Ended professional day with a talk on Epigenetics and called it a day. I did stop by the Juice Plus booth and tried some gummies made from vegetables and fruits. They tasted great, but not as great as kale and brussels and broccoli do chompin’ in my mouth!
I got weirdly hungry around 3 during the talk but then when I headed home it went away. Typical hunger. But I did get to finally try that Tropical Fruit Larabar!!!
I was very skeptical that I’d like it because I don’t really like fruity flavored things that much, but WOW. It was awesome!! I was expecting it to be tart like lemon, but it was very orangey and the pineapple was great. If the other fruit Larabars are brownies (from dates) this guy was a blondie!
I went home, changed and raced over to Emily’s for a workout!!
We went for a 4 mile run before we buckled down to do some mega weight lifting. We did this set through twice. 15 reps the first time though and “as many as we could do” the second.
I got my stressful “I gotta finish this before dinner” blog work on while Casey and Emily cooked dinner!!!
So nice of them 
I brought over a spiralizer I got from Open Sky! Would you guys want that in my store?
It was super cool!
We spiraled sweet potatoes and baked them like curly fries!!
Casey whipped up some Chinese spiced brussels
Homemade sauce!
And Emily cooked quinoa, apples and almonds in her rice cooker. I’d kinda like one of those…
Dinner was SO GOOD!
The potatoes were still sort of soft, but they were so fun to eat!
We added some organic ketchup with the potatoes. It was just OK. Tasted too much like tomato sauce!
I am not a huge fan of quinoa. It’s kind of airy and the flavor has never bowled me over. But this was awesome! Maybe I need to alter my cooking method..
The brussels were spicy and perfectly cooked!!
Even the brown dog enjoyed our dinner!
Like my Nutrition Facts glass!?
Round II
Remember the Quaker “Create Your Day” challenge? Good Bite and Quaker raised $25,000 for Share Our Strength in just 3 weeks. Quaker was so impressed they decided to do a round 2 – 25,000 more creations = 25,000 more dollars! Let’s give it another go!
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So I got the word that the internet is down at our house. This could be a big blogging problem in the AM! I’ll do an iPhone post if that’s the case, but if I’m missing, that’s what’s going on.
Almost Friday!!!
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oMG! i want that nutrition facts glass, that is SOOO cool!!!! lol
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That Spiral Slicer is so nifty! I love your sweet potato idea. Something was just added to my ever-growing cooking wish list. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE that spiral slicer! How cool! The pup is so cute!!
That’s such a cute glass! And the spiral slicer seems very handy indeed. Hope your internet is fixed soon!
Ahhhh I would LOVE to get my little hands on a spiralizer–try and squeeze how one of those aweomse KERF promotions, k!?!?
That glass is too cool.
Those curly fries look so interesting!
Love those spiraled sweet potatoes!
So glad you got a spiralizer– you’re gonna love it! So much fun!
mmmmm, that dinner looks incredible! i’d love to see the spiralizer in the store…i’m too lazy to go out and find my own
I have to say that looks like my kind of dinner!! I really want to try using a spiralizer
I just recently discovered your blog. I totally love it. I have finally found my passion in life and am going back to school to be an R.D. I love your recipies and your blogs are so inspiring. I hope to start updating and creating my own blog shortly. P.s. Where is that awesome cup from?
Thanks! No idea where Emily got the cup
I would love to have a spiralizer!! They make veggies look even more pretty!! Yes, put it in the store please
OMG, that dinner looks amazing!!! What a fun way to end your day. I’m totally digging that Spiralizer!
I’ve never even seen a spiralizer before! How neat! I’m not really a fan of quinoa either. I think I just try to make it too healthy. I just don’t add enough stuff to it to make it taste good
just fyi…”the flavor has never ‘bowled’ me over”, not ‘bolded’. : – )
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beautiful spirals!!!
would definitely want the spiralizer in your store! ive been in the market for one and id much rather purchase from opensky versus amazon!
You can get a rice cooker in my OpenSky shop
Looks yummy and making me hungry! I just had a question I was wondering though- Do you focus more on calories or just try to just eat healthy foods and being healthy?
I don’t count calories anymore (although I did during my original weight loss). I try to focus on intuitive eating and making the healthiest choices possible.
What a completely awesome dinner! I love the colours!! So pretty
The sprializer looks like so much funnnnn!
I LOVE curly sweet potato fries!!!! I keep hearing such amazing things about the Tropical Fruit Larabars, I need to try ASAP.
YUM!!!! The curly sweet potato fries are too, too cool. I love veggie filled dinners like that! And I will have to try apples with quinoa!
Haha, I can think of very few people who would have a nutrition facts glass.
Did the curly fry sweet potatoes taste as good as “fries” or plain baked ones?? Maybe there’s a tool that can cut them into thicker strips that maintain some firmness…
Not as good as fries, but still fun to eat and yummy
get yourself a rice cooker! mine is indispensable and speeds up dinner cooking – cook your grains in the rice cooker and steam your veggies with the steamer on top.
as for the quinoa, cook it with stock, a few veggies, and some herbs/spices; this definitely makes it more appealing.
That is one of my favorite meals! I LOVE quinoa. I love it with tumeric and chickpeas. So good!
I LOVE quinoa!! Your dinner looks so delicious!
Dinner looks delicious! I just bought my husband a pull up bar for his birthday. I’m going to have so much fun with it on the blog!!
ahh someone is hoping for a free rice cooker
I wish I liked vegetables the way you seem to. I’m more of a fruit girl. I want new taste buds!
