Stuff I'm Into

Hey guys! I hope that you are well and had a good week! I am getting back into my normal routine and trying to catch up on sleep. I should be back to regular food posts next week and I'm looking forward to it! For today, I thought it would be fun to share some of the things I've been loving lately. I would love to hear about the things you've been enjoying as well!

Netflix

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It shouldn't be a surprise that I love The Great British Bake Off because I've mentioned it before in another favorites post. However, I took a break for a few season when Mary Berry and the two hosts left the show. Paul is entertaining but I tried watching with all the new people and I just wasn't able to get into it. I heard that there was an all vegan episode on the latest season to hit Netflix so I decided to give it another try. Naturally this leads to a 2 season binge and I can't get enough. I still miss Mel and Sue and Mary but the new crew has grown on me and the baking is as inspiring as always.

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Do you guys have that movie that you keep checking for on Netflix? My movie was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love this movie and I have been wanting to watch it for so long but I was never able to find it on Netflix. I decided to try searching for it a week or two ago and it was there! If you have never seen this movie I highly recommend watching it! It's really good and I thought Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet were amazing in it. It also made me hate Elijah Wood and I didn't think that was possible 😂

Disney/Pixar

Over New Year's there were Disney movie marathons all over the place. Thanks to this I was able to watch a movie that I hadn't seen yet. In addition, Netflix added another movie I hadn't seen and both of them were incredible so I wanted to share!

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Tangled was a Disney movie that I had somehow never seen but always wanted to watch. It hasn't been on Netflix since I've had the service and it was never on TV during these marathons. FINALLY it was on and I caught it during a Disney movie marathon and I FREAKING LOVED IT. It quickly became one of my new favorite Disney movies. I love the story and I love Rapunzel and it was beautiful and I just loved it.

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Over Christmas I was asked if I had watched Coco and I said no. I was told it was incredible and I would cry like a baby. Truthfully I didn't have high hopes because I felt it started out a little slow but OH. MY. GOODNESS. It lived up to the hype and it was so good you guys. Of course I cried like a baby and I'm so glad it was recommended to me. It just happened to be added to Netflix so it was perfect timing and I highly recommend checking it out if you can!

Cookbook

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This book has also come up before on this blog when I mentioned some cookbooks that were on my radar. I was lucky enough to receive NYC Vegan for the holidays and I am SO EXCITED!!! I haven't made anything from it yet but all of the recipes look delicious and I can't wait to dive in. Of course some of them will be once in a while treats because they don't quite fit into my nutrition goals for chronic illness management but there are also plenty of recipes that do! I'm so excited to give it a try and I can't wait to do a proper review once I've tried a few recipes!

Food

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I have been seeing Tteokbokki (Korean rice cakes) EVERYWHERE lately and they sound so freaking good. It is my intention to run over to H-Mart this weekend to pick up some rice cakes and gochujang so I can try making them myself. I found a recipe from The Viet Vegan (pictured above from her site) that I am going to try and I can't wait!

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Technically this is a meme but it contains food and is hilarious so I had to share it with you. I can't stop laughing every time I look at it 😂

As you can see I've been catching up on my Netflix/movie watching a lot lately. I have not been feeling great (chronic illness acting up and not sleeping much makes you not want to do much) so I've been giving my body the rest it needs and relaxing and catching up on Netflix. I rarely ever watch TV and I don't really use my Netflix a ton so it was nice to just relax and catch up. What have you been watching on Netflix lately?

That's all I have for you today! I hope that you have a great weekend and I'll be back Tuesday hopefully with a ton of hauls to share with you!! 

Stuff I Ate

Hey guys! I hope that you are all doing well! Happy Friday! I hope you have all had a great week and I'm sure you are all ready for your weekend. I am as well and I feel like I'm counting the minutes. I still feel like my body is dragging and I'm just completely drained from being sick but I'm working on getting better.

I have a few meals to share with you today but it has definitely been a weird week as there isn't much that I've actually wanted to eat. With that said, I'll show you the few meals I did photograph.

I decided to treat myself to some sushi and it was so delicious. It was by far my favorite meal of the week and oddly enough the price went back down to $6.49. I'm not going to argue with it, it's just weird 😂 In any case, it was absolutely delicious and I'm glad I decided to treat myself.

