Cashews are on my naughty list

Who knew cashews could give you intense heartburn? I sure didn't... if I did, I wouldn't have had an entire pack while studying in a room full of silent people that can now hear my intense heartburn.

I've pretty much just been eating my gluten-free pasta with the cauliflower dressing for days now because I made WAY too much and refuse to throw it away. I finally finished it for lunch this afternoon and then I went to starbucks and bought a passionfruit tea with lemonade
which was delicious! I proceeded to eat a bag of cashews about two hours later... and well... you all know how that went.

I'm going to go to Lime with Rachel later tonight to eat dinner (Old fashion nachos here I come!) and then continue studying. Not much else going on... finals finals finals! This next one is the mother-final and I'm studying my behind off so I ace it. Hasta manana!

Day eight is Great!

It's been a while but it's finals week.. bear with me.

So dinner with Brittany and Hugo was awesome. Maroosh had a veggie platter that was your typical veggies but with this really tasty curry sauce. I think it gave me slight heart burn... but it was worth it.
Sunday was Seby's pool party. I had oatmeal before going to yoga (not the best idea I've had) and then didn't really eat too much except hummus and carrots at Monica's house. I went home around 7 and had my left overs from Maroosh which were even better than the night before. I love left overs.
I had a friend from class post a link on my FB wall about this recipe she tried. It's called Cauli-power Fettuccine "Alfredo" (Vegan) and I just had to replace the fettuccine with the gluten-free pasta I had bought at trader joe's. Winning.

I made this recipe Sunday night and had it for lunch today. I think I didn't make enough dressing for my pack of pasta but it was still yummy. anddddd apparently Mondays are bring-pasta-to-school-day because everyone in my class had pasta for lunch... so i'm glad I didn't feel left out and had brought (gluten-free) pasta too! I had some more for dinner because I had to study for tomorrow's practical but tomorrow I'll make lentils to change it up a bit.

Other than that... not much else going on. Studying for finals = no time to be a creative gluten-free/vegan chef. boo :: thumbs down ::

highlight of the weekend: GLUTEN FREE VEGAN CHOCOLATE CHIPS from Brittany!

confession of the weekend: How I felt when mom told me she had diarrhea Sunday night

day six and i don't need no cake mix

Starting this post off with these beautiful Old fashion nachos at Lime... this was the FIRST AND ONLY place that i've gone to thus far, told them I'm looking for a gluten-free/vegan dish, and that they were helpful and happy to help. The guy behind the counter even told me that they cut their chicken with the same knives so he'd make sure they cut the ingredients with a clean knife. Amazing. Pretty much it's corn chips with beans (so many beans) onions, peppers, pico de gallo, guac, carrots, tomatoes, and lime. I added cilantro from the condiment bar with more pico de gallo but it was amazing! I could've cried.

So that was thursday after school and then I went to yoga and almost threw it all up with my downward dogs. but life was good after Lime. 

Yesterday I didn't have class so I slept in and woke up around lunchtime. At which point I had a salad (spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, cashews, pomegranate seeds, almonds, apples and raspberry dressing) with Brit's smoothie. This smoothie is becoming a daily occurrence. 

 I was at the library studying all day so I took an apple, corn chips, hummus and a bag of cashews with me which was enough to hold me over til dinner time. There's a microwave in the building next to the library so I was able to heat up my black bean soup which was way more filling than I thought it was going to be.

Today I did wake up on time and had a almond butter and fruit jelly sandwich with gluten free bread. I hadn't tried it yet but it is actually pretty good. I had the daily smoothie and now I'm going to pack some snacks for the day since I'm going to be studying again.

Tonight I'll be meeting the two lucky winners of my blog's contest 

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Congratulations Brittany & Hugo !

:)

On the fourth day of my vegan diet, my stomach growled to meeeeee

Yesterday went a little bit like this:

Morning: woke up late... again... So I skipped breakfast and had my leftover LQCC salad for lunch with corn chips and garlic hummus. For dinner, I had oatmeal with raspberries. Yes, I'm aware I didn't eat much yesterday but I was busy with school.

Todayyyyyy, I woke up on time and had oatmeal again with raspberries which is actually really good and filled me up pretty well all through my morning lab.

Coconut oil is a gift to vegans! it smells amazing and makes the oatmeal taste so yummy!

I also replaced the agave in their recipe for maple syrup (Hugo-style). I think I found a promising breakfast meal. 

For lunch I stilllllllllll had LQCC salad left overs so I finished that and had chips with guachummus which was amazing. All my classmates wanted some so they finished my LQCC salad and pretty much my entire bag of corn chips and most of my guachummus lol vultures. 

I think I'm going to have to really try to come up with a hefty dinner because I haven't really had a planned/big meal in a while. 

