Green Oats, No Ham
Hi guys 🙂 How are ya?? So glad you liked the cookie recipe!
I already have a request to make some more 😉
The cookies came with me to work (I left one at the house as a *tester*- definitely need to make the fam a full batch) because we did the inventory shift last night– 8am til 2am!
It wasn’t that bad though- we hung out and munched delicious food 😉
Pei Wizzle – teriyaki tofu, brown rice and veg
+ hummus and carrots, chips and salsa, whole foods brownies and cookies, pizza- it was quite a lovely spread 🙂
I came back to the casa, crashed out and slept until innnnnnnnnn….
then made GREEN OATS 😀
You know you’ve been eating *weird* foods for a while, when you’re munching a bowl full of green sludge and no one says anything.
-1/2 C steel cut oats (<— two servings)
-1 t spirulina (for nutrients and the lovely green color)
-Stevia + pinch of sea salt
-1 C water + almond milk to thin it out after cooking
-1 T almond butter
What’s your *weird* food of choice?
The plan for the afternoon:
-Park my bootay at Bizzle and write for a few hours
-Blog updates and newspaper article
-Work on Bridal Bootcamp (starts TOMORROW!!! Wahoo!)
-Make more cookies 😉
-Workout (bootcamp with a friend and DANCE TRANCE)
Have a great day! <3
xoxo,
Gina
Today’s workout jam: “Monster” by Lady Gaga- perfect for Halloween time 🙂
Something to do: If you’ve been wanting a foam roller (you can read my foam rolling tips *here*), today’s your day! Awesome promo on OpenSky- $22! It’s like a personal masseuse that keeps on giving 😉 *Click here if you’d like to hit up the deal* They’ll go fast!
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I have never tried spirulina but I would like to! I don’t think I eat too many weird foods, besides the combos I may make with bacon. 🙂
I just got a foam roller this weekend. It was glorious after my run this weekend!!
I don’t eat anything tooooo weird but my roommate gets creeped out when I make things with spelt flour. She says it’s such a gross word that she refuses to try anything I make with it!
Everyone tells me I eat “weird” but I think everyone else eats weird – I mean, they eat, like, birds (chicken). Anyway. My roommate is really skeeved out by my green smoothies, just because theyre green. I say don’t judge a book by it’s color!
usually you can’t taste the green anyway!
I know, right?? I keep offering her really good ones but she just makes a gaggy face and runs away. More for me 🙂
It seems like lately all I eat are foods topped with homemade pumpkin butter — I can’t get enough!
I do not miss working retail too often, but I really did enjoy inventory night. I worked for Pier 1 Imports for 6 years and for some reason counting all the candles and silk flowers was fun!
Mustard is my weird addition to so many foods! I like it on everything!!
I really admire your decision to back off of the full time job and spend more time blogging since it makes you so happy! Keep up the good work and have fun!
your sludge looks great 😉
Thanks again for the foam roller tips!! I like your “weird” food – I think i’m pretty lame/standard with my food!
weird food of choice… i really like salty things on my salads so tons of pickles, saurkraut and feta cheese. seems normal to me. sorta.
in our world, i think my weird foods are normal (i.e. carob powder), but in other people’s world, they haven’t heard of carob chips/carob powder! i put it in my oats, chocolate shake in place of high fructose chocolate syrup (yuck!). other one is nutritional yeast. btw i made vegan brownies from skinny bitch in the kitch…it was so good! you would’ve died! bc i think i did after eating some! hahaha
i have that cookbook- will have to try that recipe!
I still get weird looks from some people when I make green monsters – it’s amazing how much colour affects what people eat! Other than that I can’t think of many weird ones, but I do like salsa a LOT and get some weird comments when I eat it on veggies (which I don’t see anything wrong with!)
i worked at juicy for a season and loved doing inventory and black friday shifts! we always had yummy food and a total blast in the back. i also tried pei wei for the first time on friday and FELL IN LOVE!!! it was so so so delish. i went with shrimp coconut curry and brown rice. i want it again!
i’ve had the shrimp coconut curry before- it’s SO GOOD 🙂
My husband thinks everything I eat is weird. Great idea to put spirulina in your oats! I’m kinda done with smoothies for the season, I’m craving warm things so this is a great solution.
I still get weird looks from my dad when I drink green monsters at home…even though my mom now drinks them too!
oof, i don’t know how i feel about green oats, but my sister LOVES them! at least they’re pretty 🙂
My co-workers think my green smoothies are SO WEIRD! I used to try to “hide” the green from them by adding blueberries, but eventually I just started bringing my bright green smoothies to work, instead! Talk about a great conversation starter… “What the HECK is THAT you’re drinking?!?” Ha ha. 😉
I actually lugged my Vita-Mix to my office and made green smoothies for all my co-workers, just so they could see that I’m NOT crazy. Everyone who was “brave” enough to try it, really liked it! They agreed you can’t taste the green at all!
