{351} vitamins

i hate swallowing pills so the only way i'm able to take my vitamins is by chewing them. i used to just take double the dosage of flinstone vitamins (yum!) but now they make adult vitamins that are super tasty and chewable!

{347} sprinkles

well, this was a mess. dumping out the sprinkles carefully was one thing but then trying to get them all back into the bottle without the help of a funnel proved to be just a giant massive mess. i managed--but only slightly. a lot of them ended up getting washed down the sink!

{332} candy candy candy

how can i still possibly have room for more candy? all i've eaten is candy! i just can't get enough. plus, i thought these mint leaves and red gummy bears looked delicious together.

{325} expiry date

well, since it was supposed to be the expiry date of the world and all, i figured i ought to do something along those lines. so, i photoshopped my name as the "expiry date" stamp on this can of corn. :)

{323} rice krispies

i don't eat much cereal but i had this box of rice krispies left over from when i made energy bars (#252) so i spilled some out and shaped my name into the spilled remains.

{315} rugelach

for said christmas party on sunday, i prepared a traditional hanukkah dessert (it was a christmas party but also the first day of hanukkah). i made chocolate raspberry rugelach. they were soooooo good. they don't look great but they sure tasted great!

{313} jelly beans

at our work christmas banquet there was this massive candy bar and we filled up on candy big time. however, there was still a lot of candy leftover, so it was brought to our offices. i, of course, got a big tupperware container and hoarded as many jelly beans as i could. then, this weekend, i took them all home and proceeded to eat them. :) i love me some candy. looks like george wanted some too.

{311} mom's baking

my mom spoiled us at work this week and brought in a huge tray of her amazing christmas baking. seriously. within ten seconds of me removing the lid, half the tray was emptied. we were hoarding the treats at our desks. it was awesome.

{300} orange peel

it seems that my favourite names are always made of food. probably because i love to eat. makes sense. i've been obsessively eating a lot of oranges lately...it's christmas. that's what we do. so, i took the sucked-on, dried-out peels and carved out my name from them.

300 days down! only 65 to go! thank goodness! :-P

{286} pizza

ate the best pizza ever at rhombus guys in grand forks, north dakota. looked nothing like this. it was amaze-balls-fest.

can you even see my name in this? i can barely see it. took forever to photoshop it and yet you can't even see it. oh, well. still counts. :)

{266} popcorn kernels

i love popcorn. on friday, i ate an entire back of white cheddar chipotle popcorn. on saturday, elijah and i polished off an entire bag of popcorn. on sunday, i polished off another bag on my own. i love me some popcorn. :) the air-popped stuff is definitely healthier but i prefer my popcorn flavoured with loads of butter weighing it down!

{252} energy bars

my friend, erin, introduced this recipe to me on saturday when we went to kenora for the day. she packed some of these delicious cake batter energy bars along for us. they were so good! so, i found the recipe on chocolate-covered katie's website and made it tonight. super delicious! of course, as soon as they were hardened (and i'd eaten a few pieces!), i carved my name into them. :)

{248} marshmallows

thanks, rebecca, for this idea...again! :) gah, after carving out these letters i proceeded to eat all six marshmallows and got a serious sugar stomachache. blech. bad idea.

{231} lunch

keeping on this food theme, today, whilst making the exact same lunch that i had yesterday, i decided to photograph the contents of my lunch but not before spelling out my name!
L-radishes, A-broccoli slaw, U-celery, R-onions, E-cucumbers, N-tuna.

yum!

 

george embraced his inner cat and sat patiently waiting for a spoonful of tuna!

{230} pickles

well, after 16 days of eating anything and everything (okay, not anything. specifically i ate a tonne of burgers, fries, chips and candy) it is back to my healthy eating again. it was fun but looking at the scale was decidedly not fun. alas, all good things must come to an end.

so, for lunch today i went back to my veggies and tuna salad. of course, i need to add a couple of pickles to spice it up. hence the name. :)

{199} blueberries

i do believe i can count this one again because the last time i used blueberries inside of blueberry muffins. today they are featured on their own and in the raw. i am obsessed with blueberries of late. i cannot stop eating them by the cup full. they say they're awfully healthy but i just think they're delicious. i'm completely addicted.

{184} blueberry muffins

i am making these muffins all the time now. every time i make them, i adjust the recipe and incorporate some other healthy alternative. i used to use butter, now i use vegan margarine (yay! no dairy!). i don't use any sugar, just applesauce. i use coconut flour instead of regular flour. they are SO good. i eat two every morning for breakfast for a total of 200 calories. yum yum. so, whilst making them i decided to quickly use some leftover blueberries and spell out my name. as you can see on the baked product, it didn't really stand out as well as i'd hoped!

{147} bruised banana

i know this idea came from Rebecca's blog (although i can't remember which exact post--I had just saved a copy of the picture as inspiration). i don't eat bananas so i never had one around but today, at work, bananas were part of our treats so i decided to take a banana and write my name in it! i even at the banana afterwards (big mistake. huge.). i was also wise enough to not take a picture of me actually eating a banana. ;)

{143} flour

food again today? yup. that's how i've been rolling lately. it seems that all i think about is food lately--healthy good food that won't make me sick. i've lost 6.2 pounds in the last two weeks which is a lot but also fantastic because it means i'm finally cleansing my system of all those awful toxic foods i'd been eating for the last few months. it feels good to be rid of the toxins (and extra pounds!). sadly, i'm still two pounds overweight so i really want to get rid of at least another 6-8 pounds so i am more comfortably in the "normal" range.

anyhoo, so i made muffins just now on my lunch break. see two posts ago for the recipe. i only remembered to make my name afterwards, so i wrote my name in the spilled flour.

{142} cashews

so, today's name comes courtesy of my mid-morning snack. when i bike to work, then i find i need a little extra fuel to keep me going through the whole morning until lunch (which isn't eaten until 1:30ish). so, i broke up some of my cashews to make my name and used instagram for the picture.  now i regret using instagram because all my other pictures are 4x6s. oh, well. i'll get over it.