Happy Monday! I’m still trying to figure out word-press so bear with me. I started out the day with breakfast number one (or pre-workout snack) which was a banana with peanut butter and granola.
Then I was off to an interval class at the gym- it was tough today! Tons of skull crushers, lunges, squats, bicep curls, overhead presses, and step-aerobics to name a few. I came home and ate a pumpkin protein concoction that I made last night. It consisted of:
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/4 cup pumpkin
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
- vanilla, cinnamon, ginger
- 1 tsp peanut butter.
It wasn’t as good as I expected but was a nice post-workout breakfast/snack! I don’t like to eat two breakfasts very much but I have found it is the only way to get the right amount of fuel when I take early-morning classes at the gym.
I spent the rest of the morning reading blogs and cooking. For lunch I had a salad with spinach, cucumber, half of an avocado, green chili, and cornmeal-tofu that I made the other day from this cookbook:
The cookbook is not mine but I actually checked it out from the library! how cool is that? Oh, and I added salsa to my salad after the picture was taken. Salsa is actually my first choice when it comes to salad dressing! Chili is pretty popular here in New Mexico.
I also had half a cup of Fage yogurt with some strawberries and a tablespoon of granola.
I spent the rest of the afternoon going to stores and to see I Love you Man. It was cute!! I ate this bar before the movie:
It was pretty good!! It must have gotten my metabolism going because I was starving after the movie. For dinner I had a black bean burger from Veganomicon on a piece of whole wheat bread with avocado and hummus. I had steamed broccoli on the side. 
I was still hungry after this so I had dessert- a piece of whole wheat bread with a tsp of peanut butter and half a tsp of honey. Well my first post is complete! see you tomorrow!
P.S. check out Angela’s giveaway at www.ohsheglows.com!
Wow thats awesome you checked out that book from the lib!!!
I need to visit my library more! lol
About linking back, you can always just copy and paste the URL directly onto the page. OR you can click the link icon (it looks like a chain link) and then paste the URL into that. Sorry its kinda hard to explain! lol
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Great looking blog dear!! As for the smoothie- I use 4 ice cubes, frozen spinach and frozen banana- i think the frozen ingredients add to thickness as well!
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That’s cool you got the cookbook from the Library! What do you think of it so far?????
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I really like it! I’ve only made two recipes from it so far but they are both very good. I’m glad I checked it out from the library first before I bought it because it is so expensive in stores!
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Mmm – cornmeal tofu sounds yummy!
The chocolate in my post is just hersheys, not my favorite, but it’ll do in a pinch.
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Mmm…I love your oatmeal concoction. Sounds yummy!
I borrowed Veganomicon from the library too, but ended up loving it too much and bought it a couple weeks later. haha…
My favorite recipe so far from there is the roasted brussell sprouts (simple and wonderful) and the quinoa pineapple-cashew stir fry (can’t remember the name, but it goes something like that…and is very, very tasty!)
Have fun with the cookbook!
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