I am Going to Turn Into

A gigantic nut. Without a doubt. Let's just sum this up. As seen in my morning post, this weekend I bought salted cashews, dark chocolate almonds and butter toffee peanuts.

In the mail today from the amazing PerMa I got the same dark chocolate almonds, dill pickle cashews, butter cashews, cashew butter and almond, peanut cashew butter (seen above).

Plus a workout shirt, earrings and protein bars

How well she knows me =D.

From myself in the form of amazon I got cashew butter (good thing I like cashews), macadamia nut butter and PB2. I need to cancel my amazon account... although PerDa did just front me some extra cash <3... nut butter enabler =)

So that's four new jars of nut butter and five new jars of nuts... my good cholesterol will be through the roof!

Clearly the nut of the moment

Can we just talk about how all of this sparked my nut butter tooth to an insane level? I started with this snack.

I continued to sample most of my new products through the afternoon. I wasn't starving for a "real meal" for dinner so I made a bowl... with more nuts.

Yogurt, sweet potato, pretzels, cheerios, all kinds of nuts, dried fruit and nut butter and honey. Totally random but still healthy so I'm ok with it! It actually started here...

But by the time I sat down to eat a handful of homemade snack mix (cashews, almonds, cheerios, dried cherries and raisins) appeared on it along with a little drizzle of sunflower butter.

I also had some dark chocolate and more butter cashews. What is with me and breakfast for dinner lately? I have so much dinner type food to use up before school is over I hope my want for it comes back soon!

For lunch I mixed a cup of lima beans with feta and cranberries and dijon plus two corn tortillas and an apple. So there was a little green and freshness today =).

My nut butter escapade was delicious but I am jonsing for greenage! I have my big salad packed up for lunch tomorrow! For some reason I love when I crave vegetables, it makes me feel like a health dork =).

Now what someone has to convince me to do is NOT order more barney butter... I'm very much almost out!

Peace!

Caitlin

Are you an online shopping addict? I browse a lot but the only place I order from on the regs is amazon... probably because they have my card number saved =(.

Favorite type of nut/nut butter? I refuse to pick, clearly I love them all! I do go in kicks (on a cashew one now) and I will say that I always prefer crunchy over smooth though I'm not opposed to smooth! I hope I get on a walnut kick soon... I have a TON!

Reclaiming Spirit

"Laugh when you can, It is cheap medicine" -Lord Byron

I have that quote next to my mirror at home. For the majority of my life I was known among family and friends and the laugher. I laughed loud, often, until I cried. People knew my laugh, people said they loved my laugh. I loved my laugh, I loved to laugh.

Disordered eating takes a tole on your body, mind, relationships and spirit. I have been doing very well in the body and mind field.. i have recently started taking steps in the relationship and spirit as well.

Today I worked on a project with two people in my biology class who I am quickly making friends with, something that has not happened in some time. As we worked Murphy's Law kicked in hard. We had no idea how to use the program, the printer was out of paper, or professor could not tell our good graph from our bad graph example... it was hilarious. We all cracked up together the entire time.

I have not laughed the much or that hard in the past eight months combined. I am getting my spirit back. I got my laugh back, I want to tell my bad habits "You will not take my laugh ever again"

Some eats today

Leftover roasted sweet potatoes with cottage cheese, raisins and cinnamon

I ordered more PB2 and it came with a sample of these vanilla muffins . I'm not a fan of low carb products just because I need and love carbs so I hate to say that these were actually TOTALLY delicious. Especially topped with PB2!

Dinner was a simple veggie and cheese omelette, sprouted grain english muffin with smart balance light, blackberry fruit spread and sunflower butter and mango slices.

On a side not I got an e-mail from PerMa today with the subject "shopping like a blogger"

Blogger type purchases for sure =).

Peace!

Caitlin

What made you laugh today?

Fun weekend plans?

Personal Catch-Up

Do you ever feel like your life is as much work as your work/ school life? My afternoon class was canceled today giving me an extra two hours. Instead of relaxing I celebrated the fact that I could finally catch up with things in MY life instead of school. I did things like

E-mail my grandparents and some friends

wash my hair/shave my legs

Read your blogs (finally!)

Update my iTunes

Paint my nails

and even some homework that's not due for a while so I wasn't stressing

About 30 minutes after breakfast I had this (granola crisps and PB)

Then 45 minutes later I was starving but I couldn't eat my lunch because I had some stuff to do so right before I left I made an almond butter and jelly wrap to go.

