Local or Organic?

I've mentioned in a few other posts that I am taking a class this semester called Contemporary Food Movements. As a vegetarian and self proclaimed foodie I love the topics that we study in this course, however much of the reading does cause a certain amount of indignation.

Today I read an article about corporation organic food. Many organic companies that began as grass roots and local have been bought by large corporations that continue the homegrown story in order to sell products. For instance, Kashi is actually owned by Kellogs, Cascadian Farms by Gerneral Mills, Horizon Organic by Dean's and Odwalla by none other that Coca Cola.

Personally, I don't think this information will change the way I shop though it may cause a bit of guilt knowing that the family farm story on my box of cereal is a straight lie.

For lunch I wanted to try a little something new with my salad

Spinach, raw tofu, cucus,mushrooms,apple, raisins and walnuts with white wine vin and garlic salt. Delicious! I also had a chewy kashi bar... ironically.

And got some great mail today!! 26 oz of almond butter (I was NOT about to go a whole month without it, sorry) and the new and my first Clean Eating magazine... I love today.

Due to my mail, snack was a given

And for dinner I made a ROCKING sandwich. Whole wheat pita with hummus, string cheese, tomato sauce, green olives and italian seasoning.

Like a Mediterranean pita pizza pocket, so good! Plus some steamed broc on the side.

Currently enjoying some PB toast and raisins and maybe a handful of cereal for dessert, see you tomorrow beautiful people!

Peace!

Caitlin

What's more important to you, local or organic?

Food Rut and Few Words Friday

Will somebody make my love of veggies return please? I have just not been wanting them lately! =(

Lunch

Plus this

Insert paper writing and nap time

woke up starving

Failed popped amaranth attempt

To hungry to try and cook something else

Found this at the corner store!... lucky and dangerous

Plus a PB&J and dark chocolate chips

May have something else.. sorry for the lack of words I am tired and not feeling the best.

Peace!

Caitlin

What food ruts have you been in lately?

What are you doing tonight?

What's wrong with you?

I was brushing my teeth this morning and a girl in my hall asked what I was doing up so early. I told her that I had a long run and it's better to do it in the morning because it takes a long time, get it out of the way etc. and I am in training for a half marathon. The response?

What's wrong with you? Not in a mean way, she's very sweet. However the question was in my head through the whole run. Not just for me, but for all runners. What is wrong with us? Why do we do what we do?

Today on my run I had to stop to go to the bathroom twice, my shin hurt, my stomach hurt, I had a coughing fit, the wind almost blew me away and I ran through all of it. And had an amazing run.

Today I set a new PDR! There were so many times on this run I thought I wasn't going to finish. I even told myself to only do seven. At the exact moment the number hit eleven Lady Gaga blasting into my ears told me "I was born to be brave" and I burst into tears.

That is what's "wrong" with me. That is why I run.

Plus it makes me feel like this

I'm cool

Before I left I had a clif bar (standard) and then because my stomach was feeling odd dairy was not appealing so I had two waffles with cashew butter, cream cheese, banana, honey and cinnamon.

My cashew butter is disappearing too quickly for my liking. It's like someone has just been eating with a spoon at night or something... weird.

Have an awesome Saturday!

Peace!

Caitlin

Why do you run?

Or for non-runners, what do you do to give you that same feeling?

My throat hurts

And I swear if I get sick there will be tears. I need some sleepy sleep so I'm sorry for the speedy recap!

Lunch was a salad with a serving of barley, sweet peas, black eyes peas, 1/2 a big tomato and 1/2 a cucumber topped with superfruit berry vin plus a strawberry chobani repackaged for no chance of bursting. Oh and bio exam studying =)

With a nice view from the science center

Snacking on some butter crunch cashews. pretzels and dried cherries (had more than pictured... trust)

Someday I will have DINNER for dinner I promise but my eggs actually expired yesterday and for me redundancy trumps wasting food. I did put a spin on my omelet. I mixed the eggs with cinnamon and stevia and then stuffed it with macadamia nut and cashew butter.

    

And topped it with microwaved frozen bloobs and banana slices with some baked sweet potato slices on the side. I've been way snacky again tonight... once again my hunger seems to wait until I get back to my room in the evening, if anyone has a solution please let me know!

