SuperPB

Hi, my name is Brittany, and I am addicted to Peanut Butter. (Now everyone all together say “Welcome Brittany”)

I was so excited when I came across this article in Oxygen that I just had to post it RIGHT NOW.



Here’s what it says..

Bang For Your Buck

High control energy dense Peanut Butter not only provides you with extra calories- along with heart healthy monounsaturated fats, vitamin E, muscle relaxing magnesium and disesase fighting plant sterols- it also helps you do so on a budget. For the price of a steak you can buy enough natural Peanut Butter to last you for weeks. (or days if you inhale it like I do)

Fat Blaster

Fat loss and Peanut Butter don’t usually go hand in hand. But Peanut Butter’s high calorie content can actually help you stay slim by keeping your hunger levels at bay. Numerous studies have shown that adding nuts (peanut included) to your diet can help you control your appetite and keep the pounds off.

Muscle Builder

As far as protein sources go, a golf ball sized serving of Peanut Butter provides about eight grams of protein. That’s the same as a glass of milk and more than a large egg (6 grams) or half cup serving of yogurt (4 to 7 grams).

Disease Fighter

Peanut Butter can help reduce disease risk, especially heart disease. Numerous studies, including the recently published Omniheart study have demonstrated that nuts and peanuts play an important role in cholesterol control. More recently Peanut Butter has been linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

SO what they’re trying to say is, if Peanut Butter were a person it would be Superman.

I don’t know where my addiction to Peanut Butter comes from, but seeing as how lots of addictions are hereditary I think it’s my mom (I got her nose too, unfortunately I didn’t get her natural talent in the kitchen or ability to learn anything). She’s not as public with her adoration but I know she loves Peanut Butter cups and Crispy Crunch chocolate bars. My guess is she’s a closet PB addict and needs it everyday like I do.

Eat up BUTTERCUP!!

Nothing Noodles

Show me some LOVE:


I scarfed this down because it was 8:40, Ride was at 9:30 and my sister wanted me to meet her for arms for first. It would have made more sense to just eat it after the gym, but I’m not one for reason so I shoveled it at lighting speed. Did I enjoy it? I don’t know it all happened so fast.

I got to the gym and did one machine each for back and bicep, then did two machines each for triceps and chest. Walked in JUST in time for ride and rode my heart out, by heart I mean the heart shaped breakfast I had eaten 30 minutes before. I was THIS close to tossing my cookie. Once things settled I proceeded to do some free weights. I did one exercise for biceps, one for my bootie annnnnd one more for tri’s. I added the last one in because I feel like I do the tri machines wrong, in turn, only working my elbows.

Got home and had THIS:



Forgoing a shower (YES), I got my bake on and whipped up a new creation. I made it up as I went along…

1 cup Kashi Rice Puffs
¼ Cup Bran
3 Tbsp Peanut Butter
2 Egg Whites
¼ cup Date crumbles

Mix it all together.



Divide the mixture into a muffin pan or little muffin holders like THESE:


The mixture is a little crumbly so this holds it together.

Cook at 350 for around 20 minutes.

And Voila!



I ate one. The egg comes from the mistreated chicken I feel bad for, but the mixture needed something to hold it together and I didn’t know what else to use. Like I said I live by no food rules so emotions aside I will eat these and I will probably top them with more PB when I do. I will however, try to force feed them to my man so he gets most of them first.

Lunch was FISH & CHIPS


Hit me with the ketchup! Healthy fish sticks and Kale Chips (nutritional yeast, olive oil spray, salt and cook at 350 till crispy)

I lured Mel over in the afternoon with promises of watching The Real Housewives of the OC on the big screen and then trapped her in the basement and bombarded her with my problems.

I toyed with the idea of holding her for ransom but decided to set her free and have a snack instead:


Smart Bran, Kashi Rice Puffs, Sliced Banana, 1 tbsp Peanut Butter annnnd some GREEK yogurt. This was my first time trying Greek yogurt and I discovered that it’s not for me. I’ve never been a fan of sour cream and that is exactly what it tastes like.

This is the Greek Yogurt


I only tried it because SHE loves it


MEL (I had too many drinks prior to this picture and in turn loaded on the lipstick until it was an unflattering 7 shades too pale, pretty, no?)

Annnnnd here we are in Mexico


We learned lots of things about various drinks and foods on this trip, like never pair seafood medley salad with copious amounts of Tequila. Seafood Medley Salad is only good once my friends.

