It's All Fun and Games, Until Someone Forgets to Put the Overnight Oats in the Fridge!

This week I spent five hours in the kitchen preparing my food for the week. The five hours resulted in my adding a food chopper to my already lengthy Christmas wish list!  I also may need to buy shares in cashews. Holy expensive just to blend into nothingness.

Creamy Broccoli Soup

The first item on the menu this week is another recipe from Eat to Live Quick and Easy.  I decided to try the Creamy Broccoli Soup mostly because the ingredients sounded super healthy - kale, turnip and broccoli. Well... it tastes about as good as it sounds (especially if you share my "kale is a devil weed" opinion... bleh!).  I just keep repeating in my head "this is healthy.. this is healthy"... but it does not taste good.

Tu-no Casserole

The second recipe was another from Forks Over Knives for a Tu-no Casserole.  I had high hopes for this one with it being a pasta base... but it is very "meh."  There's a lot of chickpeas, and that may add to the blandness of it all.  It also didn't help that I  couldn't find the kelp powder to add, which would have given it the tuna flavour... or any flavour.  I'm not sure I'll make this one again unless I can find the kelp powder.

Overnight Oats

For this week's breakfast, I decided to try overnight oats in order to make my mornings even easier.  I put the oats, chia seeds, and almond milk in the fridge at night and then in the morning add strawberries and walnuts.  Unfortunately, this requires some forethought the night before, otherwise you wake up in the morning to thoughts of "oh crap, what am I going to eat now?"... like I did this morning!  A little improvising resulted in a cooked version (minus the chia seeds) of this week's breakfast.  I think I actually enjoyed it more... because cold chia seeds remind me of eating fish eggs might be like... yuck.

"Oops I Forgot to Cook the
Overnight Oats" Oats

On my way home tonight, I stopped at Walmart to pick up a prescription.  I was so excited to see they were selling So Delicious Holiday Nog.  I absolutely LOVE egg nog.  It's one of my favourite things about Christmas and something I look forward to each year.  It was so tasty.  It doesn't taste exactly like egg nog, but close enough and way less fat and calories.

I also found a dark chocolate almond bar that classifies as vegan.  I picked one up just to try a single piece, and then pass the rest to my husband.  Passing it over was no problem.  I don't know if my taste buds have changed already, but it was gross.  It tasted like chemicals, and left a really bad aftertaste.

Tomorrow will be a test for me.  My colleague and I are presenting a lunch and learn, and we are ordering Domino's Pizza.  It's my absolute favourite kind of pizza.  Hopefully, I will resist.  I'm certainly enjoying the thin feeling and the weight loss (another two pounds down today).  Wish me luck!

~ Alisa ~