Archive for April, 2008
April 29, 2008 at 3:19 pm
· Filed under Recipe, breakfast ·Tagged banana, oats, pancake, Recipe, vegan, vegetarian
Mini Banana and Oat Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup oats
- 50 grams banana
- 1/4 cup almond milk or other milk
- Sweetener and Cinnamon To Taste
- 1 tbs Milled Flax Seeds
- Sprinkle of baking powder
Instructions
- Mash Banana with a fork. Leave a couple chunks in the mix.
- Add sweetener, cinnamon, flax seeds, and baking powder to mashed banana.
- Incorporate oats into mixture.
- Add almond milk and stir until the liquid is equally distributed
- Form into mini pancakes and cook in a non stick pan until browned and then flip and repeat.
Yields 5 Pancakes the Size of Sand Dollars
235 Calories, 7 grams of protein, and 7 grams of fiber.
These actually taste like little bites of Banana Bread!
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April 27, 2008 at 11:24 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
My dear readers,
I have had a fantastic time ‘meeting’ all of you and getting to know you through my comments and through your own blogs. However, running a food blog is a lot of work, a lot more than I could have imagined. I commend those of you who can keep posting meal after meal and never lose slack. I on the other hand have felt a great deal of stress from blogging. At first, it was fun but now it’s become a chore. I love blogs and i will continue blogging but not everyday. Some weeks I may post a couple times and others maybe just once. I’ll post recipes and dishes I find too good to keep off the Internet!
Thank you so much for your support and I hope you don’t mind my decision to switch to more sporadic posting.
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April 27, 2008 at 5:53 pm
· Filed under Snack, Veganomicon, baking ·Tagged apple, baking, black bean burger, chickpea cutlet, hummus, Snack, vegan, Veganomicon, vegetarian
Whew, I just got done with baking my Vegan Staples! It’s been awhile since I had to make them and I sort of forgot the work that goes into it! I made Chickpea Cutlets and Black Bean Burgers from Veganomicon.
chickpea cutlets. I made them smaller this time around so I can put them into burgers and sandwiches.
Black Bean Burgers. I omitted the onions this time and added a squirt of lime juice to jazz things up. They look really great, I can’t wait to try one!
After baking, I had Trader Joe’s lightly salted Apple Chips with some of my Pumpkin Hummus.
305 calories, 5 grams of protein, and 6 grams of fiber.
Aww man, It just started to pour down rain 
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April 27, 2008 at 1:18 pm
· Filed under Brunch ·Tagged banana, Brunch, mango, tofu, vegan, vegetarian
I woke up a little past Ten o’clock this morning and really wasn’t in the mood to eat. So, I chatted on the phone a bit with my Mom and read some of my book. My Family is at my brothers basketball Tournament and I have to give him a shout out! Congrats on your first win, Greg!!! He scored 9 points this morning and helped his team win their first game! (He also promised me the first basket 
)
Brunch today consisted of a Tofu Scramble ‘Egg’ Sandwich and fresh fruit.
Freshly mangled cut mango and banana. The mango was really ripe and I seriously mangled that bad boy. The rest will go into smoothies and oatmeal!
Before assembling: Scrambled Tofu, Spinach, Bell Peppers, and Ezekiel 4:9 Bread.
Even though brunch was great, I had 15 g (1 tbs) of Chocolate Chips afterwards. I wanted something sweet and that really hit the spot! With chocoalte chips, brunch was 416 calories, 21 grams of protein, and 12 grams of fiber.
I think I need to hide the chocolate chips 
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April 26, 2008 at 9:47 pm
· Filed under Dinner ·Tagged amy's, spinach, tofu, vegan, vegetarian, wrap
Everytime I go to the store, I stand in front of the Frozen Section looking at all of the goodies by Amy’s. I finally decided to just go for it and have a frozen dinner. After studying the vegan choices, I settled on…
Amy’s Indian Spinach Tofu Wrap.
Inside shot! I was both surprised and pleased at the flavor of this wrap! Since it was frozen, I wasn’t expecting much but it really tastes great and the spinach doesn’t have that canned spinach taste- if you know what I mean. I LOVED it and now I know i’ll have a great option in the future! (I still prefer cooking my food, not microwaving!!)
