Making the Best Breakfast!

So lately I've been enjoying the summer mornings when I can make a breakfast that might take a little longer than 10 minutes to make(: So if you don't like 30 minute meals (hey; who doesn't want to be like Rachel Ray?!) then maybe read another one of my posts. 


The two recipes I want to share with you are adapted from Julie at juliegolean (one of my favorite blogs; she is hilarious!) and Ashley at edibleperspective (she is amazing!)


I also saw this on a blog that I found when I was clicking, clicking, clicking on links that led me from blog to blog (don't you ever do that? ;) So I figured why not link up; check out the other links here

And they are....(drumroll please)


Egg White Oats and Popped Amaranth

 This one was by far the best creation I have made yet! It included Julie's basic egg white oats with (Hershey's special dark) cocoa powder, pumpkin, chocolate amazing grass and then topped with strawberries, bananas, raspberries, plus the freeze-dried version of all three, Kashi crunch and a trio of teaspoons (okay so I stole that phrase from Kath) but ever since I tried using three types of nut butter instead of just one I was in love!! Oh right; so I used macadamia coconut butter, sunflower seed butter and chocolate almond butter. Man this bowl was massive, but so was my appetite(:










Heres another version of the egg white oats, similar to the one above with cocoa powder, the berries and topped with cacao nibs, Kashi Go Lean and some sort of nut butter that I cannot recall(:










For my popped amaranth breakfast I used Ashley's cocoa cherry cereal sauce with about 1/3 cup popped amaranth and a banana scramble, I do have a blog crush; yes indeed(:


And here are some better pictures of popped amaranth, via a better camera and a prettier dish to photograph

making the banana scramble

first layer: popped amaranth

layer 2: goji berries

freeze-dried raspberries

  

and some freeze-dried strawberries

okay last layer I swear (It was just too colorful not to take that many pictures(: Oh and please excuse the dirty bowl, I just didn't want to have so many dishes so I used the same bowl to mix my banana scramble up in)

Topped with the banana scramble

and now it's ugly! haha, well that was the delicious cocoa cherry smoothie I topped my "cereal" with

Check out her tips on how to pop amaranth because man is it tricky! Let me know if you succeed(: you won't be disappointed


I also have one more variation on the popped amaranth I will be posting; that one is pretty I swear(:

June (Better Late Than Never Right!)

I'm sure you guys have all seen Kasey's June Powermeal a day, and if you follow me on Instagram (which you should(: at chocolatemilk; haha maybe I'll tell that story one day) you would have seen my colorful eats lately. Although I probably didn't even need this motivation to eat healthy (I'm pretty self motivated; and wow that sounded conceited! But you know what I mean, usually I eat plenty of fruits and veggies, I don't really worry about getting enough into my diet because that just happens to be the food I enjoy eating) I thought that it would be fun to do the challenge, plus I love to see other's meals to get inspiration for new flavors and combinations.  Here's the photo challenge in case you are curious, or are too lazy to click on the link and read up (;

Along with this june challenge and a long with all the other bloggers out there, I made some summer goals! And in taking a cue from Heather, I made an inspiration board


My top goals include:
1. Running/Biking/Swimming a triathlon
2. When I run longer runs (5-7 miles), to run about a 9 minute pace
3. Eat a balanced  diet; and I'm not talking just fruits and veggies. Sometimes I get so caught up in eating healthy and getting enough of the "right" food that I forget to indulge every once in a while and eat the things that I enjoy that aren't as healthy
4. UNPLUG! I need to get off the computer and iPhone, because although I could read blogs and post photos on instagram all day long, I need to use my free time this summer to have fun, get outside, read books (I used to read all the time, and honestly I love reading!) and hang out with my friends
5. Be on Time; hehe I'm really bad about this one, I'm always late :/
6. Go to a Yoga Class or do yoga at home at least once a week; I really want to be able to touch my toes! (and just be more flexible in general)


(so yeah when I looked for a photo of the board I realized I didn't take one, oops)


Other than creating this colorful inspiration board I've been up to some other fun stuff;

Going to the grove park inn with mi madre(:
we actually are going back soon because there wasn't any spaces in the spa! What do you know, another aspect of "being on time" I need to work on, planning ahead!


They had an amazing sports facility, their whole weight room was filled with pink chairs (possibly for breast cancer?)
And this awesome machine; it was called an Endurance 3 Elliptical Trainer and it was so cool! I chose a program with 30 second intervals of just using your arms to pedal, going backwards, lifting your heels and other exercises. It mad the time go by really quickly!

Then their brunch buffet! Mmmm sweet potato pancakes and an omelet bar(:

Making earrings from this bead shop in Asheville and some major shoe shopping(:

Babysitting; which may or may not entail lounging around, playing soccer and finding a worm (Eek!) on the steamed broccoli

We played soccer in the driveaway; I love the bottom left picture, her expression is like "Noooo!"

Taking pictures of their cute dog and lovely flowers

Making the kids healthy dinners while they chill out and watch some tv; and quite possibly look for a full length mirror in the house to take a picture of my cute outfit(:


What have you fun things have you been doing this summer? 
Did you make any unique summer goals? 
and I bet you've answered these before so feel free to just comment about whatever you like(:

Let's Do a Little Marvelous Monday Week Recap(:

So i'm going to keep this post short; but it'll be full of wonderful pics(:




Oh and I'm joining up on Katie's new feature called Marvelous Monday; you should go check it out and all the other wonderful posts that bloggers have linked up with!

Now because It's a (belated, hehe I never got around to posting this) Marvelous Monday, I'm going to share what made my weekend marvelous;


So on Saturday I graduated!! woot woot! I am so excited(: It's weird to be done with grade school but I am so excited to go to college (I have orientation of Wednesday), and I am just so pumped!!


Here's some graduation pics

 With the mom and dad (Don't ask me why we are seperated; haha I couldn't find a family pic for some reason)

Some marvelous (sorry I just can't help myself) eats

 Tropical kale salad, egg white scramble with tofu and veg/ sushi night/ burgers! (bison burger with guac, pickles, tomato, lettuce, fake cheese (haha I think it's like the Veggie Cheese brand) with sweet potato fries and onion rings (my fav!)

And a marvelous giveaway I entered that you should go check out! I've been wanting to try stevia nuNaturals for a long time but I never got around to it because I kept seeing the giveaways and it's a little pricey, so maybe I'll win(:

and yeah i stole that pic from her blog; hehe thanks!

It's at Whole Wheat or Bust this really great blog I found the other day when I was looking at recipes I had pinned from a while back; like I said you should go check it out here!