It’s That Time of The Week (WIAW)

Hey ya’ll! Of course I am going to participate in my favorite day of the week. What I Ate Wednesday. Who cares if I’m a day late. It is always a party at my place. Sort of. Okay, not really because I’m just a typical nerd always doing my work and what not, BUT this weekend it actually is going to be a party. Today is my younger brothers birthday, so I’m going out and I’m going out on Saturday. Uh oh. Double trouble for this weekend. Anyways back to the subject at hand. FOOOOOOD. Thanks to Jenn for doing this every single week. I don’t know what I would do without having WIAW and getting to stalk a million blogs in one day. Cheers to that.

Lets see what I’ve been eating.

Classic Lindsay oats. Duh. Really though, I’m pretty predictable.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Oats
1/2 c. Oatmeal
1 1/2 c. water
1 banana
1/3 c. canned pumpkin
1/4 c. low fat cottage cheese (1%-2%)
1 packet of truvia
1 dash of vanilla extract
cinnamon
pumpkin pie spice
a sprinkle of chocolate chips

1. Prepare oatmeal in the normal fashion of microwaving water and oats in a container for about 2-3 minutes.
2. Chop up banana into small slices, then place in container and microwave for 1:30 more minutes.
3. Add in everything, but chocolate chips.
4. Sprinkle with a few chocolate chips.

Delicious. The pumpkin provides a contrast to the sweetness of all the add ins, and the cottage cheese gives the oatmeal a creamy flavor that resembles cheesecake. I’ve been on a cottage cheese and oatmeal kick, so don’t worry. I have more cheesecakey recipes coming up in the next few weeks. If you have leftover pumpkin from all the holidays or you want to eat this bowl of oatmeal, I recommend making it as soon as possible. Your stomach will be happy.

Hello newest obsession. Blood Orange Chobani Yogurt. Some people think that it is too tart, but I think it is perfect. When you combine the creamy flavor of greek yogurt with the oranges at the bottom it makes pure heaven in your mouth. It is tangy, so be warned, but those are the kind of flavors I like. Chobani has really outdone itself with its new line of flavors. The apples and cinnamon flavor is also really delicious. I have a passion fruit in my fridge, but have yet to try it. Once I do, I will let ya’ll know what I think. I had been cheating on Chobani with Oikos lately, but with the addition of these new flavors I’m baaaack.

Other new food obsession: Arctic Zero Cookies and Cream. When can you go wrong with cookies and cream? NEVER. I had to sample a couple of bad flavors in order to find this gem. For those of you that don’t know, Arctic Zero is a real low calorie ice-cream that is great when you want a sweet treat, but do not want to consume all the calories from milk fat and what not in normal ice-cream. Now don’t expect a super creamy texture from this ice-cream because obviously it is low calorie, but I like the semi-icy texture and the flavor of the cookies and cream is AMAZING. I topped it with a little whip cream and some mini chocolate chips. Hello delicious afternoon snack. Why thank you, I will gobble you up.

I’ve really been enjoying mangoes lately. While they are super tricky to cut, in the end they are worth it. I’m trying to consume a variety of fruits now instead of just eating apples and bananas because that is boring, plus each fruit provides a different type of health benefit, so why not knock out as many diseases as I can by consuming as many whole foods as possible. I’m smart. Like we didn’t know that. Random nutrition lesson: stay away from pre-cut fruits like mango because those type of foods are not required to have food labels, so you don’t know how these items are being prepared or where they come from. Food safety is so important. You don’t want a foodborne illness – could lead to your death over strawberries or something (that would be a great book title).

My future roomie would probably look down on this, but heck sandwiches are an easy thing to eat before class especially if I’m in a hurry. I’m actually going to attempt to switch to eating tofurkey and go totally pescatarian, but we shall see if I like those products or not. Anyways since I’ve been eating bread in small amounts, these sandwich thins are soo good. They are the perfect size and the bread is really soft. I also tend to always pair my lunch with carrots and dijon mustard to dip them in. Yes, I’m really weird, but I like the bitterness of the dijon.

