The Diamond Behind The Chocolate
I'm always all of the following:
-Shoe Humanitarian
-Wine lover
-Storm chaser
-Chocolate addict
-Sweat obsessed
-Daydreaming of traveling to Sicily
-Mathematically challenged.I'm sometimes:
-Rude
-Irate
-Insensitive
-The main character in a chick lit novel (usually a bad thing)
-In a love affair with leafy greens, HIIT workouts, and VH1.I'm never:
-A sports girl.
-A soapbox preacher.
-Old man winter's friend.
-Interested in driving (limo, please?)-
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Tag Archives: oats
-Things To Try Thursdays- Flapjacked Protein Pancakes
Protein pancakes. They are the everlasting trend that’s adorning countless kitchen stove tops these days. Or at least trying to… Usually, protein pancakes are made from scratch, with a form of protein powder albeit whey or plant based starring as … Continue reading
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Tagged athlete, banana hazelnut, breakfast, buttermilk, calories, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cinnamon apple, company, dinner, fitfluential, Fitness, flapjacked, fuel, girls gone sporty, health, ifbb, lunch, milk, non-gmo, npc, oats, protein pancakes, quinoa, real food, vegetarian, water, whey protein
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#WIAW- The Juicing Edition
Holy heck it has been buzz light years since I’ve participated in my favorite foodie day of the week. How are you my blog-lings? So I basically failed my healthy eating test for the end of 2012, but 2013 is … Continue reading
Posted in #WIAW
Tagged breakfast, carrot, chocolate, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, eggs, fitfluential, Fitness, foodie, girls gone sporty, greens, jen, juicing, muffins, oats, orange, pancakes, peas and crayons, valentines day, vegetarian, veggies, vitamix, what i ate wednesday
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Hot Chocolate Protein Pancakes
Is it just me or are we hearing “historic”, “record breaking”, and “storm of the century” a bit too often these days? I have no qualms about it since I’m a weather aficionado, but the media is completely abusing the … Continue reading
When In Doubt, Oat It Out
Oats is one of those words that gets uber weird after repeating it about 4 times. Very similar to “Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Pickled Peppers.” (Had to read and edit that three times over…and that was just writing … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged almond milk, baking, banana, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cookies, eggs, fitfluential, Fitness, health, oatmeal, oats, oster oven, pecan, quaker oats, Recipe, rolled oats
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#WIAW- The Baking Bug
Typically the only places I like bugs are behind glass or a colored photo. I’m a screamer when it comes to even the smallest kind of creepy crawly, so even when I’ve gone camping, it usually turns into “glam ping.” … Continue reading
Posted in #WIAW
Tagged baking, banana, breakfast, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cupcakes, cuties, dessert, dinner, fall, funfetti, halloween, health, lunch, mint chocolate chip, nutrition, oats, peas and crayons, pumpkin, sweets, tofutti
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Frozen Pumpkin Banana Oat Clusters
Title long enough for ya? Hopefully one of those ingredients intrigued you to read. As we all are fully aware, fall is upon us. In my opinion, it had already started on September 1, as the temps were in the … Continue reading
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Tagged banana, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, clusters, cotter crunch, eats, fall, fitfluential, food, frozen, health, healthy bites, oats, pumpkin, treats, tuesday, yum
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#WIAW- Falling Into Apple Orchards and Pumpkin Flavor
If you have a strong distaste for apple or pumpkin, I’d advise you to turn back. This WIAW is heavily biased towards those two power houses. Onward, shall we? The past week and a half has been a roller coaster … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, baking, banana, blueberry, bread, burger, carrots, chobani, chobani flip, chobani time, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, fall, farmer's market, fitfluential, food, fresh, habits, healthy, oats, orchards, oven, peas and crayons, pumpkin, stove, tomatoes, waffle, what i ate wednesday, yogurt, zucchini
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#WIAW- Food-ably Late
If you could take a snapshot of last week and compare it to this week, my schedule has gone from zero to hero in the blink of an eye. It all started with a bunch of freelance writing opportunities I … Continue reading
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Tagged avocado, banana, bread, calandra's, chocolate, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cilantro, coconut, eggs, fashion, food, fruit, grapes, gravy, greens, hummus, lettuce, mug cake, oats, paleo, pancakes, pasta, peaches, peas and crayons, peppers, pumpkin, sauce, tomato, what i ate wednesday
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-Things To Try Thursdays- Black Bean Brownies
It’s been a while since a recipe graced this blog. It’s kind of pathetic considering that’s one of the reasons why I started this blog in the first place, but life happens and I don’t always have access to my … Continue reading
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Tagged black bean brownies, chobani, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, coffee, Cooking, dairy, dessert, eating, flour, fudge, happy herbivore, oats, substitute, sugar, things to try thursdays
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#WIAW- Curiosity Killed The CoffeeMaker
Have you ever broken something accidentally due to your curiosity? Have you then lied about it and blamed it on “the renters” before you? After lying about it, were you then found out? Let’s rewind to a few days ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged avocado, black bean brownies, breakfast, chicken, chobani, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, coffee, corn, delicious, dessert, dinner, doctor kracker, drink charm, food, health, homemade, Kitchen, living on the veg, long beach island, lunch, medley, nutffles, oats, peas and crayons, pumpkin, restaurant, salad, seafood, smoothie, sugar cookie vodka, tea, the wizards of waverly place, what i ate wednesday
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