I was really craving pizza but didn't have a pizza crust (I keep meaning to get one from Trader Joe's but I keep forgetting!) so I decided to make a pizza bagel! I used the Violife Mozzarella Shreds (really good!!) and it was exactly what I wanted.

When I went to pick up the sushi I noticed that they had Panera Garden Veggie soup in a container! This used to be my favorite soup at Panera but I haven't seen it there in the longest time (it is vegan without the Pesto). I decided to grab it for lunch the next day and you guys… it was so DISAPPOINTING!!! This is not the garden veggie soup I remember. This was like a few sad veggies and barley in tomato sauce. I hated it and it made me nauseous. Definitely disappointing and a waste of money.

I brought some fruit and peanut to work with me to have as snacks. This is always a good idea!

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I saw this meme on Instagram and I was like OMG ME!!! 😂 

So those are all of the sad meals I have to share today. Sorry things have been lackluster here lately but as I start to feel better it'll get more exciting! I hope that you enjoy your weekend and I'll see you back here on Tuesday!

What I Ate in a Day #Whatever

Hey everyone! Happy Friday! I hope you are all doing well and had a great Halloween! I met up with my family to go trick or treating with my niece for a little bit and it was fun to see her in her cute Zombie Cheerleader costume. Otherwise it was fairly uneventful. Did you guys do anything fun?

For today I have a what I ate in a day post! I didn't feel like going back and seeing how many I've done so far to properly number it, hence #Whatever 😂 For this day I just ate three regular meals. I keep going back and forth between three normal meals and 5 small meals. I'm still working on my digestion (which I actually found out is likely fibromyalgia related) and no matter what I do I seem to feel sick by the end of the day. Maybe I should try doing a larger breakfast and lunch and have a light dinner? That might help anyway so my body doesn't have to work so hard to digest at night. I'll figure it out… I'm just thinking "out loud" for now 😂

Anyway, this is what I ate in a day!

For breakfast I had 2 bananas with some crunchy peanut butter. Super delicious and also really filling.

For lunch I grabbed some broccoli and rice from the deli next door. Also delicious.

For dinner I ended up making a vegan chick'n caesar salad and tots again. I ran out of the Morningstar Chick'n so I decided to soak some soy curls in some Not Chicken broth to see if that would work out. It was ok but the Morningstar is definitely better for salads. The soy curls are great for soup and I'm sure they are awesome for stir fries when topped with a delicious sauce. Anyway, the meal was still super delicious.

I saw this meme and had to share it with you. I laughed so hard, I love it so much 😂 

So that's what I have for you today! I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you back here on Tuesday!!

Stuff I Ate

Hey everyone! I hope that you are all doing well! I don't know about you guys but the nasty weather we are having here is so exhausting! It makes me want to make a huge cup of tea and just hang out in bed and watch all of the YouTube. Which is kind of what I did this weekend. I didn't have much of an appetite so I didn't have a ton of meals but the ones I did have were great. It was also Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) this weekend so I finally got a picture of what I had for our holiday dinner! I'm pretty sure in all of my years blogging I've never taken a picture of that!

Anyway, enough chatting, let's check out some yummy meals.

On Sunday I decided to treat myself to these beautiful, fresh veggie rolls. All of this for $6.49. It was so good.

Here is my holiday dinner. I couldn't finish it because I wasn't feeling great but the meals was so delicious. I had some Gardein crispy tenders, asparagus, broccoli, my favorite roasted potatoes and some pickles.

The following night I had some leftover potatoes and some of the tempura cauliflower from Trader Joe's. So delicious!

I don't have a source link because my friend sent this to me but all of my fellow Beauty and the Beast fans, how freaking funny is this?! 😂

OMG MEEEEEEE. Those are my favorite 5 words to use hahahahaaha 😂

I hope you all enjoyed this quick post. I'll see you back here on Friday for some more fun <3

This and That

Hey everyone! I hope that all is well and that you all had a great week. I don't have a ton to share with you but I figured a little is better than nothing. It's been really busy and I didn't get a ton of pictures but the two meals that I did photograph were pretty amazing. I also have a few more memes to share with you. I love memes, they always make me smile 😊

I was out running some errands before work one day and decided to pick up a delicious plain bagel with scallion tofutti for breakfast. It was so yummy. I'm seriously so spoiled living in NY because we definitely have the best bagels.

Yet another salad. This one has baby lettuces and some cute up gardein crispy tenders and Just Ranch. Super delicious!

