Hey Friends! I am off to a really slow start on this WIAW post. Why you may ask? Because not only am I off work the rest of this week (yay for vaca!) but I am still trying to get my new apartment all set up!
Long story short: I actually put this together myself! (the white shelves)
I am proud of myself because I am anything but handy. Go me.
Ok now let’s talk food?
My meals really haven’t changed much from like ever, but going to give you some of my now fall favorite’s! Some awesome food finds at Target! Un-pictured is Kodiak Cakes – who loves these? Can’t wait to try these out!
I am going to start popping my OWN popcorn. I have seen on pinterest that you can do it in a brown paper bag. Too bad I already forgot to buy those, ha. I also found lots of spices for Fall – apple pie spice, pumpkin spice, and nugmet. These 3 really make cereal, oatmeal, coffee, iced coffee, pancakes, cakes, cookies, etc. all taste that much better. That 100% you see is for TOTAL cereal. I know, it’s processed, but I like it.
I also bought almost every single kind of Mrs. Dash – can’t get enough of this stuff, either.
Since I am home from work this week, I can be a bit more creative with meals. I started off with a different version of my “oatbran” – added pumpkin! YUM! I forgot how much I love this!
In the mix: 1/3 cup oatbran, 1 tbsp chia seeds, huge spoon of crunchy PB, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, stevia, and a lot of pumpkin (didn’t measure). So-freakin-good.
Moving on…
Obsessed with my NINJA blender. I put 6 huge ice cubs in my protein shake this morning, and it blended every-single-one. My stupid Magic Bullet could barely blend 1/2 of an ice cube. Lame.
In the mix: 1 cup water, 1 cup decaf coffee, almond milk (didn’t measure), 6 ice cubs, 1 scoop sun warrior, 2 spoonfuls of cocoa powder, vanilla liquid stevia, and coffee extract. So good and so filling!
I made one successfully and followed Foodie Fiasco’s recipe to a T, except used peanut flour instead of the coconut flour. It was good! Just happy it came out looking like a cake and had some flavor other than bland baking powder. Go me again!
Ok folks, keeping this light n sweet for today. As long as I do the above: drink my protein shake first thing in the AM, eat a good oatbran-ish breakfast, spice my food up real good, and try new recipe’s, I most certainly “Fall into good habits” – kind of hard not to by doing all of these things. I am one happy chica.
And I love my apartment. Random, I know.
I have an awesome stuffed pepper’s recipe coming your way tomorrow, as well as some fun Zumba thangs. Some students have been wearing heart rate monitors – and let’s just say, you will be SHOCKED at their calorie burns!
Questions:
- Who loves spices as much as me? What are your favorites?
- Who can put together furniture? What was the hardest thing you did?
- Who makes mug cakes? what is your favorite recipe?
TTYL 
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What a brillant idea, I am ashamed to say my shoes overflow a recylce bin. yep, so lame.
HA alex, you are so funny. I wouldn’t mind normally, but trying to keep my new place with Nick very “adult-like”, ha!
Chocolate pumpkin is definitely my favourite of the mug cakes! I’m a big peanut flour fan too though!
Hey Michelle!! ohhh chocolate pumpkin! cocoa + pumpkin is def the best combo
I am obsessed with peanut flour and order the big guy from iHerb!
Looks delicious…and I LOVE my Ninja!
I don’t know what I ever did w/o the ninja!! Glad you like it, too! I say it’s JUST AS GOOD as a vitamix, ha ha.
I love mug cakes! Glad you enjoyed yours! They’re so simple and you only have one bowl to clean up! I love air popcorn!! You are going to love it!
Hey girl! They really are so simple and I just made another one as a snack! ha ha. How do you cook your air popcorn?? I need to get brown paper bags now to do this the way I saw it on pinterest
Going to try this! http://www.squawkfox.com/2010/07/27/popcorn-recipe-gourmet-popcorn/
I used to eat oat bran all the time! I still have to get myself some pumpkin
and spices are my favorite! I loooove cinnamon 
definitely get yourself some pumpkin!! cinnamon rocks…and also this apple pie spice is pretty damn good, too!
You are so funny… I’m glad my Ninja has found a new home where it is truly appreciated!
“Pumpkin pie” oatmeal is one of my favorite things in the fall…looks like I’m going to have to go get me some pumpkin when I do my shopping this week!
Oh – for popcorn, I like to pop mine in a really heavy cast iron pot (with a LID!!) and some coconut oil. OMG…so good!!
