Week Five: What's on the menu?

This week I needed to prep easy things.  Saturday I had a massage, and Sunday was my husband's birthday and we were having dinner at his parents house.  This limited my time for kitchen prep.

Banana Coconut Quinoa Muffins

I decided to try something new for breakfast this week since I was getting really bored with oatmeal every day.  I baked up some Banana Coconut Quinoa muffins from a recipe I found on Pinterest.  They turned out so good! And they're super easy to grab and go in the morning.  Yumm!

I decided to repeat the broccoli salad from last week for lunches, and opted to recreate the chili from week one for dinner - but added lots and lots of mushrooms.  Both turned out really well, and were really easy to put together this weekend with limited time.

I also thought it would be good to remake my chocolate haystack cookies from last week as my daily snack.  They were so good.  Unfortunately, the store didn't have any coconut palm sugar so I used raw cane sugar instead (thinking nothing would be different) but they turned out really bad!  They almost taste burnt, didn't stick together at all, and left me with a big heap of chocolate granola, basically.  I won't make that mistake again.  Who knew sugars could be so different, and yield such different results!

~ Alisa ~