Something Tasty {Banana Wrap}

Ok so I am basically obsessed with bananas wrapped up in a tortilla. I was cruising through Instagram during one of my regular jam sessions and saw it on a fitness motivator's feed. I know I am way behind on the times and people have been chowing down on these things forever but I'm just a dinosaur I guess. I move very slowly.

Anyway, here is what I've been having for breakfast or lunch lately. It keeps me full for a long time and more importantly is easy and fast to fix. Plus, it is a low cost meal. What more could I want? Nada. I have been branching out and adding different kinds of fruits lately...strawberries, blackberries. I love berries. Sometimes I leave off the honey if my banana is very ripe. I love adding the berries to offset the sweet. I made some homemade granola too and I am going to toss that in next. The possibilities are endless.

I used Better'n Peanut Butter here but I also use regular peanut butter too. Try to get the natural/organic peanut butter so you can avoid nasty high fructose corn syrup and all the other crap. You could definitely use almond butter, coconut butter, whatever butter. I love almond butter and honey together.

Slather it on baby

Roll that beautiful bean footage

YUMSIES

One Girl's Smoothie

I've only had about 4 smoothies in my life. Two of those being "The Elvis" from Planet Smoothie which is probably worse than a quarter pounder. I've always wanted to try to be awesome and drink smoothies but the hassle of gathering all the ingredients and dragging out my crappy blender, getting to listen to it churn around and around with the pitch similar to nails on a chalkboard kinda didn't enthuse me.

I thought I would give it another try and this time - try one of those green ones. I do love spinach and I've wondered if you can taste the spinach in those green smoothie thingies.

I was reading over at Annie's Eats and when I saw her recipe I gathered up the ingredients. It seriously took me about 2 weeks to pull it all together. I either didn't have the banana or someone drank all the orange juice by the time I got banana number two or the spinach was rotten by the time I had everything else.

Well, the planets aligned last night and I had everything. My banana was very ripe and so was the pear. Possibility for failure but, I think, made it sweeter. It was delicious! Really shockingly delicious!

Here is Annie's recipe: Green Monster Smoothie



Since my poor little blender can't handle too much at one time, I pureed the pears, bananas, honey and orange juice together first

I was a bit leery at this point. Why did I think it was going to taste like grass?

It didn't taste like grass. Whew.

It was quite yummy. I made it at night and took it for breakfast the next day. I was hoping someone at work would see me and tell me I was awesome.

They didn't.

Bad Apple

My mama always said, "One bad apple spoils the bunch". And I believe that to be true. Whether you are exposed to a negative person or whether YOU happen to be the negative person, we feed off of each other. I would hope that I have not been the bad apple that has spoiled the innocent cluster of shiny new red treats. Number one, I don't know that many people. Number two, I don't quite think I am that influential. Number three, people get that glassy-eyed look when I am talking to them sometimes. I don't think they're listening.

Anyway, sarcasm aside (gasp!), I say all of this because I would like to be a healthier, happier me. A non-smoking white gal that likes to exercise and has recently shed 20 pounds. More importantly, I want to be mentally healthy. With a happy glow to my Cheshire cat grin. I crave yoga. I crave meditation. But where are my time management skills?? And why is that so hard for me to do?

I will quit my job and practice personal time management. That way I would have all day to plan what I needed to do all day. Eh?! Genius!

I think that if you surround yourself with positive, healthy, creative people then you will reap the benefits of their ambition and success. It's a given. Therefore, I do not want to be the bad apple. And I don't want to rot away while snuggling close to worms either. I want to surround myself with others that have the same end goal as I do. We may not get there in the same manner, but we both love the idea of inner beauty and outer happiness.