I just posted on my blog about my heart rate monitor – and I shared it on your FB page. Craziness! I’m so excited to keep using it now! Can’t believe I’m missing tomorrow night!!
You so need pumpkin! I swear it makes oatmeal taste like pumpkin pie (sorta haha)
OHHH i like the way you do the popcorn… looks like I now need to get myself a heavy cast iron pan
Sucks you are missing tomorrow
NEXT WEEK!!
Gahh I want a ninja! One day perhaps, no room in the kitchen right now! Mug cakes are great too… ever since I started to make them with coconut flour, I can’t go back to regular wheat flour!
oh coconut flour ROCKS!! I am so with you on this one… after coconut and peanut flour, WW has nothing on them!!
I`m gonna have to try these mug cakes, they look interesting!! But pumpkin, yuck, not my thing at all!! Your morning smoothie looks awesome. I`m always trying to think up new creations. Today its going to be orange juice with pineapple chunks and a little juice and lots of ice. Tastes like a creamsicle!
Oh and I am awesomely handy at putting together flat pack furniture! This weeks mission is to hang my new curtain rods. I`ve only been here for 3 years, I think its time!!
Hey Debi!! Definitely give them a try and let me know when you do! I still need to try the recipe’s you sent me as well.. getting around to it soon!
mmm your smoothie sounds good…who doesn’t love creamsicles?!
Can you come over and put together what else I need?! ha! that is freakin’ awesome and I am jealous. Curtain rods are the HARDEST thing to me.. probably because I am inpatient and HATE measuring etc… have fun hanging!! hehe
Happy to help you out!! What else are you building? Missed class again tonight but only cos I was getting a long, long overdue haircut!!
What? I have to measure to hang my curtain rods?? lol, they will probably fall down as soon as I hang the curtains on them!
I need to try that mug cake! I’m NOT handy at all.. and neither is my husband.. he duct tapes everything – no joke. However, my dad is VERY handy and comes over to do our repairs… fairly often!
Mug cake rocks! HAHAH duct tape..that is awesome. Glad your dad has it under control, lol! MY MOM is the handy one, believe it or not! ha!
Putting together furniture is the easy part it’s picking the furniture that is my dilema!
Also I have an ottoman full of shoes.
There is so much room in those things and all you need is a small one in the living room and no one knows your shoes are in there!
It’s the perfect hiding spot!
Actually my ottoman is an eiffel tower design and it works great holds 1 pair sneakers 1 pair heels 4 flip flops/sandals and 5 flats!
Yes I had my soy pumpkin spiced latte first thing Tuesday morning!
And found a pumpkin muffin recipe so I will hopefully be trying that this weekend!!!
I guess my issue is beside using whole wheat flour and almond milk and smart balance I’m not sure how to avoid using sugar.
What do you suggest? and where can I find it?
HA yes picking out furniture can also be hard..that’s why I go shopping w/o nick! lol!
I like your ottoman idea! thank you!
ok so for sugar, you DEFINITELY have options!! have you tried stevia? NuNatural’s liquid stevia is my FAVORITE!! I get it off iherb.com and if you use code MEQ648 you get $5 off of your first order and $10 off if you spend over $40. This stevia ROCKS my world…definitely can use it in baking. I also love Truvia. Hope this helps!
SEE YOU LATER!!
I just got a rec from a Twitter follower the other day to invest in a Ninja! I need to look into this. I never really cook a lot on my own at home so maybe it’s something to wait for til I get my own place…whenever that is!
A Black Friday sale might have one!
I have heard so many wonderful things about Kodiak Cakes. I first saw them on KathEats.com, my first blog EVER (wow). I need to try them sometime!
My mom has an air popper for popcorn that she got at Ocean State Job Lot. Unfortunately bagged popcorn is just too easy to resist so we never use it! Oops.
Thank you so much for the link love, my dear! It’s good to know peanut flour works in that recipe.
I love spices of all kinds and one of my favorite places to shop is Penzey’s Spices over on Westport Ave – just past Stew Leonard’s. My spice cupboard is bursting with all sorts of goodness – here is there website http://www.penzeys.com/ . One of the best things about Penzey’s is that if you sign up to receive their catalog, every couple of months they send you a coupon attached to the catalog for a free spice – not a sample size, a FULL size version. I have been able to try many spices that I wouldn’t even have considered before. I think my favorite spice is cumin – never thought it would be, but it add a great flavor to ground turkey and chili!
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