Roast Me Some Veggies!

Hey everyone!

Hope you had a great Thursday. Last night I ended up staying up til the eye, ear, + brain lab practical results were posted around 10:30 pm. I got an 85%, which is pretty good for those things! It's 50 questions, all fill in the blank with no word bank, so you really have to know your stuff. I'm pretty sure I don't want to be an Eye, Ear (and nose + throat) doctor, and I'm content with my sister being the brain expert of the family ;) She's going into neuroscience--isn't that cool? The funny thing is, she probably would have aced that brain portion of the lab if I teleported her there. Ha! Anyway, enough about brains. How about breakfast? ;)

Buuuuut first the backstory: While waiting for the practical results to be posted, I caught up on blogs. So many of you guys had pumpkin oats, and I started craving them like crazy! You know how ice cream addicts don't keep ice cream in the house? Well, being a pumpkin addict, I don't keep pumpkin in the house either. I buy it when I need it and don't stock up--or else I'll eat it all! So I had no pumpkin, but I did have canned butternut squash. It's not a weakness like pumpkin, but it's pretty darn good! So I went to bed planning squash oats :) And after 9.5 hours of sleep (finally!), here they are:



1/3 cup oats
1 cup canned pureed butternut squash
Cinnamon
Vanilla extract
Stevia
Cacao powder
Spoon of dark chocolate pb

These were so good! They definitely had that creamy and smooth texture I was looking for. Though I like my apple oats syrupy, I like squash oats thicker. You can see that matte consistency!

I went to my History of Science class, where I thankfully didn't start dozing off this time ;) Our final is apparently on tuesday during class, instead of the regular finals week. Sooo, there goes my weekend. Ugh!

After classes, I got to come home and thank my lucky stars harp studio was canceled this week. I chilled and messed around with the lil digital handheld tv I got at Kohls during black friday. It actually gets a lot of channels here, and in really good quality! I previously didn't even have a tv in my apartment, so it was pretty cool :) I also had a moringstar grilled chick'n salad:



I was out of regular mushrooms so I broke up a portobello cap mushroom to use instead. It worked well!

I took a much needed trip to the grocery store and picked up a ton of produce. I roasted some green beans and brussels sprouts in my lil toaster oven to use for dinner:



Seasoned with salt + pepper, dried basil, oregano, onion, garlic, and also jamaican jerk spice mix. Roasted for 20 minutes at 415 degrees :)

Roasted veggie salad:



And as a side:



With spray butter of course ;) Yea, I pretty much ate 3/4 of that pan already. Haha!

The mock apple crisp made a repeat appearance:



So yummy! I posted the recipe here

I'm currently drinking this 1.25 liter bottle of sparkling orange water:



It was on sale for 99 cents at the store. I really like sparkling water but I usually drink La Croix. Oh, and I'm totally drinking it straight out of the hugh jass bottle. Hey, I live alone so there's no one to get pissed at me ;) Haha, no shame!

Q: How often do you go to the grocery store?

I go about twice a week or so. Sometimes 3x/week. I eat a lot of produce, so I like to go often to make sure it's fresh. I also rarely eat out, so almost all my meals and snacks are coming from home. What about you?