Roasted Carrots Please

Lunch

Sometimes it's nice to have lunch like a little kid. My mom used to set everything up all cute which is probably where a lot of my playing with food comes from. Sometimes there were even little notes in my lunch. I loved those :)

Regular old sandwich with tofurky on a sandwich thin, a pickle, and grapes, apple slices, and pear slices.

Later I finished the other half of the apple with a little PB, one of my favorite snacks!
I also made an iced coffee for a little of that afternoon buzz I love. It was especially necessary as I was working on my music history paper, blaaa!

Snack

I was feeling snacky while I worked so I popped some corn and hit it with some salt and pepper. Such a simple snack, it's like eating air. Love it.

Dinner

For dinner I was in the roasty mood as usual so I decided to make roasted carrots. I used aBarefoot Contessa recipe for inspiration but with my own tweeks. The only major difference was that I used seven carrots instead of twelve and I did the spices and oil by eye. I put all the slices in a big ziploc to make coating them easy on myself. The recipe also said 400 which I did for the first 20 minutes but when they weren't getting roasty enough for me I upped the temp to 450. I think my oven is whacked out.

Before
and after!

While the carrots roasted I got to work on a Three Bean Salad whose recipe I got from the Whole Foods app on my iPhone. Unfortunately the green beans I bought were bad! So I had to make a few alterations. I also added some roasted onions. I didn't take any photos of the process, sorry!

It all came out so pretty it deserved some natural sunlight. Summer food!
By the way I painted my nails blue!
I also enjoyed a mate mojito. I love these things!
And later, Matt shared a strawberry with me. Local fruit is so much better.
Hope you have the chance to get roasty this summer, you don't know what you're missing!

Running Head Aches Suck!

I was finally in the mood to exercise a few hours after breakfast so I went out for a run. The sun was beating down on me the whole time! It was so hot out today, I think I actually over heated on my run because I felt weird afterwards. Even after I got all cleaned up I was still hot and a head ache set in. Boo! Savannah and I went out looking for apartments and I think we finally found the one! More details on that later, I don't want to jinx anything. Anyways, when we got back I thought an iced coffee might help all aspects of life at that moment in time!

Lunch

For lunch I had some celery, carrots, and a vegan butter and strawberry jam sandwich. That's just what happens when you run out of nut butter! Actually, it was really tasty :)
I raced off to work and had a nice, easy shift.

Snack

After work I had a chocolate chip Z bar for a snack. Like my crazy dress in the background?
Then I ate this delicious apple. How do you get rid of a glare in an apple photo? ...
Chomp!

Dinner

For dinner I heated up a slice of the Creamy Creole Eggplant Casserole and served it with a side of celery and hummus. I ended up having another small slice after this. I don't know, I just can't seem to get my portion sizes right and I'm always going back for seconds. Or am I eating too much? Or am I just hungry? What do you think??
For dessert/ study food I busted out these Vegan Cookies! Uncle Eddie's are pretty darn tasty.
I may have had one...or two more after this one......
Well I can't say I'm super confident about this final but I just want to pass this class! I should definitely hit the sack so I can put my multiple choice guessing skills and essay B.S.-ing to the test hahaha.

Later~

P.S. Sorry about the delay, my internet decided to stop working last night!