More Delicious Granola

January 26

-bowl of frozen protein oats (mashed banana, oats, and chocolate protein powder mixed & frozen)
-1/2 of an apple-pear
-2 mandarin orange cuties
-acai berry tea






Yep, I made Averie's protein oats for breakkie. I don't think I made them exactly right, as they looked (and probably tasted) a little different than hers. I wasn't completely blown away (due to my own faults, I am sure of it!), but I still liked them. How can you go wrong with those ingredients? I think I'm still on a high from the awesome peanut butter chocolate chip bars from yesterday, that it's going to take something realllly special to compete. Perhaps her raw chocolate chip cookie dough balls will be next? :)

-fat free oikos organic greek yogurt with honey, strawberries, and 18 rabbits granola (the granola is A-MAZING and coconut-y, even tho coconut isn't tecnically one of the primary ingredients & it's wheat free. SO delicious)
-acai berry tea with raw maca powder





I still think maca tastes (and smells) gross, but hopefully it'll give me a little boost of energy. I can actually take a gross taste a bit more than a bad smell when it comes to food/drinks, so I'm a little put off, but I'll troop through :). The powder was very expensive (I want to say $22+ for a small-ish bag), so I'll at least finish this one. I'm sure it'll take awhiiile though, since I only use about a teaspoon at a time. I need to use it more. Anyone else use Maca? What do you do with it? The first time I ever used it I wasn't expecting such a strong taste, despite what I read online. I put it in a smoothie and was so disgusted I threw the entire thing away. Bummer.

-biggish side salad with mixed greens, baby carrots, grape tomatoes, snap peas, the best all natural ranch ever, and black pepper



I realized after quickly browsing through my recent blog entries, that I've barely been eating any veggies lately and that had to change. Stat.

-3 artichoke/feta/lemon fritters



I was originally intending on having this with the salad, but I got too hungry, so I ate the salad while these heated up. I really only wanted 1, but didn't feel like making anything else to go along with them, so I just ate them all to make a meal out of it. Of course I got a stomachache. I need to start listening to myself.

-1 raw chocolate coconut ball
-1 cinnamon gluten free lucy's cookie



I didn't buy the cookie at Starbucks, but this was the brand I saw there last nite. I'm usually a warm, soft, gooey cookie kind of a girl, but for crunchy cookies, these are pretty good! I wouldn't know they were gluten free either, so that's cool. They didn't taste grainy like some other packaged gf cookies I've tried. Always a plus.

Once again had to find a snack to stuff my face with in order to take a late nite pill (thanks to my horrific sleep schedule), so I had:

-brown rice tortilla with a little melted cheese and organic sour cream
-2 of the amazing homemade granola bars I turned into balls (1 bar =approx. 2 balls)



I wasn't too hungry when I ate that, but oddly I was really hungry an hour later, so...

-about 3/4 of an apple-pear (woulda been a whole, but I accidentally dropped it on the floor right before washing and bruised it)
-1 mandarin orange cutie



Neither were very good. Boo. None of the cuties have tasted that good actually. Hate when that happens. Especially since I bought an entire box of them. But they got the job done.

Still sick, still perma-tired. Nothing else new to report there.

For breakfast tomorrow I tried another blog-inspired recipe: the breakfast cookie. Hope that turns out as fab as the rest. As if I have any doubts...would you bloggers lead me astray? I think not.

xo,
Amanda