The Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast the most important meal of the day is also my favorite meal. Today I had plain soy yogurt, cranberry almond granola sliced banana,apple and agave drizzled on top.

What's in your cart?

Last night while at the Whole Paycheque

2 bottles of mineral Water
Edamame
Extra Dark Chocolate bar
Multi Grain bread
Caffine Free Green Plum Yogi tea



What almost made it in to the cart:

Lemongrass scented deordorant
Leapin' Lemurs Peanut butter chocolate cereal
Amy's Cheeseless Pizza

'Cus I'm a Lunch Rock Star

I see you there eying my plate of delightful veggies and grains. Yes I'm a lunch rock star.

You ask: "What do you eat?" Me: " A plant based diet."

On this episode of Lunch Rock Star

A G brings tofu teriyaki.

Coworkers: " Wow, you made that?"

G: "Yes, Yes I did." ( because hello I'm a rockstar)

Sending Love in the Mail

This month I sent ma copine Melissa some treats. I thought I’d go with a most beloved VWAV recipe for peanut butter oatmeal cookies. They are a perfect mix of sweet, earth balancy, crunchy goodness. Melissa wasn’t the only one to get in on the cookie goodness. I also took a dozen or so in to work on Monday and they quickly disappeared.

Next month I’m going to totally try to sort out a recipe for the ultimate trail mix cookie. Possible ultimate trailmix cookie ingredients: Dark Chocolate chunks, White chocolate chunks, coconut, almonds, cranberries, golden raisins, cashews, pistachios, oats, pumpkin seeds and maybe papaya. Hmm or maybe I'll make my mothers Congo squares which are the queen of all chocolate chip squares. *

It is a bummer that I don’t live near a coffee house that carries fresh baked vegan treats. Everyone has a day when they need a sweet treat with their soy latte and NYTimes.

* I need to bake for a living. There are far to many people in this world eating subpar sweets.

Health Food /Smeath Food

In the day to day I try to eat whole grains,unsaturated fats, dark leafy greens, fruits and avoid refined sugars, but today is not one of those days, at least not totally. For Sunday dinner I'm having smart dogs on whole wheat buns topped with onions and mustard, Asian slaw, baked home fries and a butter pecan shake. Earlier today I had cornbread, a berry banana smoothie and coffee for breakfast, and sweet potato, dinosaur kale, dahl and wheat berries for lunch.

Lately I've felt myself slipping back into some disordered eating patterns that I thought I was past. So far this year I've been doing ok in regards to eating to meet my nutritional needs. In the past my diet was so inflexible that I set myself up to fail. I need to rededicate myself to healing whatever causes me to act out my rituals.


* I'll probably always be rather general about what my rituals consist of because its just not something I'm particularly comfortable sharing. I also wouldn't my post to become a step by step ed guide.

The Lemon Journey

I never made lemon bars in my pre-vegan days so I went in to it with few expectations. The first time round I followed the recipe. They were good but far too sweet and I wanted more filling. The second batch I :increased the tofu to 1 cup, 1/4 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of vanilla, 1/2 cup of lemon juice and added a 1 tbsp of powder sugar. The changes increased the baking time by approx 15 mins. I was happier with this batch because the ratio of crust to filling was better. The first batch was 1:1 and the second 1:2.

What's for breakfast

Berry-Banana Smoothie and corn muffins