Celestial Seasonings True Blueberry Review

Today was tea day. I decided to skip the coffee. I haven't had a chance to take a caffeine break in a while. I like to do that occasionally. Lately I just haven't been getting enough sleep. My biggest problem is getting such a late start on the blog. Unfortunately, I'm not disciplined enough to solve this.

I had Lemon Ginseng green tea for breakfast along with half a poppy seed bagel with light cream cheese. I was really looking forward to a cup of tea this morning and the bagel was yummy. I love the taste of poppy seeds. I wish they weren't so tiny, but I would like to try them in some recipes regardless.

I had a spinach omelet for lunch, one egg, the last of the spinach, a little milk and a little salt & pepper on a slice of pumpernickel that I snatched from the freezer. There's also some shredded Italian blend cheese between the omelet and the bread. Not a bad lunch.

One of my snacks for the day was this bowl of peanut butter multi-grain cheerios. I think I should have skipped the milk & cheese. I felt sort of icky after eating them.

This evening I decided to have green pepper & onion with mushrooms. I was undecided as to what I should have with the pepper, onion, & mushroom. I finally decided on green beans. I cooked the onion & pepper in a little oil, with some salt. After letting them cook a bit, I added the frozen green beans, a can of mushrooms,drained, some soy sauce and some garlic. I wanted my green beans slightly less cooked than the other veggies. It turned out exactly the way I'd hoped. The mushrooms absorbed most of the soy sauce, so low sodium would probably have been better, but I just didn't use as much. It came out great. I had the last piece of pumpernickel toasted on the side.

I had a little Men's Omega3 Energy mix which I sort of munched on throughout the day. I finished it off after dinner.

I also had another cup of tea, Celestial Seasonings' True Blueberry caffeine free herbel tea. I'd gotten their variety pack. So far I've loved every flavor I've tried, the True Blueberry was no exception.

I added a spoonful of honey to the cup which I'd used 2 tea bags in. I believe you could get by using just one tea bag. After steeping for a few moments, it turns a lovely dark purple color. It smells good too. I'm thinking this may be the best flavor I've tried so far. You should know this one is getting 5 stars.

Enjoyed my tea and finished this post. Now I'm off to bed. Not an early day tomorrow, but it's late and I can't sleep all day. Have a great night/day!!!

Dessert Or Breakfast, What's The Difference

Old habits die hard. Staying up too late again. Getting sidetracked first thing this morning does not help.

Anyway....Yesterday I had dessert for breakfast. I had the blueberry cornmeal cobbler with vanilla yogurt, since I don't have any vanilla ice cream. Actually I think this was better, more so if it had been Chobani or Dannon. It was the last of the My Essentials brand and I am not sorry.

 

Why isn't cobbler a breakfast food. What's the difference? I suppose most desserts aren't healthy, but this one's not so bad. It does have fruit and it wasn't terribly sweet; no worse than a muffin or a pancake and I topped it with yogurt. How can that be bad? (Except that the yogurt I used was runny, lol, and not a brand I prefer.)

 

For lunch there was leftover brown rice in the frig. I added a little frozen corn, heated the rice & corn in the microwave, chopped up some spinach and Roma tomatoes, threw in a little garlic & basil, and heated it a second time, just enough to wilt the spinach.

 

I don't normally add the basil or corn, but it was very good this way. This is one of my favorite ways to eat rice and a great way to use up spinach & tomato.

I had one of my coconut cream fruit bars for dessert. I picked these up at Aldi. It was pretty good, but Edy's is better. I would have been perfectly satisfied with it, had I never eaten one of Edy's. These are cheaper so it helped that I didn't expect it to be great and if you can't afford Edy's these are a great sub.

 

For dinner I revamped the macaroni salad. I added broccoli, red banana pepper, extra carrot and more coleslaw dressing and had it over a bed of spinach. This is my favorite way to eat macaroni salad.

 

I also added a little shredded colby/jack cheese, although I like the crumbles better. It's what I had and it was yummy either way.

After dinner I sat on the couch, ignoring the fact that I needed to upload photos until it was late. I was watching old movies on THIS channel, a local channel that shows old movies, etc. I was mostly fooling on the internet. I can't even remember the names of the movies. When I finally finished uploading the photos and was headed to bed Craig Ferguson came on. I like to watch Craig and he was doing his show from Paris, which was different, so I had to check it out. To me, it wasn't as good as normal, so I did cut it short and go to bed finally. I will have to work on monkeying around less and getting to bed earlier. 

Now since I have no yogurt, what to have for breakfast? Dessert maybe? What did you have? Have you had dessert for breakfast? You can tell me.

Happy Tuesday! BTW I have no Zumba this week so I will have to try and make up for it somehow, any suggestions?

Finally Blueberry Muffins

Well I finally got around to making the blueberry muffins. I used the Multi Muffin Mix recipe + 3/4 C. of blueberries, which didn't knock a dent in what I have, so I guess I will have to freeze some. They turned out very well. They did take a little longer to brown in my oven. I used to complain about my old stove when I started taking longer to bake things, then I finally got a brand new stove and it takes longer in it than in the old stove. I was very disappointed, but I did get the glass top instead of the round burners. The top heats up fast.

 

The original recipe calls for an additional 2 Tbsp. of sugar for the blueberry muffins, but I think 3 would be better. They were good, but my blueberries were a little tart, so a slightly sweeter muffin would have been better I think. I also added 1/4 c. oatmeal & 1 Tbsp. of ground flax. I spread a little margarine on two of these for breakfast. I was late eating, but it was well worth it.

 

For lunch, if that's what you can call it, was more or less just snacking. I had one serving of the Lean Cuisine garden vegetable dip with pita bread. It comes with two servings.

 

You get half a pita and a small cup of the vegetable dip. I was very skeptical about this at first, but decided to try it. To my surprise, it was very good. The pita was soft and not rubbery after heating in the microwave for 15 seconds instead of the 20 it called for.

 

I used the called for time in heating the dip. I was pretty warm, but not too hot and was very good on the pita bread.

 

This made a nice snack, but I could have eaten the other one.

I ate the pita and dip while I fixed a few onion rings and that was lunch. Lunch was late also, so I just munched to hold me until dinner.

I had a good dinner though. I fixed a salad with iceberg lettuce and some of the cucumber and tomatoes I gathered from my sad little garden. I also used the last of my orange bell pepper. I had the salad along with a few sweet potato puffs and a MSF Chik'n Griller.

I really like the little sweet potato puff, even better than the fries. You can spice them up a little or just eat them plain. They are great either way.

I just had them plain yesterday with the last of my spicy ranch blown all over my salad. I just love meals that really satisfy me and this was one of them.

After dinner I got started playing games online. (not a good idea) I made the mistake of playing Angry Birds. It's very popular and so I thought I would try it out. I can now see why it is so popular. It's looks very simple, but it is so addictive. I stayed up way too late because of it. I tried putting the games on the Android tablet we have, but they don't work too well on it for some reason, so I played it online in my Chrome browser. The Facebook app sux. It was terrible. Every time it would pop up wanting to post it to FB, it would freeze and I'd have to refresh the page. Sometimes it would show that I'd finished the level  and sometimes I'd have to do it all over again, hence the reason I played the chrome version. I haven't tried it in Firefox and I don't use Internet Explorer. 

I think I will go and have some breakfast and deal with my angry bird issue. I have Zumba tonight, goody. Happy Thursday!