Evening on the Beach

I had an amazing night last night with the husband. It stared out as just a plan to grab dinner at the pub and ended up with a walk on the beach.

Lunch included leftover nut butter parsnip fries. I must say they were just as good re-heated.

After talking to Jaime on twitter I was craving a green smoothie and since I knew I was going out for dinner I figured I’d stock up on some veggies.

In the blender: 2 huge handfuls of organic spinach, one organic banana, UVAB and some ice.

At dinner I started with a Banana Daiquiri…

And Sesame Chicken Voodoo Sticks…

Matt had a burger and fries…

I had fish and sweet potato fries…

 

There might have need an ice-cream from DQ in there but there’s no photographic evidence :)

It was such a beautiful day Matt and I decided to go for a walk on the beach. I thought I’d share just a few pictures from that walk. I hope you enjoy :)

 

This is our wedding monogram…

A few others…

Finally I decided to attach a video of me playing in the sand and water (yes I know I’m crazy).

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Have a great weekend all!

~ Katie :)

Falling Behind

Sorry for the lack of posting over the weekend. It was crazy busy.

My weekend looked like this:

Saturday

Matt and I slept in a bit and then got up early and went for a late brunch at Cora’s. I decided to go with the fruit plate with a side of brie and a piece of whole wheat toast and pb.

We then spent the next 4-6 hours walking around and stopping at a couple of shops. Since it was sunny and warm out we spent most of the day outside walking. I am still sore from it today.

While I didn’t pick up much shopping I did find this new tea store in the mall. David’s Tea. And picked up a couple of things.

Organic Spring Break (coconut green tea)…

And it comes in the cute little container…

Some Agave nector sticks. A set of five original and five various (including: lime, peach, etc.)…

Since brunch was late we grabbed an early dinner at the Chickenburger in Bedford. I love this place. I hardly ever make it out there but it is always worth it. I usually skip the side orders and get both a chicken burger and a hamburger since they are small and I can never decide on which one I like better.

Its funny I had my camera with my all day an didn’t take a single picture.

We then headed home to watch Avatar for the first time and relax. I really didn’t have high expectations for Avatar. I’m not sure why but we just never made it to the theatre to see it so Matt decided to buy a copy on Saturday and we curled up on the couch to watch it. I actually enjoyed it a lot more then I thought I would. I’ll definitely have to watch it again to get a full grasp on the movie.

Sunday

Sunday was also pretty busy. Since we skipped grocery day on Saturday we had to make a trip to both Costco and Superstore.

Sunday started out with Oats in a Jar – Chocoloate Peanut Butter Oats to be exact. I can see why everyone raves about this. NOM!

Lunch was some Annie’s White Cheddar Mac and Cheese with added broccoli.

On the menu for tonight was Ribs…

Asparagus…

Baby Potatoes…

Dinner: BBQ Ribs, Roasted Asparagus (with EVOO, salt and pepper) and Roasted Baby Potatoes (with EVOO, salt pepper, garlic powder, onion salt and thyme)…

I actually only ate half the ribs on my plate. They were huge and I could hardly finish them.

Today

Breakfast was vanilla greek yogurt, granola and 1/2 a banana. I will have to agree with Jaime on this one. The vanilla greek yogurt is good but I’m not sure it’s worth the price. I’m not sure it’s THAT much better then the plain. I’d love to try some other flavours though (too bad we don’t get any here in Canada).

Lunch was left over Annie’s Mac and Cheese, a yogurt cup and a Cherry Dark Chocolate Kashi bar.

I stopped at the grocery store on my way home and picked up a package of these:

I can’t wait to try them. Thanks Jaime :)

Dinner later is going to be pita pizza’s with chicken and spinach. Yummy :)

I’m going to leave you all now with some pictures of my new hair cut I got on Friday.

Old Hair Cut…

New Hair Cut…

Sorry it looks a little flat – I took it just after I got home from my school’s spring concert on Friday night and it had been a very long day.

I hope everyone had a great Monday back.

~ Katie :)

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Easter Weekend

Hey Everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the long weekend. I’ve been slacking on the blogging this weekend but it’s a holiday so it all good :P

I’ve also been slacking on the healthy eating this weekend too. My breakfasts and lunches have been great but then dinner rolls around…

Friday

Hubby ordered us Chinese as our Easter celebration. We try not to do much because we don’t want all the chocolate kicking around the house. Plus I’m not a big chocolate eater (I like it just not in large quantities so Matt will just end up eating most of it and so we just avoid buying it all today).

We ordered Egg Rolls, Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls, Pineapples Chicken and Ginger Beef. I meant to take a picture of our spread but totally forgot (sorry). Not the healthiest meal but it was definitely yummy.

Saturday

We started with oatmeal. I wanted to introduce Matt to the wonderful world of oatmeal with toppings so in the pot: oats, UVAB, flaxmeal and vanilla extract. I just doubled my usual recipe. Toppings were the same as Thursday: 1/2 banana, splash of UCAB, a scoop of White Chocolate Wonderful Peanut Butter and and added a little coconut this time.

Matt really enjoyed it. I’m going to have to try new toppings with him soon. The coconut was a little unnecessary as you couldn’t really taste it and it just added calories.

Afterwards we decided to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather we were having (plus 18 in Halifax yesterday) and go for a walk downtown. If you know Halifax, we started just past the superstore and walked down past Pier 21, through the dockyards, up and around Point Pleasant Park and back. Overall, we figured it was about 6 km.

We also stopped at the park to take a few pictures and look at the old canon (I swear I have been living in this city my entire life and didn’t know it was there – how sad).

Matt and the Canon…

The beautiful view…

Us…

After we got home I made myself a green smoothie. In the blender: 2 huge handfuls of spinach, 1 banana, 2 tsp of chia seeds, 1 cup of UVAB and ice.

Oh, green monsters how I have missed you!!! I haven’t had a green smoothie in a while and I love them when they are bright green! They give me so much energy.

For dinner we heading over the Matt’s parents to celebrate my birthday (it was a few weeks late but we haven’t been able to get there yet).

I had a bunch of veggies (carrots, broccoli, snow peas and cucumber), two slices of pizza and a piece of birthday cake. I probably would have been ok until the cake. It was full of icing and very sugary and it just kinda made me sick afterwards. I really need to stop eating store bought birthday cake. It has been having this effect on my lately and I don’t know why I continue to eat it.

Today

Breakfast: 2 eggs with some cheese, red pepper flakes, and fresh ground pepper, along with 1/2 a red pear and a few strawberries.

Then we went for another walk (plus 20 today). This time just around our area. It equalled out to about 4.5 km.

After we got back I had to run to shoppers to pick up my sister a birthday card so I also stopped at subway and starbucks.

Subway – usual turkey on cheesy bread…

Starbucks – Passion Ice-Tea Lemonade…

We are now heading to my mom’s for my sister’s birthday/Easter celebration. We’re having ham, potatoes, salad and some kind of veggies. My goal for tonight is to eat lots of salad/veggies and a little ham/potato and avoid birthday cake. I felt gross yesterday so I’m not going to put myself through that again.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter.

~ Katie :)

Update: I’m home from Easter Dinner and I think I did pretty well. I filled up on pre-dinner veggies and had lots of salad and a little ham/potatoes. I did have very small slice of cake though. My sister and mom would have been very upset if not. Feeling good about my dinner choices.