Since that snack didn’t leave me totally satisfied I had this too:


Fid and Almond Butter

I had to run to Old Fashion Foods which is RIGHT beside my Man's work, so I dropped him off a LATE (like almost supper) lunch. I also took him some of those cookie things. I wasn't about to take them there naked so I dressed em up a little:


Pervert

When my Man got home from work we lounged around for a while trying to come up with a game plan for the rest of the night. We knew 6 things.. 1. We wanted to watch a movie 2. We wanted to make Seitan Sausage (my Man wanted to make it with “LOTS” of spices) 4. We needed to buy a steamer 5. We needed to go to Blockbuster 6. We didn’t want to do number 4 or 5.

Luckily, we remembered that the NEW Walmart was open and this got us excited enough to leave the house and tackle the night. As we were driving there my Man had a realization..“Look what our lives have become.. We’re driving across town to check out the new Walmart on a Saturday night”.



Oh and what a Saturday night it was. The electronic doors parted into a sea of EVERYTHING. We hit up the Tim Hortons first so I could grab a tea for our aisle wondering. This place had everything. We grabbed toothpaste, a steamer, juice and THEN we found IT, The All Natural Organic Frozen Foods section. It was literally about 1/50th of the entire frozen foods section but we ransacked it like little kids in a candy store. See:

The Goods


That’s my Man’s foot in the background; he’s waiting to snatch a Vitamuffin.

We rented Surrogates at Blockbuster and headed home with all of our goodies. I helped my man make his Seitan Sausage but made him roll it himself. He’s a perfectionist and I knew he’d hover over me asking me too many questions and telling me what to do.

For Suppa I had to try out a new find Miracle Noodles



“Known for its health benefits for two thousand years in china and japan, shirataki is made from the root of a plant called the Konnyaku. Shirataki is made only from the soluble fibre of the plant, as such it only contains a healthy soluble finre known as glucomannan, since it is only made of soluble fibre it has zero calories”

Say what? that is some crazy s***. I had to try them. I was half expecting to open the bag and have them disintegrate into nothing, but they didn't. It did however, smell a little fishy. I was alarmed but you don't have to be, it's just the water in the bag not the noodles.

Next up you drain'em and them soak'em in hot was for 5 minutes


Ready!


The store bought Seitan, broccoli and Mushrooms.

I ate this IMMEDIATELY after supper. I was WAY too excited for my ALMOST FINISHED PB JAR:


Smart Bran, Almond Milk and PB goodness.

I can't give you guys a review on Surrogates since my Man and I both fell asleep. I woke up to the loud Main Menu music and couldn't remember the last part i'd seen. I tried to wake my Man up and tell him to come to bed but unless I was going to "carry him" (he always tries to make me do this) he wasn't coming. I tried to take Bailey with me, but she was a trader and ran away when I tried to grab her.

Fine then (is that the wrong then? possibly..), I would share THIS with either of them:


Ezekiel Muffin and Better Butter (Earth Balance)


Half a Nanner with Cashew Butter

And to be Completely honest, I continued to take a spoon to the Cashew Butter and also pulled out the Almond Butter. How does one acquire so called Self Control?

Kick the Bucket

I woke up at 5:39am yesterday, I was in the mood to be different. I made it to ride despite the fact that I woke up in a medicated fog with a sore stomach. Those Migraine pills really fudge me up. Whenever I wake up and don't want to go to the gym (like everyday) I just think about how good i'll feel at work having gone versus how I'll feel if I hadn't. The first one always wins.

White Please

1/2 scoop of Muscle Foods for the legs. Me and My Man creepin in the background.

On my mad rush to work I got stopped by a train (making me even later). I didn't let this time go to waste and instead created a new hairstyle. Once I got to work I realized it was more like a pinned comb over, I rocked it anyway.

Eager Beaver


Breakfast Cookie. I just could not WAIT, almost forgot to take a picture.

Bailey slept on my lap most the morning, which resulted in my bladder working some Mayjah OT. I was chugging water like I was running through the desert and holding my pee like the desert had no washroom. I just couldn’t get myself to interrupt her naps, she looked so peaceful.



One weekend my Man and I made Bucket lists as we were driving out of town for a Hockey game (everyone should do this). As I was coming up with my list, he told me he wished he could spend just ONE day inside my head.