I was into seeing people celebrating before noon =). There was also a guy with a beer at 8:30 this morning... in the gym... lifting weights, I laughed out loud.

For lunch I broke the eat your colors rule to honor the holiday! I had a huge salad with spinach, asparagus, cucumber, broccoli, lima beans, sweet peas, snap peas and avocado. Dressed in dijon, white wine vin and garlic salt. It was a very good salad!

One thing I had to do this morning required me to go to the dining hall where I found fresh made, vegan, gluten free chocolate chip cookies! I totally had to grab one to go with lunch. It was delicious! A great soft texture, sweetened (at least partly) with honey and I even detected some banana. Points for my school!

Snack plate

I had more crackers and raisins than this, the crackers were dipped in cream cheese right out of the container

With dips on the side

I've also had

a big handful of cereal, more strawberries

A few handfuls of butter toffee almonds (does anyone know if I can make these? They are too good to not have around 100% of the time)

some cashews

while I had the peanut butter out some sweet potato chips made their way into it as did the rest of my pretzels (can we talk about how I killed a 3/4 pound bag of pretzels from Sunday until today... no shame)

One of my cookies from last night

Told you I've been eating a lot!

Dinner was vegan "cheesy" Mediterranean lentils (recipe posted tomorrow!) with sweet potatoes roasted with evoo, apple cider vinegar cinnamon and paprika and cucumbers with more hummus.

Peace!

Caitlin

What would you do with two extra hours?

How was your holiday?

Great Eats Day!

I actually love when the beginning of my week is busy because it means that it winds down nicely! Basically all of my food today has been nothing short of amazing... love that!

I packed a mexican salad for lunch

In the mess, spinach, red pepper, avocado, nooch, salsa, red onion, jalepenos, black beans and garlic salt

And for the second time I used my new toaster oven...

Homemade Spicy Brown RIce Chips

Ingredients

Cooking spray or olive oil

1 brown rice wrap

cumin

chili powder

How To

Preheat oven to 300

Either spray or brush the wrap with oil on both side. Sprinkle one side with cumin and one side with chili powder. Cut into as many chips as you would like. Place on cooking sheet and bake for 6-7 minutes (I did mine for about 9 and clearly they were a little brown... still very good though!

I can't wait to make these again and with different spices!

I was still hungry so I had one of the emergency granola bars I keep in my backpack.

This snack rocked!

I cut up a flat out and toasted it (obsessed) topped each piece with nut butter, cinnamon, honey and raisins. Let's talk about how there are four kinds of nut butter represented on this plate... I couldn't decide =).

Other random snack-

Pretzels dipped in the nut butter while waiting for flat out to toast

a graham cracker

some cashews

a few blueberry nut clusters

Diner type food

This looks crazy but it was almost too good for words.

I made Sarah's broccoli-feta stuffed sweet potato. I followed the recipe for the most part except I made the filling in the microwave. I also added mushrooms and topped it with green olives... because I love olives!

I will be making this again... it is so so so so good. Just so good!

Dark chocolate coconut square right after

A little bit later butter toffee almonds, dark chocolate (plus some) and mango

Plus two mugs of cheerios, milks and banana

and right now some sesame toast

I did homework through ALL of this and I'm finally done! I still have some reading and stuff for the rest of the week but all of the crazy urgentness is gone =D!

Peace!

Caitlin

Do you like to get all your stuff done at once or do you plan it spaced out? I live by GET IT DONE

Best thing you've had to eat in the past 5 days? Either ice cream at the beach or that sweet potato

Few Words

Quick Post

Random snack plate for lunch

dip with avocado, nooch, hummus, snap peas, carrots, apple, cuc sweet potato chips

one of three homemade sugar cookies delivered as lunch was prepared =D, let a girl on my new floor borrow vanilla to make them.

Not what I ate

Where I am eating.... too much shopping for new room at once

Also had clif bar and a handful of these

Yum.

Workout for the day

Carrying all that crap up the stairs (including a refrigertator)

walking to the store

carrying 10000 LBS of groceries back

random squats and jumping jacks as I try to find my life in all of this

Peace!

Caitlin

HELP!!!

