Everyday is Oatmeal Day! November 1, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Snack.Tags: chocolate, coconut, goji berries, longans, mochi, pear, sesame
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Oct 26
Oatmeal #128: Mochi
- Pear, milk, flax, walnuts, cinnamon, mochi!
Reiterating: mochi!
The package my parents sent me = best thing so far this semester. 
<3
Dinner:
Oct 25
The last meal…
…before my doom aka Orgo midterm…
- cocoa, longans, milk, walnuts, flax, goji berries
+ mint tea
I wanted coffee but I didn’t think I need to be any more agitated 
Pre-midterm snack:
Free Kashi bars from the cafeteria! Got the coupon in the mail–I also got a free coffee mug! This is why living in residence is awesome
Lunch, aka, consolation meal
Pumpkin & tuna sandwich, yogurt parfait from the tuck shop~
Dinner:
Surprisingly, I was full on this…and it didn’t really even look like much~weird.
pasta salad + beans, cottage cheese + cheerios + PB, pineapple, chocolate chip cookie
Oct 24
- black sesame, goji berries, longans, coconut, walnuts, flax, milk
Catch up party! October 18, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Snack.Tags: apple, banana, cereal, coconut, juice, muesli, peanut butter, pumpkin, sesame, tea
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Don’t you love those?!
Oct. 6:
- pumpkin, Muslix cereal, cinnamon, milk, walnuts, flax
After-gym snack:
Banana, greek yogurt, brown rice–if I had some PB this would have been perfect.
Lunch:
Soup with rice, chickpeas, kidney beans, spinach, broccoli. Boringgg did not like 
Oct. 7
- Granny Smith apple, walnuts, apple juice, pumpkin
Oct. 8
- Banana & PB!, black sesame, coconut, walnuts, flax, milk
Note the use of an actual bowl and using a cup like a cup is supposed to be used! 
It was a glorious moment.
Dinner:
Vanilla [?] yogurt, cheerios, raw oats, huge loving splat of PB
Chili of some sort [vegetarian?], chickpeas, kidney beans, huge pile of broccoli. I think I went for seconds?
Oct. 9
- Lipton Apple Manor tea, pumpkin, Muslix cereal, walnuts, cinnamon, milk
The tea smells really good and tastes very cinnamon-y! It’s always awesome when I find tea that’s not bland tasting~
Lunch:
PB&B sandwich, broccoli, chickpeas, kidney beans, parmesan cheese.
That’s all I’m going to post for now ’cause I have a commerce assignment due in….10 hours?
Catch up time! October 7, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch.Tags: banana, cocoa, muesli, nectarine, sesame, yogurt
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Thursday:
This was supposed to be part of the week’s theme–but it kinda failed in that I didn’t arrange the nectarine properly so the yogurt spilled over the edges and thus failing to be parfait.
- oats, flax, cinnamon
- lots of greek yogurt
- 1 nectarine
Nothing can explain my love for this stuff. So much that I had it again next morning for breakfast:
- oats, flax
- greek yogurt, cocoa, black sesame paste[?]
- banana
I may or may not have had this with peanut butter. But if I did have peanut butter around–it definitely went into the oatmeal!
Other meals:
Oct 1: dinner
lots of beans, mushroom marinara sauce, carrots, chickpeas, lentil & spinach soup, yogurt&cottage cheese, mandarin oranges, mystery cafeteria cereal
Oct 2: lunch
Same vegetables as yesterday + parmesan, and a PB&B english muffin!
Dinner:
Vegetable soup, tortellini salad, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, edamame, and beans
Red peppers!! [the caf never has red peppers at the salad bar], chickpeas, kidney beans, cottage cheese, mystery caf cereal, applesauce, peanut butter
It was quite awesome
Some really exciting oatmeal pictures to come later!!
Oatmeal #112: Earl Grey September 22, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch.Tags: peaches, sesame, tea
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This week’s theme is tea!
Saturday’s breakfast:
Earl Grey = best tea ever.
I haven’t tried a lot of different types since I’m not a tea person, but I really like Earl Grey! It’s probably the only type of tea I can drink by itself, because it’s so flavorful that nothing else is required!
- oats, flax, walnuts
- peaches
- 1.5 tsp sesame paste powder
- 1 cup Earl Grey
- 0.25 cup milk
Yumfulness! The sesame was added for fun
I find that cooking oats with tea instead of with water gives it an awesome aftertaste! It also smells a lot more exciting
I think with my relatively limited resources and access to the grocery stores, I might start doing weekly themes instead of trying completely new combos everyday–I need to save brain space for classes!
