Product Review

Amy's Bowls

Brown rice, black eyed peas and veggies

Ingredients:

Organic Brown Rice, Filtered Water, Organic Black-Eyed Peas, Organic Broccoli, Organic Mushrooms, Organic Tomatoes, Organic Carrots, Organic Onions, Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Organic Tamari (Wheat Free)Organic Cilantro, Organic Ginger, Sea Salt, Organic Garlic, Spices [100% Pure Herbs & Spices (No Hidden Ingredients)

Nutrition Facts:

Serving Size: 1 Bowl

Calories: 290

Calories from fat: 100

Total Fat: 11g

Saturated Fat: 1.5g

Sodium: 580mg

Total Carbs: 38g

Dietary Fiber: 8g

Sugars: 5g

Protein: 11g

I tend to not eat many frozen meals because I like making fresh meals and I don't trust all of the ingredients in the meals. The sodium levels are usually very high and the food doesn't look anything like the cover it shows. This bowl was very good and surprisingly looked exactly like its cover. It had a good amount of veggies and the flavors worked well together. This is gluten free also. The only bad thing that I can find about this dish is that it's pricey. But most people realize that we pay more money for healthier food. All in all, this meal was really good. It was a healthy meal that only took a few minutes to cook.

Sweet Potato Chips

These are simple to make, good and healthy to eat. Sweet Potato Chips. They are just as good, if not better, as the classic potato chips.

First step: Peel the sweet potatoes

2nd: Slice the potatoes. Make them fairly thin. Think of packaged potato chips, they are very thin . The dehydrating process shrints them. Adjust the size to your liking.

Lay on dehydrator sheet, apply olive oil, sprinkle with salt.

Be gentle on the salt. My first batch was too salty so go lighter than you think.

Dehydrate on 135 overnight. Or, to make raw sweet potato chips, dehydrate at 115 overnight and plus hours until crispy.

Finish product. Light, crispy, salty. Yum

Decapitation

Yes, decapitation is right. Maybe not a human or a live animal but it still happened.

This is Katie's wooly. She has gone through all sorts of animals, bugs and even mammals. This last one was a turkey. I guess her thanksgiving ran a little late.

Look at the sadness on her face.

Paintings in the sky

Sunset on the deck.

Breakfast of Champs

Just another day at home. Woke up, made some orange juice and then created this beauty.

Health-nut bowl

• grapes
• frozen blueberries
• apples
• craisins
• walnuts
• flax
• cinnamon
• soy milk

Orange Juice

 

Brandi hanging out in the kitchen

Sleeping in

I think that's the best part of the holidays and vacation; sleeping in. Well I went to bed fairly early last night so I woke up at a decent hour. I went upstairs to make orange juice. When I came back down to watch a little food network this is what I found.

Look closer...

Goodmorning princess Buddy

Buddy cuddled up in the blankets.

Check out his view!

Lucky Dog :)

Breakfast this morning was another bowl of goodness just like yesterdays. Same one but when I was pulling out the ingredients I found a kiwi. So I chopped that sucker up and threw it in with the rest of the fruit.

Breakfast was outside on the deck today. I thought I would shoot some more pictures of the dogs scenery :)

I can't help but laugh in this one.

Christmas

Original title post, huh? I thought so :) I'm warning you all that I have tons of pictures and this post is going to be filled with them. I got my new lense for christmas! So I've been taking pictures like a mad woman.

Anyways, this christmas I was at my dads house with my sister and grandparents. My dad was on a roll baking and cooking all sorts of vegans goodies and meals. He made carob chip cookies, madelines, rougalah, fruit leathers, mashed potatoes, stuffing, turkey, roasted asparagus, sauteed carrots (earth balance) and much more! My sister and I woke up christmas morning and headed downstairs to the christmas tree living room. We all opened up gifts and then got ready for the day ahead of us!

 

 

These were our ACAI shots that we took every morning.

