Cinco de Mayo!

Workout

It's a good thing my friend Alex called early in the morning and convinced me to hit the pool for a quick 30 minute swim. I was in the process of trying to justify staying in bed until I absolutely had to get up but I'm glad I didn't!

Breakfast

I ended up having the perfect morning! I showered and dressed at the gym and came to campus with the perfect plan. My mom sent me a package a few weeks ago and inside were these gift cards to Jamba Juice and Panda Express! (someone's been reading my blog!)

I decided to grab a bowl of steel cut oats from Jamba Juice with the classic banana topping. I also topped it with some cinnamon from the coffee shop on campus.
I went with a medium drip coffee with a shot of sugar free hazelnut and soymilk.
I grabbed the campus paper and headed out to the plaza to sit in the shade by the pond.
As usual, the beggar fish came right up to the side when I set up to take my food photo.
Crooked fish!!

Snack

After my perfect morning and once I was done with class I came home and snacked on this orange.
And what goes better with oranges than Blue Moon!? I love having 21 year old room mates!
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Savannah and I enjoyed ourselves with one of our favorite brews.

Lunch

Then we decided to further honor the spirit of this Mexican holiday by eating burritos! We grabbed our monster meals and sat at some benches by the beach. What a gorgeous day for a burrito by the beach. I made sure to save half of my burrito for later and rushed off to work.
During choir, I snacked on this chocolate chip Z bar.

Dinner

I covered a shift for a friend at work so during my little break I had the other half of my Cinco de Mayo burrito.
When I got home I was craving something sweet so I had the last scoop of some coconut vanilla ice cream topped with a little bit of raisin bran crunch and two squares of Ritter Sport Schokolade mit Hazelnüsse, I mean chocolate with hazelnuts! I fell in love with this chocolate in Germany and my mom gave me a square when they were visiting :)
Hope you had a fun Cinco de Mayo!

Belated Monday Post

Breakfast

Wow, sorry I've been so behind lately! This is Monday's breakfast: A big ol' batch of banana oats topped with blackberries, strawberries, and peanut butter. This sat in my stomach like a rock!

A little java and a Women's Once a Day completed my breakfast.

Lunch

After class I came home and made a salad with my left over burrito from Super Cucas. I emptied out the insides and put salad on top. I saved a little of the tortilla on the side and topped the whole thing with some of my homemade guacamole.
Dessert was some dried mango. I love these things!
Dinner post coming right up!

Passover Dinner, Car Fiasco!

Breakfast

I made plans to go with Lexie and my Aunt Linda to their workout class Sunday morning so I woke up and grabbed a quick breakfast for the road. They live a little less than two hours from me.

There was some tropical trail mix out and I just felt like having a handful.

I peeled an intense looking orange and grabbed a Honey Graham Z Bar for the road.
And of course, coffee to go!
The workout class was great! It was a dance inspired cardio type workout and I am definitely sore! The plan was to zoom back to Santa Barbara, shower and change, grab my brother who was visiting SB with some buddies, and go back for Passover dinner. Go plan, right? Well it was until the break light in my car went off! I ended up sitting in my car in a gas station waiting for a tow truck for at least an hour. Luckily I have an awesome book on my iPod that I'm listening to and this VitaminWater which had been in my car for a while now.
By the time I finally got home I was starving! I wolfed down the other half of my burrito and a pretty unhealthy speed haha. But I made the turn around and Eric and I were on the road headed back for dinner in a flash.

Dinner

We missed the ceremony :( but still got to grub up on the tasty food!
Dessert and coffee!
One of my favorite traditions of having dinner and my family's house is that we always play solitaire. Now, this isn't just any kind of solitaire, this is intensely competitive, multiplayer speed solitaire! That's Lexie on my left!
And that's my brother Eric in the yellow shirt on the right.

I'm telling you this game gets vicious!


On the drive back I somehow had a grumble in my stomach. I didn't understand how this was possible but I knew my stomach wasn't taking no for an answer. I had some trail mix, but avoided all the M&M's.
We made it back safe and I went straight to be to be rested for the first day of classes...bleh.

Sadly, Time to Go Home

Midnight Snack

So even though the kitchen was technically closed for the night, we got to playing some bananagrams and decided to make a midnight snack: quesadillas!

I used hummus instead of cheese and put cilantro, black pepper, and garlic powder on the inside. Oh, and a little guac for dipping of course.
It was so tasty! Who needs cheese??

Breakfast

The next morning I started with a mug of the usual java: hazelnut and soy.
Dad was eating an eggy breakfast sandwich and making it look ridiculously good. I followed suit and made myself a breakfast sandwich that gave his a run for it's money.
Toasted cracked wheat sourdough with

• hummus
• green onions
• grilled eggplant
• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• avocado
• salt and pepper

To round things out I used some homemade grape juice (Mom's idea!) to take this bone health packet. I tasted like a smoothie!

Lunch

It was finally coming time for me to get on the road and go back to Santa Barbara but, as usual, I found a clever way to stall: eat lunch! I had the last of the mushroom and spinach risotto, some split pea soup, and walnut wheat sourdough toast with roasted garlic hummus.
I also had a 5 hour energy with lunch for an extra boost before hitting the road.
A little dessert was some spoonfuls of this amazing raspberry sorbet right out of the container!
Snack

Not pictured for driving safety are some cucumbers, crystalized ginger pieces, a chocolate brownie Z Bar, and an apple that I snacked on while I drove down.

Dinner

When I finally made it back I met my brother and his buddies and a local burrito joint. This is an iPhone picture sorry about the quality! My burrito was a whole wheat tortilla filled with:

• rice
• black beans
• guacamole
• cilantro
• onions
• salsa verde
• pico de gallo
• lettuce

I sliced it in half and put the other half away before I even had a chance to argue with myself!
After kickin it with my brother and his buddies I retreated to my apartment and enjoyed a bowl of my favorite cereal.
I was so tired by the end of the night I slept so hard!

A Burrito During Finals is Standard, Right!?

I may have had seconds...it was just too good!

Snack

Later I headed to the library to crank out a paper. I had such a late breakfast that I didn't think I needed a lunch but I did bring some snacks. I tried to be quite with these carrots!!

Later I busted out this Mountain Mix Clif bar.

Savannah gave me the rest of her trail mix woohoo! We were at the library waaay too long! By the time I finally left it was already 10PM and I was starving!

Dinner

I was so not in the mood to try and cook something so I caved and bought myself a burrito!
I tried to do the cut it in half save one for later method...but I was too hungry!
For a little sweet treat I used half of a banana, sprinkled it with chocolate chips and nuked it for 15 seconds.
I still had a chocolate craving so I made some hot chocolate and that was it!
I was a little too full after all that but I just keep telling myself, it's finals week, this week is crazy and it's almost over!