Current Breakfast Of Choice and Baby Mouse stuff...

Love a bowl of Weetabix (2 bars) crumbled with vanilla soymilk and bananas. I've been trying to drink more soymilk because the protein content is so high per cup. I believe it's around 7 grams.

I'm 30 weeks and 6 days pregnant and I can't believe it's going so fast and how well I'm doing. I never had morning sickness during the first trimester, only a llittle queasiness here and there but I did not throw up once! Second trimester was a breeze and now in the third it still feels great. The baby is head down now and moves a lot. Had a doctor visit on Friday and he's 3 lbs. and 7 oz. As far as my weight goes I'm doing good. I've gained a total of 11 lbs. so far which my doc is happy with. So I have about 10 weeks to go! 

Ultrasound pics are a bit creepy I know, but here's our little boy's face. He's got big eyes like his dad and long legs (doc measured his long thigh bone) and chubby cheeks.

This pic you can see his eye half open. He even smiled but we didn't get s pic of that. Pretty amazing huh?

Granola: Breakfast of Champions.

Granola is a great breakfast to get you going in the morning. I was inspired by my friend's granola picture on her Facebook page and I knew I had to make some right away. Mine has rolled oats, ground flax seeds, sunflower seeds, slivered almonds, walnut pieces, pumpkin seeds, coconut, raisins, sultanas, cranberries, cinnamon, a "touch" of sunflower oil and sweeteened with date syrup.


And it all fit into the new jar I bought from Ikea! Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow. Going to have this with hemp milk, mmm...

Happy Monday.

Well, not really happy Monday but you know, I try to be positive at the start of the week. Also a good breakfast doesn't hurt. I had a bowl of Weetabix with bananas and rice milk this morning. It was the perfect start to my day. Lately I've been obsessed with breakfast. I've been eating loads of hot cereals like farina (cream of wheat), oatmeal, oat bran as well as more indulgent foods like pancakes and Monte Cristo sandwiches (these are a breakfast item in my book!). They're not messing around when they say that a good breakfast is an important part of your morning. I've wasted so many years without it. I remember every day of high school, I'd wake up, get ready for school, skip breakfast completely, then around 10am would have a diet coke and a bag of chips at school. Dreadful! College wasn't any better. Now that I'm a proper grown up, haha, I try my best to get in a good breakfast every morning. If anything, it keeps me focused and energized during the day. Also I find that taking the time to enjoy the bit of morning I have free with a bowl of delicious breakfast sets the tone for the day. Today is going to be a good day and like I always say on Monday: it will go by fast!

Monday Eats.

Happy Monday all! Don't worry, it'll go by fast! That's what I tell myself every Monday anyway. After a nice walk this morning with the dog, I had a bowl of Farina hot cereal (cream of wheat) with blackstrap molasses, maple syrup and cinnamon. Not so pretty looking but it was very good.


I made a big batch of this red bean jambalaya from 1,000 Vegan Recipes last night. This will be lunch and possibly dinner today. It's a pretty good recipe though I did change a few things like using yellow pepper instead of green, jalapeno instead of mild green chiles and I omitted one can of the crushed tomatoes because I didn't have any. I guess it would have been more tomatoey with it but I liked it this way.

Jamie Oliver's "Pukkolla" Muesli + Enchilada Style Burritos Again!

No need to cook this delicious breakfast! I got this muesli recipe from Jamie Oliver's cookbook "The Naked Chef Takes Off" and I adapted it to be vegan by subbing rice milk for the cow's milk. It only required stirring up the dry ingredients (oats, bran, dried fruit, nuts) the night before, portioning out a bowl, adding grated apple, rice milk and storing in the fridge. Next day I added more rice milk, some banana, cinnamon and I had myself a nutritious breakfast. Try it, you'll like it. Today it worked very well for me because after a long dog walk in the sun, I wanted a cool breakfast, not a hot one. The recipe happens to be posted online here. (I didn't have dates so I used both dark and sultana raisins in mine!)


I enjoyed my breakfast on the patio in the backyard. Was wonderful...


Buster relaxing after a long walk.



I was craving a burrito and lately when it comes to burritos, I've been turning to this "enchilada style" quinoa/bean/veg burrito every time! I do change up the veg or beans depending what's on hand. Today I had spinach and pinto beans. These always come out good. I'm much happier to use quinoa instead of rice as it has a better nutritional content. It's got protein, fiber, iron AND calcium! The topping I used today was tomato sauce flavored with chipotle chili powder and a vegenaise/lime juice drizzle on top. I really like the creaminess of it which reminds me of sour cream. Recipe for burritos here. Feel free to change up the veggies or use a different style of bean.


Here's the filling of quinoa, pintos, spinach and tomatoes. I used canned tomatoes that I accidentally forgot to drain the juice from so this was a little more wet than normal. But still very good.


Oh yeah.