This Should Be Illegal

Ohhh it was another rainy day in good ‘ole DC. Gotta love it. To make myself all warm and cozy inside I had another amazing bowl of oats this morning for breakfast. Have you noticed that in the blog world we call it “oats” instead of “oatmeal”? I wonder why that is because growing up we just called it oatmeal. I always ate my oatmeal with honey and milk and that was it. I have since then expanded my oatmeal palate, but to this day I still have not tried savory oats. I will have to get up enough courage to do that soon.

This morning was meant for Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia Oats, and boy was it awesome. It was so good that it should have been illegal. Every bite was better than the last. I made the oats with:

• 3/4 C oats made with chocolate and vanilla unsweetened almond milk
• Chia Seeds
• mesquite
• cinnamon
• Creamy All Natural Peanut Butter
• Organic Strawberry Jelly

I’m telling you-these were some of the best oats I’ve ever had. I also tried a Elderberry Biotta Juice. Biotta was so nice to send me some of their juices to try, but I’ve been a little hesitant since their flavors are a little unusual for me. They are all 100% organic juice with very basic ingredients, and have fabulous health benefits. Their flavors include potato, sauerkraut, beet, elderberry, vegetable juice blend, celery, breakfast juice blend, energy juice blend, Breuss Vegetable Juice, and wild bilberry. I wanted to try something on the sweeter side, and I really enjoyed the breakfast blend when I tried that, but I wasn’t sure about these other juices. I went with the Elderberry hoping it was fun and fruity.

Well telling from the amount of calories and the thickness of this drink I knew I wasn’t going to drinking the entire bottle in one sitting. I decided to try a little by itself, then mix with water. It was definitely thick and fruity, but I’m still not feeling this one.

According to the Biotta website here are the health benefits for the Elderberry Juice.

• Rich in mineral nutrients aids in relieving inflamed and blocked respiratory passages
• The toxins from air pollution has lead to an ever increasing strain on our respiratory passages
• The natural active ingredients in elderberries can help regenerate the cilia’s filtering function in the respiratory passages
• Has a positive influence on the immune system
• The juice from elderberries also helps relieve colds and flu

I ended up just going with some coffee instead and enjoyed it immensely with my all mixed up Peanut Butter and Jelly chia oats. Now that is what I call break-fast!

Those oats filled me up for hours, and then I stumbled over to Balducci’s for lunch. The microwave at work is broken, and I wasn’t able to bring leftovers to heat up. I love Balducci’s because there is so much to choose from, but I always end up spending WAY more than I had planned. ALWAYS!

Today I chose a variety of goods. Seaweed salad, salmon sushi with brown rice, and Italian Wedding Soup. I ate all the sushi and soup, but about half the seaweed salad.

I also had a Metromint Water. I have not mentioned these yet on the blog, and I don’t know why, but THEY ARE FLIPPIN’ AMAZING! I am 110000000% in love with this water. I never thought I would like mint in my water, but it is incredibly refreshing and soo addictive. It comes in flavors like peppermint, spearmint, cherry, lemon, and would you believe it..chocolate! It’s simply water, and mint. No sugar, no fake stuff, no nothing. Today I had the lemonmint flavor.

You never need dessert with this water because it is so refreshing you don’t want anything else. I could drink the chocolate flavor AS dessert. I’m not kidding you-if you haven’t tried this water-GO TRY IT NOW!

Dinner was simple…home-made pizzas on tortillas. I was in the mood for a BBQ chicken pizza sans chicken. I topped mine with BBQ sauce, kidney beans, green bell pepper, low fat mozzarella cheese, and a little cilantro. I guess this would be considered Vegetarian BBQ pizza.

Chris also enjoyed his, but added sausage because my man needs his meat

I think this post is long enough. I hope you were able to get to the end ok. Hope you all had a wonderful Wednesday. I’m enjoying the rest of my night watching a marathon of Friends because I love it that much.

Question: Are you a Friends fan?

P.S. Stop by Zestycook’s site because he is giving away a BLOG MAKEOVER!!!! How awesome is that. Oh, I could totally use one. Check it out.

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