Mexicana

I've been celebrating my true Latina roots over the past couple of days. Just kidding, I'm not Latina (even though some people think I look like I am) but you would think I grew up in Mexico considering the amount of Mexican food I've been eating over the past couple of days.

Taco Tuesday

Back to the Starbucks, are you really surprised? I doubt it. The Mojo Mountain Mix bar was a new one for me. It was pretty decent, but I'm not a fan of chocolate (i know i'm crazy) and it had lots of dark chocolate chips.

I had to drive up to LA w/ mi madre for a doctor's appointment, which was a good excused to stop by Whole Foods afterwards for an early lunch.

I had the setian sandwich which was super tasty. It had lots of creamy vegenaise, spinach, sliced cucmbers, and grilled seitan. Nom, nom, nom.

When I saw the sign for 'Kombucha on tap' I wasn't expecting it to be literally on tap... this was even better than being at a real bar (maybe that's pushing it).

I had a mix of both (ginger & berry). 20 oz of deliciousness.

The Kombucha almost held off my appetite until the evening, save for a couple of dates that semi resemble cockroaches. Ick!

Later on I met up with Cami at the Balboa Bay Club and had a tea party.

For dinner I met up w/ Dru and Rav and we dined at El Ranchito. Of course this entailed eating a redonkulous amount of chips, guac, & salsa.

Dru made friends w/ the waitress and convinced her to hook me u w/ a $2 veggie taco. It had grilled peppers, shrooms, and onions.

Post dinner we were feeling stuffed but miraculously were able to wobble ourselves next door to enjoy watching the sunset at The Rooftop. This place has the most amazing view of the ocean in Laguna Beach. We tried to get in before dinner but the wait was 45 minutes.

Long island ice tea, mojto, and a diet coke for me because I was the DD- drinking & driving is never cool.

Even though I wasn't drinking I did snag some of the sugar cane off of Raveena's drink. Check out the scowl on Dru's face, she looks a bit upset haha.

Rav & Me

Cinco De Mayo

I started my day off w/ a Starbucks on my way back up to UCLA for another Dr appointment errr. Once again we made a trip to Whole Foods for lunch afterwards; this time I went to the salad bar.

Salad with tomatoes, spinach, kale, onions, corn, edamame, olives. Carbage on the side consisting of Israeli couscous and Indian couscous.

All drenched in a mix of tahini & honey mustard dressing. This was so filling I couldn't eat it all in one sitting & ended up munching on the rest of the greens during the car ride home.

Of course I had some more Kombucha on tap, this time all ginger.

More ice coffee! My second one of the day- I couldn't resist the Starbucks in the grocery store when we were shopping for our Cinco De Mayo dinner.

mmm Cerveza con limon

Look at how pretty our Cinco de Mayo table is...

I had lots of salad, tortilla chips, and a burrito.

This burrito was filled to the brim with meatless ground 'meat', mexican rice, guac, & salsa. It was drenched in hot sauce.

Even though I didn't have any dessert these cupcakes were too cute to not take a pic of them.

Hello cute little monkeys.

It's a Wrap

I've been a bit behind in blogging so brace yourself this is going to be a long post. Life gets kinda hectic when your trying to simultaneously take finals & pack up your apartment.

Wednesday:

1/3 cup oats, soy yogurt, crunchy peanut butter, pumpkin pie spice

(pre mixage)

(post mixage)

I normally never eat soy yogurt because the few times I have tasted it, it was really awful. The only reason why I purchased it this time was for my muffins I made the other night, and I had some left over so i tried it with my oats. It was really yummy! I wish I remembered the name of the brand. Of course I had coffee too.

While I was at Starbucks I bought this Gojiberry Granola bar by Two Moms in the Raw. I love how Starbucks carries all of this really great wholesome snacks now. The first time I saw them was when I was stopped off at Starbucks on a road trip to New Mexico and I bought an armful of snacks for the car ride. This bar was delicious! It was super crunchy and oddly enough almost spicy?

You can't beat these ingredients. Raw, no refined sugars, no added oils, 100% organic, 100% vegan.

