Big Bowl of Happiness

All I could think about last night was a big bowl of oatmeal.

Why?

Because I finally remembered to buy more pumpkin yesterday! And because oatmeal is quite possibly my favorite food ever.

 

Banana Pumpkin Trail Mix Oats

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  • 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup water, pinch salt
  • 1/2 banana, sliced
  • lots of cinnamon
  • 1/3 – 1/2 cup pumpkin
  • 3 Tbsp Nuts Over Raspberries TJ’s mix

 

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Big bowl of oatmeal = big bowl of happiness

 

Plus some Hokie Milk –

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See you for lunch!

 

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Easy Spicy Dinner

After doing some prep work for this week’s lunches, I started on dinner. Nick came home a bit early, so dinner was earlier than normal – which was great, because I was starving!

 

I made Curried Lentils from Heather’s site, plus some kale cooked with onion, ginger, and the same spices.

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I was planning on making brown jasmine rice to have with dinner, but that got switched to barley. I wanted to make a barley/fruit/chicken salad for lunches this week, so I cooked the barley and got the rest of it mixed up…..and then decided to just leave the barley out so Nick could use some chicken salad for lunches, too.

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Barley already made? or jasmine rice which takes 40 minutes to cook?  Easy choice  :)

 

This meal was so good and so spicy! Plus, I felt good knowing there were so many superfoods in this meal!:

  • ginger
  • lentils
  • tomatoes
  • turmeric
  • kale
  • curry

 

Thanks for all the notes earlier  –  I really appreciate it.

 

See you for breakfast – I am excited for that!

Bad News Blogger

Well, at  first my only bad news was that I left my camera at home and didn’t  get pictures of lunch.

Just in case you want to know, I met Nick at a mexican place and I got a veggie quesadilla with some guacamole salad.

 

Around 1 pm, I got a phone call from my supervisor that one of our co-workers had a heart attack on the way in to work today and passed away.

 

Needless to say, I’m still kind of in shock and not really sure what to do or type. Grocery shopping took me twice as long  as normal….I just walked around the store looking at random stuff for a while, after I already had everything in my basket that I needed. I just couldn’t think straight or get it off my mind.

 

 

Sorry for such a sad post, I’m just really still in shock about it. He’s the one that shared all those chocolates with us last week, and he was always hilarious and so nice to everyone. Tomorrow is going to be very hard.

 

 

In food news, I’m currently drinking a chocolate cherry shake made with a WW chocolate smoothie mix, skim milk, and frozen cherries.

 

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I don’t want to end this post on such a depressing and sad note, so here are 5 random things you probably don’t know about me:

  1. I eat and write with my left hand, but throw and use scissors with my right.
  2. My favorite color is green.
  3. I just graduated with a Masters of Science in Health Promotion in December!
  4. I love anything “I Love Lucy” – it’s one of my favorite shows of all time.
  5. Nick and I housesat for a family friend/mentor and got to bottle feed deer while we stayed there.

 

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See you for dinner

Home Sweet Oatmeal

Good morning!

So…..I had my choice to go in to work today or take the day off without having to use any leave hours. I decided to stay home so I can clean up the house, do some laundry, and get groceries  since we were out of town this weekend.  And because I’m on a roll of only working 4 day work weeks for 2009 so far (except for one week) – I don’t know how this has happened, but I decided I shouldn’t stop the trend if I didn’t have to  :)

 

I woke up wanting eggs and oatmeal, but then I saw Nick making oatmeal and his bowl decided for me!

 

Brandi’s Original (aka, the only way I would eat oatmeal at first)

  • 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup water, pinch salt, 1/2 banana, sliced
  • 1 cup frozen mixed berries
  • cinnamon
  • skim milk

 

 

Before mixing

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After mixing, with a topping of a little skim milk

 

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Plus some really good coffee Nick made

 

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I’m off to start on my to do list for today –

 

What’s on your list for today?