Summer's Back...For Now

I woke up to a gorgeous day this morning! And it was starting to get light by 6:30am! Nice to see that again. The temp reached 18* Celsius today! Yipee! I’m most definitely NOT a cold weather person and dread the winter every year. I made a simple bowl of yummy today;

-1 cup water
-1/2 Flax Seed Porridge
-1/2 mashed banana
-cinnamon & vanilla sugar



Have I mentioned lately how much I love my breakfast? Hehe! I had 2 pictures, but accidentally deleted one! DUH!

Check out the coolest toilet paper ever! It's Pink!



I saw this at Zellers last night and had to have it! Both my boys wrinkled their noses at it! Oh, well!

While cruising through my blog reading last night I found this wicked looking recipe featured as a guest post by Meg on Carrots N’ Cake for muffins made with Barney Butter in them. I whipped the recipe off the printer and went straight down to the kitchen to bake some! Now, seeing as I can’t find this famous Barney Butter in Canada, I subbed in Peanut Butter & Co. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl peanut butter. I also used all WW flour and a ¼ cup egg beaters in place of the egg.



These turned out fabulous! Light and fluffy and, most importantly, full of flavor! If you’re a nut butter fan, you must try this recipe. I brought 3 in to work with me for my co-workers and all 3 had raves reviews! Thanks, Meg & Tina!!!

I had a nice, sweaty run today. I wasn’t really up to it and started off a bit slow, but 10 minutes in I got an energy burst and ramped the speed right up for the next 20 minutes. I did a 2 min warm up walk, 30 min run, 3 min cool down walk. I hit the 3 mile mark at 31:25. Faster than yesterday, but not as fast as Saturday!

Lunch today was one of my favorite panini’s from Lean Cuisine…..chicken, spinach & mushroom. These sandwiches are to die for!



I also crunched on some carrot sticks. Sometimes I find the bigger carrots can be a bit bitter, but these guys were nice and sweet.



I ate some really good raspberries, too! My grocery store had pints on sale 3 for $5! I plan to revamp one of my recipes to use up some of the berries before they go bad. Stay tuned for that!



Tuesday = swim night around our house which also happens to = crock pot night! For tonight’s dinner I put an outside round roast with a slew of spices in there and set it on low for 8 hours.



I served it with a side of couscous and peas and a glob of spicy mustard for dipping...



And my sweet end was indeed sweet....and absolutely mouth watering! I cut the last piece of pumpkin baked oatmeal horizontally and spread a tablespoon of cinnamon swirl PB on it. OMG! Divine pleasure for my taste buds!



On the Halloween candy front, I managed to stay away from it for the most part today. I still ate a few mini chocolate bars and some gummy bears, but nothing like my weekend consumption! I'm off to organize for the morning so that I can be free to watch The Biggest Loser later on.

Bye for now!!