Vegas Eats + More

Vegas:

I brought a lot of food to Vegas! We had a small fridge in our room which was very handy. I ate breakfasts at our hotel plus a few snacks.  We didn't eat everything you see here but a fair bit.

Our first dinner was at Red Velvet Cafe. Tons of healthy and vegan options! We both ordered these pitas that were SO good. All of those desserts you see are vegan but we didn't get any. Definitely recommend this place if you want something healthy. They even have fresh juice.

Breakfast one morning. I brought homemade almond milk but the stupid fridge was always too cold so it kept freezing things!

These are like cupcakes! Very yummy chocolate squash muffins.

PB & J one day with homemade strawberry chia jam and homemade peanut butter.

I'd never made a big batch of smoothies to drink later before but they lasted quite well! And I was thankful to have something like this on hand.

My first time getting a trenta size at Starbucks. haha It was a peach green tea drink. And a homemade date bar.

Appetizers at Slice of Vegas. This was the restaurant I was most excited to go to and it did not disappoint! Not healthy but definitely delicious and they have an entire vegan menu. This was the buffalo wings with jerk sauce and garlic bread.

I forget the name of this place, in the garden of Flamingo hotel but the guacamole is great! They make it fresh at your table. They normally add cheese but I had that left out.

I soaked some oats and added nuts and dried fruit one morning.

More appetizers at Slice of Vegas. We were indulging! My husband had buffalo wings again and I had the cauliflower.

Slice of Vegas buffalo pizza! This was SO good. I need to recreate it at home! Just the right amount of buffalo sauce on a thin crust you could fold up to eat.

Groceries:

Breakfast:

Waffles. Not as good as more classic waffles but still tasty and a great ingredients list!

Lunch/Snacks:

I've been using The Amazing Meal protein powder lately. It tastes very grassy, kinda like wheatgrass, but I like it. Here I added frozen blueberries, banana and almond milk.

Left: orange juice, almond milk, banana, The Amazing Meal protein, unsweetened cocoa powder. Right: spirulina, psyllium husk, almond milk, chia seeds, banana, chlorophyll

Dinner:

Messy pic but yum!  I hadn't had macaroni salad in a while. I used gluten free noodles.

LOVE these black bean burgers.

 Green smoothie!

The cashew cheese again in a quesadilla

Yummy burrito! I made this cheese and really like it.

I made a burrito like this one today but turned out my tofu was bad! Not sure how that happened...it expired two months ago apparently! I made this sour cream but it's kinda bland.

Dessert:

These brownies. I really liked the addition of blueberries! They were delicious but the texture was a bit off like they were very sticky!

Frozen banana + cocoa powder soft serve. Never gets old.

I made these yesterday for my birthday. Today I'm going to make the shake! They don't really taste like Oreos and mine look way different but they are delicious!

Laugh

• I started Jamie Eason's Live Fit workout plan this week! Pretty excited. This was day 1.
• OMG. If you play Candy Crush you KNOW how addicting it is!! hahah I was seriously stuck on level 79 for soo long that I squealed out loud when I finally beat it! 
• Our tickets to Evil Dead the Musical. So good. Go see it. Now. Uh, unless you don't like crude humour...then don't.
• Pool time! Victoria's Secret bikini.
• Vegan cakes at Red Velvet Cafe in Las Vegas (located at Fashion Show mall)
• Miss these two while I was away!
• Excited for my CSA delivery this week! A lot of favourites.
• Ughhh I want this pizza from Slice of Vegas again so bad! Must recreate.
• These stools at a restaurant at Flamingo hotel made me giggle. I really thought they were someone's legs at first :D

Las Vegas!

I'm back! Vegas was awesome! I had such a great time with my husband. We plan on going back maybe next year! It was my third time being there but his first.  So here's kind of a recap of what we did. I'll have some more pictures tomorrow.

We stayed at Tuscany Suites just off the strip. It was apparently only a 10min walk to the strip but in 110f it felt a LOT longer!  We had some issues with our room but overall liked the place and if you don't mind being off the strip, I'd recommend it as something very affordable!

