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The Balanced Foodie

“Balancing health, wellness and great food!”

YAY!!! Head on over to my BRAND NEW SITE!!

If you are a current subscriber, you can add my new site here. I will no longer be posting to this site!

Thanks friends!!

Katy

So excited for tomorrow!

Lunch was leftover pizza and brussels sprouts!

I found out if you have a registered Starbucks card you used in the last month, you can have free wi-fi at Starbucks for two hours!

I took advantage of this sweet benefit, and had a snack while at it! I had a small soy vanilla-latte. It was all right, I prefer skim milk! It’s also fifty cents cheaper. They charge 50 cents for soy! Sort of lame if you ask me. But still, I heart the bucks besides that fact.

Dinner was some crab-stuffed tilapia we picked up at Publix. It was SO good! We rarely do prepared meats this way, but one was enough for both of us and ended up being a delicious, inexpensive meal!

With roasted potatoes and an unpictured side salad(we ate them European style, after our meal).

Plus these dark chocolate squares with a hint of sea salt. SO good, seriously the salt takes some of the bitterness out and the sweetness in. Mmmm..

I am off to finish the site. Look for my post tomorrow!!

Also, I am collecting questions for the FAQ section on the new blog, I would love if it you headed over to my contact page and e-mailed me some questions you have had!

Thanks, goodnight friends!

Katy

I want to debut it now but I just want to make sure I have things the way I want them before I say the word “GO!”

This post though will most likely be the last official regular post of These Beautiful Feet before I move over to the new one! I’m so excited, remember: same blog, only better(with a different name and address). That’s all!

So tonight, keep a lookout for my big announcement!

This morning I made a breakfast burrito..

I was so hungry I wrapped it and mushed it all up before you could see it all! I made a nutrish-mosh of two egg-whites with one egg poured over cooked onions, garlic and broccoli. Mmm.

Placed this mix onto the whole wheat tortilla slightly warmed and topped with salsa and some avocado. Yum! With a side of blue corn chips and salsa for a healthy, savory breakkie.

A couple hours later I had a snack of a yummy pumpkin pie Kashi bar and my green tea from yesterday chilled on some ice for a little boost!

I’m off to work on the new site, have a great day!

Katy

You know what Leo pictures mean..short post. He cheers me up though, maybe he will cheer you up too?

He just got continually more depressed as I snapped away!

I feel better already, thanks Leo!

For dinner, I had a beer.

Oh, and pizza too.

We bought some Italian five-grain dough and cut in half, per usual.

Topped mine with some chopped pancetta, onions, mozzy, and a little truffle oil(Don’t worry, see the green!!). Mmmm! Can’t wait for leftovers at lunchtime. Yum!

I then picked up my good friend and former roomie, Mandy. She requested Jeremiah’s..okay fine, pull my arm!

I got the gelati which is vanilla ice cream with italian ice. I chose the pomegranate and sour apple italian ice. Yum!

We then headed out to meet some friends and watch the Bachelor. Drama, drama, drama. Those girls are crazy!

I may also have had a small piece of brownie or two. The sweet tooth reared it’s ugly head tonight!

I am off to bed.

Hopefully, I will be announcing my new site debuting tomorrow!! Still have to tweak a little. So excited to unveil it to you all!

Have a goodnight!

Katy

If you missed this weekend’s posts, play catch up!:

-I made my first vlog.

-I signed up for a bake sale to raise money for Haiti! Go bid or bake!

-I ran 5 Miles and ate yummy food(of course)!

Here are pictures of yesterdays eats..

Mmmm…

Now onto today!

This morning started off with a two mile run! Love getting it done early. It was a good, easy run!

When I got home, I made yummy oats for Adam and I. This recipe was inspired by Katie’s banana-brulee oats!

I call it-

Banana’s Foster Oats

I made our oats(I made too small a batch for both of us so this is a single serving recipe):

-1/2 Cup oats

-1 Cup Light vanilla soymilk (makes all the difference to me)

-Pinch of salt

-Couple drops of vanilla

Then I “melted” the bananas. Katie, you are a genius! Each time I opened the microwave to check the bananas I was met with the caramelized banana smell that amazingly glorious! Banana wantons, banana’s foster, and anything with cooked bananas and ice cream I love. This was brilliant and I have never thought of it before!

I scooped the oats into the bowl and topped with the melted bananas in the middle then sprinkled a brown-sugar caramel cookie(as I am calling it for the moment) I am still working on the recipe but I baked it yesterday and then broke it up and placed it in a container until this morning. Then sprinkled on top for a crunchy, caramel, brown sugary and banana bite in every spoonful which gave it the brown sugar, butter taste I love about banana’s foster! It was pretty fantastic, considering I am just starting to like oatmeal and I ate a huge bowl!