HIS
1. Shark Cage
2. Go to a USC game
3. Go to a San Francisco 49ers game
4. Bungee jump in Whistler
5. See a Washington Redskins game with his dad
6. Watch a Rugby game in Australia
7. Surf
8. See every pro sport there is live
9. Shoot a gun (like one used on CALL OF DUTY)
10. Eat Kobe Beef in Vegas

(My man KIND OF likes sports.. KIND OF)

Hers
1. Shark Cage
2. Get drunk at a winery
3. Get a tattoo
4. Surf
5. Go camping in the mountains
6. Live in a hut on the beach and wear no shoes
7. Paint a REAL picture, like on canvas
8. Eat the worm in a tequila bottle
9. Eat at an All You Can Eat Crab Shack by the ocean
10. Do a rail on a snowboard (I don’t even snowboard)
11. Get drunk in a small town bar, stay the night at the small town Motel and eat breakfast in the small town restaurant (highly likely that all 3 things will be attached to the same gas station)
12. Go to NYC at Christmas and skate in Central Park
13. Eat a hot dog at a baseball game

I knocked Number 6 off in a hurry. SEE:


Going once.. Going twice..

If you are wondering about number 1, but you too polite to ask, we both want to go in a cage, be lowered into the ocean and surrounded by sharks. My friends thought that I was the only one who had a strange fascination with sharks (I’d made this evident by always wanting to rent shark movies at blockbuster). They were wrong, my Man does too, that’s how I knew were meant to be.

Moving Along..

LUNCH at 12:00 on the money:


Spin, Cole Slaw, Orange Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Corn, Seitan annnnnnd....

HummmmBBQ

Mixed up some BBQ sauce and Hummus


I blobbed it on like it was a fine art. Everytime you got a blob it was like hitting the jackpot. Lunch was like an emotional rollercoaster, blob, no blob, blob.


I think I got it all.

Around 3 I had a SNACK


I tried out the Peanut Butter everything bar. What I’m going to say next might shock you, prepare yourself… I liked the ALMOND one better. Have you ever heard of “smucking”, like when you eat something and it’s so sticky or dry that you make a smucking noise? Well I was smucking so loudly the guys in the back shop could hear me.


Although the package never claimed any such thing, I was expecting this bar to be chocolate.

By the end of the day my Migraine was back, I think it's trying to kill me. I took some more meds before leaving work so the rest of the night is a blur with random stops for food.

Some Greens

Weeds, Razzzberries and Blackberries

My Man and I decided to go hot tubbing at my parents house. I made him a deal that if all I had to do was put my coat on and walk to the car i'd go. This meant he had to drive, pack Bailey up, carry her and pack her back up. So what do I do with some free hands?

Food for the ROAD!!

Almond Butter Banana Sandwhich

The hot tub only made me MORE tired but we needed some Suppa before we (he) watched the Olympic Hockey Game.

His

Beef Stroganoff. This was a team effort, I read the instructions while my Man did most of the work. He LOVES this meal.

Beef Stroganoff

3 cloves of garlic
Beef
Noodles
1 tbsp Whole Wheat Flour
1 tsp Thyme
1 Tbsp Worchester Sauce
1 1/2 cups Beef Broth
1 Cup Light Sour Cream or Plain Greek Yogurt



Cook up the beef and garlic, then add flour and thyme to coat. Follow this with the Worchester and broth and let simmer. Add in Noodles and Greek Yogurt. EAT!

Hers

Quick and Easy. Tempeh and Sweet Potato Chunks. It was actually more like Ketchup with a side of Tempeh and Sweet Taters, I refilled that little dish 5 times..

I was SO excited to try THIS for supper, but after tasting it my homemade stuff is SO MUCH BETTER. This Seitan was way too heavy on the Soy Sauce and it'll have to be mixed into a dish of some sort (if it's lucky). In the fridge it goes until a later date..



We took our food downstairs for the game. I remember shoveling mine down and then nothing... I was woken up by my Man telling it was time for bed. I'm not already in bed??

I made a pit stop in the Kitchen on the way

Pumpernickle and PB

Aches and Pains

Morning!!

I did something really crazy yesterday morning and woke up at 5:20 intentionally. It was Thursday, which means it was Power Class (weights, weights and more weights) at the Gym, and I wanted to sneak in 20 minutes of cardiovascular first. I blow my own mind.

When I came home I chugged this Mug:


Full Scoop Muscle Food do your thang

Bailey was showing me so much love at the Veteranians office, all she wanted was to be in my arms at all times and I was just soaking this up. Then the Vet came in and ruined our moment. She went over a list of pre or post surgical options as long as my leg.

“Do you want blood work? Pain meds? IV?

Ummm these are options? How cruel are you?

“And do you want her Tattooed? Licensed? Micro Chipped?”

Are we still talking about the dog?

I took it all. Just kidding, I went with the first three options and the tattoo and license. I wasn’t sold on the micro chip; if I were to find a lost dog I don’t think my first thought would be to scan it.

