Watch your back, Big Daddy
Today was damn near perfect. No wait… it was. Period. I started my morning with a Glo Bar, leftover banana soft serve and decaf coffee and then quickly bolted out the door for yoga. I had wanted to do Tanner’s “Pimp My Pose” posture seminar in the afternoon, but I much prefer to sweat my ass off first thing in the morning. [Charlotte trip #1]
Good thing I did because when I got back Stew and I ran back to Charlotte together for Trader Joe’s and Yoforia. This was only my third time in a Trader Joe’s and Stew’s first. We are not fans. I know it pretends to be a health food store, but flip that box over and check the ingredients. All kinds of nonsense in there. All kinds. Not much organic produce either. [Charlotte trip #2]
Yoforia, however, we love.
Yoforia (to the tune of NOTORIOUS)
But let’s be serious, this isn’t healthy either. They post the nutrition facts per ounce so they look really impressive. 25 calories per ounce?? Sweet! Yeah, too bad I’ve never gotten fewer than 12 ounces (= 300 calories AND 5g sugar per = 60g sugar!). I’m not saying that’s stopping me. I’m just saying we need to all stop kidding ourselves here.
Bring it on
We made a grocery stop at Earth Fare and then came home for a major baking adventure: vegan gluten-free carrot cupcakes with “cream cheese” frosting.
BAM success.
They are awesommme. I’ll do a dedicated recipe post for it once I figure out what I did. Because wouldn’t you know it, I once again just threw a bunch of stuff together and didn’t write it down.
I took my baked goods to Michelle’s house for a little going away partay for Kath and Emily. It sucks they’re leaving just as I’m arriving, but I’m glad I got to meet them and that I’ve tapped into this incredible network of people. [Charlotte trip #3]
Charlotte bloggers (Caitlin's photo)
Meet Kath, Michelle, Emily, Diana, Jen, Caitlin and Kelly. (Don’t miss Caitlin on the freaking TODAY SHOW on August 5 at 10am! She’ll be discussing her book Operation Beautiful, which you should buy.)
Eating with food bloggers is the best because they EAT. I had a feast of an incredible black bean burger (watch yo back, Big Daddy!), corn, black bean salsa and grilled veggies.
Feast
Lovely
Michelle doesn’t have an official recipe for her burgers but they are GOOD. For dessert I had:
Diana's sweet spinach muffins
Carrot cupcake
You can find Diana’s muffins here.
Carrot cupcake time
The cupcakes were ugly but delicious. The AC in my car is broken aaaaaagain so they got a little melty because it’s only, like, A MILLION DEGREES HERE.
Thanks so much to Michelle for hosting a great party! I drove all the way home and was at my exit when she tweeted to let me know I forgot my camera. F! Only a blogger would go all.the.damn.way.back.
That’s right. [Charlotte trip #4] I turned around and drove all the way back to get it. Then I met my brother and his friends at a bar and now here I am at 1am trying to recap it all. Who am I?