Things I love in life: Curry, tofu. Curry and tofu. I think I crave it pretty much every day, so instead of shelling out tons of money and buying it from a thai place I decided to make my own. Unfortunately, I’m lacking brain cells right now due to overload from school. Instead of following the recipe, I added a little too much curry. Oh how this was spicy. My mouth was on fire. I think I chugged about 40 oz of water in 10 minutes. While it was really spicy, it was still good. Lesson learned though. Always follow the recipe unless you know what you are actually doing.

Yes my fashion is back. I got so many compliments on this skirt today that I was like I MUST share this with the world. The skirt is asymmetrical and neon pink. I was wearing some black gladiator sandals, but my feet were tired from walking back from class, so I took them off. I promise to deliver more fashion on the blog again and maybe even have some posts only about fashion or maybe how fashion relates to nutrition. That would be weird. I’ll figure it out.

Hope everyone had a great WIAW and has a happy thirsty thursday!

Anyone have big plans for the weekend?
What is your favorite flavor of Cheesecake?

Partying Hard (WIAW)

Hey ya’ll! It is that time of the week again. Another What I Ate Wednesday Post. I should learn how to document my food more, so I actually have more delicious food to post and less of my jibber jabber. Although I do think I’m rather funny, so I subject ya’ll to that more often than I should. Sorry, but not sorry. Anyways, all of us bloggers that participate in this lovely holiday must give it up to the wonderful Jenn for hosting and creating such a great day in the week. Without this day, I probably would not have discovered some great food items out there or met some amazing people. Plus it doesn’t hurt having people stalk your blog more. Enough with the chit chat, lets get to why ya’ll really came to my page, the food:

Baked Apple Pie Oats (Gluten Free)
1 Braeburn Apple
cinnamon
Brown Sugar
crushed walnuts
raisins
1/3 c. Gluten Free Oats
1 1/3 c. Water
1 tbsp of PB2
truvia packet
1 tsp vanilla

1. Prepare oats like the normal method of microwaving, letting sit, and refrigerating the night before.
2. The next day slice up apple into really small chunks, sprinkle with cinnamon and a pinch of brown sugar, put in a microwave safe dish, cover in plastic wrap, then microwave for 5 minutes.
3. While apples are cooling, reheat oats from the night before, then mix in a packet of sugar and a tsp of vanilla.
4. Mix in hot apple mixture, but leave some apples on the top.
5. Top with sprinkle of raisins, walnuts, a little cinnamon, PB2 and a pinch of brown sugar.

Hands down the best oatmeal combination I have come up with yet. Besides tasting good, your apartment will smell of sweet cinnamony apples. For once, I actually liked going out of my room since it smelled lovely. I definitely recommend everyone make these as soon as possible because they are life changing. If you don’t want the oats, I still suggest that you make the cooked apples because it is a super low-cal, healthy, filling, and did I mention delicious snack?

Today I went to the library to study for my Food Science final that is tomorrow. Ah. Yeah, I feel like I’m ready for it, but I just never know. I really just need to get a B on it, so I can keep my A. Enough with that. You can’t go to the library without amazing study snacks. So I brought along for the journey a bag of baby carrots, a bag of berries (strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries), and a bag of special trail mix (almonds, gluten free pretzels, and raisins). I also had two babybell light cheeses, a sugar free vanilla snackpack, and a gluten free marshmallow bar, but I crammed those in my mouth really quickly and didn’t get any pictures. Who wants to see that anyways?

My friend that went to the library with me was getting hungry for lunch, so we decided to take a break and walk all the way to Subway. I have all these giftcards there, so I am always down to get a salad with all the toppings on it. Today I got a turkey and ham salad with lettuce, onions, tomatoes, banana peppers, pickles, and regular mustard. I love subway, and I just discovered that the one we went to is open 24 hours. Hello late night munchies at like 3 am. Haha. No, I actually won’t be going to a Subway that late at night because I would rather eat something sweet or salty. After our lunch, I decided to trek all the way back to my car and go to my apartment because I had wasted 2 hours at the library chatting away and playing words with friends and hanging with friends. Damn you evil IPhone games.

