Different Breakfast And Muffins

Hey! I opted out of posting last night in order to get cracking on my Dr. Kracker review. It’s long overdue and I’m excited to share our thoughts with you. That being said, I have a few finishing touches to add, but you can expect to see that within a day or 2. So, how’s everyone been??? Can you believe we’re nearing the weekend again? Crazy stuff, I tell ya! Here’s my eats from yesterday:
-2/3 cup water
-1/2 cup rye flakes
-cinnamon
-strawberries
-kefir & coconut butter
This was the last of my rye flakes. I guess I need to get my bootie up to The Bulk Barn for more, huh? :)

I ate my favourite Luna bar before the gym yesterday….Chocolate Peppermint Stick:
This bar is actually a bit “dangerous” for me because it really wakes up the chocolate monster that lives within me. What is your favourite Luna bar? I cranked out a great elliptical workout…even squeezed 5 extra minutes in!

Time: 50 mins
Avg Hr: 149
Max Hr: 169
Calories Torched: 427
Distance: 5.4 miles

Lunch was more leftovers. Between my hubby and me we pretty much took care of them with our lunches. I had beer butt chicken, rice and asparagus. The chicken and rice had some honey Dijon mustard on top.
My afternoon snack was a packet of almonds:
As I was cooking dinner last night I realized that I’ve been getting a wee bit repetitive with my meat eating this week. Yes, I had chicken again for dinner. I was making pork sausages for the fam which I don’t like, and grabbed the first thing I saw for myself which happen to be a pre seasoned, single serve chicken breast. I promise no chicken for awhile after this picture!!
As you can see, I had some steamed broccoli on the side with a sprinkle of fresh parm cheese and a few tortellini which just had some Becel and grated parm mixed in. This was a pretty good meal except I haven’t had torts in a long time and realized that I don’t particularly like them anymore. Huh. Dessert was a granola bar:
I then spent some time with Dr. Oz before the kids had to go to the pool for swimming lessons. I like swimming lessons because it warm, relaxing and I get an hour to myself. Nice. Once home I made a batch of muffins, recipe origin unknown as it’s been in my folder for ever! They’re lemon blueberry muffins. Here’s the recipe, but please remember that it’s not one of mine:

• 1/2 cup oat bran
• 1/2 cup corn meal
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 salt
• 1 pkg (4 ser size) lemon pudding mix
• 1/2 cup Almond Breeze (or milk of choice)
• 1/2 cup egg beaters (or 2 eggs)
• 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup blueberries (I used frozen)

1. In a large bowl combine all dry ingredients including pudding mix
2. In a smaller bowl combine all wet ingredients
3. Add wet to dry and stir
4. Gently fold in blueberries
5. Scrape batter into a 6 hole, greased muffin tin
6. Bake at 350* for 30 minutes

I’ve made these before using white chocolate pudding and raspberries. I remember that being quite the winning combo! I have some pistachio pudding that I need to use up so I may try a batch using that and some sort of…..something. Any suggestion as to what is a good match to pistachio??

While those were in the oven I made a quick snack consisting of a rice cake with PB&Co cinnamon raisin PB and a Chai tea:
Tuned into Criminal Minds and got to my cracker post. End of Wednesday….thrilling, wasn’t it?? HA!

Breakfast this morning was something a little bit different. As I was browsing through my old recipe folder last night I came across a recipe for trailblazer cakes. Basically, a breakfast “cookie”. Here’s what mine looked like;
I didn’t take it out of the bowl because I could tell that it was going to break. I used raisins, carob chips, pecan pieces and shredded unsweetened coconut as my add ins. My “glue” was cappuccino flavoured agave. I also put a dollop of honey pecan butter on top for good measure.
This was really, really good!!

Work moved along smoothly for a Thursday. I brought a lemon blueberry muffin for a morning treat. I didn’t taste on last night because they were still hot when I went up to bed, but boy, are they great! My hubby is a lemon lover and thought they were good, too. I enjoyed a more relaxing walk on the treadmill today at a speed of 4mph with a 4% incline. I wasn’t after a sweat session today, just some movement so this was pretty much perfect.

Time: 45 minutes
Avg Hr: 128
Max Hr: 149
Calories Torched: 298
Distance: 3 miles

Lunch today was a toasted Ezekiel English muffin, a LC cheese wedge; egg whites and some chili sauce drizzled on top.
This is probably my favourite go-to meal. It’s delicious, simple and fills the belly good! I also had an orange that I took the time to peel and chop this morning.
Nice and hassle free for work! And to go with that, a small piece of banana bread from the office kitchen.

I had an appointment right after work that took me longer than expected so a fast meal was in order because I was hungry when I got home! I grilled some fresh asparagus and a slice of tofu in the grill pan. The tofu had Mrs. Dash’s Thai seasoning and some olive oil spritzed on. The asparagus had the oil and s&p. I also put some Dijonnaise on the side for dipping:

You can probably guess what dessert was….a granola bar!

HA! There’s only 2 pieces left so I’ll have to make more over the weekend!

I woke up with an annoying sty on my left eyelid this morning so I’m going to sign off now and go brew myself a tea so I can stick the bag on my lid. I hope that helps because this is making me a bit nuts! Before I go, Sarah is hosting a great CSN Stores giveaway! Go on over and check’er out!

Bye for now!!

First Communion Recap

Howdy! I took lots of pictures yesterday, so I’ll just get to it, K? Yesterday morning was a gloriously lazy one. As in I didn’t even get out of my PJ’s until 1pm! I enjoyed my breakfast at a leisurely pace:

• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup rye flakes
• raisins
• cinnamon
• granola
• kefir

I attempted to catch up with blog reading over the course of the morning. I actually made a decent sized dent. Before long it was time to eat some lunch. I wanted to keep it light because I knew we were having a big dinner. I ate more salad with the last of my honey mustard dressing from Manon.

