LOOK!
No, this isn’t MY breakfast. It’s Andrew’s. And he made it HIMSELF.
It’s a homemade waffle spread with natural peanut butter, topped with banana slices and a drizzle of real maple syrup.
Me thinks my favorite breakfasts might be catching on…
Blog post from our camping trip yesterday coming later today (fun, but man–is it a ton of work when you get home!). Happy Monday!
Yesterday was pretty darn good.
Let’s just say that one of the first things Emily and I discussed when we met up for lunch yesterday was cupcakes. She was jonesing for one, and I knew just the place 🙂 Emily had never been to East Aurora before, so we’ve been meaning to have an ‘East Aurora date’ for awhile now. Thankfully, we were blessed with some of the best weather of the year and freedom from school schedules. We ate lunch outside at Arriba, walked all over the village, got iced coffees at Taste and popped into Vidler’s. To close our fun-filled day, we made our way to Firefly, where I tried the ‘Trevoreo’ and she got the Key Lime. Heaven, I tell you.
As usual, I’m wishing I’d taken photos so I could blog about everything, but thankfully this time someone else did it for me! Emily is also a blogger (and dietetics student at Buff State), so click here to check out our day!
And as if I hadn’t had enough blissful enjoyment of quaint East Aurora for one day, Andrew and I dined on the patio at Rick’s on Main to celebrate my semester well done. If only we’d had room for Kone King on our way out of town…
We’re prepping for a last-minute camping trip tonight with Andrew’s friends from work (which has thrown me into a tizzy that I’m trying to shake off as we speak), and looking forward to spending some quality time together on my first Saturday with no school!
This is what happens when Holly goes to Wegmans for ‘a few things:’
Hey, at least it’s all healthy, right? Just LOOK at all those colors!
HAD to get:
-bananas and spinach (only one left in the house–yikes!)
-cottage cheese (I have a cut-up pineapple in the fridge just begging to be paired with it)
-avocado (remember all those Julio’s chips Andrew shipped home??)
-strawberries (because I’ve waited all winter long for them)
-red pepper and sugar snap peas (homemade hummus is in the fridge as we speak–or type, rather)
-wheat germ (for a bread recipe)
-frozen blueberries and a lemon (for a muffin recipe and because berries are expensive enough)
-deli ham and light swiss (Andrew’s gotta have lunch tomorrow…)
OK, I’ll admit, I totally got sucked into the Nature’s Market section (like I ever DON’T?) and some SALES caught my eye…
…like this one for Health Valley Organic cereal bars and ‘pop tarts.’ It was $1 off each, and the blueberry was just calling to me. (Blueberry totally has been these days! I already made a plan to make Ellie Krieger’s blueberry muffins this weekend…) I figured Andrew would like the strawberry bars and I could mix some warmed ‘toaster tarts’ into our morning breakfast routine.
And then there was the sale on granola:
It was $1 off, too! In my defense, we’ve been out of granola for awhile now and I said to myself (out loud, of course) that I should get some more soon. I initially saw the ‘vanilla blueberry with flax seeds’ (there is that blueberry again) variety and grabbed it, only to then see the ‘maple walnut with chia and quinoa’ and ‘oat and honey WITH COCONUT’ flavors… There was just no deciding between them. At least they’ll last awhile…
Side note: Some of you are probably wondering why I would BUY this stuff when I can make it all myself, which I actually enjoy doing. A couple reasons:
1. I’m EXHAUSTED, and surprisingly busy. I’ve been catching up on random stuff since finishing up with school, as well as tackling a bunch of things that popped up, like arranging summer travel plans and working out a new gym routine.
2. I don’t really enjoy cooking in this kitchen. It sounds bad, but it’s true. Until I have ‘my’ kitchen, it just isn’t the same.
3. I’m starting The Hunger Games soon (maybe this weekend!), which will consume me for however long it takes to read them all. Andrew, I apologize in advance–I’ll make sure we’re stocked up on the unhealthy food you insist on eating when I don’t cook. Or maybe not.
4. The bright colors and yellow SALE tags caught my eye. (Hey, I’m just being honest.)
5. And lastly, I am (unfortunately) about to become just as busy as before. My summer online class starts in a little more than a week and I already took a look at the online info… It looks INTENSE, to say the least. Fantastic.
So yeah, despite ending school, I won’t be found in the kitchen too much just yet…
OK, back to groceries….
The Justin’s was on sale ($6.99 instead of $8.99… still pricey, but oh, so good!) and I’ve been eyeing this Cinnamon Raisin Swirl variety EVERY TIME I GO TO WEGMANS. EVERY TIME. I pulled the trigger today–why not? Kath eats almond butter on her carrots sometimes, and ever since I saw one of those photos I’ve been intrigued to try it. I thought the Justin’s would be the perfect accompaniment for some carrot sticks. (Oh, have I told you all I’m eating raw carrots now? I went my whole life HATING them, and then all of a sudden, they’re fine. What’s with that?)
And this guy was hiding behind all the store-bought goodness the whole time…
Beautiful, wonderful-smelling homemade bread. What better with which to pair the new cinnamon raisin peanut butter??
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