The food I ate today!

The food I eat in a day... are you curious?  I hope I can remember everything I ate actually.  Today was a long day. 


Breakfast:
1/2 GF Oats
1tbs raw almond butter
small peach (cut into chuncks)
a dash of cinnamon for flavour
2 tsp chia seeds

coffee
water

and because I wasn't satisfied with this I made some turkey sausages on the bbq, and made a salad. 

Snack1 - salad
1.5 turkey sausages
a handful of cherry tomatoes (my cute daughter picked them for me)
cucumber cubed
herbs from the garden (basil/parsley/oregano)
flax seed oil
apple cider vinegar

water
coffee with almond milk and ice

Lunch- stir fry
tempeh
green beans
broccoli
spinach
onions
a splash of curry sauce (no salt added)

Snack
vega chocolate smoothy in unsweetened almond milk
water with electrolyte pack (I'm using Nuun right now, mostly just because I have them)

I did a 90minute hot yoga at this point so I had another nuun water

Post workout snack (not healthy but I felt like I earned a treat)
Bumblebee bar
apple

Diner
sliced browned tempeh (with a tiny bit of coconut oil in my cast iron pan)
giant spinach salad
onions
cucumbers
1/4 apple sliced in it
a handful of GF Food Should Taste Good Chips (the multi-grain ones)
2 tbsp hemp hearts
dressing: 1/2 pack of vega tropical smoothy mixed with apple cider vinegar, flax seed oil and water
a handful of grapes for desert

water
1 can of Growers dry apple cider

snack-
1/3 cup popcorn (made a-la brown paper bag method)
1tbsp melted coconut cream (it is less refined than the oil and has a stronger coconut/sweet taste)
1 tbsp olive oil
1-2 tsp of chili powder 
a pinch of salt (some good stuff because I rarely use it) = mix the oils, chili powder and salt together first then drizzle over popcorn -then mix it up to coat

more water

ps. every time I write water I am consuming about 700ml of water (it's the 20oz (venti) starbucks water bottle)

All in all not a bad day for eating clean, I did watch Forks Over Knives today and am wondering if I'm getting bloated because of the meat I'm eating.  Otherwise I feel amazing! I basically eat like this most days, I'm getting most of my protein from vegetable sources (either tempeh/vegetarian protein powder/vega -One or smoothy/lentils/legumes).  But I do still have poultry in my diet and fish.  I've cut out completely gluten (that's been a while) eggs, red meats and dairy.  Interesting to note, my mom has an egg intolerance. ???  And now I have discovered that my son breaks out into a rash when he has dairy.  We had him off for a while and the rash cleared up but this week he stole some ice cream out of the freezer when we weren't looking and hoovered a ton of it and Voila rash on his face is back!  Well we have since found the freezer key and looked the freezer.  Casein...  I must really do some more research on this protein! 

Mother's Day!

I realize this post is very late but HEY it's better now than never because... my friends I need to share with you the most wonderful,taste bud tantalizing, palate flirtation food I have  ever tasted.  Bacon dipped in dark chocolate!  (bottom left corner)

My mother's day brunch was a cornucopia of awesomeness.  Two types of pancakes (mine were gluten free oatmeal, extra protein powder added and the others were the buttermilk oatmeal pancakes), two types of turkey sausage, bacon, tons of fruit and the coup de resistance was the dark chocolate made "a-la-fondue" style.  We had visitors to share in our feast. Shout out to Christine, Shawn and their two lovies, Serenity and Gabriel! 

So to all my followers, yes I do realize this is not very clean! (well the bacon at least) but for one day of the year I allow my children to dip anything they want in dark chocolate!  Hopefully this tradition will stick for many many years to come. 

Each kid had a plate filled with food and their own individual chocolate to dip it in! Most popular was watermelon dipped in chocolate!

Live shot!  all dips and focus here!

smile!

Is it Summer yet???

Banilla and Chocolate Banana Soft serve
3 frozen banana's
2 tbsp peanut butter
1-2 tsp vanilla
2-3 heaping tbsp cocao
almond butter
dark chocolate shavings

Directions:

Process frozen banana's with peanut butter and vanilla until it resembles soft serve ice cream, (you might need to help it along, I use a wooden spoon and push down the sides as it's spinning-just be careful).  Take out half the mixture and put it in a bowl.  Add the cocoa powder to the remaining banilla mixture, process till combined.  Remove this chocolate banilla add to bowl, drizzle with almond butter and add chocolate shavings. Serve and enjoy!!!