Lunch at the caf:
Buttermilk pancake – the smallest thing ever, but SO GOOD. I break it up into pieces and eat it with the yogurt, cottage cheese, cereal, mandarin oranges, and PB–heaven!
My completely huge dinner:
clockwise from top left corner: macaroni salad with chickpeas, celery, red peppers, huge bowl of spinach, whole wheat english muffin with baba ghanoush [!!], cucumbers, and more spinach.
Doesn’t look like a lot–but I actually went back for another bowlful of spinach and some honeydew melons!
Oh, and I didn’t eat both english mufins–the one at the bottom was meant to be saved for another meal–but then I realized it was moldy and had to throw it out
Seconds:
Turkey noodle soup with my third bowl of spinach–I think I might have eaten too much by this point ’cause I felt like I was exploding
Speaking of cafeterias–the anti-food-wasting group I’m in is conducting some sort of pledge signing today in an effort to get people to pledge that they’ll stop wasting caf food! I think we’re going to try and get weekly stats so we can track our progress–but I hope the turnout is good ’cause otherwise I’d feel stupid sitting in the middle of the caf with an empty sheet of paper in front of me
Oatmeal #111: Sesame – Part III September 21, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast.Tags: apples, cereal, juice, muesli, sesame
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Friday’s breakfast:
- oats, flax, walnuts, Kellogg’s JustRight cereal
- 1 gala apple
- 0.25 cup apple juice, water
- 2 tsp black sesame paste powder
This would have made an awesome cookie or muffin flavor! I have no words to describe this combo~
Anyway, this is a pretty short entry, so just for fun, I present to you…
My chem notes! This was after I solved the problem…and then I checked the answers and realized that I am a genius.
Later!
Oatmeal #110: Sesame – Part II September 20, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Snack.Tags: almond, chocolate, goji berries, muesli, peaches, pear, sesame
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Wednesday’s Breakfast:
[wow--it's been a while since I updated!]
Contents:
- oats, flax, walnuts
- water, milk
- 1 peach
- 2 tsp black sesame paste powder
- 2 tsp almond pudding powder
The powder combo! Two very flavorful flavors combined together = exciting! Their aromas are also very prominent, so it’s like you get even more flavor via retronasal tasting or whatever that’s called!
It’s like sesame-almond ice cream….ohmgawd!
Post-gym snack:
That’s PB&B&CC! Guess what CC stands for [answer at end of entry!]
Thursday:
Haven’t had pears in a while–so I used some! I really really need to go back to cooking my oats so I can mash the pears like I did before! As convenient as muesli is, you start to miss cooked oats after a bit~
Contents:
- oats, flax, walnuts
- water & milk
- 1 pear, 2 tbsp goji berries
- 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa
Dinner:
Peach yogurt & cottage cheese & apple & shreddies & PB! Very exciting mix of flavors, aka my new addiction–have been eating this everyday!
And if you haven’t guessed…CC = cottage cheese!
Aah I’ve been headaching all morning D: I’m inclined to blame it on the fact that I had tea instead of coffee this morning…but I normally have like…half a cup of coffee??? So would missing that really have this much of an effect…?
Oatmeal #108: Sesame September 15, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Dinner, Snack.Tags: apples, coconut, sesame
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Yesterday’s breakfast:
Contents:
- oats, flax, walnuts
- water, milk
- 1 apple
- 1 tsp coconut
- 2 tsp black sesame paste powder
I got the instant kind…but I think what the paste actually is, is just ground sesame + water + sugar–very thick and awesome! Just two tsp in the oats gave me plenty of flavor–although the sweetness wasn’t noticeable, the apples took care of that problem, so it wasn’t a big deal!
You can’t see it in this picture, but the oats were kinda gray-ish ’cause of the hue of the sesame–it sounds gross, but as you can see from the picture, it’s not gray enough to actually be gross!
Post-run snack:
The gym doesn’t open til 9 a.m. on weekends! How frustrating. So I went out for a run instead
Anyway, in clockwise direction started from top left: mocha [nestle hot chocolate mix + instant columbian coffee + milk], fruit salad from the caf [I ate half the container before I snapped the pic I wanted to save it for the oatmeal--but I was too hungry!], and almond crackers.
Dinner:
To the left: PB&J sandwich with cucumber and spinach. [there's PB on the outside of the top piece of bread 'cause I spread the jam on the wrong side of the bread!]
To the right: entree Greek salad I bought from the university center tuck shop. That was the first time I’ve ever tried feta cheese–not much flavor! I was disappointed. But the salad filled me up, so that was quite good
Got my stats class in an hour, and then my day is over and I can have dinner! Yay
