Oatmeal # 46: Earth Day Oats! June 19, 2008
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If only I had thought of this on Earth Day!
peas, blueberries, peanuts, wheat germ, soy milk
Along with a cup of coffee and some bananas! Had this on Tuesday. I tried to create a miniature Earth with the peas and berries…and evidently I failed 😀 As you can see, I have a lot of time on my hands!
I got the idea to put peas in my oatmeal ’cause I was eating some and was thinking how sweet they were and how they taste similar to blueberries [well…now that I think about it…not really!] so I decided it’d be fun to have it with my oatmeal! And now I’m definitely hooked.
Went for a one-hour walk before lab. Then came back and had a snack:
all-bran, raspberries, blackberries
I’m almost out of blackberries! Now I have to wait for them to go on sale again before I can have any! But I rarely eat them anyway, so that’s okay 😀
My exciting packed lunch:
Top container: potatoes, mixed frozen veggies, parmesan cheese, sunflower seeds
Bottom left: plain yogurt, raspberries, blueberry-cherry jam
Bottom right: strawberries, vegan cornbread
And I didn’t end up bringing the apple–big mistake! But oh well~I ate it with dinner instead, which was the same bowl of curry, except without the salmon this time ’cause I didn’t cook any!
Oatmeal #41: Kiwi – Part IV June 13, 2008
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kiwi, blueberries, pumpkin, cocoa, sugar, wheat germ, milk
Yesterday’s breakfast…aka dinner number two because my allergies [among other things] kept me up so much that in the end I just gave up and got up. And since I was cranky, I threw in the cocoa 
Yesterday’s post-run snack:
apples, all-bran, wheat germ
I love this stuff 😀 If it weren’t for my love of oatmeal, I’d have it for breakfast everyday!
Lunch:
In the small bowl: Baked beans & frozen veggies
In the bigger bowl: scrambled eggs, carrots, rye bread, mushrooms, and blackberries! It was interesting and awesome 😀
More fruity meals:
I threw in some frozen blueberries into my dinner yesterday–it turned my pasta purple–it was fun!
It could have been a dessert in itself 😀
Oatmeal #40: Grapes June 12, 2008
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grapes, blueberries, corn, wheat germ, milk
Yesterday’s pre-run oatmeal–look at all the dots and circles in the bowl! 😀
It goes without saying that the combo was absolutely delish! It was so sweet and crunchy and creamy–heaven! Too bad I’ve eaten the whole bag of grapes 😦
the three primary colors all in one bowl!
Post-run snack:
Kiwi and all-bran
Yummeh!
For lunch, I went with a friend to this place called the Panda Garden–it’s a buffet place that serves asian food. It was so good. For one thing, they had sushi–’nuff said!
Of course, I stuffed my face So much that all I craved for dinner was an apple:
I threw in some potato slices, grapes, and carrots just so it wouldn’t be such a pitiful meal 😛 But oooh man the lunch was gooood.
Experiment #35: Mangoes June 7, 2008
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Yesterday’s oatmeal:
mango, blueberries, walnuts, soy nuts, milk
Have I ever mentioned how much I like colors?
On another note–one mango either doesn’t seem to yield much, or I’m not cutting it properly…there’s this large chunk in the middle I couldn’t cut through….and the process was really messy, although I didn’t really mind ’cause it tasted good 😀
Contrasting shades are awesome and tasty!
For lunch, leftover polenta!
The one to the right is topped with baked beans and frozen veggies, the one on the left is topped with chicken breast…only the flavor of the chicken wasn’t enough so I turned it into ham & cheese polenta:
yay flavors!
For dessert, plain yogurt flavored with coffee and cherry-blueberry jam:
A new flavor of yogurt is born!
For dinner: the bag of brussel sprouts I bought yesterday morning!