P.S. Have you checked out the VitaMix giveaway over at Katie’s blog?! Pretty sweet giveaway if you ask me!

Lunch was pretty random as my dinner was last night(see above photos) but so yummy!

I heated up some frozen brussels sprouts in the microwave. I officially love brussels sprouts in every form. Mmmm! A couple of carrots, string cheese and a piece of cornbread my mom sent home with me from Whole Foods, they have fantasticly sweet cornbread. Love it! That looks like a ton of butter, I promise it’s not!

I am working on my new site and a freelance article for the rest of the day, Adam is at a few meetings right now and then we will be able to go work at a coffee shop together. I should be able to debut the new site either by tomorrow or Wednesday! YAY! I am SO beyond excited to show you all and tell you the new name.

See you all later!

Katy

This morning started out very quickly, I slept until almost 8:30(I had to stay up and finish New Moon!) I then quickly got dressed for my run and then we took Leo to the groomers! We dropped him off for the day and then headed to a park nearby.

I snacked on this Kashi bar for a mini-breakkie.

It stinks not having something like a Garmin around because the trail on the park was really hard to follow and I never knew exactly how far I was going. I decided to use time as my witness.

I definitely did ~5 miles. Four miles takes me about 55 minutes, and I ran a total of 1 hr. 15 minutes with a long warm-up and cool-down. I may have done a little more then five but I’m not sure.

It wasn’t the easiest run, my legs felt SO heavy the whole time. It was also warm!! Not too bad with the breeze but still warmer then I have been running in. Still, I completed five miles!! YAY!!

I forgot to take a picture post five, but I will on my next five miler, Wednesday.

We spotted a Jamba Juice right by the park and decided before we even got the park that post-run fuel would find us there! My mom walked and jogged a bit and I ran! We met up at the car after and headed over. I worked at Jamba Juice summer of my Sophomore year, it’s my absolutely favorite smoothie store and sadly there’s none in Orlando. Boo! I took advantage and was happy to see they had…

OATMEAL!!!! Perfect.

They use organic steel-cut oats, cook it in soymilk and you can pick a fruit topping and it comes with brown sugar CRUMBLES! These were crumbled straight from heaven. Seriously, you know I am just getting used to liking oatmeal and I ate this so quick! The crumbles were like crunchy candy bits in my oatmeal and of course I cannot have oats without some banana. YUM!

I had a “Sunrise Strawberry” on the side. My fave smoothie here, I try and recreate this all the time at home. I had this every shift at work. It’s bananas, strawberries, non-fat yogurt and soymilk. That’s it! It’s very yogurty and yummy.

Perfect post five-mile meal! I am so tempted to get this combo on the way home tomorrow for lunch. I think I will!

Beautiful.

After we ran home, showered and got ready in record speed we got Bo and brought him to the vet. Bo is our golden retriever/chow. We used to be best buds, but then I moved away to college.

He doesn’t usually where shirts, but he has some rough areas he’s been scratching which is why he ended up at the vets in the first place.

Don’t let the smile fool you..

He was scared and spent most the time hiding behind our legs, his usual hiding place.

We picked up my grandma and headed to my favorite place, Whole Foods! I love the Ft.Lauderdale Whole Foods, so big! There’s only one big WF in Orlando, the one near me is tiny!

I hit the hot bar up sooo quick.

Spring mix salad with carrot and chickpeas drizzled with some Annie’s Goddess dressing, teriyaki tofu/rice mix, a little couscous, two baked plaintains, and a roasted corn, squash and peppers mix.

Yum..my favorite lunch spot!

Washed down with a yummy Izze.

We picked up handsome Leo at the groomers then spent some time with my grandfather who is sick. He looks a lot better then he did at Christmas. PTL! I just hope he gets to watch the Daytona race in a couple of weeks, he loves cars and racing.

I decided to stay here tonight instead of driving home. I have had a headache on and off all day and I was exhausted.

This meant, another wonderful home cooked meal!(thanks mom!)

A sausage/beef/turkey burger, yes ALL three, on a whole wheat bun. So yummy! A swiss chard, chopped tomatoes, garlic, shallots sauteed in some EVOO and salt & pepper mix, and mashed potatoes! Mmmm..so comforting and yummy. Love. My mom has blogger approved plates.

We went to run an errand and stopped for a decadent dessert. I LOVE Dairy Queen!!

I got a small blizzard with butterfinger pieces, be still my heart!

Truly decadent, a wonderful treat!

It’s been a wonderful day of eats. My stomach is happy! I am now going to ice my knees a little late since they are bugging me. :-\ I can tell I definitely did five miles. This is another weekly PDR for me! YAY!! I ran eleven miles this past week. Makes me happy.

