I have to be up suuuuper early for a monthly meeting. It’s from 6-8am…eeeek! So let’s get this going..

While I would have loved to have the 2nd protein post done today, it’s not quite finished yet and with my early day tomorrow I can’t stay up late to finish. Hopefully I will get it done in the next few days.

I know I always say THIS is the best bowl of oats I’ve ever had. Each time I say it, it’s true! I just keep 1-upping the bowls and this is the newest BEST BOWL EVER.

Yes, I have decided, Bob’s Red Mill Scottish Oats, are the best oats I’ve ever tasted. They are a cross between Rolled Oats + Steel Cut Oats + Oat Bran = extremely creamy, with a nice thick texture, and the sliiightest crunch.

Perfected Scottish Oats

1/3c BRM Scottish Oats
1c water
1/3c almond milk
1/4c coconut kefir
1 egg white
1/2 banana
1/2t cinnamon
topped with: coconut butter, maple cinn almond butter, whole foods - organic mixed berry jelly

boil water
whisk in oats and turn heat down to a simmer..stir a few times during cooking
let cook ~3-5min until getting nice + thick, and add in the almond milk, coconut kefir [or just a little more milk], banana, + cinnamon
stir a few more times, letting cook for another ~3min and then whisk in egg white during the last 2min of cooking
done!

*I don’t cover the pot to cook, as the instructions say to.

Still obsessed with the maple cinn almond butter!!!! I didn’t miss my crunchy topping today…this was an insanely creamy bowl and I looooved it.

I met Laura for lunch + a chat session today. It was much needed and fabulous, as usual. We met at a really cute little restaurant/dessert bar. They had a great light lunch menu. We both got the soup + salad combo.

I got the Greek salad + a hardboiled egg.

Laura’s salad had candied walnuts that were FAbulous!!

We both got the tomato soup which also came with a delicious piece of fresh Italian bread.

We both cleaned our plates! I was famished from swimming earlier in the morning.

We saw that they had chocolate chip cookies in their dessert case. There was a sign saying they had 16 trials before perfecting the cookie. I HAD to try them. I haven’t had a real deal chocolate chip cookie in so long and this was SO worth it. This cookie was about 3/4” thick. It had the perfect slightly crispy browned exterior but completely soft and chewy center. I liked that the cookie wasn’t GIGantic. It was the perfect size. I know you might think you can never have too much chocolate, but they could have toned down the chips just a little. I would have liked a little more of the “cookie” part! However, I will be back for more ;)

I somehow contained myself and the 2nd cookie actually made it home for Chris.

I made a fun dinner tonight. I started with a recipe and made a few changes. I’ll post the recipe when it’s a little bit more perfected. It started with a nice light sauce that consisted of:

tahini
lime juice
lemon juice
tamari
hemp oil
pepper
garlic

These limes were RIDiculous. I squeezed 1/2T out of 2 full limes!!! Has anyone ever had dry limes before? Crazy!

The sauce was tasty.

Ohhh tomatoes. I have been waiting for you to be in season for SO long. I probably have purchased 2 tomatoes in the past 6 months. Just picked up a few CO local maters the other day. I used to be a tomater hater!!

mmmm

30sec Best Balsamic Eva’

Appx. equal parts balsamic [4% acidity], olive oil, apple cider vinegar
s+p
sometimes, garlic powder + oregano or other seasonings

Whisk or use a hand immersion blender to better combine.

If you’re using balsamic that is 6% acidity you might not need to add the apple cider vinegar.

Pita salad! Arugula + cuc’s + mater + 30sec balsamic + whole wheat pita – This was such a fun way to eat a dinner salad. It was packed with arugula. Yum!

Cold chickpea salad.

The broccoli was steamed for a few minutes, then rinsed with cold water + chilled. The only other part of the meal that was cooked were the chickpeas and pita. Nice balance of raw foods in this meal.

broccoli + chickpeas + peppers + shallot + sesame seeds

SO simple + fresh + tasty. Also, this was surprisingly filling!! It seemed so light when I was making it but if you eat enough chickpeas it’s pretty dense. The pita helped too! I’m definitely going to work on the sauce a little bit and will post when I get it juuust riiight.

Exercise today? I swam this morning but went to the Adult Open Swim instead of the Adult Open LAP Swim. Oooops!! Wow, is all I can say about what the locker is like for adult open swim. I’ll just say I was claustrophobic and I will never make that mistake again! The pool didn’t have lanes set up either, and I had to swim the width of the pool which is only 15m instead of 25m.

I still got a great workout in and didn’t really count anything but just swam for 40-45min.