I had pork chops and apple sauce for dinner. What a winning combination. I should always trust traditional southern food, but I actually have never had it before this. All I did to make my pork chops was sprinkle them with tenderizer and let them sit for about 20 minutes before tossing them into a hot pan with some oil. Let me tell you that tenderizer does some amazing tricks. I learned about this secret in my Food Science lab when we did the section on meats. It makes the meat really juicy and tender. I paired it with my famous green beans…from a can. What a perfect meal. Atleast in my mind. Totally unkosher, but thankfully I’m not religious.

Mango is on sale at the grocery store right now, so what did the Jew in me say? BUY BUY BUY. Good choice though. Not just for the pricetag, but mango is a really delicious snack to have at night. The citrus flavor definitely woke me up to study some more for my exam. The only thing is that the darn fruit is really hard to cut, which is no wonder so many people buy it already sliced and peeled in packages.

Who has had one of these before? Gluten Free, organic, super tasty. No complaints over here. One of my favorite gluten free products is this peanut butter with chocolate drizzle rice bar. Satisfies that sweettooth craving, especially when you are wanting something like a brownie or chocolate cake, but you can’t have it. I tend to go through these really quickly because they are so good. They come in 4 different flavors – wow I sound like an advertisement.

It is time for me to get off the internet, so I can get back to some last minute studying. Hope everyone had a wonderful Wednesday and good luck to all of those taking finals right now!

What are your favorite study snacks?
When are your exams, if you have any?

Top Ten Tuesday

Hey ya’ll. Hope you are having an awesome Tuesday. Lets celebrate because the week is almost over. At least for me. HA HA HA. I love that I do not have classes on Fridays. BEST. MOVE. EVER. Anyways while I was laying in bed today watching episodes of Mad Men (I know I get A’s, but I really just sit around watching tv on my computer all day – just kidding mom), and I came up with the greatest idea ever for my tuesday posts. Top Ten Lists. Lindsay, have you gone crazy? Well no because I already am, but top ten lists are epic. Seriously. Get with the program. Top ten lists were huge with my Jewish youth group, BBYO. During regional meetings or chapter meetings, you could make top ten lists about ANYTHING you wanted to be read in between segments of the meeting. Some got hilarious: Top ten reasons why we love Sheriff Horny Muffin (long story – don’t ask) or they would be serious (those people were totally lame though, didn’t know how to have a good time) or they would be just plain boring like top ten chick flicks (ummm hello we are already sitting through a boring meeting please bring some ounce of entertainment to our lives). Hit it, don’t quit it (or don’t leave my webpage, even if you think I’m a nut):

Top Ten Things You Need to Know In Order to Survive Life:

10. How to not burn the house down. Never let water splash into the pan because it will make the oil hop into the flame. Explosion. True life experience: almost burnt my house in Boston down while making dumplings. Damn those dumplings for being so good, but maybe not worth the huge flame that appeared and touched the ceiling. Now I am the master of the pan or at least I decided to live in a place with electric stove top rather than gas. I think it was a safer choice for the entire world. Anyways now I can safely make breakfasts like this:

Omelet with mushrooms, onions, and ham. Breakfast of Champions. I'm a bad Jew, now I'll probably be looked down upon. Oh well totally worth it.

9. Make sure you look at the name you are texting before you actually send the text. You really don’t want to pull a Lindsay and text the guy your dating about how much you hate one of his friends that is a girl. I mean really, saying that you can’t wait to share a bed with him, that is so tacky, especially because you had a boyfriend. BUT still read your texts because you really do not want to spend an entire two weeks trying to apologize for something that you aren’t actually sorry for. Tough life. I know.

