Monday and Sunday recap

I started writing this Monday:

What started as a potentially nice day somehow got the best of me. Or I let it. I am really struggling friends. I don't know what it was, but TRY AS I MIGHT I could not find the stay power to turn things around. I ended up leaving work, avoiding uncomfortable conversation, majorly over-eating to the point I felt sick and feel overwhelmed. Where did this suddenly come from? I think I need sleep and a holiday. My friend is on his way to grab me to go to Planet Organic and maybe Iron Man 2. I don't really feel like seeing it NOW but need to get out.

Let's start from Sunday:

 I went to the T&T's to load up on SOY SAUCE and my Watson Shiritaki Noodles (20 noodles, 1 jug of lite soy) and also left with 2 packs of this awesome GRAPE AND HONEY MELON sugar free gum! I also got to cute kids stir spoons with Monkey's on them!

24 packs of Shirataki noodles.

Sugar Free Grape AND Honey Melon Gum

 

My Gum, monkey spoons all on a sheet of Nori. I'm classy like that!

I had to take a picture. Essence of Chicken? With Cordyceps. I use Cordyceps (mushroom for energy and stamina)... I found this so funny for some reason.

We made it to the 'wholesale place' to grab my radishes and I found this SUNSPUN huge tuna can funny. It looks SOO GHETTO!! Ocean's looks so nice as compared to their packaging.

Walmart was a FAIL- they had NO MANN'S produce packs at all. No Rainbow Coleslaw, Broccoli Slaw, Broccoli and Cauli etc. I got a White Board and found the LAST PACK OF THE NEW STRIDE MYSTERY GUM IN THE STORE!!! IT tastes like RAINBOW Sherbet!!!

After we went to Safeway, where I got more Crystal Light, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Bell Peppers, Tuna, Green Onions etc.

Last stop was Arirang (Korean Market) for Seaweed 100sheet packs and Community Natural Foods for MUSTARD!!!!! (YES I HAVE A SEVERE PROBLEM! ha ha)

This morning I had my first 'stress binge' in a LONG time. I realize it was 'only' Egg Cakes ( psyllium, egg whites, sweet and low, cinnamon and microwave for 1 min) but I literally went through a whole container of egg whites. I slathered them in Walden Farms Sugar Free Jam, and Walden Farms Pancake Syrup.

 This takes us to the top of this post *today.

We ended up x-naying Iron Man and went to Chapters' where I got my lap top upgraded to 1.215 GB, new virus protection and 3 books! I don't often talk about books on this blog but I am an AVID reader. I found a book I had on my wish list since I saw it reviewed on the Globe and Mail Saturday Edition a long time ago!! I happened to look down (totally forgot about the book!) and it was in clearance for $6.99 from $26.99 because it was hard cover (Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins)! I also got the LAW OF ATTRACTION on CD, and Maarten J Troost's 'The Sex Lives Of Cannibal's" (it's not what you think- travel literature). YAY. I also did a quick Superstore run, where I grabbed a 4pack of Red Bell Peppers, THREE WALDEN FARMS CALORIE FREE STRAWBERRY JAMS AND 1 WALDEN FARMS CHOCOLATE DIP! I ALSO FINALLY GOT THE NEW SALSA!!

Not sure if you guys remember me whining about how I LOVE their new Extra Chunky President's Choice Salsa, but the NEW RECIPE (sans sugar) only came in the small jars. Every week I would check to see if the new ones were out in the JUGS (1.89L) but they kept replenishing the old ones. Monday they finally had BOTH (it wasn't there on Sunday!):

After that excitement we booked it to Costco to grab another pack of Celery!

These are the AMAZING spices/seasonings I was tell you guys about on Saturday. They are by Aromatica Organic's the new ones they added to Costco are (so far): Vegetable, Seafood, and Garlic Pepper!

I am getting the Vegetable Seasoning Next!

Very Exciting- I decided to grab the Grape Flavoured UnderWAY!

Mock me all you want- no I do not believe it will make me 'lose weight' nor am I convinced of the web sites founder's HERO FIBER. Check it out HERE. http://www.under-way.com/ What I like is that it tastes like a melted grape Popsicle- thick. It's thickened with Vegetable Glycerin and I admit it really helped hydrate me! It is not watery at all. REVIEW TO COME!

That concludes Monday. I did stop at Safeway and get 4 Mann's Broccoli Slaw's and 2 rain checks because they were out of stock and on sale for $0.99!!