I also had a chocolate chip All Bran bar:

We were all prettied up and ready to hit the church on time. I managed a few shots before the service;

The kids all did a great job singing the songs they learned and behaving like ladies and gentlemen. DD was able to get some shots of the group. Here’s one of them.

The mass was done in enough time for all our family to head over to the restaurant for dinner. I had a set menu per se so everybody started off with a salad. Check out the neat presentation!

That “shell” was spectacular! Light, crisp and just a touch of salt. The choices for the main entree were baseball sirloin or half a Cajun style chicken (both served with roasted potatoes and veggies) or seafood fettuccini. I went with the chicken for my meal. Along with the potatoes and veg, it was served with some delicious jalapeno corn bread.

So delicious!!! Dessert for everybody was a cake that I brought from the bakery. I forgot to take a photo of the cake before it was cut, but here is my piece…

Everyone enjoyed their meals and it was fun to catch up with everyone. Here are a few pictures from the restaurant:

DS opening his cards.

Mom, my sis Lisa and myself.

Mom, Dad and DS

DD in her new Lululemon dress.

DS with his piece of cake.

We got home from the restaurant shortly after 7pm and practically dove into our PJ’s. BLISS!!! I watched the Amazing Race (GO cowboys!!) and some other random TV before hitting the sack.

And here we are at Monday again. Is it just me or are the weeks really flying by??? Here’s today’s bowl of oats.

• 2/3 cup water
• 1/3 cup Quaker oats
• cinnamon
• raisins
• carob chips, pecan pieces and kefir

Work was extremely busy today because I had Friday off to go to Toronto. Days off are always something that we pay for, eh? Sheesh! I’m on 11:30 lunch today so that came around real quick. I munched on an oatmeal raisin walnut Clif bar, courtesy of Sara:

At the gym I completed an intense incline walk. (4mph, 7% incline)

• Time: 45 minutes
• Avg Hr: 168
• Max Hr: 183
• Calories Torched: 495
• Distance: 3 miles

I was SO sweaty after this walk. The treadmill I was on seems to be calibrated differently than the other because this same walk seems much harder on the one I was using.

I enjoyed a favourite for lunch today…goat’s milk yogurt!! I had about 1 cup with a tbsp of honey stirred in. Fresh strawberries and granola topped it off.

I never got around to an afternoon snack. Probably because I sipped on this huge iced coffee throughout the afternoon!!

Mmmmmm…

I whipped up some pasta for the fam tonight using some sauce that I had pulled out of the freezer this morning. I dug into my leftovers from dinner last night. What? You didn’t think I polished off that huge plate, did you? LOL!!

I also sautéed some red peppers, onion and kale which is what you see in the bottom right corner. Great meal. And to finish it off I had another piece of cake.

Thankfully, only 4 pieces came home with us so that is now a cake of the past!! I don’t really have any plans for the rest of the night which is pretty swell as far as I’m concerned. While this is publishing I’m gonna make a sugar cookie tea to sip on as I enjoy my night of nothingness….

Bye for now!!

Are Ya 1, Are Ya 2, Are Ya 3….

You’d have to keep going for awhile! ;) So today is my birthday. And I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day! The sun was shining and it was, dare I say, hot. Short sleeves and shades…..Perfect!

Like yesterday, I made my breakfast after dropping DS off at hockey camp. I popped into the Bulk Barn yesterday and stocked up on rye, kamut and spelt flakes and chose rye for today.

• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup rye flakes
• cinnamon
• raisins
• almond butter
• kefir

After eating DD and I borrowed KC and took him for a ride in the Jeep to a popular trail in the area. He loves a car ride:

And loves his walks, too. Here is he too impatient for a picture:

By the time we came home it was time for lunch. I filled a bowl with baby spinach some leftover quinoa and this can of tuna:

I had a coupon for a free can which is why it ended up in my pantry. Here it is up on top of my greens.

It was OK. Definitely spicy, but not to peanutty. I also had a wee bit of trouble getting past the look of it. It just didn’t appear appetizing to me. After my salad DD and I noshed on some secret granola bars.

I promise a reveal by week’s end!! :)

DD went to play with the neighbour kids for a bit after lunch so I took the opportunity to catch some sun out on the deck with a few magazines for a half hour or so. The I spent 1 hour in my flower beds getting rid of all the winter “stuff”. I know it’ll probably snow again, but I figure I’m one step ahead now. Some of my plants are even breaking ground! YAY! When she came home we took a walk to the grocery store to get some fixings for subs for dinner. Then we picked DS up from camp.

In the 10 minutes that I was gone my MIL dropped a b-day present off for me. Check it out!!

She knows me well. LOL I can’t wait to get into this treat! And now that the kids sports are easing up, I’ll actually have time for to do it.

DS had practice with his team from 5-5:50 and us gals had Pilate’s at 5:45, hence the sub dinner. I baked up 2 Dempster’s WW oven fresh baguettes and let them cool for 15 minutes before loading them with goodies. My 6” had provolone, Swiss, turkey, ham, cucumber, tomato, lettuce and honey Dijon dressing on it:

Mmmm…so good! And much cheaper than Subway, too. I also had a Gala apple:

I’ve got The Biggest Loser on now and just finished a camera shy dark chocolate blueberry banana muffin. And I’m working on a tea:

Before I go, here is one of the items I bought online from Lululemon last weekend (please excuse the dork ass look on my face):

I still have one other item to show you! I’ll do that in the next few days.

Bye for now!!