Options are: 

Black bean quinoa tacos

OR

Gluten pasta with tomato sauce

Going to take an hour nap then go to yoga at 6 and we'll see how dinner goes. 

DAY TWO! I'M ALIVE!

as I tell more people that I've gone vegan/gluten-free, the better it gets lol I now have the world to prove wrong, I will do this and do it right I will. I woke up late (as usual) so I didn't get to make my gluten-free toast with jelly. HOWEVER (!), I brought a grapefruit and made myself a smoothie that I had during class. The smoothie was Brittany's specialty with a twist (spinach, almond milk, 3 cubes of ice, banana slices and frozen mango & strawberries), it was delicious. The evil grapefruit though.... gave me severe heart burn ... immediately. lol my table mate kept telling me I should never have grapefruit again. So that Lutheran fruit has been scratched off my next grocery list.

anyway... didn't really need a snack since I had breakfast during class time. Lunch came around and I had my infamous Lemon Quinoa Cilantro Chickpea (from now on known as LQCC) salad that was really quite good, ( insert Jay Z voice ) if I do say so myself. I also had my carrots with garlic hummus from Trader Joe's.

Mom picked up my glasses so when I got them from her we went to eat and I initially thought of Shake Shack (across from my school) when she said she wanted a burger. So we went there only to find that there are ZERO gluten free / vegan meals there. So back into the car we went with mom mumbling "i just want a burger... vegan y que vegan". So I googled vegan/gluten free burgers in miami and sure enough BOOM five guys showed up. We drove down the street and when we went to order at Five Guys... there were no longer any gluten-free buns -__- so i ate french fries while mom had her mushroom filled double stacked hamburger with extra bacon.

Since then I've had a green apple and some more hummus. Not really hungry... when I know that the food that I have is more veggies or chips with hummus lol

Overall, not too shabby for day two. Tomorrow, I WILL HAVE GLUTEN FREE OATMEAL WITH RASPBERRIES! found this recipe: http://omoftheday.com/2010/06/27/coconut-tickled-raspberries/

Later!

oh and as per the tedious requests from my millions of followers, I am attaching a picture of the infamous LQCC I had for lunch. Enjoy my little vegans.

Lemon Quinoa Cilantro Chickpea Salad

First Lunch

All I want are honey BBQ fritos twist. However, I had salsa and corn chips during this morning's presentations (thank you LStew for not making them flour chips) and now I'm having a spinach salad for lunch with the following:

• cucumbers
• carrots
• chickpeas
• bell peppers
• almonds
• onions
• black beans
• corn
• craisins 
• tomatoes
• and i would've had avocado (my fav) but the lady forgot to put it or they didn't have any and she failed to mention it to me
• oh and balsamic vinaigrette (as if that helps)

I almost had them add tortilla chips but after asking to see the bag... they weren't corn chips so i had to scratch that off my order (luckily, the owner said he would look into getting those for future customers... aka me.)
While the lady was making my salad, I picked up Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato tortilla chips and a Dole Mixed Fruit cup because I feel like I'm still going to be starving after all this.
I'm going to see how I feel during spinning but I think I should be fine... I've gone to a class with less in my stomach than this.
Definitely hitting up Trader Joe's after spinning so I can stock up on fruit, veggies, and nuts.
Thus far my grocery list includes:

• almond milk, chickpeas, hummus, carrots, celery, quinoa, cilantro, tomatoes, frozen pineapples, spinach, bananas (to make Brittany's morning smoothie), edamame, bag of mixed veggies, maple syrup (ha), corn tortilla chips, cocoa, tea bags, salsa (or pico de galla), lots and lots of lettuce for wraps, lime, lemons, avocados, gluten free oatmeal, gluten free pasta (fettuccine), nutritional yeast (?? i know... there's a recipe that requires this), guacamole, black beans, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, arrowroot powder, raw buckwheat groats, coconut whipped cream, cucumber, asparagus, green apples, grapefruit, celery, coconut oil, mint leaves, frozen mango, hemp hearts, red onion, basil leaves, sun dried tomatoes, garlic, kale, and raw hazelnuts 

how hard can this be :)

Starting... TOMORROW!

First post and we're starting something new. Tomorrow I will be going to the supermarket and ATTEMPTING to purchase gluten-free/vegan groceries for the week. I'm not quite sure how that will go but I'm going to try and do some research beforehand on different recipes and meals I can make that seem appetizing and filling. This will be in an attempt to primarily better understand my brother's daily lifestyle and lead a healthier lifestyle myself. I will be making an appointment with a gastroenterologist soon to check my GI system and a possible link to Crohn's disease.

Hasta mañana 

Goodbye my sweet sweet burgers