I am off to start a new book and sip on some tea.

Goodnight!

Katy

You all know you can text to donate and at the Whole Foods in Fort Lauderdale tat I went to today you could add on a certain amount to donate to the Haiti relief effort.

Also, bloggers are getting involved..

Bake Sale for Haiti

I will be participating in this bake sale to fund Haiti relief efforts! Click on the link of above for more info, more bakers are needed!

I will be baking two loaves of my famous banana bread and the bidding will be January 27th! Please head on over and check it out. Thank you!

Katy

I was up bright and early to babysit a little before heading home today.

I fueled up with some warm cinnamon heart to heart, plain Oikos, banana and dark honey. As well as a mug of coffee. Mmm.

When I got home I prepared a to-go lunch so I could get on the road. Enter: whole wheat wraps.

I wrapped up a large handful of spinach, a string cheese, a spicy black bean burger, a blue corn chip for crunch, and some ketchup!

Mmmm..messy though. I wrapped it in parchment paper and snipped one end for easy tear-away access. I also snacked on some unpictured roasted chickpeas and pirate’s booty. I had to tie the bag off to keep from unnecessary snacking out of boredom(*coughcough* see video below).

We decided a relaxed night in was called for so we ordered pizza and drank some wine. We ordered a brick oven pizza with half-eggplant half-meatball.

Guess you can guess what slices I had?

I had 1 1/2 eggplant slices and two helpings of salad with avocado, tomatoes and a vinaigrette.

Dessert was raspberry sherbet I found in my mom’s freezer. Mmm..a small, perfect amount!

Sorry for the brief post, I am exhausted and I have FIVE miles to run tomorrow! Praying the rain holds off until after I get done. Can’t wait!

Without further ado..my first vlog!

Ha, on THAT note..

Goooodnight!

Katy

Check out this spread.

I realized I have never shown you my groceries! I think we know each other well enough now.

Kashi bars, spicy black bean burgers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, hummus, carrots, brussel sprouts, organic fat-free milk, tazo chai tea, yogurt, onions, an avocado, apples, bananas..

…whole wheat pita, whole wheat tortillas, blue corn chips, whole wheat pancake mix, natural coffee filters, string cheese, shredded cheese, garbanzo beans, salsa, eggs, and spinach. Phew!

Lovely spread.

That made a lovely, lovely lunch!

The nom-factor was 10/10. I used Oikos plain greek yogurt, a little shredded cheese, salsa, garbanzo beans, spinach and salsa.

Plus another, smaller one. A few blue corn chips, and some cranberry juice-water. Yum.

Plus a banana for some potassium power.

When Adam got home we headed to a coffee shop to get some reading done. I sipped on another skim iced vanilla latte. Yum.

For dinner, I roasted some frozen brussel sprouts, made my spinach with onions and blue cheese, and Adam made sausage!

I promise, the brussel sprouts just look dark they aren’t burnt! This was my first time using frozen brussels, and they worked but were just mushier in the middle. I microed them for 30 seconds then roasted them. It’s a cheaper alternative to buying fresh, and still tasted pretty good to me!

Then we headed to our local wine shop, Wine Styles to enjoy a free wine tasting.

They have free wine tastings every Thursday, it’s great!

Tonight’s theme was “fruity” and “sweet” wines.

We tried a bunch and really enjoyed them.

The most interesting..

ChocoVine.

A mix of rich dutch chocolate and a french cabernet! It tasted like a chocolate liquor though, I couldn’t tell it was wine!

We bought a bottle of a dessert wine for another time, and headed home.

Dessert was a strawberry yogurt.

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Now, for the WINNER!!

I used a random integer generator and the winner was…

NIKI!

“I have heard so much about Greek yogurt but have not tried it yet! I would love to but it is a little hard to find where I live, but I know some stores I would actually go out of my way to, to try it. The thing that makes me excited about it is THAT IT HAS SO MUCH MORE PROTEIN THAN REGULAR YOGURT. I have very low protein intakes and this might help! “

Congratulations Niki! Now you can finally try some Oikos greek yogurt! Just send me your address and your prize will be mailed out to you!

Thanks to everyone who entered, I loved reading your entries so much! You guys are great.

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I found out some exciting news today, that hopefully I will be able to announce by next week, and no I am not pregnant! Why does everything exciting have to do with babies when you are married? I posted on Facebook that I found out something exciting and everyone thought I was preggers. Not for a few years people!

I am off to bed, I am not going to be getting too much sleep tonight..blah! I am babysitting for friends of mine before coming home to get Leo and then head home for a night. I am visiting my grandpa Saturday, luckily he’s been hanging in there.

Goodnight!

Katy