I’m thinking of dropping out of my RD program…makes me appreciate the people who’ve completed theirs even more! 10 chem and bio classes…yikes!!
YES to the spiralizer! I’ve been wanting one, and I just might buy one through your shop
I like the spiralizer, that’s awesome. Dinner looks great, I just bought a box of quinoa myself. I like it a lot, but hardly ever cook it!
Jenn
I really really love your nutrition facts glass! Where is it from? Also, would it be possible for us to get our sticky fingers on that brussels recipe?
Ask Emily!
ohhh tomorrow i’m making that quinoa!!! yummy!
looks like you had a good workout! how many full chin ups can you do?
I would totally get that spiralizer if you had it in your store! Those baked sweet potato curly fries sound awesome!
That dog is so cute! I love the glass!
I, too, love the glass! Where’s that one from? Also, the sweet-potato-curly-fries thing is a great idea. If only they were a little skinnier and more “convincing”… I can definitely see that as a good way to force reluctant men and/or children to eat it.
I’m absolutly dying to have a spiralizer, ever since I saw one on Newlywed, Newly veg – they look SO FUN! It would take cooking veggies to a whole new level
at least in my book! Looks like you had a great workout there 
The sweet potato chips look great! Maybe sprinkled with cinnamon? Mmmmm…
What kind of dog is brown dog? She/He looks like my Rana, but Rana has a lot of spots.
Brown dog is adorable.
Ask Emily!!
i have that spiralizer! bought it from someone else’s opensky shop on one of the christmas promotions. i haven’t used it yet though
read a bunch of negative reviews about it after i bought though, so i am kind of skeptical. maybe i’ll give it a go this weekend.
Those spiraled sweet potatoes look awesome!
Good luck with the internet situation!
Your dinner looks gorgeous! Particularly that quinoa.
Great job on the 4 miler and strength workout. Swiss ball crunches are tough!
Dinner looks amazing. I love the fact of how you made your curly fries from sweet potatoes
Love quinoa! It’s such a funny little grain.
Awesome workout!
And awesome glass! How cute!
I want Casey and Emily to cook dinner for me!
I’ve been skeptical of the Tropical Fruit Tart flavor, but maybe I’ll try it now after all! I have one sitting in my drawer I got as a free sample.
What an adorable dog! I have a Weimaraner… and a little rescue mutt… and often spending time with them is the best part of my day! BTW… your dinner looks delicious! What kind of rice cooker does your friend Emily use?
I don’t know – ask Emily!
I have the same brand rice cooker- its a Japanese brand– Zojirushi. I got mine at an Asian grocer in Chicago, but you can buy them online too!
That spiralizer looks like fun, though I can’t image what I would need it for.
that spiral slicer is so cool. I love the potatoes!
Epigenetics = amazing awesomeness!
I was just on your Open Sky page looking for a sprializer! Please put it up there!
The spiralizer in your store is a great idea – always wanted one. How about also adding some reusable glass straws from Glass Dharma
I must say that I just tried that trop fruit LB bar and thought it was one of the most disgusting things I have ever eaten, hehe
I thought the pineapple was waaay overwhelming + fake tasting and it was dry + almost crumbly. Chris hated it too and typically loves those tropical flavors. So it was quite funny to read that you loved it so much!! eeeeek!! That dinner however looks and sounds amazing. LOVE the sweet tater chips and I completely love quinoa. I made the most amazing quinoa breakfast bowl back in Charlotte…with coconut milk instead of water and topped it with fresh fruits/yogurt/nuts/etc. SO good!!
Try chili garlic sauce as a dipper next time. It is super flavorful and packs way more of a punch than ketchup! It goes great with baked sweet potato chips.
Love the dinner! I have a spiralizer and like it a lot, it is so much fun!!
LOVE that nutriction facts glass, could you ask Emily where she got it Kath?
Thanks!
Ana
I love the spirilizer; I have it in my Open Sky shop..it was my very first product in my shop and I love it…it creates fabulous veggies and it’s so much fun to play with!
So glad you enjoyed my lil mini Tropical Lara..
Have a fabulous weekend Kath…
Is that a weimeraner? I love those dogs! Almost as much as I’d love a spiralizer…
i have become obsessed with all this amazing cooking blogs! and yesterday night i made your sweet potato gnocchi, or “ñoquis de boniato”, as we would say here.
they were a success even if i had to adapt the recipe just a little bit, like adding a tomato and cream sauce.
about the quinoa: in 2008 my boyfriend and i went to north argentina and tried quinoa there, in desserts, in salads, in almost everything! they told us that quinoa was much like rice, that it could be used in many meals and that quinoa was a sacred grain for the incas.
so, despite its taste, or exactly because it has so little taste, it is versatile and can be used in a pudding much as it can be used in a salad or with stewed meat.
here, a link to quinoa, if you can find someone who translates it
http://www.montevideo.com.uy/notgastronomia_76448_1.html
In english try this, not the same but it sums up some facts about it: http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=141#p24
take care and keep cooking!!
the spiralized sweet potatoes look soo fun!
I like the spiral slicer, it looks fun and like it could make some good things.
Where can we find that Nutrition Facts glass? That’s great – I love it!
LOL! the nutrition glass reminds me of the pyrex beaker in laboratory! I wouldn’t dare drinking the contents =P