With the same spinach and peppers from last night, this meal came out to be 355 calories, 13 grams of protein, and 9 grams of fiber.
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April 26, 2008 at 4:51 pm
· Filed under lunch ·Tagged apple, bread, panera, sandwich, vegan, vegetarian
I loooove Panera Bread! I used to order the Mediterranean Veggie when I was a vegetarian all the time! I wanted the sandwich so I ordered it without the feta cheese! Before lunch, I went on a really easy, relaxing walk.
Instead of chips, I got an apple.
Mediterranean Veggie sandwich with cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, cilantro jalapeno hummus, peppadew peppers, and onions. The bread contains honey but I found that out after I ate the sandwich :/ I should have checked before hand.
It also came with a little pickle! I am not sure of the calories since the nutrition information online includes the feta cheese! I’m guessing around 580 calories.
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April 26, 2008 at 12:14 pm
· Filed under breakfast ·Tagged banana, chocolate, oatmeal, pumpkin, vegan, vegetarian
This morning’s breakfast wasn’t a splurge but it sure tasted like one!! Oh, and I have recovered from that weird nap last night
Pumpkin-Banana Oats with Chocolate Chips.
Pumpkin, banana, chocolate chips, cinnamon, and flax
319 calories, 10 grams of protein, and 13 grams of fiber!!
Tasty!
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April 26, 2008 at 1:18 am
· Filed under Dinner, Snack ·Tagged Dinner, hummus, sandwich, Snack, vegan, vegetarian
So I had thought I had enough sleep last night to pull off a cycle class but I was wrong!! I crawled in bed a little bit before dinner just to rest my eyes and the next thing I know, it’s 12:30 AM! I woke up to a growling stomach so I asked my mom if I should eat…
Spinach and Bell Peppers
Ezekiel bread, smart deli ham, mustard, .25 tbs Woodstock dressing, spinach, and avocado.
341 calories, 24 grams protein, and 12 grams of fiber.
Before I fell asleep, I had an afternoon snack of Pumpkin Hummus, Carrots, and Trader Joe’s High Fiber O’s.
309 calories, 9 grams of protein, and 13 grams of fiber.
I’ve really messed myself up!!
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April 25, 2008 at 3:07 pm
· Filed under lunch ·Tagged fruit, lunch, salad, soy, tofu, vegan, vegetarian
I’m SO excited for the weekend!! I don’t have any homework and for the first time in a couple weeks, I am going to sit down and watch A LOT of TV and make some vegan staples! I’m sure that’s not too exciting but there are so many shows on my DVR that I haven’t watched and I have be dying to see them!
My mid-morning snack was a small apple.
For lunch I did a simple Dijon Tofu Salad and a Bowl of Fruit.
Strawberries, Grapes, and Cantaloupe.
Salad with Spinach, Carrots, Red Peppers, Cucumbers, and Dijon Mustard Tofu.
All of this came out to 342 calories, 14 grams of protein, and 12 grams of fiber.
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April 25, 2008 at 7:05 am
· Filed under Work out, breakfast ·Tagged breakfast, cycle, oats, pumpkin, spin, vegan, vegetarian
Thats what a man at the gym said to me when I was leaving!!
Since I didn’t exercise yesterday, I decided to do something different and work out in the morning! I went to gym bright and early and did the 5:45 cycle class!
- 60 minute Power Cycle Class.
Boy was that hard!! I wore a grey t-shirt (my mistake) and it was soaked by the end of class! I haven’t had a workout this good in a long, long time!!
As much as I love oatmeal for breakfast, I am in the mood for a little change… so, I made some pumpkin oatmeal pancakes! I ate two before class and I’m actually eating the last one as I type this up!
1/2 cup pumpkin, oats, 1/4 cup light silk, stevia, baking powder, and cinnamon!
The pancakes were really great and I hope they keep me full as long as oatmeal does. The three pancakes came to be 238 calories, 10 grams of protein, and 11 grams of fiber. I love adding pumpkin to oats because it really has a lot of fiber in it!
Taking a cycle class this morning was fun and challenging… I can tell today is going to be great
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