8. Actually look at food before sticking it in your mouth. This will save you tons of medical bills and free you from intestinal pain. One night I came home to my mom’s place, and was STARVING. I could not find anything in the house until I found some bread in a plastic bag in the fridge. Hmmm sort of weird that there are only two slices in a bag in the fridge? Whatever I’m hungry. I made a sandwich. Later that night. WHERE IS MY SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT? wtf. Oh awesome I just ate your project for mold growth. Epic life fail. Life lesson: use your eyeballs.

7. Use your assets. Sorry boys, not that any read the blog, but using what god gave you is the best advantage to being a girl. For instance, make friends with the fish monger. In the end, a few minutes of meaningless flirtation, will get you amazing deals on fish. I’m a cheap Jew, we know that, so I don’t like dropping cash for fresh fish. Thankfully, I used my brain, and decided to get my flirt on at whole foods leading to this beauty and then some for a cheaper price than listed:

Salmon with a mango-coconut spread. So delicious. Just what the doctor ordered.

6. Always wear underwear to the gym or leave yourself a note to remember to bring some. I mean who really wears underwear with spandex shorts? Umm no one I know. Or maybe I’m just creepy and weird. Probably that one. The other day I was in a total rush in the morning, so guess what I forgot? My underwear. I had to go commando all day – wow, yes I just scarred you for life with my disgusting life stories – but hey I’m trying to teach you a life lesson. Some people try to pull this off as sexy? Umm no. Especially with your wearing a dress. That was not a good day. At all.

5. Watch where you are driving. More like pay attention to everything. You would think this is an obvious one, but no obviously I’m usually focused on more important things while driving. Yeah, like about how quick I can get to 6th street so I can get drunk. Not one of my better moments. I ran into my mom’s garage door. Knocking it completely off. To make it even better, my mom was out of town. I called her bf, so he came over to help me and my friend put it back up. Then I thought it was a good idea to ask him if he thought it was a good idea to go out. Yeah definitely didn’t have my brain on that night.

4. Worship your microwave. No seriously. I would be lost without it. Cue in Robin Thicke. Yes I am going to serenade my microwave because I love him so much. Yes he is a him, and he is one of the few guys that is there for me. Can you believe that some people do not know how to use a microwave? Really. How embarrassing. I think those people took too many hits on the bong. Without him, I wouldn’t be able to eat these in the morning when I’m in a rush:

Pumpkin Pie oats with banana slices, PB, GF chocolate chips, and crumbled pumpkin bar. Yeah I eat pumpkin pie oats a lot. Get over it. I don't care.

3. Learn how to manipulate paint or photoshop. Seriously this will come in so much handy. Say you need to skip lab, so you can go to New York City with the guy your dating for Valentines Day weekend? Well think of a pretty creative excuse, then get on the computer. Apparently it was my cousin Craig’s Bar Mitzvah. It was such a lovely ceremony spent on 5th avenue shopping my heart out and attending broadway shows. Weekend well spent all because of Microsoft paint which you can get on Macs:

Look at me now. I'm gettin sneaky.

2. Never mix alcohol with medication. You probably won’t do this if you are smart and actually read the labels, but you never know. Some people – cough,cough- just take pills (even sometimes with alcohol) and consume some booze later in the evening. Life lesson learned. Don’t drink a bunch of alcohol while taking dayquil. Will lead to insane pictures and stealing chocolate milk from a convenience store, but then after having a sip deciding to put it back on the shelf. Yeah, these are things I just don’t recommend doing.

Apparently licking yourself while dancing is the new thing to do.

 And the Number 1 thing you need to know in order to survive life is…………

1. Wear a condom. #duh. It is shocking how many people don’t know about STDs and getting pregnant. Really now? Use google. Great invention. Trust me, you want to use a condom because otherwise you may give birth and not even remember it. Meet my son:

I sort of wish he was actually mine. I would definitely be one proud white momma.

Hope everyone had a great day! So excited for WIAW tmmrw! Oh wait AND MY BIRTHDAY!!!! On top of that I GOT PICKED TO GO TO ISRAEL. Seriously my life is just falling in place. It is about time.

What is your advice for surviving life?
Have you ever made top ten lists?