What I Ate

You guys are the best!  I was so excited to get back to regular blogging and then I got all these lovely comments and questions and inspiration…lots of subjects to blog about now!

First order of business is writing down the recipe for the next time I make this baked banana thing. It makes two breakfasts (for me) with cashew butter loaded on top.

The last of the Caesar saladddddd. With the nuttiest creamiest vegan dressing. And avocado and carrots on top.

I was semi hungry a while later, and I just so happened to be grocery shopping with V, so we got a bag of Kettle salt and pepper krinkle chips.  I never snack while I’m at the store, but they were calling my name.  I gave V a few and after that she had no desire to eat her apple slices instead. Shocker, huh.

We hit up both TJs and WFs, so we were super productive.  Kyle and P were playing tee ball together.  We have been trying to spend more quality time with each kid individually on the weekends.  I take P to church with me on Sundays so that has been our thing.  He loves it.  I love it.  And eventually Kyle and V will join us.  But for now, they have been doing fun dada/daughter time while we are gone.  Anyway, back to Saturday.

We had a kid birthday party in the afternoon so I tried to get all the dinner stuff ready ahead of time.

I made this tempeh, but with almond butter, obviously.

And then when I got home I made the noodles for the salad part of it.  I had already chopped all the veg and made the dressing, so a quick boil of the soba noodles and we were in business.

The kids don’t really like tempeh, so I was pretty stoked to have this whole tray for just me and Kyle.  Mmmmmm…

Guys, make this salad.

I added romaine for extra crunch.

What a blurry mess of a shot this is.  Oh well.

I have this problem where I make a small plate of dessert, but then it’s never enough so I make another plate.  I should just make the size I want at the start.  I didn’t take a second photo, but it was basically the same as this one.  More peppermint bark, less theo dark chocolate bar.  That bark is dangerous because if I eat too much I feel a little sick, but it’s realllllly hard to stop at a small amount.  I’m not sure when I started liking peppermint so much.  I have never liked mint in any form, but in the past year I’ve fallen hard for peppermint (around the holidays only, it seems) and that Thai salad even had fresh mint leaves in it!  What the what!?  Taste buds are a fascinating thing.  White chocolate is ghetto chocolate, per Kyle, and it’s def not GI friendly, but I’m obviously not classy because I liiiiiike it.

So there you go.  A day’s worth of eats.  Again.  Look at me go!