I think I may have to start posting once a day due to my busy schedule.  Most of my posts may be shorter as well, but I want to keep blogging.  

First, I would like to send a big thanks to Jumping Jill and Kristin’s Nibbles for awarding me the Excellent Blog Award!!!  They are both inspirational bloggers to me, and I am going to pass this award onto others (most who have probably already received it).  

Betsy Cooks Healthy Food-She is so inspirational from her healthy food to her passion for running.  I enjoy reading her blog, and hope for the best for her with her knee!  

VeggieGirl-I admire her enthusiasm towards cooking, health, nutrition, and life!  Her blog is always a joy to read!  

Eat, Live, Run-Jenna’s blog is one that I first discovered that introduced me into the blogging world.  She is such an inspiration, and I love her food philosophy!

Vegan Eating for One-I love her food philosophy as well!  She sure does a great job cooking for one, shown by all of her delicious meals!  

ChocolateCoveredVegan-She also always has such a positive attitude!  It’s catchy, and I love to see all of her yummy food (esp baking!)! 

 

To lotuslove10-I just went through my spam, which I haven’t checked for a while.  It caught your comments!  I’m sorry :(  I am glad you liked the banana bread muffins!  I like the changes you made.  They sound good, and I would like to try it next time.  Also, I’m glad you like my blog!  The fiber and flax bread is by Arnold.  It’s the original Brownberry bread.  The newer Brownberry started to have HFCS in it, and so the original recipe was brought back by popular request the bag said!  haha.  It was good, but the ingredients list is a little longer than I like.  It’s still healthy, I love reading simple ingredients lists!  The bread is 80 calories per slice.  

Onto my day.  I didn’t photograph my breakfast because it was the same as yesterday and the day before, so I thought I’d spare you another practically identical picture of my 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup soymilk, 3/4 cup water, a banana, 1 Tbsp flaxseed meal, 1 Tbsp wheat germ, 1 Tbsp walnuts, agave nectar, cinnamon, and a spoonful of PB.  It was the same amount of calories and all…obviously.  about 480, etc.  

I left for school for one class (Pharmacology and therapeutics) at 8 and got home at 12:30!  Not bad at all!  I was lucky to be able to make my lunch at home.  I took some frozen dill tahini vegetables I’d made a few weeks ago using V’con’s dill tahini sauce if you recall.  I heated those up in the microwave and cut up a kiwi and peeled an orange.  I had a sandwich as well with Ezekiel sprouted whole grain bread.  On the sandwich I had 1/4 cup black beans, spinach, and salsa.  Yummy lunch.  After I ate this I found grapes in the fridge so I had about 15 of those.  (I didn’t count, I’m just estimating).  Lunch was 539 calories, 11 g fat, 20 g fiber, and 23 g protein.  

I felt like I needed a snack before going to baby sit at 3:00 in order to hold me over until dinner, so I had a whole orange bell pepper, a cup of unsweetened applesauce with cinnamon and a banana bread muffin.  Yum!!  300 calories, 1 g fat, 10 g fiber, and 5 g protein.  

Baby-sitting was a fun time as always.  I was not in the mood to make dinner again because, well, I just felt tired.  I wanted something new though, so I made some tempeh.  This is the first time I have ever had tempeh, and I liked it!  It was Lightlife Three Grain tempeh that I bought at Whole Foods.  I had half of the package (4 oz) and cooked it (burned it slightly) in a skillet with some Low sodium soy sauce.  I’m trying not to add oils to food, especially not to cook with because of the free radicals it can create.  I would rather eat olives or nuts anways.  So, with the tempeh I decided to have quinoa and broccoli.  I felt like jazzing up the quinoa a bit, so in the spirit of trying new things, I decided to toss in some curry powder, and I must say I am not a fan.  I don’t know if I need to actually try a recipe first or something, but bleh.  I also added soy sauce and rice vinegar to it.  I should have left it plain and simple.  I ruined my lovely quinoa! :(  How sad!  It wasn’t the worst thing I have ever eaten and actually not terrible.  I just would never make it like that again.  I think I will give curry another chance though because I feel bad to judge a food after only one, especially since I just tossed it in without really knowing what I was doing.  I had a salad on the side that looked like more of an entree, but don’t my salads always seem that way?  I put tomato, cucumber, salsa, and 2 Tbsp sunflower kernels on it for some healthy fat.  Indian and Mexican?  haha.  This meal was obviously not well thought out, but I enjoyed it.  It was 595 calories, 20 g fat, 25 g fiber, and 36 g protein.  

I had too much protein today, a little too many carbs, and too little healthy fat.  I’m almost always too high in protein.  Most non-foodies and non-vegetarians/vegans would be amazed to see these numbers since I don’t eat meat.  haha!  It amuses me.  Even though I was high and low for nutrients I suppose it all evens out in the end.  67 grams of fiber total!!! WOW.  

I got absolutely no school work done today.  I’m going to buckle down tomorrow.  Along with that on my agenda I need to buy some shoes for Thursday for my clinical in the hospital, go to the gym or run outside, cook as always, and blog.  I feel so busy these days.  It was nice when I was an omni in terms of not having to cook for myself every meal every day.  I love to cook, and wish the days were longer.  If only…

Have a good night everyone, and the clock is dinging at midnight as I type here in my house, so Have a good humpday!!