Three Thing Thursday

Three breakfasts:

• smoothies with Vega one with “banola”
• high fat greek yogurt with nuts and seeds
• weekend brunch with friends

The first two are my every day options.  I love them and have no desire to branch out.  The last was what we did on Saturday.  See below.

So thick a spoon could rest on it.

After declaring my looooove for Vega over the past few months (years?) on the blog, the amazingly generous Trevor hooked me up with this!!  What!?!  How nice is that?!  My obsession has never been stronger.

And thanks to the 100 degree weather, I wake up craving cold and refreshing things right away.

It’s the perfect start to my day…work out…Vega smoothie.  Boom.  Best foot forward.

The only competition is yogurt with (home-made) granola / banola / handfuls of nuts & seeds.  Those are the breakfasts I turn to when we are running late and I have to be out the door like 10 minutes ago…because all I do is throw a bunch of stuff from the pantry into a huge tub of plain greek yogurt.  Not surprisingly, I don’t have many photos of those meals.

Yogurt buddy!  This meal was my first of the day and the second for pattycakes.  Thanks to an early appointment for V and a dead car battery I wasn’t able to eat breakfast until after 11 am, which is wayyyyyyy not good for my hanger management.  P was equally testy (who knows why – he spent the morning with dad at home and at the park) so we both needed some TLC when I got home.  He was super excited to sit at the table instead of his high chair.  I was excited for blood sugar.

Look at that masssssive tub of banola.  The double batches last a week or so.

Sadly I misjudged my banana situation last week and ran out (I freeze them for smoothies and P and K eat them, so sometimes none reach the ripe enough stage to bake with!).

Anyway, when that does happen, I just chuck everything from the pantry into the yogurt and call it a day.  Pecans, walnuts, shredded coconut, and hemp seeds are my latest combo.

Brunch!  We had peeps over last weekend and what I served – rosemary fried potatoes, chicken sausage, and fruit – was specifically chosen to avoid my friend’s pregnancy aversions and honor cravings.

Three thoughts on my daughter:

• I really hope V isn’t allergic to anything.  Seems an obvious wish for a parent, but it’s one I think about all the time.  I am currently digging raw walnuts and pecans big time and thus far I haven’t noticed her having any reactions to foods I eat.  I’ve eaten everything P is allergic to by now, so fingers crossed her clear skin and lack of regurgitation means something positive.  I guess we will see in the next few months…how is she already getting ready for solids!?!
• She finally figured out how to suck her thumb (she’s been working on it for a while now) and it’s awesome.  Not that she was fussy or anything before, but now she can self soothe even better.  Plus, it’s cute.
• She and P are so in love with one another.  They each adore the other so intensely it’s beyond anything I even imagined it could be.  No words can describe the sibling love.  It’s so special.