Homemade Raw Hummus

How?s everybody on this fine Tuesday? I had a pretty good day! This ?extra? hour of sleep is going a long way towards me waking up feeling refreshed!

-1 cup water
-1/4 cup PC 5 grain oats
-1/4 cup Weetabix crumbs
-1 tbsp flax seeds
-cinnamon
-almond butter
-chocolate honey

The weetabix crumbs made this bowl super thick and creamy. It was definitely a good addition to the bowl. Speaking of the bowl, how do you like my newest, purple prize?

I picked this up for $5.99 at Winners. I also bought this Christmas set for $12.99;

The whole family is coming to my place for Christmas dinner this year so I figured I get started on some festive stuff! Something that really has nothing to do with Christmas, but I couldn?t bear to leave behind was this orange pecan hot chocolate!

Oh, lordie! More on this in a wee bit.

Before hitting the gym I ate a sweet honey crisp apple;

I don?t know about you guys, but apples make me burp! :D I?m glad I was in the gym by myself because the bouncing from running had me sounding like a beer guzzling frat boy!!

Time: 40 minutes
Avg Hr: 154
Max Hr: 177
Calories Burned: 394
Distance: 4.1 miles

I was a little bit of a chatty Cathy on my way to the gym and wound up loosing 5 minutes out of my precious hour. Well, I didn?t loose them, but you know what I mean, right?!

Lunch came in 2 parts today. Part one was some leftover pork tenderloin/kasha stew that I made in the crock pot a few weeks ago;

And part 2, the best part, was 2 Ryvita crackers with some homemade raw sprouted garbanzo bean hummus spread on them!

Manon (who sent the raw chocolate pudding recipe home a few weeks ago) sent my hubby home from practice last night with a container of the above hummus and another filled with raw sprouted sunflower seed pate.

What a wonderful surprise! Damn the flash, though. Manon has recently started sprouting and I?m happy as a clam to be a test bunny. I?ll see if she wants to give up the recipes for the hummus and pate for you guys to try out. Read on to see how I used the sunflower seed pate at dinner time!

Later in the afternoon I broke out the orange pecan hot chocolate fro a whirl;

This was pretty good, but I think I skimped a bit too much when dishing out the powder. T?was a tad weak. I?ll use more next time I make it. So far, so good, though.

I stuck to the meal plan for the week and made the broccoli & cheddar quiche. I also made salads to go along with it. Caesar for the fam and mine was a mix of romaine, spinach, red & orange bella peppers and a tbsp of Manon?s raw sunflower seed pate as the dressing.

Heavenly! It?s been WAY too long since I?ve made a quiche. The only one who didn?t like it was DS which was no surprise to me. At least he tried it, though! Dessert, which I just finished up, was a slice of Caroline?s Vegan Pumpkin Bread with some pumpkin butter on it;

Candy confession time! Here?s what I ate throughout the day;

Well, it?s Biggest Loser time which = sign off time!

Bye for now!!