My Wallet is Calling S.O.S!!!

It was a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, ladies and gents! What's a girl to do with all this sunshine...especially when they are called for freezing temps and snow tomorrow? Shop, of course! But first, my snack last night. I really wanted to spread my homemade PB on something and remembered that I still had some chocolate banana cake in the fridge. Chocolate, banana and PB? Hell, yes!

I knew right away that this same flavour combo was going to be appearing again in my breakfast!

When I got up this morning I spent some time on the computer before eating. I realized that on the weekends I was eating as soon as I got up whether or not I was hungry. Through the week I'm up at least one hour before I actually eat and by then I'm ready for some food. I obviously don't need to shower and get made up right away Sat and Sun so I dodn't have that hour to let myself get hungry. That left me feeling quite bloated for most of the day. This new weekend routine has been working well. Goes to show that it pays to listen to your body and not just eat because it's a certain time or routine. Okay, enough of that and on to the food!!
-1 cup water
-1/2 cup Quaker oats
-1 tsp cocoa powder
-mashed banana
-1 tbsp PB
-a few peanuts for garnish
SO. GOOD!!! This bowl tasted exactly like I was going for!! Looky at who I caught where he's not suppose to be! This baby is one tough customer to crack in the manners department!
I let my meal settle for a good half hour and then popped in my 30 Day Shred to get (hopefully) buff. I'm still a wee bit sore but nothing compared to yesterday's pain! One thing I really noticed is that I'm a total weakling when it comes to the push ups....and I can only do the girly push ups at that. My hubby found thos quite amusing but I didn't see him down there hammering any out either! *WINK*!! I ate my last 3 dried apricots when I was done just because....
The boys left for hockey and once I was done showering and getting all pretty, DD and I took off to do some errands while the boys were gone. This is where my wallet's pain begins! First we stopped off at Market Fresh to grab another jar of Creamy Coconut Spread for Marianne because her's broke on it's cross country journey. (Don't worry, Marianne! This next one is swathed in lots of bubble wrap!!) At first I thought they were sold out because they weren't in the usual spot, but the manager told me that had moved them to the dessert case. Here comes the bad news! The company has decided not to ship to Canada anymore! BOO!!! I was told that they were going to reduce the remaining stock on Monday so I could have the sale price which was $1.50 off. So, I snapped up 4 jars! 2 plain, 1 with caramel and 1 with strawberry. I have travel plans for the other coconut one and we'll see about the other 2! next up was the fancy grocery store all the way across town where I picked up another bag of carob chips, some other items destined to travel and this package of frozen steel cut oats which I have never seen before!
The stats were pretty decent, too!
DD suckered me into a small bag of Cadbury Easter eggs. These were dark chocolate and we split the contents so what you see is what I ate. Love these guys!
It was pushing 1pm and DD was hungry for lunch so we went home and got there just before the boys. I made myself an egg white sammie on a Pita Break with some deli turkey, a LC cheese wedge and some fig preserves. Divine!
I also ate some fresh fruit on the side and some unpictured carob chips.
After lunch we made our way over to St. Jacob's to do some more shopping. I bought a few really nice things for the house which I will photograph as soon as my hubby hangs them up for me. I also came across a demo for this avocado oil...
The flavour was very light and unassuming and is actually better for you than oil oil. Dude even put a drip on my very dry hand skin and it absorbed right away leaving my hand smooth as silk! You can even add a bit to your shampoo if you feel the urge! Here is some of the info from the pamphlet that came with it. Hope you can all see it OK!

Our last stop before leaving was at the ice cream store for the kids. They make their own chocolate and candy at this place too and I snagged a container of "leftover chocolate pizza toppings" for 2 bucks!
This is most definitely something I should have left in the store but I couldn't stop thinking that it would be a tasty topping for my oats as a treat once in awhile! I hid the container on the top shelf, out of sight as soon as we got back!!!

I was ahead of the game for dinner because I had put a roast in the crock pot this morning so all I had to do was prepare some sides. We had steamed green beans and roasted sweet potatoes which I used my new oil on. They turned out wonderful if I do say so myself! Here's my plate!
No sweet end for me! We are off to my parents and Mom always puts out my favourite chocolate chip cookies. I definitely spent more money than usual today, but I love everything I bought so there's no regrets!!! Ahhh...retail therapy! When we get home I will be watching the Amazing Race and then doing another round of Shred! Have a good night!!

Bye for now!!