Cheating, Hockey and Homework

I cheated on my oats and it was wonderful!
Toasted Silver Hills bread, Italian ham and a poached egg….I’m in love!  It’s been *years* since I’ve made this for breakfast and I enjoyed each forkful. 
Work was uneventful.  No complaints there.  I noshed on a Mojo Bar before making my way over to the gym:
Sweet chocolate….salty pretzels….a pleasure on my taste buds! 
The elliptical was my machine of choice yesterday while watching home improvement shows.  I’m still miffed that Rachael Ray isn’t on over the lunch hours anymore.  Humpf!
Time: 45 minutes
Avg Hr: 158
Max Hr: 173
Calories Torched: 431
Distance: 4.6 miles
I still had a half can of salmon in the fridge from Tuesday’s kale salad so I mixed it up with a bit of mayo, salt & pepper and served it on a toasted WW English muffin that had a wedge of LC cheese spread over it:
Salmon is great for keeping you full and I love it, but boy does the taste ever stay with you!  I sucked on mints all afternoon!  LOL
We went out to the farm for dinner to celebrate my FIL’s birthday.  Because of soccer we haven’t been out in awhile so the first thing we did was head out to the barn to see these gorgeous babies!
And the newest addition, Speckled Warrior… What a darling!  We enjoyed a wonderful down home dinner of roast, scalloped potatoes, veg and chewy, dense buns: Dessert was a glistening chocolate mousse cake spotted with freshly picked raspberries from my in laws friends place. I was glad to have worn yoga pants!!
It been a cold week so I decided it was high time I brought the tropics into my life.  I slathered myself with coconut scented lotion after the shower as opposed to my stand by; Eucerin and threw as much “hot weather” type add ins to my oats:

• 1/2 cup each water & pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup Quaker oats
• cinnamon & coconut extract
• 1/4 cup crushed pineapple
• tropical trail mix

It was pretty much perfection!  :)
Before shredding with Jillian and the gals I ate a Back to Nature bar in Brazilian Nut Fiesta:
This one was a bit sweet, but stuffed with nuts and raisins which powered me through the DVD and another 15 minutes of incline walking on the treadmill. 
Lunch was more crushed pineapple, mixed with about 1 cup of cottage cheese,
And some crisp red grapes:
DS had a hockey practice right after work so I ate a Ginger Gold apple as I was leaving work;
Some pictures from practice…
He was pretty excited because not only did they get to pick their number this year, it was sewn on to their new gear.  Here he is with his new team hat:
The kids had asked for tacos for dinner which was a good decision because although not the healthiest, it’s quick to prepare.  I nuked my Kashi Mayan Harvest meal and served it over some brown rice for a filling, super tasty meal!
Dessert was a square of Mama Peas blackberry oat bars (zucchini jam bars in my case).  I drizzled some Smuckers caramel sauce on it for some pizzazz:
DS had some math homework that we just finished.  The joys of homework!!  
In just a few minutes I’ll be tuning into the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries, then CSI.  Yahoo! 
How has your week been???
Bye for now!!

Smucker’s Ice Cream Syrup

The Krista’s Kraving’s household was recently lucky enough to receive 3 flavours of Smucker’s syrups to try.
**While these were send to me for free by the company, I want to stress that Smucker’s products are not strangers to my fridge and I have bought all these products myself many times before. In fact, I can’t think of a time that the chocolate syrup hasn’t been in my fridge!**

Now, I’m not going to try to pass these off as healthy or even good for you, but if you like ribbons of goodness on your treats, these syrups are for you! And I think most people must enjoy a treat like this once in awhile because Smucker’s has been doing business since 1897! That’s more than 110 yrs of syrup making!

My kids have been having a hay day with the chocolate and butterscotch flavours on their ice cream in the past week!

• vanilla ice cream, cookie crumbles and butterscotch sauce

• hubby’s vanilla, berries and chocolate sauce

• vanilla, chocolate and SF caramel sauce

We’ve also drizzled all 3 over our apple pie:
I have no photo, but it’s quite common for the kids to make chocolate milk with the chocolate sauce, too.

Personally, I like to swirl some of the SF caramel into my coffee for a Starbucks feel!

Three flavours I have yet to try are the chocolate fudge, strawberry and “magic” chocolate shell.

I told the fam that once these bottles are done we can try the others. I think the strawberry would be awesome.

I really like the syrups that come in the “upside down” squeeze bottles because they’re easier for the kids to handle, you have more control over how much you want to add, and they’re mess free AND recyclable.

Here are some fun facts that were gathered in a survey that Smucker’s did regarding how Canadians like their ice cream:

-89% like to top their ice cream off with syrup
-38% prefer hot fudge while chocolate and caramel with tied with it being 29% of people’s favourite.
-The most popular, unusual toppings are peanut butter, gummi bears and maple syrup (those sound perfectly normal to a bloggie like me!!)
-Believe it or not, but there are some Canadians who choose to top their ice cream with chips, French fries, bacon and pickles. I think that’s just gross! LOL
-And Canada’s IDEAL sundae is made up of one scoop of vanilla, one scoop of chocolate topped off with hot fudge syrup, whipping cream and sliced banana served in a waffle bowl, NO cherry on top.

So tell me, what is your ideal sundae??? I’d love to hear how you like to dress up your ice cream bowl! Me? I like vanilla ice cream with any type of fruit sauce/puree, walnuts and chocolate sauce!

Hope you enjoyed this review!

Bye for now!!