Garden’s First

Hi everybody! Guess what? The SUN came out today! Hello, stranger. I had a few sad looking strawberries to use up so my breakfast is pretty much the same as yesterday.

• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup PC 5 grain oats
• 1 tbsp of ground walnuts
• cinnamon, salt
• strawberries & blueberries
• hemp seeds
• cinnamon honey

Tasty business, I tell ya!

A little something on a more “serious” note here. I don’t say much about this on the blog, but I am a long time, and by that I mean 25yrs, IBS sufferer. I was actually diagnosed at age 8 with what was then called a “spastic colon”. Sounds nice, eh? Over the years I’ve learned which foods to either eat sparingly or avoid all together. About a month ago I read a post on Leah’s blog about how she had tried taking probiotics and that they helped her immensely. I decided to give them a shot to help with some lingering symptoms and I am amazed at the speed with which I felt better. I’ve just been using Shopper’s Drug Mart’s store brand and they’re doing a great job.

I’m not saying that this is the ticket for everyone, but I’m sold on them! To learn more about them, check out the link to Leah’s post above!

Before I hit the gym today I enjoyed a mitt full of sweet cherries;

They’re basking in the sunshine!

I had a fantabulous run today. I haven’t felt that strong on a run in a while now. I just seemed to find my comfortable groove today.

• Time: 50 minutes
• Avg Hr: 160
• Max Hr: 177
• Calories Burned: 482
• Distance: 5 miles

I’ve thought about not putting my gym stats on the blog anymore, but I do use them as reference for myself sometimes so I decided to leave them here. Pre blogging I use to keep a notebook to track these things if you can believe it! I’m such a type A personality…

Lunch was the last of the chicken and broccoli from Monday night and more spinach lemon couscous, too, although there’s still more of that in the fridge.

I had a hankering to do some (easy) baking last night and found a quick, simple recipe in my Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 cookbook for some “squares”.

I even followed the recipe right through with no changes! Unheard of! I took one to work today which ended up serving as my sweet end;

They were just OK. I think they needed to spend a bit more time in the oven. I’d make them again, but I’m also in no rush to.

Before I left work for the day I enjoyed 2 juicy plums all chopped up to avoid messy hands. I hate sticky, messy hands!

I'm thrilled to say that I collected my first lettuce from the garden tonight! I planted 4 red leaf heads and they are just beautiful…and huge! Check this out…they’re bigger than my head!

You just know that I made a VERY large salad for dinner tonight, right?! I ate right out of a salad bowl!

Here we have lots of lettuce, tomato, feta, a half cup of mixed beans, Ted Readers Peach & Bourbon sauce and some Caesar spritzer dressing. Oh, LOVE!

Before I ate I whipped up a Chia Coconut Banana Pudding recipe that I found online. You can get the recipe right here. It was super simple and only took a few minutes to do. Next I’m going to try the chocolate one but I have to buy more chia seeds first! Look how thick it became!

Ds wouldn’t go near it, DD loved it and kudos to my hubby for trying it, but he did not like it. Me? I loved it! I have no idea what a serving size truly is, but I made 3 from the batch.

As soon as the kitchen was cleaned up we went to spend some time with our neighbour (the one that just lost her hubby) and then we went for a family bike ride. It’s such a beautiful night and who knows when the next one will be so I wanted to take advantage of it. I’d say we were gone about an hour. I’ve been blogging out on the deck, but will be heading in soon to watch SYTYCD at 9pm.

Tomorrow’s my Friday so YAY for that! I’ll catch you all on the flip side!

Bye for now!!