Amazing Eats

Popcorn! I love having a popcorn machine. I added a bit of Earth Balance and sea salt to it.

Sweet potato fries and a take on this portobello burger. Yum! 

Mmm Oatmeal with dried fruit, apple and peanut butter

Definitely loving green smoothies lately!

Easy rolls. Brown rice, hummus, avoado and bell pepper.

Meal prep I did on Monday. Rolls, granola, muffins (new favourite!) and bread.

Some snacks I had from the April Conscious Box (vegan). Review here.

Mom's Best Naturals Toasted Wheaties with almond milk and homemade granola

Messy but delicious! I plan on making them again this week but with more veggies. They were super tasty. Recipe.

Lazy curry with red quinoa and asparagus. I cook my asparagus with a drizzle of oil and a bit of sea salt at 425F for 12-15min and it is HEAVEN. 

Pizza. My favourite crust from Chloe's Kitchen, made with whole wheat flour.

These pancakes always turn outso nice and fluffy!

I'm in love with these black bean brownies!!!! I actually did half cocoa powder half carob powder. I plan on making them again this week.

Lunch/dinner today was panang curry at Thai One On restaurant in Vista, CA. I just love their curries so much! They are always a bit too hot though... this was only a 2 on a scale from 1-10! I mean, okay I am a wuss with spicy stuff but still. 

Pre-Cleanse and During

Food pictures are from Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon and then I did a juice cleanse up until just right now when I decided to have some edamame haha I'm going to do mainly juicing/smoothies for the next few days though.

Nachos! Quinoa tortilla chips, quinoa, black beans, black olives, a sauce using nutritional yeast/spices/water/bit of coconut oil/cornstarch, bell peppers... 

Easter morning I made donuts for my husband and I but added some cocoa powder. Uhh they didn't really turn out right haha I think if the batter had sat for longer they would have risen properly. How ironic on Easter that my donuts did not rise up ;)

A better picture of that delicious moussaka (without fake meat) I made from the Native Foods cookbook. Soo good! My husband didn't like it though (found it too mushy) so I had to eat the entire casserole! Normally I am sick of a meal once I've had it twice in a row but I happily ate this four days in a row!

Easter dinner was... Native Foods Cafe! haha I tried the portobello sausage burger and omgggg. So good. Their burgers are the closest thing to "greasy diner food" I've had without being that. Like they aren't greasy but they feel like comfort food. I don't know... just try them.

Made a quesadilla out of leftover nacho bean mixture with some Daiya and dipped it in leftover sauces from Native Foods (ranch and chipotle). Whoa, this was good! They have the BEST dips I've ever had, non vegan included.

My favourite snack lately is the homemade bagels topped with sunflower seed butter, chia seeds and cinnamon!

Curry, of course! This was more like curry soup with some quinoa haha

Onto the cleanse! You can find all of the recipes in my "spring cleanse" (I didn't do the full 5 days) in my Juice Cleanse Facebook Group. :)  I did three juices and a smoothie each day. I don't always include smoothies but when I want to keep up with my workouts, it gives me a nice boost of energy for that.  Aren't juice cleanses so pretty?  hehe

Food Prep

This week I decided to try doing a food prep day. So on Monday I made the following from scratch: bagels (which were very time consuming but amazing), pasta, pesto, hashbrowns, energy bars and zucchini muffins. I also chopped up a pineapple. It was great because I had less work to do later in the week. Plus this week was weird and I wasn't home a lot so I was glad I did this! Do you do a food prep day?

Deeelicious chocolate cookies. This recipe but I added coconut and some almonds. They were better when frozen!

Loved this carrot cake oatmeal

Soft tacos filled with Trader Joes faux chicken, kale, salsa, olives etc

Chips, salsa, guac and beer. Yeah!

Amazing bagels. Worth all of the work!

carrot cake smoothie + apple smoothie

I made this pasta (used my Omega juicer pasta attachment!) and this pesto but with almonds. Mmm.

Moussaka recipe from Native Foods Cafe cookbook. I'll get a better picture when I eat the leftovers because it was very runny at first but it did firm up! Really delicious. It's just a layer of potato, tomato sauce, zucchini, tomato sauce, eggplant and topped with a vegan bechamel sauce!

Had Subway yesterday when I was waiting around for my husband. All the veggies minus jalepenos with spicy mustard and avocado.

Whipped up some curry last night. It's my easy go to meal these days.

Breakfast this morning was a simple tofu scramble and hashbrowns. The scramble has some garlic powder, pepper, sea salt, Daiya mozzarella and turmeric.