3 Steps to Happiness

One of the most famous vegan blogs I follow is run by an energetic, and chocolate-covered girl named Katie. The best thing about her recipes (besides being nutritious and super yummy) is how simplistic they are. She takes real, honest ingredients and cooks them in simple ways that are always amazing! Today, in preparation for my lunch tomorrow made a batch of banana butter. I got hooked on this recipe in the summer time, if you make it you will see why. It doesn't sound like much, sure, it's only banana and peanuts. When I first explained it to my best friend she said "I don't think I want that."

And then she tried it.

All you need is a few tablespoons of natural peanut butter, (you don't need the sugar salt or extra oils, people!) a banana, and some sort of blending device. 

There are three steps:

Step 1: Place ingredients in blending device

BEFORE

 Step 2: Blend

AFTER

Step 3: Spread on toast and enjoy in an all-white room with your significant other

Awwwww

This is what I ate on cue-to-cue day

This picture was taken on the day we did the cue to cue for Charlie Brown.

I arrived in the theatre at 8AM and left at 7:30. The rest of the tech team and I spent the entire school day hanging, focusing and gelling lights, and literally placed the last gel in the light 4 minutes before we began our cue-to-cue. 

With a schedule so tight, no one has time to leave and purchase meals (coffee however…) 

So I have to plan ahead. This is everything I ate that day, all neatly packed the night before. 

There was:

• 1 pear
• 1 banana
• Baggie of trail mix 
• Sandwich with: sun dried tomato and currie lentil veg burger from Community 
• Spinach salad with: avocado, cucumber, pear, sprouts, cashews with homemade tahini-lemon dressing 
• Coconut-portobello pasta from The Coup cookbook 
• 1 chocolate coconut Larabar 
• 1 water bottle full of unsweetened almond milk 

There was also an obscene amount of espresso- it was a busy day. 

It is a strange experience planning out all my meals and snacks for an entire day (except breakfast, which was carrot oatmeal, if you care) but it does allow me to plan a balanced diet for the day, which is so so so important when you're working hard at something stressful. 

There you go! This is what I ate that day.  

So, it's been three months

The musical I have been working on since the last week of august just wrapped. It was pretty awesome. I ate a lot of things in the past three months. Here are some of the things:

• larabars; especially the key lime pie flavour
• indian spiced potatoes, and some lentil stuff I made for a potluck 
• gyoza 
• chai tea cupcakes 
• forbidden rice w/portobellos
• peanut butter with pretzels
• lots of coffee

Even though it has been three months, and this blog only has four followers, and they have all probably lost faith in me, I have decided to blog more. I'm going to focus on things I eat on a day to day basis to show people veganism isn't boring! 

I also just found out blogger will let me change the name of my blog as often as I want. Be prepared for that.

I'm back!