Haven’t had those in ages so I was so excited! [It seems like I haven’t had a lot of food in ages…what the hell am I doing to myself?!] They’re so filling it’s amazing~ 😀
Anyway, I made“sushi” using two pieces of rye bread, zucchini, and rice vinegar…as you can see…my craving for japanese food has turned my imagination upside down..
Breakfast Challenge: Last Day! June 5, 2008
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Breakfast
Breakfast in the Philippines and PB & B
strawberry&banana “champorado”, peanut butter & banana
Made some adjustments to the chocolate rice ’cause I have no sweet rice–just regular rice. And I wanted colors!–hence the fruits I was so excited to have this ’cause I haven’t eaten this in ages–even though it doesn’t taste the same–chocolate is chocolate! 😀
Now I know how to make chocolate milk!
Went for a run about an hour and a half after my breakfast [plus some peanut butter :-P] Wasn’t as energized as I would have liked…I think it may have been the peanut butter…or maybe just my motivation problems~but at least I got through it 😀
Baked beans over rye bread toast
Before lunch, I did some baking!
coffee granola!
I only added half a teaspoon of coffee powder for 1 cup of granola–couldn’t really taste the coffee, but smells like it 😀 Although I should have baked them longer than 17 minutes next time…either that or turn up the heat on the oven 
Lunch
Polenta & potato scone cereal
I broke up two potato scones and ate it as cereal because I can I liked it, of course! But needed more than 1/4 cup of milk, that’s for sure.
I also cut up the polenta I made yesterday and ate it as “cake”–with yogurt & cherry-blueberry jam filling! Made for messy eating, and the flavor was a little plainer than expected…so next time I’m just going to just chop up the polenta and throw it in a giant pool of yogurt 😀
Dinner
Soup & Instant Cereal
Blueberry-blackberry “soup” topped with some of the coffee granola I made before lunch. Wasn’t too sweet at all–it would have made a great dessert–but I couldn’t wait that long so it became entree
And so for “dessert”: instant cereal packet [with lots of water added–’cause it’s always too sweet] with chopped apples thrown in.
Soup’s done!
And so is the breakfast challenge! 😦
It’s been fun, sugary, and peanut-buttery. 😀 This is definitely going to become a tradition! And shoutout to Jenn for doing this challenge with me! Now if I can convert some of my offline friends to breakfast-ism…
Breakfast Challenge: Day 4 June 4, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast Challenge.Tags: blackberries, blueberries, chocolate, strawberries, walnuts
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Breakfast
Mocha berries
Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, sugar, coffee powder, cocoa, 1% milk
Three different kinds of berries! How exciting is that? Sad news is that I used up the last of my strawberries 😦 Have to wait til Friday til I can see what type of fruits I can get for sale price!
Anyway~coffee & chocolate & fruits definitely go together! And the berries look so bright & colorful against the chocolae-coffee oatmeal!
Couldn’t stop staring that that very blue blueberry!
Forgot to add the walnuts when the first picture was taken 😛
Lunch
Italian breakfast
I made polenta! Was so excited for this ’cause I went on a 1 hour 20 minute walk [back and forth :D] for a bag of cornmeal just so I could experience the wonders of polenta
After 40 minutes of hardcore stirring!
Not sure how much water to add so I kept adding the water til 40 minutes was over Guess now that I’ve had the full polenta experience, I can just use the low heat trick from now on!
Apparently Austrians eat polenta for breakfast too!
Polenta with milk, apples, and a little bit of sugar. Plus 2 potato scones [I went for seconds 😀 ] with plain yogurt & jam!
Dinner
Pain au chocolat & pumpkin pie rice
Finished the day off with my own version of the french chocolate sandwich–using banana and cocoa powder, spread over a piece of toasted rye bread [they were on sale]! Was too lazy to get a new spoon to scoop the cocoa powder with so I made a mess 😛
Had my meal with a cup of Bolthouse Farms vanilla chai drink mixed with water.
The pumpkin pie rice [topped with all-bran & soy nuts as the “crust”] wasn’t as sweet as I hoped…so I threw in the bananas left over from the chocolate bread 😀 Was a very filling meal! Although I think I’m going to take a short hiatus from pumpkin for a while!
