Check out my progress on A Summer to Remember
On this, my last night at home before my senior year of college, I am reminiscing on the past four months of relaxation. This summer will surely be one to remember: In May I ran for the orangutans, and made my video debut. June brought a new tonight show host, along with a day of berry-picking. The rest of the summer was occupied by far too much shoe shopping and punctuated by an unfortunate run-in with flying poop. Perhaps it was not an exciting summer per se but surely unique. What will you remember about the summer of 2009?
My most recent memorable eats:
Thursday
Just a touch of vegan vanilla ice cream (~1/4 cup) adds so much creaminess to my evening shakes!
peaches n cream shake: peaches, soymilk, unsweetened peach Spirutein, vegan vanilla ice cream, & Fiber One
Friday
The morning meal was a bit random today. I never would have planned to combine pumpkin, peaches, and banana, but it was what I had on hand–and it worked well.
whole wheat toast with PB, pumpkin, & raisins; peach-banana-pumpkin smoothie with cinnamon
I don’t care for regular coleslaw (cabbage is on my “icky list”), but I made my own slaw for breakfast today using broccoli slaw, Annie‘s Goddess dressing, tofu, a touch of vegan mayo, and rice wine vinegar. A vast improvement over the traditional goop, if you ask me:)
Goddess Slaw with tofu; whole wheat pita; pluot & blueberries
Because my last dinner at home, I was given the opportunity to choose the menu for the evening. What did I choose? Whole Foods salad bar, of course! I employed my usual tactic of using half “standard” ingredients (greens, carrots, mushrooms, and hummus in this case) and half “exciting” ingredients (curried couscous salad, broccolini salad, and roasted garlic cloves). The result: a mad-delicious melange. Mountain Brook Whole Foods, I shall miss thee.
Whole Foods salad bar: greens with carrots, mushrooms, roasted garlic cloves, couscous salad with raisins, broccolini salad, & hummus; apple
I hit the road early tomorrow morning. Keep your fingers crossed that all my kitchen goods fit in the car!
Filed under: Meals
Caroline Yoder, dietitian-to-be and all-around foodie.
What I’ll remember most about summer 2009 = adopting Chooey from the animal shelter and going to NYC twice in practically a month’s span.
Lovin’ the Whole Foods “farewell dinner”!!
Safe travels, my dear!!
Good luck traveling back to school! I know I personally had a lot of trouble packing up all my kitchen goods – it is so intimidating! After seeing the video of your pantry at home, I don’t know how you decide what items to take to school and what to leave behind. And yay, we are both seniors this year!
That peach, banana, and pumpkin smoothie sounds awesome! I would totally make/drink that too!
Ahh, memories…flying poop. Wonderful. I don’t know if I can top that… Well I do have a silly story. I tend to keep emotions bottled up and the hysterics come out at odd and irrelevant times. Once I was downtown this summer and got to the highway and realized I was 25 cents short of being able to pay the highway toll. I couldn’t get home without that 25 cents! It was late at night and I started bawling as I realized I was stuck downtown, lost, and was driving aimlessly…I didn’t know of any ATMs and it was really dark out. And I had no gas. Eventually I persuaded a crowd of younger college boys on the side of the road to muster up a quarter for me…but I was so embarrassed and tears were gushing out the entire time. But I was able to pay the toll and finally got home!
Aw i was always sooo sad to leave the comfy summeriness of home! But it will probably be nice to see everyone, not to mention all the Fall football and basketball festivities!!! Love good sports schools
See you here soon! We will have to have dates at the WFs salad bar here
you have had a fun summer! i think my favorite thing to read about was the zoo race. looks like your whole foods meal has all the good stuff in it. safe travels to you my dear! xo
hahahaa, that was me, too. 1/3 of my luggage were kitchen goods! That was all I cared about! Ah, glad to have a fellow foodie who understands! My parents thought I was mad.
im so glad you have had an amazing summer and that you are off to start a bunch of new adventures and create great memories!!! YAYY!
I think that what I will remember most about this summer were the ups and the downs and the big finale at the end of finally feeling like ME again!
Have a safe trip back to school – hope you remembered your nut butter stash
SAdly what I’ll remember most is the cool weather that we had all summer, But I will also remember all the fun places we visited on our vacation!
I will remember my love affair with avocados. I just found out I liked them this summer, and now nothing can keep us apart
That toast looks so thick and delicious – love!
Good luck with the move!! I hope everything goes well
I use the same method when I go to Whole Foods salad/hot foods bar. It makes for a perfectly veggie filled, delicious meal
Actually, pumpkin, peaches, and banana, sounds like a yummy combo! Gotta try that with maybe a scoop of vegan ice cream for that creaminess. Could you believe that I’ve never made shakes with ice cream before? Madness.
I love that breakfast! Pumpkin and peanut butter is such a yummy combo on toast. And that smoothie sounds excellent as well!
I think I’ll remember this summer as the first one where I actually turned from ghostly white to…slightly less ghostly white from spending so much time outside. Asdie from a minor blip in July, the British weather has actually been quite kind…says she as rainclouds gather overhead ; )
Good luck with your senior year! Hopefully it will be filled with just as many great memories as your summer.
xoxoxo
Oh summer, coming to a close. It’s so sad! You’ve had a pretty darn dandy one though by the sounds of it. And plenty of new and exciting things to come in the coming year right?! Safe travels!
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I shall remember my first trip to the states!! CEREAL LOVE <3 haha
have a safe trip
Green Goddess dressing is amaze!!!
good luck dear!!! soooo exciting – you enjoy every bit of your last year because it will go by sooo fast!
ummm YUM on the evening shake and WF salad bar! love that WF was your “last meal” – safe travels back to school!
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have a nice last day…this year will FLY by so enjoy each and every second.
way to go out with a WF hot bar bang
Hope you had a safe trip! Best wishes for a fantastic senior year!