I grabbed this from a Facebook group that I'm in so I don't have a source credit but it is so funny.

I loved this one so much. Me in high school 😂

Sorry for the short post! I hope to be able to capture more meals for you guys for next week! I hope you all have an wonderful weekend and I've been loving all of your MoFo posts!

Friday Fun!

Hey you guys! I hope that all is well and that you've had a great week. I'm definitely ready for the weekend (sadly not a long weekend but a weekend is good enough for me) and haven't really made plans yet. I feel like I should do something but not sure what. Any ideas? Tell me all the fun things you are doing!

I don't have a ton of meals to share but I've pulled together a fun collection of meals, new treats and some memes to share. I sadly don't have source links for the memes because I just take screen shots when I see one that makes me laugh so I can send it to my friends. I decided to share a few here and if I come across the source I'll make sure to link it to them.

Anyway, here's all the stuff!

I was feeling peanut butter and banana so I had peanut butter and banana… on a toasted bagel because that's delicious.

Avocado toast on sourdough bread and some grapes.

So many salads. 

So I've been in budget mode the past few weeks and have not been buying any high priced items at all. I was passing by the vegan ice cream section in the grocery store and wanted to take a look (I was mostly curious to see if the Daiya bars made it to the store yet - they haven't) and noticed the Haagen-Dazs vegan pints on sale for $3.49!! I saw the Mocha Chocolate Cookie and decided to have a treat yo self moment and I bought it. It's so good you guys. The texture is perfect, the flavor is great and it just a really great quality vegan ice cream. I highly recommend!

And here are the memes!

Hahahaha me except always the before. The before is my before and after 😂

I can't wait to show this to my therapist 😂

My friend sent this to me and I could not stop laughing. This is hilarious and I love it so much.

So there you have it my friends! I hope that you enjoyed this post and that you have a great and safe holiday weekend! See you next week!

This and That

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. I don't know about you but we have had a ton of rain lately (some crazy storms!!) and it has helped cool off the area a bit and I couldn't be happier. It has been high 70s over the past few days and it has been wonderful. This is my favorite type of weather. I had a great weekend and while I don't have tons of meals to show you, I do have some random bits and bobs to share. These kinds of posts can be fun so I'm excited to share some randomness with you!

First up, I do have some food to share:

This was one of the most random meals I've ever thrown together. I had some tempura cauliflower from Trader Joe's left in the freezer so I had that (sans sauce) and some refreshing watermelon on the side. It was actually really great despite being an odd combination.

One Sunday I went to late lunch with my mom and my brother at a Turkish restaurant and had the most wonderful meal!

I started with some Shepherd's salad and it was so yummy. I added some hummus to the plate when it came to the table but I had already started eating so I didn't take a pic. 

OMG you guys. I normally get falafel but I didn't want to eat fried food and have that heaviness in my tummy so I went for the veggie kebabs and you guys. Check out this feast for $12!!! It came with pickled cabbage, salad, bulgur, rice and two huge skewers of grilled veggies. It comes with eggplant, red and white onions, tomato and mushrooms (and peppers but I asked for no peppers). It was delicious and perfectly cooked. The eggplant was so tender and amazing. I am so glad I chose this!

I was out running some errands with my mom Sunday morning and we stopped at 7-Eleven for some coffee for my mom. I noticed that they had the Silk Vanilla Almond Creamer so I partook as well!! It is always so exciting to find vegan options popping up everywhere!

After trying and enjoying the almond creamer I found out there is a Hazelnut flavor and you better believe I went and got some! I like it a lot. It's not my favorite hazelnut flavor but it is really good and I'm glad I found it!

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When I saw the double whammy of a hilarious meme and the cutest puppies of life I knew I had to share this here. I absolutely can not deal with this and their faces. They are too much!!! 

I mentioned that it has been raining like crazy lately but I saw the most beautiful rainbow! I was stopped at a red light (and kind of pulled over) so I snapped a super quick pic of it. I don't know about you guys but I love storms (although not driving in them) and seeing a rainbow after is the icing on the cake.

So that's all the random stuff I have to share with you today! I hope that you are all doing well, had a great weekend and have had a great start to your week. I'll see you on Friday!!

