Memorial Day Weekend

Coffee!!!

Breakfast- Smoothie w/ strawberries, 1/2 banana, almond milk, ice

Memorial Day Weekend = lots of beach time. I'll be black by Tuesday.

Kettle cooked potato chips, the nutritional info on these was pretty good surprisingly.

Rather than eating a 'real' lunch I just decided to keep on snacking once I got home. I had some garden veggies straw from Costco w/...

some red pepper hummus & humguac from TJ's. Humguac is equal parts guacamole and chickpeas w/ seasoning, I know it's brilliant idea. All I need now is BBQ hummus and i'll be set for life.

My mom had some friends over & had the below amazing spread, so once again I snacked for dinner. Mostly hummus & stacy's pita chips, dates, and lime & chili cashews.

Afterwards I headed out for a night on the town in Laguna, we went to the Royale Hawaiian where there was an 80's cover band playing and then down to the Marine Room.

Ari, Raveena, and Me

Showing my affection for Rav.

Today I skipped breakfast and just went straight to lunch. I had a tofurky & arugula sandwich w/ hummus, avocado, and soy cheese on a 100 calorie whole wheat roll.

Open Wide!

This did not fill me up so I had some soy nuggets w/ ketchup too.

I shopped all day & got clothes for my upcoming trip, and picked up a GRE study guide from Barnes and Noble.... time to crack down and study soon : ( I was also able to visit my grandma who is finally out of the hospital yey!

We brought home this enormous edible arrangement for Issy because she took a pretty bad fall earlier in the day and bumped her noggin on the pavement. She had to go to the hospital and get a CAT scan. She's okay though, just a minor concussion.

Milk chocolate dipped strawberries & pineapple, white chocolate & milk chocolate dipped banana and marshmallows. Craziness- I nippled on some strawberries & grapes, I'm not a fan of chocolate plus it has dairy in it.

Issy loved the chocolate though!

For dinner I dipped slices of tempeh first in TJ's Island soyaki and then dredged them in flour and baked them in the oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

Then I added the tempeh to a big bowl of arugula w/ 1/2 avocado & raw broccoli.

This was the first time that I had marinated the tempeh in soyaki and it ended up being delicious.

Jimmy's Pub

Woke up this morning and made myself a cup of Joe (ended up drinking this times three). Used this cute little cup that my sister Emma got me in Washington, D.C. She knows me too well, it has become my favorite.

I made this sandwich for lunch which consisted of Ezekiel bread, red pepper hummus, 1/2 small avocado, and tofurky deli slices.

Here are all of my eats for brekkie & lunch....

Above sandwich, les petit carrots, pineapple slices, and a white chocolate macadamia luna bar (my 2nd favorite luna bar).

I also got to use this super cute lunch bag that I purchased from Whole Foods. It was advertised as a kid's lunch bag but I knew I had to have it despite being in my twenties, plus it was less than 2 bucks. I felt a little odd buying a kids lunch bag, but the lady at the counter reassured me that she owned two herself.

Tonight I was more than happy to meet my parents again at the Ojai Valley Spa & Resort. This time we decided to dine a Jimmy's Pub which overlooked the golf course.

While waiting for my family to arrive I indulged in a little reading of the L.A Times, some chardonnay, and complementary potato chips while enjoying the scenery (i.e, heaven).

Vegan options here were EXTREMELY limited. I attempted to order hummus and flatbread as an entree, but ended up getting hummus & flatbread coated w/ parmesan cheese. I felt like I was being a major pain in the butt, but I asked the waiter if he could ask the chef if the garden burger contained cheese in the patty- I was glad I asked because it did. Officially there were no vegan options on the menu, what's a vegan chica supposed to do?

In the end I ended up ordering the crispy chicken salad, minus the chicken & chipotle ranch sauce. Basically it contained roasted bell peppers, corn, lettuce, and black beans. Sometimes you just have to make your own menu.

Don't worry though I Candace-fied it and did not put that previous hummus to waste- I topped this salad off with BBQ sauce and hummus and it ended up being very tasty.

Food porn.

Question: What do you do when you go out to dinner and receive something that you don't like?