Tomorrow’s the last day of the challenge! Can’t believe it’s almost over already–the five days are just flying by!
Breakfast Challenge: Day 3 June 3, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast Challenge.Tags: blueberries, egg, pumpkin, walnuts, zucchini
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Breakfast
Japanese breakfast
Since I like japanese food so much, I decided to have breakfast in japanese style–rice, fish, green tea, and miso soup! Of couse, I don’t have all the resources available to make it a traditional breakfast…like natto and pickled veggies…and I didn’t grill my fish ’cause I don’t have a grill! 😛 I also used instant miso soup packets.
But yar anyway, it was really strange eating things like soup and fish for breakfast! I guess it’s a refreshing change from the sweet stuff I normally eat 😀 And the rice tasted so good–I seasoned it with rice vinegar and some japanese rice seasoning~can’t wait to make it again!
Lunch
Scottish breakfast
Potato scones! Although I did alter the recipe slightly and opted for baking instead of pan frying ’cause my baking sheet is so much easier to wash than an oily pan!
Before baking:
After baking:
Guess the next time I use a recipe that calls for pan frying when I’m baking, I should add more flour! The scones were quite mushy even after I flipped them over and sprinkled more flour on them to bake~they were delicious though 😀 But they tasted more like cake than scones!
I had two slices with peanut butter and jam, and on the side I had half a cup all-bran cereal with milk and chopped pears mixed in!
Dinner
Experiment #33: Veggie Oatmeal – Part II
Pumpkin, blueberry, zucchini, egg, walnuts, 1% milk, cinnamon, ground ginger, sugar
The bowl smelled predominantly of cinnamon–I find that once you add cinnamon to a dish, the smell covers everything else. Not that it’s a bad thing–but I never noticed it til now! And I didn’t even add that much cinnamon! Weird~
I’ve been looking forward to this all day, ’cause I don’t usually cook oatmeal on stove top, and if I do, I don’t throw in the fruits to cook! So that was kinda cool 😀 Tried tons of new things today!
Experiment #30: TBA May 30, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Breakfast Challenge, Dinner, Lunch, Non-Oatmeal Stuff, Snack.Tags: blueberries, potatoes, walnuts
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Guess the secret ingredient!
Hint: it’s not really that much of a secret 😛
Could actually hardly taste the ingredient, actually–’cause it’s so similiar to oatmeal! The bowl smelled really good–kinda like rice, but with a little extra something 😀
The peach and blueberries gave the bowl a good amount of sweetness, but I think it would have been even better with either more sugar or some bananas!
For yesterday’s dinner, I had pasta again! I heart le spaghetti:
zucchini, onions, black beans, carrots, broccoli, Red Wine & Herb sauce
This morning I went on another 20 minute run by the lake and the neighborhood! Did it all without stopping, and by the end I still had a good amount of energy left–so I ran the rest of the way home 😀 I had a banana and finished off my tub of yogurt:
Complete with cherries [at the second layer] and strawberries!
And tonight, I cooked eggplants for the very first time!
I bought them ’cause they were on sale and I’ve been wanting to eat it for a long time. So while I was at the lab I decided to google up some stuff about eggplants and found out that apparently it’s got nicotine in it and I was like…crap. 😛 So I got nervous and looked up a bunch of stuff about how to prepare and cook it…and most of the sites said you had to salt, rinse, and then pat them dry–so that’s what I did, except I got overly excited with the salt
Oh! Bergine!