Happy Ending for a Sad Event

**Did you see my post from last night? If not please go read it. Thanks!**

This afternoon some snackage indluded

Kashi and banana

Pretzels with almond butter and jelly

plus some licorice jelly beans, Saltines, cantaloups and a string cheese

It's our last night of vacation =(. Very very sad but we decided to make it a fun one!

New dress to go out! 30 minutes later...

Downtown St. Petersburg!

We went to an awesome place called Central Organics

Loved the casual, open air vibe

I started with my first ever wheat grass shot for fun...

It actually wasn't too bad! it smelled like a lawn mower but was sweeter than expected. Can't say that I would take it in a larger amount but the shot was fine for sure!

I got the "very veggie" wrap. Cream cheese, FLA avocado, and a but load of veggies in a spinach wrap. Came with a ridiculously fresh side salad with honey mustard dressing.

Shared sweet potato strips! Oven baked... so good!

I killed my wrap, most of the salad, and finished that last few bites of PerMa's hummus wrap. We ate 99.9% of the sweet potatoes together.

One last time =). SImple butter pecan... delicious. I also made away with a good amount of salt water taffy and some dark chocolate coconut patties to bring back to school!

Tonight and tomorrow morning will be packing and tomorrow is traveling! I may not see you until the night so have a great Saturday!

Peace!

Caitlin

Have you ever tried wheatgrass?

I like to move it move it

Alright friends, just for a head up things may get a little crazy over the next three days. You know that my meals have been repetitive trying to use up food but I also found out last night that over the next two days (and mostly today) I will be moving to a new room on campus (long story). So between using food, packing up my entire room and food stash and packing for spring break... things may get some kind of bananas!

I've been doing decent using food, I had the last of my cottage cheese last night with some kashi honey sunshine and sunflower butter

I cut my workout a little short in favor of packing and saving energy for moving but I started with my last piece of whole wheat bread and end of the hummus

I did 40 minutes of bike intervals (did you see last weeks post? ) And then held plank for 3 minutes and side plank for a minute on each side.

Yogurt bowl for breakfast (sorry it's mixed I'm rushing and hungry)

In the mix is nuked sweet potato, yogurt, dried cranberries, ground flax, cinnamon and honey

Alright, off to pack, take a break for a mid term, pack more and start the move!

Peace!

Caitlin

Any bloggers out there with last minute moving advice?

All 'Bout Caitlin

Ha! That title totally worked!

Age: 19.

Bed size: Twin extra long (school provided =P)

Chore you hate: Putting laundry away is too annoying

Dogs: LOVE, can’t wait to have my own! I’ve wanted a St. Bernard since I was about 8 and I would also love a lab or something to run with

Essential start of your day: Making my bed, workout and a delicious breakfast

Favorite color: Purple, orange, yellow

Gold or silver: Silver

Height: 5’ (almost...)

Instruments I play: I played baritone for 7 years... I’m cool

Job title: Box office employee/ Front of house

Kids: Nada

Live: 1/2 Wisconsin, 1/2 Ohio

Mom’s name: PerMa

Nicknames: Some family call me Cait or Caitie and a few people call me Rory (my middle name)

Overnight hospital stays: Nope nope

Pet peeve: Being unorganized, silent judgement

Quote from a movie:"It's impossible, that's sure. So let's start working" -Phillippe Petit Man on Wire

Right or left handed: Right.

Siblings: 1 big sister.

Time you wake up: I set my alarm for 7:30 during the week but normally wake up around 6:30 and doze for a while

Underwear: What about it?

Vegetable you dislike: .....

What makes you run late: Reading blogs, needing my room to be clean before I leave it

X-rays you have had done: Both wrists, teeth

Yummy food you make: ERTHANG I make is delish!

Zoo animal: Do I really have to choose? Pandas are my FAVORITE but they’re only in some zoo’s, there is a red panda in the Cleveland zoo that I adore!

Lunch was a big salad of sweet potato, butter beans, spinach, apple, and cinnamon spiked tahini yogurt

And for snack and dinner I got somewhat creative with trying to use my food

Veggies with a dip of hummus, avocado and nutritional yeast.

Big plate of corn and peas topped with 2 eggs over easy, feta and dried cranberries

Successful runny yoke!

And off to one last night of work before break! See you tomorrow!

Peace!

Caitlin

Do we have anything in common?

Runny or hard yokes?