Today was a lot like today, minus the four hours of window shopping. I slept, the hubs and I ventured to a few places, and I was in the kitchen for a long time. Oh yeah, and we both made time to take a walk together. We both had a really good day.
My sleep was a little weird though; I woke up twice before 2:20pm (designated wake up time) feeling energized enough to wake up and do stuff. But, I made myself sleep until the annoying buzzer sounded. (And, that didn’t even happen! I woke up at 2:18pm. I’m quite good at waking up a minute or two before the alarm sounds. Maybe it’s because I hate the sound of my alarm and would rather not hear it…who knows.) Regardless, I got up and suggested that PJ come with me to Michaels to get some cake boxes and to Aldi to get some sugar and eggs.
Upon returning home, I headed straight for the kitchen and began making another batch of white velvet cake, another half batch of red velvet cake, chocolate chocolate chip banana muffins with pureed spinach, making the cake ball batter and covering them with white, milk and dark chocolate, and frosting the white velvet cupcakes; PJ started on lunch. (In a tiny kitchen, this is very hard!) He wanted soup and chicken, turkey bacon panini’s with pepperjack cheese so he added more vegetables to the leftover soup from yesterday creating yet another full pot of soup for us to dine on; it was still quite yummy except for the very surprising and unpleasant taste of the lima bean or pea that I bit into. The kitchen had a lot of action today.
The main thing about the previous paragraph that I want to highlight is the review on the muffins with spinach. Ya see, I don’t typically get a lot of iron in my diet unless it’s through the broccoli that I eat every other day. I knew we had some spinach in the fridge and I had the idea to put that in with my muffins. If you read the post yesterday, you knew that PJ wasn’t fond of that idea and was a little grossed out. Haha. I still wanted to try it so I pureed about 1 ½ cup of spinach in with ½ a banana and the amount of unsweetened apple sauce it called for. It pureed very well and I just added that to the creamed mixture of butter and sugar (1/3 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons butter). Once the batter was done and ready to be poured into the muffin tins, it looked a lot like baby poop. The green shredded leaves weren’t very appealing to the eyes but I figured it would look a lot different once baked. It did.
In fact, the ones with spinach looked almost EXACTLY like the ones without. And, the best part, they tasted the same too. I was hesitant at first because I tasted the batter before hand and it left a really funky aftertaste. Surprisingly, it was delicious! I’m excited to make more! I might experiment with kale too!
As far as my nutrition goes since being on exercise restriction, I’ve been eating healthy foods, snacking on lots of carrots, eating a lot of our low calorie veggie soup, and drinking a lot of milk. It seems that I’ve been getting hungry a little more frequently (apparently soup doesn’t fill you up for long) so I’ll grab a banana or much on some more carrots. I’ve also been trying to drink more water too because my desire for it has gone severely downhill (which I don’t like!) The only things I’ve been drinking are milk, water and caffeine free sierra mist. (More milk than water, and more milk and water than the sierra mist.)
After I finished up in the kitchen, I told PJ that I wanted to go walk for at least 15 minutes before I had to take a nap for the Audit shift. I wanted to get something in for the day even if it wasn’t much. We walked for about 25 minutes in the neighborhoods close to our apartment complex. We even saw 4 deer! It was fun and we enjoyed the time together.
I guess that’s the only information to update on. I don’t anticipate much sleep tomorrow, however, because I have 3 orders to deliver throughout the day, more things to make, church to go to J and at least 30 minutes of walking to do, plus some other household things. So, until next time. Be blessed!!
Singing Out,
SP!
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