Baked them for about 15 minutes ’cause I wanted to make sure they were cooked! They tasted nice and chewy. Could have done with less salt though! But I liked it 😀 Had 2 small slices of it with my dinner:
white&brown rice with rice vinegar, broccoli, carrots, onions, black beans, eggplants, zucchini
With 0.25 cup of some vanilla chai drink [my housemate bought it] mixed with water ’cause it was really sweet
Breakfast Challenge: Update
Start date has been postponed to Sunday because of reasons 😀 But this works out great for me since I’m not really sure how I could have incorporated all that eggplant I made into breakfast anyway! [I could put them in oatmeal…but the amount of salt I had going on in the eggplant would have tasted really weird with fruits and other things! Maybe someone with a more adventurous palate than I can try it and tell me how that works out ]
Experiment #27: Eggs – Part II May 26, 2008
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Eggs, corn, peaches, banana, 2% milk
Had this yesterday.
I bought peaches & bananas on Friday! I was so excited to have the two most awesomest fruits in the world in my house at the same time that I had to throw them in together in my oats XD
Super creaminess!
I’ve actually never had bananas with oatmeal before [I know! What the hell, right?]–so it was interesting 😀 I think this fruit is made to go with oatmeal! Actually, I think bananas go well with anything–just like oatmeal goes well with everything! XD
Yesterday at lunch I tried a new sandwich filling:
Bean sprouts!
It was pretty good…although as much as I tried to prevent it from making the bread soggy by sandwiching it between the cheese and cucumbers…it wasn’t enough…it was a very messy, but tasty lunch!
Even more bean sprouts:
Veggies & beans with Classico Red Wine & Herb pasta sauce!
I’m almost done the bag my mom bought! I’ve been having bean sprouts every single day ’cause it’s a huge bag and wasting food is bad 😀 I’m also well on my way to finishing the tomatoes–only 1.5 more to go! I don’t really like cooked tomatoes, so I ate them raw and boiled everything else.
And this morning I decided to continue working on the tub of pumpkin I still have left…’cause I’ve had this for at least a month now and I’m not really sure how long I can keep canned pumpkin for… 😯
Strawberries, blueberries, 2% milk, pumpkin, sugar, walnuts
I used 1/2 cup of oats this morning ’cause 0.33 cup just isn’t enough! And I wanted to go for a run after I went to the lab at 7 a.m. so I decided to have a bigger breakfast 😀 I think I’m going to use half a cup from now on!
My run today was good–haven’t ran in a while, so I started easy–20 minutes in total [split into four blocks of 5 minutes, with a one minute walking break in between] by the lake and then back home. I want to get back to running again so I’m going to aim for going at least twice a week! Hope I’ll be able to keep this up!
Experiment #26: Eggs – Part I May 24, 2008
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strawberries, egg, blueberries, sugar, 2% milk
My dad actually introduced me to the idea of cooking an egg with my oats a few years ago! I used Quaker’s large oatmeal flakes ’cause they take longer to cook, and I figured the amount of time it would take to cook the oats would match the time it took the egg.
Anyway–I’d forgotten exactly how awesome this tasted! The egg + milk combo made the oats even more creamy than usual! I could eat ten bowls of this.
I’ve never had Babybel cheese before…a lot of people seem to have this for lunch from what I see around the web, so I wanted to see what the big deal was–plus these were on sale 😛
Funky!
It tastes like mozzarella…
Since I was one of the volunteers at this event my school’s hosting, I got free food! I basically went to the BBQ, sat down to eat like…4 slices of watermelons, then packed up the burger [hence the soaked napkin 😛 ] and ran back to the lab for more work 😛
Veggie patty, lettuce, tomatoes
The veggie patty was good! Day-um
Yesterday’s dinner:
Salmon & lemon juice, bean sprouts, sunflower seeds, onions, garlic, tomatoes, celery, rice balls
I finished the last of mom’s rice balls & celery yesterday! Am slowly reducing my stash of leftovers–whoo!
Today’s dinner:
A mix of brown & white rice–yum! Haven’t had rice in so long since I’d been eating rice balls in place of rice! I tried to make tomato pesto with garlic, parmesan, and sunflower seeds, but ended up with tomato sauce 😛 Still good though–and that’s what matters 😀
The Oatmeal Experiment 
