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5:00 AM Just woke up snack: Food for Life Gluten-Free English Muffin, with organic strawberry jelly, and Earth Balance vegan butter. |
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7:30 AM Breakfast: Chocolate Ice Cream Smoothie Chia seeds, hemp seeds, raw cacao powder, rice milk, 2 frozen bananas, 5 frozen strawberries=my favorite way to start the day. |
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9:15 AM First Morning Snack: Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar...my new favorite flavor at the moment of these rocking bars. Ingredients: dates, peanuts, sea salt. |
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10:30 AM 2nd Morning snack: Gluten-free, vegan pancakes from Cinnamon Quill with Maple Agave Nectar. I make these sugar-free by substituting the sugar out for coconut sugar. |
11:30 AM 3rd Morning snack: 1 banana |
12:15 Lunch: "Cheesy Casserole" with rice, tofu, broccoli, carrots, and potatoes |
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2:15 1st Afternoon snack: Almond Dream Strawberry Yogurt |
This yogurt wins my vote for best vegan yogurt right now! Others have been watery, clumpy, or soy-full (I try to minimize my soy intake in my snacks and drinks since I often have it in meals, with tofu, tempeh, and veggie burgers). But not Almond Dream...so creamy and delicious! Maybe the hint of almond pairs well with the strawberry, I'm not sure, but the result is one delicious vegan (and gluten-free) yogurt.
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3:15 2nd Afternoon snack: hand full of Plentils (lentil chips) dipped in Trader Joe's Classic Hummus |
Found these cool gluten-free chips at my local health food store, and they're pretty good. I'm a lentil fan...and chip fan, so double win! Here's the ingredients of the "Sea Salt" flavor: lentil powder, potato starch, safflower oil, salt, turmeric.
4:15: "Green Juice" (apple juice + green powder) |
Time to come home and play with my two favorite people...
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"Yep, that's my Dad." |
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At just the sight of the swing set, she's GONE! |
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She's a pointing/grunting machine these days, pointing at the dogs, the trees, or anything else she wants to bring your attention to. |
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Catching some "air time"! |
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Oh yeah and she's got a new, lovely way of requesting "milk" these days... |
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5:30 Just-got-home snack: "Chocolate Vanilla Smoothie": vanilla coconut milk, Chocolate Sun Warrior Rice Protein Powder, spinach, 1 1/2 frozen bananas, 3 frozen strawberries |
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Simple banana snack for my teething girl who just got tooth #11 today! |
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Just take one frozen banana half, wrap a cloth napkin around the bottom of it, then wrap a rubber band around it to keep it in place. Then give it to your teething/or non-teething baby! |
Avery loves them and will chew on them happily, while sitting in her new spot in the kitchen...the sink. I know, this probably isn't the most safe position for her to be, but it's better than being just out and open on the counter I suppose. Plus I'm always right next to her, and being down deep in the sink gives me a little extra sense of security. She loves being in the sink because it's close to the water (her favorite thing) and she can see what I'm chopping/cooking/cleaning etc.
7:15 PM Dinner: "Cheese-Stuffed Bean Burgers" from Peas & Thank You (with gluten-free pasta/black beans, quinoa, onions and more) alongside some steamed broccoli topped Cheddar Daiya Vegan Cheese. |
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She was full of spunk as she ate her burger and broccoli. |
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Highlight #1: Deciding to put her foot on the table...and then putting food all over it. Lovely manners, I know. |
I planned on making this frosting for some chocolate cupcakes I was experimenting with, but after storing it in the fridge overnight it took on a super-fudgy texture that tasted excellent on it's own. I tweaked the recipe by using raw cacao powder instead of carob powder, and adding one more tablespoon of coconut sugar instead of the stevia (never quite got into the taste of that). Either way, this is one delicious frosting...who would guess the base is a baked sweet potato! Give it a try.
Hope you all had a great Wednesday with lots of yummy food. See you next week!
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