Maybe I can convince my boss to invest in a Vita-mix for the office one day!
that would be AMAZING 🙂
One of my jobs at work is to make smoothies for all of the employees and patients each morning. I convinced them to get a high power blender (I love Vita, but they were able to find a Blendtec) and I make all types of fun smoothies each day!
Hmmm, green oats are interesting 😉
I put salsa in my cottage cheese and it looks pretty disgusting but tastes great and makes a fab snack!
Hmm, this really looks like food from Mars ! 🙂
I’m glad you put spirulina in these because I’ve been curious about this for a while. I haven’t been using spirulina much recently but I’d love to try it in oats.
I’m sure the oats taste good, but I’m not sure I could eat them when they’re colored green. It’s like that time when I was 8 and put red food coloring in my milk. Yes, it tasted the same. But I couldn’t get it down.
it’s weird how color can cause food aversions when it’s tastes the same!
A coworker looked at me strange one morning when she saw me eating out of peanut butter jar with a spoon and calling it breakfast.
‘Twas overnight oats in a jar.
Weird foods are the good foods that WE all like and everyone else are the lost ones! Eating their white bread and doughnuts for breakfast…hehe.
Glad you survived the inventory! Anything with good food makes the expereice better, right!
When I help friends move for example, I am happy to help, but for more motivation-my question is always though, what is the food brib for the day? 🙂
oh God I am sorry I have to say that but those oats really look weird, I can have green smoothies no problem, but I dont know about green oats 🙂
haha 🙂
My fiance still thinks it’s weird every time he sees me drinking a green smoothie! Other than that, I guess some may consider it weird that I add hot sauce/ chili pepper / some kind of spicy condiment to just about everything I eat. What can I say, I like it spicy! 🙂
Ha, I think the only green thing I drink are matcha green tea smoothies at Jamba Juice or the lattes at Starbucks… or Odwalla Superfood. 🙂
Oooh inventory. I remember those days for retail. Except we’d do it BEFORE the store opens. 5:00 a.m.! yikes…
ewwww! early mornings and i aren’t friends 😉
I recently bought spiriluna, but I have it in pill form. I couldnt find the liquid form, but I hear its soooo good for you!
it’s AMAZING for you! so many nutrients 🙂
Green mushy food = what most bloggers eat 🙂 Everything from green chia pudding to green oats to green monsters to smoothies with green to green juices, we eat it 🙂
Inventory. Brought back days of working retail in h.s. where we’d get locked in the bldg til like midnite and count things. Oh I do not relish those memories 🙁 Hopefully yours is a little more humane than my memories!
Have a super day and that placemat or tablecloth is so pretty that you have the green bowl on top of!
🙂
My girlfriends in college thought ALL my food was so weird, but got used to it! I eventually even got them to like my green monsters! But they definitely thought baked sweet potatoes with greek yogurt was weird.
I love putting spinach in my oats 🙂
Monster is quite possibly the greatest song ever!! I love it!
I saw her in concert a few weeks ago and it was amazing 🙂
Hey- I just looked for your foodbuzz entry- did I miss it?
i didn’t make it to this round- thanks for looking for me, though!
Stinks!
everyone thinks my green smoothies are weird, especially when you say there is spinach in it, they think its so gross. or when i made chia pudding, because its all slimey
When I add hemp protein powder to my oats I tend to try strange looks from my husband or family. I think they should be kinds used to it now 🙂
People in my sorority always laugh at all my different nut butters, plus goji berries, chia seeds, flaxseed meal. I forgot how weird they were until I moved in.
My colleagues eat things like 2 minute noodles and meat pies and KFC for lunch, so they find my healthier work lunches very strange. “Hummus. Huh. Sounds like a swearword.”
I’ve never tried spirulina before. I’ll make it a goal for next week and add it to my shopping list 🙂
do you have any recommendations for workout videos similar to the dance trance class you take or a funky high impact aerobic routine?
i wish i did, but not :/ it’s unlike anything i’ve ever tried!! anyone else know??
I remember green oats!! Not sure why I stopped having them. They’re nutrient packed and a cool color- ya can’t go wrong 😉
I know it’s pretty normal by blog standards, but my family and roommates think my pumpkin oatmeal is pretty weird! 😛
My husband and I went on a cruise in August and brought our own Sun Warrior, nut butter, and spirulina and added all that (plus chia seeds) to our oats every morning. They looked crazy green just like yours and we got a TON of strange looks from the other cruisers.
I would make egg whites in a muffin pan and bake them in the oven. I ate these all the time everywhere I went. People always thought I was weird and boring. I loved them. If I was in a hurry I would make them in a ice cube tray and cook in the microwave. Then they looked like I was eating ice cubes.
I feel like I do eat weird food. But for some reason I can’t think of anything weird at the moment!
I remember one time my landlord came in to fix the toilet and I was drinking a lovely shake of boysenberries and spinach and he goes to me, “That looks…ummm….pretty interesting.” So i tried to explain what it was and he just looked at me funny. I was cracking up after he left, because I’m sure it looked like I was drinking slushy poo.