Peace!

Caitlin

How often do you get sick? Um... never, that's why I'm so upset

I. AM. SO. HAPPY.

This is how I went to bed... and woke up. It's a good feeling. O, why you ask? This from the Washington Post sums it up!

Sweet Revenge: Cavaliers take down LeBron James, Miami Heat 102-90

• Text Size



• Print



• E-mail



• Reprints

By Associated Press, Tuesday, March 29, 10:14 PM

CLEVELAND — In an unbearable season of losses, Cleveland got the win it wanted most.

The Cavaliers took down LeBron James.

Clearly it's learn things about Caitlin week so here's another thing about me.. I LOVE sports. I am a die hard Cleveland sports fan, The Indians, The Browns and THE CAVS! Which means seeing this "person" Turns me into this x100000000

Thus I am happy! Too happy, I actually cried with happiness last night, that's how much I love my city and my teams and I am not ashamed.

Two other things making me happy things morning

Running my best 5 mile time EVER outside on a weekday morning

Followed by 25 minutes of lifting

And chocolate overnight chia pudding oats in almost empty nut butter jar!

Last night:Oats, skim milk, chia seeds, stevia and chocolate protein powder= A texture like mousse/pudding

This morning, simply an entire banana and cinnamon, tasted like a banana Resse's cup!

I'm predicting a good hump day!

Peace!

Caitlin

Do you watch professional sports? If you're a Heat fan... sorry I'm not sorry

Never go to Bed Angry

For whatever reason I woke up pretty much exactly like this. I think it just to do with the fact that for various reasons I went to bed not in the greatest mood and I was way too tired to begin with.

Ask anyone who knows me, when I get tired I get in a mindset of "I am going to bed and I don't care about anything else". I'm hoping to take a walk in the brisk though sunny weather soon to try and loosen up, it hate starting the day in a bad mood =(.

I was totally not even in the mood to think about breakfast (that's the level on crankiness!)

Rest of the yogurt, a handful of wheat chex, banana and chocolate soynut butter <-- it's delicious, I always forget to use it!

I think the taste of chocolate may be helping a little already =P.

Peace!

Caitlin

What are you like when you get tired? Not even that cranky from just being tired. I get really quite and no matter what I'm doing just insist on going to bed... nobody will stop me.

Let's get some positivity going! Tell me something you've done recently that made YOU feel awesome about YOU!

It's Just a Flesh Wound

Sorry for the late post! I was up until 3... (read what not to do the night before a long run) however even with just 5 hours of sleep somehow magically

Huzzah! Double digits!!

I'm actually not sure about my splits, I know I started pretty fast, middle was slow and the end was in the middle but alot of things distracted me from my garmin... such as exactly at mile 4

When all of a sudden I wasn't running but lying on the sidewalk =) oops. It was my first running fall though so I felt cool (I'm not weird). I didn't know whether to keep going or not but I decided to try and then ended up finishing! I also had to run back to campus to pee around mile 5... and my iPod died, and it started snowing.

I'm just as surprised as you are to hear myself say it was actually a great run!

I did have a cliff bar before and for a quick refuel

Parfait in an almost empty PB jar! nut butter straight up has been my bedtime snack of choice recently so I'm gaining a good amount of parfair and oat worthy jars

Yogurt, quakers oat squares, banana, honey, cinnamon, PB= Perfection

Off to grocery and homework land!

Peace!

Caitlin

Do you normally stay up late? I used to all of the time but now I NEVER do, I did have a great time though =)

Have you ever fallen on a run? Are you clumsy in general? People will tell you (and they're right) that I am the clumsiest person ever, I'm shocked this is my first running fall.

Full Day

Did you see my post this morning? I hope it provided some kind of insight for some of you out there! I didn't post breakfast this morning because I normally eat while I post but today I had a breakfast "date"! That's in quotes because really I was meeting with my bio group to finish a paper we have due tomorrow.

I did have a pita with PB2 and fruit spread before hitting an interval bike workout. 10 min. warmup, 50 min. intervals, 10 min cool down.

