Happy New Year's Eve!

And another year of chronicling my food intake is about to end.

Breakfast:

Oatmeal chia porridge w/blackberries & kiwifruit

30 December 2014

Breakfast:

Congee w/cabbage, green papaya & kimchee

Happy birthday, Karen!!!

Breakfast from Denica's Real Food Kitchen, Dublin, CA:

Hangover remedies!
(Woke up around 5AM without any hangover. Hurrah! Passed the time until several more people groggily woke up and decided to grab everyone breakfast and some juice. Poor, unfortunate souls  - kidding. I am just glad I did not experience one.)

Reunited at Last!

After years of electronic communication, I finally get to see a childhood friend again! And so ensues a night of debauchery.

Breakfast:

Tea, small piece of brioche

Back to the Bay Area

Morning Nibble:

Small bite of this green bean-filled sesame ball

Post-Holiday Adventures!

Brunch:

Hummus, salsa, assorted veggies, chips

Merry Christmas!

Breakfast:

Green mango core

Happy birthday, Marie!!!

Brunch:

Eggplant pizza (2)
(I love pizza, I love veggies, I love eggplant pizza. Super simple way to eat fulfill pizza cravings without feeling terrible about eating an entire pizza or waiting an hour for the pizza to get delivered.)

Happy birthday, Coleen!

Breakfast:

Banana

Back in California!

Began my first day in CA with a three mile run only to run an additional four mile loop with my cousin half an hour later. Break is great.

Brunch:

Pineapple slices, apple slices, banana slices, green beans, water spinach

NYC to LA

Breakfast:

Cinnamon tea
(One of my new favourite teas! Perfect for the holidays.)

En route to New York City

It's now a holiday tradition of mine to spend part of it in New York City, and it's a festive one. I love Shannon and her family's enthusiasm for Christmas - makes my year!

Brunch:

Cheese & & tomato sandwich, butternut squash bisque w/black pepper, roasted asparagus, mixed greens

Finals, completed!

And break is about to commence! Hurray!

Breakfast:

Black tea, quinoa oatmeal blend w/chia seeds, black sesame powder, cinnamon & pb
(Didn't finish the porridge. Had to rush to my final.)

18 December 2014

One more day until I'm free!

Lunch:

Veggie hummus wrap

17 December 2014

Breakfast:

Granola w/berries, banana slices, cinnamon, pb, almond milk, apple slices & some Dubliner cheese

16 December 2014

Brunch:

Hummus veggie wrap

15 December 2014

Breakfast:

Coffee, grapes, chocolate golden graham krispie

Statistically Square

Brunch:

Chai tea w/almond milk, assorted cereal w/chia seeds, cinnamon, dates & almond milk

Festivities with the S2 Crew

Brunch:

Assorted cereal w/dates, cinnamon & almond milk

(not) gettin' fresh

Brunch:

Banana w/pb

11 December 2014

Slept for a glorious fourteen hours. Clearly not enough, but I'll now take what I can get. 

Lunch:

Baby carrots w/hummus & black pepper

Happy birthday Caitlin and Wendy!

Love you guys, but it's also the last day of classes = SLEEP.

Lunch:

Black bean hummus tempeh wrap

Happy birthday, May!

Nearly missed another presentation... yikes. 

Brunch:

Oatmeal w/flaxseeds, cinnamon, hemp seeds & spinach

Happy birthday Sis!

I hope my sister has a better day than me, but from our conversations, that doesn't sound very likely.

Sometime-around-3AM snack:

Corn puffs

07 December 2014

Sometime-in-the-middle-of-the-night snack:

Corn puffs

06 December 2014

Breakfast:

Corn puffs, banana slices, cinnamon, pb

05 December 2014

Perils of a heavy sleeper: missing three classes, a presentation and a meeting - all without ever hearing/feeling your ten million alarms, text message notifications and neighbours' door poundings. 

I should never sleep. 

Lunch:

Hummus salad w/cayenne pepper

04 December 2014

Breakfast:

Green smoothie topped w/hemp seeds, cantaloupe, potato slices, cinnamon bun
(I really like the inside of a gooey cinnamon bun.)