Then the lady proceeded to ask me if I wanted to take Bailey “back there” with her. Trying to make Bailey as comfortable for as long as possible I figured SURE I’ll take her “back there”. Well back there meant walking to a room 5 feet away and putting her in one of 15 cages that covered the wall. GREAT, now I went from Super Mom to Asshole.

I walked out (SO HARD, I don’t even leave muffins behind) and headed for the exit. When I got to the front desk I could hear Bailey barking insistently. That’s my girl, YOU tell them. She might appear like a suck, but when you make her do something she doesn’t want to do, you’ll hear about it. She gets that from her mom..

After all that drama I finally got to work and had THIS:


Breakfast Cookie and Starbucks. Between you and me, that's my same Starbucks cup as the day before, I just put new tea in it. It makes me feel like i'm actually having Starbucks again, it's nice being simple.

I thought I was hungry around 11 so I mixed water with some Muscle Food, no idea how much since I’ve been carrying this container around in my bag for weeks.


That would be Almond Butter drowning in the mixture.

I was tired by 12:00 so I figured I needed to eat my lunch in hopes of waking up


A Tempeh sandwich with Hummus, BBQ Sauce, Spinach and Tomatoes. The bread would be Ezekiel. (Surprising, no?) This kind of bread ate the flavor before I could so I actually only ended up eating one piece. Apparently, I’m not a huge sandwich girl. They’re a little too dry for my liking since I like things SAUCY.

I had an Apple too



Yesterday was such a weird day as far as food went. I wasn't feeling so HAWT and it was making it really hard to tell whether I was hungry or full. OR neither and just grumpy since my head hurt..

I thought carrots might help


These have been in my purse for 3 days. Don't judge. The crunch feels good when you have a headache.

By the end of the afternoon fear about being responsible for another little life (one that just had surgery) started to kick in. Will she hate me? can she even move or walk? How will I drive with her? How will I get her in and out of her house? Why on earth would someone let me get a dog?.. "All I was thinking", that was misleading I made it sound like I wasn't thinking 10 billion things.

When I arrived at the Vet to pick her up I was escorted "back there" to get her. I was so relieved when she was squirming with excitment to see me, so relieved that I ALMOST didn't notice the green bandana they tied around her neck. Ummm you just SPAYED her, could you cut her some slack and NOT make her look like a boy. How much emotional trauma do we need to put her through in one day?

Both high out of our trees (thanks to some SERIOUS migraine pills for me and pain killers for Bailey) we spent the rest of the afternoon/night being bums. We moved from the couch, to the basement couch, to the kitchen chairs (I set her bed on the one beside me), back to the couch, to bed. We were both hurtin for certain. We let my man join the club when he came home with a REALLY sore back. Now not to get all mushy on you guys (another weird saying considering what follows is ALWAYS mushy) but it was so cute watching my Man with Bailey. He has the biggest heart and he was so amazing with her. When he's around I'm never scared that I can't handle her, or anything for that matter. Okay Okay wrapping it up, (LOVE him), moving on..

I managed to have a few bites throught the night...


Kale Chips for lounging - Kale, Nutritional Yeast, Olive Oil Spray cooked at 350 until crisPY.


Left over Pumpkin Chickpeas from the other night. These were SO good cold. Next time I make them they're going straight in the fridge.

Some Comfort Food


Along with operating heavy machinery and driving, using the oven should be on the list of things not to do after taking a Relpax Pill. I forgot I was cooking..

When I was done the Bnut fries we both passed out hard.

BUT I woke up at 10:00 since we were in bed at 8:00 and had THIS:


Pumpernickle, PB, Banana, Cashew Butter. Mmmm I love my biracial bananas, so extra sweet.

You know I really should have given up late night feasting for lent. It's totally unnecessary (but enjoyable) and it interfers with sleeping through the night. Instead I wake up around midnight (because i've made this habit) all excited, Let's do this!!!!

Panty Raid

So My phone was fudging with me and wouldn't turn on the night before yesterday, so my man set his alarm for 5:40am JUST for me. It was a cruel joke when it went off in the morning and I thought it was the weekend. The only time I hear HIS alarm is (when it's for him) on Saturdays. I MADE myself get up and hit the gym, it's always good once i'm there but waking up just never gets any easier. I switched it up and did the rowing machine for 20 minutes, followed by the elliptical for 20 and finished with two leg exercises. Oh how I long for my butt to harden and rise 2 inches.

I came home for diamonds and Muscle Food


1/2 Scoop and some cinnaNOM.