I thought about packing some yogurt and cereal in an almost empty PB jar but instead I challenged myself with something I really wanted! We met at my schools coffee shop so I got

Whole wheat bagel topped with butter and cinnamon and a small iced skim latte for protein

Yes that is a checker board on the table

Yes I go to a tiny liberal arts hippie school... I love it =)

Surprisingly the bagel kept me way fuller than even nut butter does! Maybe it has something to do with all of the crack butter toffee almonds that made there way into my mouth last night.

For lunch I packed a small spinach salad with strawberries, cucumbers, a big scoop of cottage cheese and wheat germ.

The star of the show though was these cinnamon roasted chickpeas with almond butter! Last night I roasted 1/2 a can of chickpeas in cinnamon and topped them with about a tablespoon of almond butter when they were still hot. I put them in the fridge overnight and had an amazing lunch treat!

Snack was the rest of my hummus =( mixed with a little nooch and baby carrots.

Dinner was an omelette. I can't believe I made it until Thursday without an omelette! It was actually just two eggs and some garlic, for whatever reason i haven't been feeling cheese lately.

With roasted broccoli and sesame toast with almond and peanut butter (you know I can't choose) and honey.

For dessert I had a fun bowl of PB2, quaker squares some banana and dark chocolate.

I also had two more spoons of nut butter and a little more cereal.

Quote of the day taken from a facebook status of one of PerMa's friends:

"Keep walking towards it"

Peace!

Caitlin

What are you currently walk towards? The status of recovered =)

What's your favorite non-dessert dessert food? Cereal or nut butter! Or both!

Breakfast Heaven

Oh My Yum.

This was really good. Really Good.

Cinnamon Stuffed Chocolate- Banana Bake with Blueberry "Sauce"

Ingredients

2 tbsp Pancake mix ( I used Bob's Red Mill Buckwheat)

1/2 large banana

a ton of cinnamon

3 tbsp egg whites

2 tbsp milk of choice

1 scoop chocolate protein powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

a pinch of salt

1 Stevia packets

About 2/3 cup frozen blueberries

How To

Pre-heat oven to 320. Mix all ingredients except the blueberries together. Honestly, I just mix them directly in the ramekin. But if you mix them in a bowl, transfer the mixture to a ramekin. Bake for 15 minutes.

While baking put the frozen blueberries in a microwave safe bowl. You want to se frozen so the ice can make the "sauce" MIcrowave on high for about 30 seconds or until they are fairly mushy. *Optional, stir in another stevia packet to the blueberries*.

Poor blueberries over the bake and mmmmm your way through breakfast.

I also topped mine with coconut butter... highly recommended.

Note- If you have crazy busy mornings like myself, this can be mixed in advance and put in the fridge. I mix it right before I go to the gym and pop it in the oven when for when I'm in the shower.

Besides delicious breakfast bakes my morning also had a great interval bike workout. I've been doing two interval bikes a week instead of one because I haven't been doing running intervals on Monday like I used to, I'm worried about my IT band and though I would like to get faster, it's more important to not get hurt.

Plus *BRAG ALERT* my plank time!

=D

Peace!

Caitlin

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Don't Judge

My Monday was unfortunately ( or fortunately) fairly dull. Just class, homework, food and some baking. Good thing my eats were delish!

For lunch I made a spring chickpea salad with dijon avocado dip and topped with superfruit vin. I'm updating my recipe page and this will be on it! Had with a side of Mary's Gone Crackers.

I got this awesome poster in the mail today!!

I put it on the wall at the foot of my bed so it can motivate me right when I wake up =).

I snacked on about three stalks of celery and a gigantic scoop of almond butter.

For dinner I was CRAVING tofu, I've only had it twice in three weeks!! I got this kind over the weekend, I like it because you don't have to press it! I tossed about 1/2 of the block in EVOO, white wine vin, honey, black pepper and italian seasoning.

This is officially known as the "don't judge me salad"

Spinach

broccoli

microwaved sweet potato chunks

baked tofu

raisins

tomato sauce

green olives

It was REALLY good

Free time means baking! I made a loaf of Elise's pumpkin bread with a few modifications. I used coconut butter instead of oil, oats instead of flour, less stevia plus I added pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon.

I had a piece with PB2 and fruit spread along with some dark chocolate chips. It is so moist and delicious! I may go back for a little more!