Quickie blog POST that is… Haha… I KNEW I grabbed ya with that title! 
Good morning blog buds! Another Monday morning is upon us. And another weekend of snow is behind us. We had a FOOT of snow over the weekend.
I am off to the dentist in about 15 minutes, so I’ll be typing like mad to get this published before I head out. Cross your fingers for me that I have NO cavities!
Yesterday morning brought a super late breakfast. I got busy doing things and then ate a little too late. You know that feeling when you go from hungry to famished to a little shaky and then full-on raging BEE-YOTCH?? It happens so quickly! 
So I tried to quiet the monster with a little breakfast tostada action. While my breakfast wrap from the other morning was fab, THIS one was NOT a keeper.
Post-40-minute-treadmill green smoothie (still using that bag of cranberries!)
Post-snowblowing butternut squash soup (which is now all gone…. I’m so SAD!) I added a little sprinkle of cinnamon and a bit of orange zest, and BAM! It was EVEN BETTER!
Later some pseudo-healthful gingerbread men… no transfats or HFCS. But still flour and sugar nonetheless. Luckily the boxes are TINY!
With a little almond milk in my very appropriate snowflake mug…
Healthy popcorn with nutritional yeast during one of the worst movies of the year (G.I. JOE… sorry Channing Tatum, I think you’re great, but the movie was SO bad we had to stop halfway through because we started to feel our brains rotting…)
And a little GARBANZO action for dinner! We’ve officially decided that we are off of our Garbanzo kick for a while. We just don’t like our falafel char-fried. There is a new place (whose name escapes me at the moment) that serves similar food. We’ll try that next and compare their falafel.
I hope that you all had a SMASHING weekend!
Today’s discussion: I picked up a new Kindle book yesterday (well new to me, but not NEW new.) It’s called Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. So far it talks a lot about nutrient-dense foods being the mainstay of our diets (hey, sounds a lot like what I’ve been aiming to do!) Have any of you read it and/or apply his principles?
See you again soon!
– Shari B. =)
#1 by Sammi on November 16, 2009 - 5:47 pm
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Crossing my fingers for no cavities! Is it bad that I don’t actually know what is in a falafel? lol. Must look that up.
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#2 by Shari B. on November 17, 2009 - 1:38 pm
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Hey Sammi… falafel is a middle eastern food made from chickpeas (and other things I’m sure) then shaped into a ball and fried. LOVE THEM. But I like to make them at home because then I can bake them instead of fry them!
#3 by tray on November 16, 2009 - 9:41 am
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never read teh book, but let me know how it is!
i wish i could make smoothies! i lack a blender!
good luck with the dentist! i’m sure you got beautiful pearly whites!
#4 by Shari B. on November 17, 2009 - 1:37 pm
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Tray, you need to ask Mr. Claus for a blender! You’d LOVE green smoothies!
#5 by Cindy on November 16, 2009 - 8:31 am
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my stomach growled all last night and now I am HUNGRY. I hate being this hungry and at work. no way to make a perfectly filling breakfast…just mow down what I brought.
how’s your smoothie? tart or okay?
Haven’t seen G I Joe but we watched land of the lost and it was dumb.
I have not heard about that book, at all. is it good?
a work friend just loaned me The great american detox diet that I am about to crack open.
well, I am off to find a snack!
hope the dentist visit goes well.
#6 by Shari B. on November 17, 2009 - 1:37 pm
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Hi Cindy!
My smoothie is not tart much at all actually. I made another one yesterday with about 3/4 cup cranberries, small banana and a mango, alongside the usual greenery. It was really good! I feel so antiviral!
So far the book in interesting. Nothing terribly new, other than he’s not a fan of even healthy oils and would like to see olive oil minimized. I’m not sure I can give up my flax and hemp oils… yet.