Another one bites the dust

Hope you all are enjoying your Sunday and spending some good quality time with your mommas! :D

Today has been a much needed, nice relaxing day. I started off with a wonderful bowl of oats, of course.

Wait, that isn’t a bowl of oats…that’s my new CHI!!!

Look at the diamond-y-ness of the letters:

Isn’t she pretty? I was very excited when I found this in the mail yesterday. I had been without one for over a week and my hair was needing some good attention from it.

Now, here is this morning’s actual bowl of oats:

which contained:

• 1/2 cup oatbran
• 1/2 cup almond breeze
• 1/2 cup water
• cinnamon
• frozen blueberries
• fresh blackberries
• a scoop of homemade raw almond butter!

There’s my almond butter, sitting in a Magic Bullet cup. The process of making this was quite difficult…and I’m thinking that its because I tried doing it with the Magic Bullet instead of a food processor? The Magic Bullet did a great job of turning the almonds into almond flour, but after that, it just would NOT blend. I added a teaspoon or two of olive oil to get it going. It helped for about 3 seconds. Sigh. I added a splash of water. That helped and got it more blended and I decided that this was as good as it was going to get. I added in some sea salt and called it good. It tastes yummy…but its definitely not very creamy. Now I really want to invest in a food processor so I can try this again! Anybody have one that they want to recommend???

After breakfast digested, I decided to hit the treadmill for a little run fest. I ran my heart out for a quickie 2 miles and then walked for a while and jammed to my music.

Then it was lunch time…first, I made a plate full of broccoli and Sabra’s roasted garlic hummus:

(they are best friends)

Then I decided to attempt my first try at savory oats…I guess I didn’t get enough oat lovin’ in during breakfast.

I made my oatbran the same as always, with 1/2 cup almond milk and 1/2 cup milk. Then I added a Babybel cheese, a Morningstar sausage patty, and a dash of garlic salt. 

I was kind of wary about trying this because I love my oats sweet and with fruit. But this was a nice change. It was so cheesey and creamy!

This afternoon, I settled into a big comfy chair and decided to catch up with Edward Cullen.

eye candy:

But eventually I got hungry and headed to the kitchen to try a new product:

Jay Robb vanilla protein! I added this whole packet, 1 cup vanilla almond milk, a few frozen mango chunks, and a couple ice cubes.

I liked this! I am definitely a fan of this protein powder. I love that they use Stevia as the sweetener, as I try to keep my sugar intake down. This filled me up pretty well, but not too much later, the boredom munchies kicked in…

…and I had quite a few of these little fellas:

Another one bites the dust:

oops!

Now I’m just hanging out with the family and trying to decide what we want to do for a Mother’s Day dinner.

What did you do with your mom today?