No Bake Coconut Lemon Chia Balls

That was pretty much like giving a kid a brand new toy and then ripping it from his hands saying you changed your mind, he can’t have it. I kind of wish I could throw a tantrum like that (imaginary) kid probably would.

Not cool Flickr.

Anyway, enjoy the short lived pretty fonts. Hopefully they’ll distract you from the fact that I completely forgot to take a picture of lunch. It was fabulous. A salmon burger, spinach, arugula, (<—see! lots of green finally) tomatoes, red cabbage, hummus and sriracha wrapped up in a whole wheat tortilla the size of my head. Apples and pb on the side.

Backing up to breakfast…look familiar? It’s been done before. I really wanted hot oatmeal actually but considering I overslept by about 30 minutes thanks to the 5th smoke detector battery in our house that has decided to crap out on us at 3am in the morning, I needed something quick that didn’t require standing over the stove for 10 minutes. Can I just take a sentence to say how much I love Van’s waffles? They’re relatively cheap and they stay crisp unlike some other ones I recently bought on sale (looking at YOU Kashi), a very important factor to be considered when constructing the waffle stack breakfast.

Here’s a lunch visual:

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Yummy.

Now, these were yummy. That was sarcasm up above, this is not in case you didn’t catch that (I frequently find myself in situations with the whole sarcasm thing not coming across in written form). When in doubt people, I’m being sarcastic. It’s pretty much my truest personality characteristic.

Katie posted these lemon poppy seed no bake cookies yesterday morning and they immediately caught my attention.

1. No bake

2. I had most things on had

3. It’s impossible for me to go a week without a ball snack of some sort

4. As much as I love chocolate, I have just as big a weak spot for lemon poppy seed muffins. I really don’t discriminate when it comes to sweets. It’s one of my better qualities.

These are awesome. I ended up subbing chia seeds for poppy seeds because I didn’t have any and since I don’t have unflavored protein powder I used 2 tablespoons coconut flour and 2 tablespoons vanilla protein powder instead. I also added a few tablespoons of coconut milk to get the dough to the consistency it needed to be to roll into balls.

They still have that amazing lemon poppy seed muffin flavor and they’re full of protein.

(posting the recipe here since Katie’s site is no longer live)

Look! Natural light in a dinner picture! It actually takes me longer to edit pictures on my iphone, email them to myself, upload to Flickr and then download into the blog than it does to take a regular picture with my camera so I’m kind of overly happy about this 7pm sunset time.

I was alone for dinner last night, so I experimented. The picture says it all, literally…ha. A roasted, stuffed portobello with a side of hard apple cider. Not a bad dinner and some green to end the month of green for what I ate Wednesday.