The room was nice and big! I loved that it had a kitchenette except there was no microwave and toaster like there was supposed to be! Still, the fridge was handy since I'd brought some drinks. The little pile of stuff on the left was my makeup/hair products. I brought minimal makeup and it held up perfectly in the heat! I'll have to do a post on it soon. Then there's a spf moisturizer, jojoba oil and my homemade deodorant. I also brought black African soap and my Lush bar shampoo.  I like to really keep it simple when I travel.

Our BOGO beer at Sin City Brewery.  I loved the IPA. The Stout was good too. Even their frozen drinks were yummy (and strong) because they added the alcohol first.

Drunk husband and I at Toby Keith bar in Harrah's. Yeah, we bought the $19 drinks! haha You get your moneys worth though. Those suckers are strong.

Husband and I on July 4th... hence the red/white/blue outfit.

The reason we decided to go to Vegas at this time was because of the UFC Expo. It's two days (you can do one or both) of exibitors, fighters, Q&A etc. We actually paid for both days but my husband had to go back to work early so we were only able to attend one day :( The lines were pretty crazy. Even the smallest lines were at least 40min. The big lines were 3+ hours. So you really couldn't get a ton of photos/autographs with the fighters. My husband and I agreed that if we went back again, we wouldn't bother with any of the really long lines. We'd pick a few of the shorter ones, watch the Q&A stuff (we were able to watch most because it was next to where we were standing in line for Ronda but it was harder to hear. We did get to sit and watch Matt Hughes and Chuck Lidell though)...  The expo was a bit disappointing for me but I mean, I still had a great time. It was a cool experience. We actually saw a lot of fighters just in the hotel haha The day before the expo we ran into Jon Jones and Ronda Rousey! They were walking behind us for a while! But we felt weird bothering them so we didn't ask for a photo. My husband shook Greg's hand. haha So if you want to see UFC fighters for free, stay at Mandalay Bay during the expo :P Anyway, I snapped some pics of the fighters. Not great quality because you weren't "really" supposed to without waiting in line.

Stephan Bonnar

Anthony Pettis

Cain Valesquez

Joe Rogan Q&A

Ronda Roussey. She was the fighter we chose to stand in a loong line for (we were too late for the GSP line). We waited for 3 hours... and still missed out! I snapped this crappy pic right before she left haha They did a few of our emails to send us something though because they felt bad. She seemed so sweet though!  I have a girl crush.

Jon Jones also had an insane line but because the crew guys felt bad that we missed Rousey, they let us snap a quick pic with Jon! So that was cool. Dude is big. I'm 5'10 and my husband is 6ft.

This was at Mandalay Bay (not MGM where the fight was) for the weigh ins. We got there a bit late but thankfully found seats! It's totally free and open to the public. I really enjoyed it! It was just cool to see in person. Especially the Silva/Weidman "kiss" haha

Frankie Edgar weighing in. Love him!

Interviewing Silva. Let's not even talk about his loss.... I'm still trying to accept it haha

After the weigh ins we went back to the expo to hear Matt Hughes and Chuck Liddell speak which was very cool.  We spotted Erick Silva and Stipe Miocic  who for some reason had NO line! So we got pics with them.  Stipe Miocic seemed like one of the sweetest guys! He was so smiley, talking to a baby haha 

Matt Hughes, Chuck Liddell 

Who else is really excited for this season?

My outfits on Thursday and Friday. Those shoes seriously  held up! They remained very comfortable and we walked like 5 miles each day!

 Looking North on the strip

 Bellagio fountain show

 Okay, so Thursday morning my husband was flipping through some magazine in our hotel when he came across and ad for an Evil Dead musical!  Money was tight on this trip and we hadn't planned on attending a show... but we couldn't resist. So we bought tickets for Friday night and I'm SO glad we did! It was seriously so much fun. It was hilarious!  The acting was awesome, the comedy spot on and I loved how they interacted with the audience.  I think it was similar to live Rocky Horror performances although I haven't attended one.  As long as you like crude humour, I recommend it! I'd actually go see it again. There were a lot of regulars there. They also have a "splatter zone" where you get a free tshirt to wear and basically get sprayed with fake blood all throughout the show! haha We didn't do that but it's a tiny theater so it was fun watching others get sprayed.

 We left Vegas after the show which was at 11:30pm. My husband is crazy for wanting to leave them. He had napped but I hadn't. I literally couldn't keep my eyes open but I also couldn't sleep well! I slept off an on for the 4 1/2 hour drive home but it sucked!