast rocked my socks*.

*note – I said a sprinkle for a reason; I slipped and added ~2T! of brown sugar to mine and it was a bit sweeter than I’d like

Who knows what movie my title comes from??