I was so engrossed with studying that this bar and a coffee sufficed for lunch, and I did not stop to eat until dinner time.

I bought dinner on campus and had the sorina salad w/tofu in a spinach wrap w/ a side of BBQ for dipping, and a bunch of grapes.

Lettuce, tomato, tofu, onions, raisins, carrots, almonds w/ balsamic vinaigrette.

Thursday:

My eats were almost identical to the day before, I was busy cramming for my advanced stats test so I didn't have much time to eat let alone to try and be creative.

1/3 cup oats, 1/2 banana, soy yogurt, walnut bits, and pumpkin pie spice

Coffee!

A wrap again. It was definitely a groundhog day.

This time it was grilled w/ a spinach tortilla filled with lettuce, spinach, tomato, onion, jalapenos, and cucumbers and a side of pasta salad.

I took my stats exam which ended up being pretty tricky. I'm done with school now, yey!!!! Four months of freedom! I cannot even begin to explain how happy I am to be done with school.

After finishing the final I came home to start packing. It's time to say goodbye to my 1st apartment ever where I have lived for the past two years. I'm excited because next year I am moving to Santa Monica which has a lot more going on than Malibu, and Cami and I will still be living together. I can only hope that my new house is even close to as nice as the one I am leaving. I have made a lot of great memories living here w/ my roommates.

My bedroom.

Night table

Inspo board

Living Room

Kitchen (where the magic happens)

Ahh... goodbye Villa Malibu apartments, but not so quick... first I have to pack all of this up! Before getting down to business I enjoyed a snack of 1/2 banana, the last of my soy yogurt (I can't believe this 1 container lasted me 3 days), and a scoop of crunchy peanut butter.

After finishing packing up my desk, I got ready to go out and celebrate the end of the school year. First my friends Cami, Tyler, and Nick, and I went to go get dinner and drinks at Charlies in Malibu. The only other time I have been here was once for karaoke, and I didn't get to try the food.

We started out with a bottle of sauvignon blanc and copious amounts of foccacia bread.

I'm no wine connoisseur, but I would not not recommend this bottle. The bread was delicious though.

For dinner I had the seasonal vegetables- they were very bland, and the waitress offered to have the cook saute them in olive oil, after which they were a bit better but still not great.

After dinner we went out to Irish Pub in Santa Monica called Fin McCool's. It was a great way to finish out the school year.

Here are pics of me & my roommates that I have lived w/ in the past 2 years.

Emily, Cami, me, and Erin.

(yes i think that is my lipstick on Cami's check)

Me, Cami, and Diane (I'm getting Cami back in this one).

Friday:

Thursday was a veerry long night, I'm embarrassed to say what time I woke up at today but let's just say it was way bast breakfast time. I decided to make a very large portion of savory oats.

1 cup oats, peas, roasted corn, shredded soy cheese, nutritional yeast

These oats were the epitome of comfort food. Yum. I could not eat all of them at once so I kept snacking on them throughout the day. While the oats were cooking I munched on some soy nuggets w/ BBQ.

I spent the day packing, packing, packing, interspersed w/ catching up on lost and modern family. I made a smoothie too.

1/2 banana, vanilla almond milk, crunchy peanut butter

I also added a scoop of my roommates hemp protein- I love this stuff it tastes amazing and is really good for you too. This smoothie ended up being my favorite color- green.

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Isn't it purdy?

I tried to ignore my pounding headache all day, even after 4 tylenols it would not stop throbbing, so finally at 5 in the afternoon I had to give in and grab a Starbucks. I didn't get a picture, but it helped relieve my headache immediately. Oh addiction, it's a b*.

I didn't have dinner until way later, and when I did it was quite odd. My fridge is running low, and I was not sure what I felt like... sometimes I eat really weird stuff. I ended up having spinach and meatless meatballs topped w/ vegan caesar salad dressing. Believe it or not it got even weirder after I took this pic.... I added nutritional yeast and garlic croutons. I know your probably gagging as you read this, but i thought it was quite delish.

Wow that was a long post!