Sunday recap, PROTEIN ICE CREAM picture overload and GRAIN mustard lovin'

Happy Monday Honey Bunnies! (appropriate post-Easter)?

How is everyone doing? I loved reading what everyone did for Easter! I really love every one's families! If anyone wants a sister, I am open to adoption! ha ha. I will do a quick recap of yesterday because my pictures wouldn't load last night!

After yesterday's morning recap post and wicked workout (which in case you missed was 70min of solid cardio) I ran home, blogged about Saturday and started on my breakfast/shake/dessert/lunch combo. I started with my 4Fiber pudding and Proti Ice cream goodness! I cannot tell you how AMAZE the Protein Ice cream was! I was trying to capture how GLASSY/Glossy and creamy it looked (hence the multiple pictures in various angles-horrible lighting!)

I made lunch to go with this which was so good! Rainbow salad with 340g Cauliflower, 460g mushrooms, 2 bags radishes, 2 red bell peppers and my homemade Alfredo/curry dressing (green curry paste with Walden Farms Alfredo and tons of spices all microwaved together!) and topped with GRAIN MUSTARD with blueberry syrup! TOO good!

I love eating!

After my friend picked me up and we headed to the Pacific Asian Market to T&T's to grab some Shirataki noodles and peruse the condiment section. BEHOLD Kraft Philippines:

Yes kids, this is Kraft Cheeze Whiz Filipino style!

After we headed to Superstore to grab another storage container, 4 cans of green beans, and 2 more SALSA's!! I grabbed the new Extra Chunky Hot from Presidents Choice (this link is for their
OLD recipe- the new one doesn't have sugar) and ANOTHER 2L Medium Salsa TUB! Next we RUSHED to 'my' Safeway because they were all closing @ 6pm for Easter. The produce was horrible but since the awesome Produce man (TED) loves me he ALWAYS brings me fresh product! I got Red Bell Peppers, Vine Tomatoes, and more mushrooms!! I also grabbed what I came for which was Mann's Rainbow Salad (tastes better that the Broccoli slaw) (totally on sale and cheaper than Walmart for once!) so I grabbed 6 more to last me until the end of week.
Check out my SHROOMS! I put it on my dirty entry way by the BULLET EXPRESS BOX for comparison sake:




I also finally got my SLOW COOKER! I couldn't find the Silver/Black colored version but this one will be perfect! Mine LOOKS like THIS in terms of COLOR (or you can just look on the picture on the box in the above pic- sorry, I totally didn't realize that)!  Great reviews, and 4Qt's. I wanted to grab the 3-3.5Qt size but didn't find a good one I liked.


Also, many of you MAY have not believed me when I referred to buying bulk size mustard and copious amount of canned green beans and non perishables:


Those black topped bottles? Walden Farms dressings, and yes that is sleeves of Crystal Light in those bags! I was carting it into my storage room. This is also the BIG French's Mustard tub. Not my fave (HEINZ IS BETTER FOR YELLOW) and I prefer my Stonegroud/Grain mustards but this will do for my mass consumption recipes. French's has a good Bold'n'spicy and Horseradish.

Here is my new storage container with my GHETTO salsa jug and my new HOT extra chunky presidents choice jar. I am waiting for them to get them in the jug size- so far they're trying to sell through their old recipe which contains sugar which is why I can't have it. The PC Extra Chunky Mild is so good! Don't mind the mess- all those bottles on the floor areWalden Farm's dressings which I all put into my storage area after the picture (this is in my dirty entry way where I dumped everything):

Now continuing with my mustard loving theme, can we talk GRAIN MUSTARD!!:






This is the new President's Choice Whole Grain Dijon Mustard! You can actually taste the seeds. OMG! So good and grain-y. Mix this with Davinci's sugar free syrup (any berry flavor) or jam or Walden Farms' blueberry syrup........... GASMIC! Serious. I am going to write a whole post about Salsa/mustard love. This is long enough BUT I will be posting a Protein Truffle recipe soon!

Wow- I've been writing this for about 2 hrs! Time to eat dinner (I've been mowing down on Broccoli slaw, 440g mushrooms, 400g Celery, 350g microwaved Cauliflower) and will have dinner and finish off AS ALWAYS with a pack of GG Scandinavian Crispsbreads dowsed in Syrup, sweetener, PGX granules, cinnamon and Walden Farms Maple syrupy goodness- microwaved into hot mushy perfections times 10 (ten slices per pack):