03 December 2014

Elixir of Life:

Lots of coffee
(I really shouldn't be drinking so much coffee.)

02 December 2014

The days are blending together.

Sometime-in-the-middle-of-the-night snack:

Banana

01 December 2014

And the two weeks of two hours of sleep per night (on average) commences!  

Breakfast:

Quinoa porridge w/flaxseeds, cinnamon, hemp seeds & spinach, green smoothie topped w/hemp seeds, grapes

30 November 2014

Breakfast:

Black tea, cinnamon raisin bagel half w/pb, cinnamon & banana slices

29 November 2014

Breakfast:

Corn puffs, granola, banana slices, cinnamon, cayenne pepper & almond milk

Black Friday "Shopping"

Enjoying a relaxing Black Friday with Marie today!

Beverage from Ben & Bill's Chocolate Emporium, Northhampton, MA:

Sips of Marie's s'mores hot cocoa
(Very sweet, but tasted just like a s'more! Even had little graham cracker bits.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Brunch:

Vegan fruit pie
(Quite possibly the best pie I've ever tasted at Val and it was all due to the crust.)

Working at the Book Mill

As a non-humanities major, whenever I can work in a cafe-esque setting, I will take it. There's something about being surrounded by the smell of baked goods, brewed coffee, light chatter and like-minded strangers that just thrills me. And no, drab libraries with the same characteristics do not count.

Breakfast:

Cinnamon raisin bagel half w/pb, cinnamon, cayenne pepper & banana slices

Happy birthday Gino!

Thanksgiving dinner number two is happening tonight! I'm so excited.

Brunch:

Baked sweet potato w/cinnamon, cherry tomatoes, mixed greens, chickpeas w/black pepper, baby carrots, cucumber slices

24 November 2014

Brunch:

Blueberries, mixed fruit (ate a spoonful of each)

Happy birthday, Peter!

Breakfast:

1/4 veggie hummus wrap

22 November 2014

The first day of Thanksgiving break! Hurrah!

Brunch:

Black sesame tea w/almond milk

Holiday Shopping with the Gals

And the shopping season has officially begun...

Breakfast:

Banana

Thanksgiving Dinner No. 1

Val makes an amazing spread every year one week before Thanksgiving.

Breakfast:

Cantaloupe, potatoes, quinoa porridge w/hemp seeds, cinnamon & spinach

19 November 2014

Breakfast:

Honeydew melon, roasted potatoes

18 November 2014

Breakfast:

Green smoothie topped w/flaxseeds & hemp seeds (see below for description), pineapple chunks, peach muffin w/pb (didn't eat the other one)

17 November 2014

Breakfast:

Green smoothie* topped w/hemp seeds, grapes (didn't eat)

*Green smoothie: spinach, banana, mango, OJ, ice

16 November 2014

Breakfast:

Green smoothie topped w/hemp seeds (see bottom for description), roasted beets, chickpeas, baby carrots, assorted greens, brown rice w/marinara sauce & black pepper, cucumber slices

15 November 2014

Roomie Pre-Brunch at the Black Sheep, Amherst, MA:

Soy chai tea latte topped w/cinnamon
(Black Sheep now makes their own chai tea concentrates! I like this because it's slightly sweetened, although it could have used more spices. The flavour was quite masked by the soy milk.)

Pindar Field Dinner!

Emma and I are going to the Pindar Field dinner tonight, but electronic devices are frowned upon. I'm so used to taking pictures of everything I eat that I actually went on Google to find a miniature spy camera. Who have I become?!

Breakfast:

Assorted cereal w/hemp seeds, banana slices, pb & rice milk
(Went to breakfast early today, so I decided to try all the things I normally don't make time to try. I ended up only eating the banana slices and pb after a few bites of the cereal. Rice milk gets overwhelming quickly.)

13 November 2014

Breakfast:

Banana, pb, cantaloupe

12 November 2014

Breakfast:

Quinoa porridge w/spinach, cinnamon & hemp seeds, honeydew melon, roasted potatoes