I got to work (late)and had THIS:


Don't hate the playa, hate the game

Extreme Pita was ordered again today since the Auditors (robots) are still here. so I helped myself to the fruit because fruits yummy and you don't have to be hungry.


I think I ate that in 2.5 seconds.. roughly..

Yesterday was so weird, unlike the day before I had no appetite. I had an eye appointment at 1:30 (I know, I know, how many appointments do I have?) and since hunger can strike at any time, I feared it would attack me while I was out. I prepared and ate this:


I taste tested two with Almond Butter and approved, so I covered the rest just the same.

Then I found a new way to eat the rest of the slices

This is why they pay me the big bucks, open faced melon cucumber sandwiches.

When I got back to the office it was 2:30 and I STILL wasn't hungry, but I did what I always do in this situation and ate anyway. I had an Amy’s Burrito Salad for lunch.


One Amy’s Burrito on top of salad (aka weeds). Now I know what you’re thinking, this is very hard and you don’t think you can make it, but it’s pretty tasty so you should really try it. Don’t be scarrrred.

I atually ate it like this

Forget what everyone always told you, you SHOULD play with your food (and sit one inch away from the television).

Okay now I have to tell you this funny story. So my sister, the work out queen, always goes to the gym straight from work and changes at the shop before hand. She was leaving at 4 yesterday and they were having the FINAL Audit meeting at 3:30, so she changed on her way into the meeting and set her bag outside the meeting room door.

Next thing you know i'm working away and the admin assistant says "Ummm Bailey has some stuff". I walk out of my office to see Bailey terrorizing all kinds of items on the mat at the front door. She was running around with a pair of PANTIES and a trail of socks in tow. This situation could have taken alot of different turns, most of which ending up with Bailey running through a meeting with sexy lingerie and horifying two male Auditors, my sister (as soon as she recognized the item) and quite a few employees. Professionalism at it's finest. Luckily, i'm stealth and caught her.

Late afternoon I had myself some ZEN


Oh how I never expected to love tea, I used to think it was only for Grandmas and sick people.

More Fruit...

Hi!


After work I got my eyebrows waxed. I've been doing this for years but I still continue to get so nervous that the girl is going to pass me the mirror to "see if I like them" and they're going to be gone.

I came home and had some Cashew Butter straight up with a spoon



I read my new magazines for a while and then finally decided on attempting my own version of Sheppards Pie for Suppa. It's covers like these ones that suck me in with all the pretty colours. The inside is always the same.



I cut up some Veggies

Mushrooms, Carrots, Tomato and added some Cole Slaw.

Boiled some Cauliflower for the "Potato"


Cooked the Veggies

And decided to add some Spinach, Corn and Seitan. Along with 1/2 tsp Cumin and 1 tsp Worchester Sauce

Tossed the cooked Cauliflower in the food processor

And added a little Almond Milk and Salt

Transfered the Veggie/Seitan mixture into a casserole dish


Topped it with the "Mash Potatoes" and Nutritional Yeast (needed my daily fix)

I stuck this in the oven for 5 minutes but basically just for show since everything is already cooked.

Ready to eat

This was actually pretty good. It's definitely a different version of sheppards pie for obvious reasons (like every ingredient) but it was a tasty meal for something new.

I took this downstairs with me and watched (stared) at the hockey game with my man. I mostly thought about how much I hate dishes and wished the ones waiting upstairs for me would disappear. They didn't.

Before bed I had a really original snack.. PUMPERNICKLE AND PB!


No the Peanut Butter isn't imaginary, it's just that I love to break this bread apart and slather the PB on each individual piece AS i'm putting them in my mouth. It's WAY better this way.

And

Half a Banana with Cashew Butter. This combination is a match made in heaven, you really need to try it.

And then I woke up 2:00am and had it again..




Some Must Have Non Food Purchases

I absolutely HAVE to share this with you. I'm like the mascara Nazi and i've been searching for the perfect mascara for the past ummm.. all my life. Yesterday I finally found it. This stuff is AWESOME.


Lancome Hypnose Drama

I bought these next items because my dad told me to. If my dad told me to jump off a bridge I would. You know when parents say “I don’t know whose child you are”. Well when my mom used to say it I think my dad secretly knew that the qualities she was attacking were his. I don’t blame him for not calling himself out like that. Unfortunately, my dad has MANY insanely good qualities that I did not inherit, like his work ethic and ability to fix anything. Lucky I did manage to scrape by with his humor and sarcasm. Anyway, the point of the story is that now I’ve actually started flossing my teeth. One step closer to graduating the 6 month cleaning list.


Lazy man's flossing stick