I got my lense so I wasn't much help in the kitchen ;) My dad was doing most of the dirty work while I was taking pictures. I was up for 20 hours the day before so I was getting really tired. My sister passed out in the other room also. We have been slaving at the bux for the last couple days. Time to RELAX!

For breakfast I was craving two different flavors. I decided to go with a little bit of both. I made a chocolate smoothie and then a fruit smoothie. They were small so I wasn't too full when I finished them. The chocolate smoothie was my favorite!

 

 

 

Chocolate Smoothie

• crushed ice
• soy milk
• coconut milk
• carob chips
• raw cacao powder
• banana
• flax

Blend it all together and top with a little cinnamon! I didn't add the size of the ingredients you should add because I just threw it all together based on the flavor I wanted. Add more carob or more banana if you want those flavors stronger. Adjust to your liking!

Fruit Smoothie

• banana
• apple
• flax
• ice
• water
• mango (pureed)

Lunch was a bowl of shredded wheat cereal with walnuts, cinnamon, and soy milk.

Snacks of the day:

We had a great christmas dinner and followed it up with an amazing dessert. My pictures don't capture how delicious this tasted! It was a mango sorbet, banana-strawberry sorbet, chocolate cup filled with vanilla creme topped with strawberries all laying on a blackberry fruit leather.

It was a good day filled lots of fun, food and laughter. My grandparents brought over there precious little babies. They recently had to put down one of their dogs so they decided to add more to their family. I couldn't help but take pictures of them.

Precious little pups!

PS: My dad made everything vegan! Well except the turkey

The next day I went over to my moms house to spend christmas with her and my step dad, Greg. We shared gifts and then went downstairs to watch tv for the remaining of the night. In between all of this I HAD to take a million pictures of my precious babies. I've had two of them since I was a wee little kid. They are getting old but they still are young at heart.

The next morning I made fresh orange juice for my mom and I. We were going on a tough walk after breakfast so we wanted something that would give us energy. She had peanut butter toast topped with flax. I had a mountain full of goodness. Let's call this

A Mouthful of Waffle

• 2 whole grain waffles
• 1 banana
• 1 TBS flax
• 1 TSP TJ Peanut Butter
• 1 TBS chopped walnuts

Yumm!!! :)

We let breakfast settle for a little bit and then went out for our toning walk. My mom takes me on a route that has a hill that she named' heart-attack hill'. Pretty funny but this sucker sure can take the air out of you. Good, tough walk followed up by a hot, steamy shower.

After getting ready we were craving some lunch. We had a big bowl of fruity heaven. They were exactly the same but hers had yogurt in it where mine had a couple splashes of soy milk.

Breakfast Fruity Goodness
(serving size- 2 huge bowls)

• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/2 cup grapes
• handful of chopped walnuts
• 2 TBS flax
• 1 TBS cinnamon
  

Brandi just heard a really funny joke!

After lunch we geared up and jumped in the car. My mom's boss lives in the hills with over 100 orange trees. That's where I stock up for all of my orange juice that I make. Last time I visited home I ended up taking 10 bags home! This time about 8 or so. It was a really pretty day out especially in the setting we were in. There was a little cat that was following us around. It was a cute cat and seemed natural in front of the camera!

My mom :)

Mom being goofy!

After orange picking we went back home to relax some more... More practicing with the camera and I think the dogs were starting to get sick of me. Haha. A couple hours later and we were getting a little bit hungry. I sliced up a yellow pepper and brought out the hummus. We were muching on that and some grapes. The sunset was coming soon so we went outside to take some shots. I still haven't perfected this camera yet and can't get the pictures how I want them but you can still see the general idea. The pictures don't show it but the sunset was beautiful over the ocean.

Look at those faces!

Dinner time! I had an Amy's bowl with brown rice, black eyed peas and veggies. That's the first Amy's meal I had and it was really good. Thumbs Up! After dinner we hung out upstairs for a while, messing on the computer and all that jazz, then headed downstairs to cuddle in bed and watch tv. The day, night and christmas festivities were heading to an end.

 Goodnight.