Staycation Bust

Hey everyone! I hope you are all well. As you can probably see by my title, my staycation didn't go very well. While I was hoping for a relaxing, resting break that would allow me to recharge it was completely the opposite and I just had a really hard time with some of my mental health issues. My OCD was really bad, I had a downward swing into depression courtesy of my bipolar and all of this triggered my panic disorder as well. As you can imagine, it was a VERY difficult weekend and I'm still struggling quite a bit from it.

Sadly this means that my appetite suffered as well so I don't have much to show you. I do have a grocery haul to share and one meal, but other than that it was basically toast and a banana that I had to force myself to eat. It was a struggle but I'm working through it and hopefully I'll have some more food to share with you by the end of the week.

This is my Trader Joe's produce haul. I got two bags of butter lettuce as salad has been my thing lately. I got some green onions, an avocado, some grape tomatoes and some shredded carrots.

I also got a bag of the Root Veggie Chips (supposed to be like the Terra Chips and they are so good), some of the Tempura Cauliflower (not a fan of the sauce but the cauliflower is great) and some brown rice.

This mini haul is from Stop and Shop (one of our local grocery stores). I got more of the Morning Star Chick'n Strips for my salads, Daiya mozzarella and spinach (for a recipe I was supposed to make) and more Just Ranch.

The final meal before I lost my shit. A vegan chick'n caesar (actually ranch) salad.

Bonus fun, I have seen these before but never saw this version of it so I thought I'd share. It's so accurate. 😂

Sorry I wasn't more exciting and didn't have fun things to share with you. Sadly mental health is an ongoing thing and will ruin the best made plans sometimes. I did zero meal planning, zero meal prepping and just nothing that I wanted to do. Hopefully I'll be able to work on that through the week.

I hope you all had a great weekend and I'll see you on Friday, hopefully with more exciting content. 💜

Quick Update

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been around. Things are still crazy. My aunt is on the mend but still needs some help. My gastritis/reflux is also acting up so eating has been quite difficult. I'm finally getting in to a new dr. to try and get to the bottom of that because it causes a lot of stress and is quite painful. So sadly I don't really have much for you for food pictures. I literally just have one picture of fruit I snagged off of an edible arrangement but otherwise that's it.

I know this isn't much of an update but I don't have much to say? I will be back on Friday and I'm going to post some actual content, even if it's not the food I've been eating. I keep forgetting that I don't have to only post my food and hauls on here so I'm going to come up with something to share with you on Friday.

Haha my sad little fruit salad from the edible arrangement. There is a pineapple flower under there somewhere. So random question, does anyone eat the pineapple core? I do when it is in something like the flower or when they are cut into little semicircles with the core still in. The core is actually good for you with extra fiber and a really high concentration of bromelain and I actually really like the texture. I haven't heard of anyone else eating the core, am I alone in this?!

Also, this meme is freaking hilarious and ME 😂 It makes me laugh so freaking hard.

Anyway, that's all I have for you today! I hope that you are all doing well and I'm excited to bring you an actual post on Friday. Not quite sure what it's going to be just yet but hopefully I'll be able to think of something awesome to share!

Have a great week!

Fun Friday: Funny Vegan Memes

Hey everyone! I hope you are all well and that you had a great week! For those of you that don't know, I am a sucker for a good meme or gif. I think they are the perfect way to punctuate a joke or moment. I saw an awesome thread of vegan memes in a group I'm in on Facebook and thought it would be a really fun idea for a post! There are so many of them but I'll narrow down to some of my favorites 😃

I tried to pick the light-hearted/fun ones. Which ones are your favs?!

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That face though 😂

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I thought my fellow vegan bloggers could relate to this 😉

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This is one of my favorites. Just a simple chart.

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I freaking love this one. I think it's hilarious.

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Another one of my favs and one of my contributions to that thread 😂 The struggle is real though.

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Preach, Elle!

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I think this one may annoy people but it made me laugh so hard because this has happened to me before. I have received fruit bowls for birthdays and a can of mixed nuts for an "Easter Basket." 😂

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I know you can all relate! I know we have a lot of pro level ingredient checkers here.

I hope you enjoyed this roundup of memes! I know it's a bit different from what I normally post but I thought it would be fun 😃 I'll be back next week with some food. Now that the weather is getting better I'm 100% in summer mode and ready for summer produce and grilled food! Bring on the BBQs (and that corn on the cob!)!

Have a great weekend! Let me know of any fun plans you have!