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Stonyfield Smoothie Contest take #2

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Last week I posted my smoothie submission for the HLS Stonyfield Smoothie Contest.  Turns out they’ve extended the deadline and we can post more than one smoothie!  So this time around, I’m posting one of my favorite go-to smoothie nightcaps (non-alcoholic, but I usually drink it to “cap off” my night 😀 )

Very Berry Smoothie mixins:

  • 1 cup Oikos nonfat plain yogurt
  • 1 packet Truvia (Stevia all natural sweetener)
  • 1/2 cup each of frozen fresh blueberries, strawberries, and black raspberries

Into the blender: 

Into my glass:

Perfect cap to my night 😀

Disclosure: This entry is for the Healthy Living Summit Stonyfield Smoothie Contest.  Stonyfield is a sponsor of the Summit, but not this contest.

 

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Starting the week on a roll… a jelly roll that is

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Sometime last week I accidentally downloaded the $10 Runkeeper pro ap on my iPhone…  I was kind of annoyed because the free Runkeeper pro app I had was working just fine… but apparently my right thumb decided I needed to go the extra mile (no pun intended) and buy the pricey app.

I’ve played around with the full Runkeeper Pro ap a little bit, and wasn’t too impressed until I logged onto the website and saw all the cool information that my phone automatically transmits.  As you may recall, I’ve been working on interval training (since my right knee is opposed to me doing a 5k).  So in the past, it’s been hard for me to tell how fast I was running and how fast I was walking during my intervals.

Enter the fancy schmancy Runkeeper Pro ap for the low-low price of $9.99!  When I logged onto the website I was VERY happy to see that I can get a breakout by interval.  Here’s the stats from my interval this morning which consisted of 5 intervals of 3 minutes walking and 3 minutes running:

Not too shabby on the run times.  Now I can actually work on improving my pace AND my knee strength.  I guess this was a happy $10 accident 🙂

Breakfast #1

I was planning to have eggs for breakfast, but time was not on my side this morning.  Instead I grabbed an Earth Grains 100% whole wheat deli flat and topped it with 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s Crunchy Salted Almond Butter:

My friends Tim and Jaci hooked me up with some Smucker’s reduced sugar red raspberry preserves to try, and I thought this combo would be fantastic:

AB & J:

I was right, it was fan-friggin-tastic!!  I love these reduced sugar preserves just as much as I love the regular blackberry preserves!  Smucker’s preserves are perfection.

Stats on B#1:  225 calories, 30g carbs, 11g fat, 9g protein, 6g fiber

 

Breakfasts #2

My usual overnight oats with strawberries and blueberries:

OO love 🙂

Stats on B#1:  229 calories, 42g carbs, 5g fat, 6g protein, 7g fiber

Lunch

When I was making yesterday’s garbanzo bean salad, I saved some of the veggies for my lunch.  CHOP ONCE, EAT TWICE my friends 🙂

Mixins:

I also added 2 ounces grilled chicken, half a bag of romaine lettuce, and 2 tbsp Ken’s Lite Northern Italian with Basil and Romano dressing:

Whole lot o veg:

Stats on B#1:  309 calories, 36g carbs, 7g fat, 25g protein, 10g fiber 

 

Question for ya’ll:  What are your favorite things to pack for lunch?  I tend to get super bored with my lunches and would LOVE new ideas! 😀

 

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Garbanzo Bean Salad

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We’re having a family cookout today, and I wanted to bring a healthy side dish.  After some googling, I decided to go with this recipe for Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad.

My salad consisted of:

  • 2 HUGE seedless cucumbers
  • 2 HUGE green peppers
  • 1/2 of a HUGE red onion
  • 2 cans of garbanzo beans (AKA chick peas), drained and rinsed
  • a HUGE container of cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 3.5 ounce container Athenos Reduced fat Feta Cheese

Isn’t it weird how sometimes you can go to the grocery store and all the veggies are puney, then sometimes they all look like they are on steroids?

The dressing consisted of:

  • 1 cup Ken’s Steakhouse lite Italian Dressing
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tsp garlic salt
  • juice of 1/2 a lemon

All togetha nah:

All up in there:

Hope the family likes it!

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Tropical POB Smoothie

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I’m sure you all are very much aware of the fact that I’m attending the Healthy Living Summit next week!  Woot!

The attendees recently got an email inviting us to enter into a Stonyfield Farms Smoothie Contest.  The only requirements are that the recipe contact at least one cup of any Stonyfield Farms or Oikos yogurt and that there not be more than 5 ingredients in the recipe.  The more organic the better!

I have a smoothie nightcap several times a week, and my usual mix consists of strawberries, blueberries, and spinach.  Given that this is a competition, and I’m slightly competivie 😉 I wanted to make a smoothie that was different than the usual.

So, here’s what I got: 

  • 1 cup Stonyfield Organic Plain Yogurt
  • 2/3 cup chopped pineapple
  • 1 clementine orange (or half of a regular orange)
  • 1/2 cup chopped banana

I tossed all the ingredients into the blender and added a few ice cubes:

Blended everything up, poured into a glass, and then realized I had only used four ingredients (ice doesn’t count right?)… so I added a strawberry for garnish.

Check me out!

Disclosure: This entry is for the Healthy Living Summit Stonyfield Smoothie Contest.  Stonyfield is a sponsor of the Summit, but not this contest.

 

 

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Cool Blog Stuff!

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I’m not exactly the most creative person in the world.  I am an accountant after all…  Lucky for me, I have some people in my framily who are really stinkin creative. 

Check out my birthday present from my sister:

Isn’t that awesome???  Check out Jennifer’s pottery on the JMNPottery website!  She does custom orders too, of course 😉

I wanted to get some business cards for the healthy living summit next week… but that didn’t pan out.  That’s ok though, my friend Jason made me some AWESOME t-shirts to wear at the summit:

I’m super pumped for the HLS!  You can check out Jason’s website here.

In foodie news, I found a new favorite cereal combination.  It consists of Cinnamon Honey Bunches of oats and Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Almond milk in a 2:1 ratio (who doesn’t love a good ratio in the morning 😉 ) then topped with sliced up strawberries. 

The key is to let the almond milk soak in to the cereal for a little bit before eating:

Yum-yum in my tum-tum 🙂

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