Healthy(-ish) smoothie

I really, really want a Vitamix. If I were to write my x-mas wish list early a Vitamix would be at the top. SIGH. For now I have to tinker around with my refurbished Breville mixer; no, not tinker, BEAT WITH A HAMMER. It worked beautifully for the first few months after I got it, but now it freaks out if there's ice cubes or if my frozen bananas aren't cut into teeny, tiny pieces. Okay, enough venting--just get me a Vitamx for xmas Santa and I'll be a good girl for the rest of the year. ^^

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Ingredients:

•  1/2 frozen or fresh berries; my bag of frozen has dark cherries, strawberries, blueberries, and pomegranate
• 1 banana
• 1 yogurt cup
• 1 cup of almond milk
• Scoop of powdered wheat grass

Method: Hopefully you don't have a junky mixer like I do and you don't have to cut everything down to little pieces. I always throw all the ingredients in the order I listed above. If you are using powder wheat grass or if you add any protein powders you will want to add it last or in the middle. The powder tends to not mix well if it's at the bottom (or course that's just MY janky mixer).

You should get two servings. Silly me I forgot that Dillon is allergic to bananas. But that just means there's more for me! And I usually it will keep me full for hours. And I say it is healthy-ish because it does have a lot of sugar from the yogurt I used and of course the berries. But you know I can't always stay away from sugar. And I say it's better than getting a sugar fix from candy bars.

YAY, the wheat grass didn't make it army green! (no filter pic)

Spelt, egg, rice cheese, & tomato breakfast sandwich

My mom use to make us egg, cheese, and tomato sandwiches when we were younger. That's probably why it's one of my favorite breakfast meals to make. Hmm, now that I think about it, I think it's the first meal I made for Dillon when we were first dating. But, I haven't been making it lately because I'm trying to eat less dairy and wheat products, but once in awhile I'll spoil myself by making one. And this version will let me cheat more often!
I, like most Asians I know, am lactose intolerant. Of course that usually doesn't stop me from eating cheese (Lactaid to the rescue!). But I do try to use alternatives whenever I can. I recently discovered rice cheese. It's supposedly vegan and also soy free--another thing I'm trying to avoid--and it actually tastes okay. Well, it tastes okay after it's been melted. The rice cheese crumbs a little and you can tell it's not real cheese if you just eat it cold.

Gluten is another thing that I'm trying to avoid, although I'm having little success. I'm a total bread lover, but I know that if I'm going to eat anything with gluten I'll have to deal with the consequences. Why is everything that is bad for you, tastes so good?! Gluten-free bread is so expensive so I'll only purchase it once in a while. I haven't really had a problem with spelt bread even though spelt is in the gluten grains family. I love Trader Joe's organic spelt bread. It's reasonable priced at $2.99, the bread is not dense, only has 2g of sugar per slice, and is really tasty.

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of spelt bread, or any bread of your choice
• 1 slice of rice cheese
• 1 fried egg, you can just use egg whites too
• 1 fat slice of tomato, I like beefsteak tomatoes
• mayo (optional)
• salt & pepper to taste

The egg will melt the rice cheese or you can just pop the rice cheese on the egg before you take it off the pan. And I usually just put a little bit of salt & pepper on the tomato instead of sprinkling it on the egg. Enjoy!

"Cooking with Trader Joe's Cook Book Skinny Dish"