Happy belated birthday to the lovely Maureen!! You deserve all the best <3!
The due date for my thesis is quickly approaching leaving me with little time to get up to any exciting shenanigans in the kitchen. This means that I will be eating a whole lot of my favourite speedy meal over the next month:
It tastes better than it looks: baked whole wheat pita bread, soynut butter and smashed banana with a ton of cinnamon.
I am finally starting to overcome the loss of peanut and almond butters, and am learning to love soy butters (lately I’ve been enjoying Salba Olé brand and the I.M.Healthy brand which carries a dairy-free chocolate spread). I usually eat this after working out as it is a great source of Potassium, protein and carbohydrates. I am not sure what I would do without soy and got quite worked up when I thought that it might have been responsible for a massive allergic reaction I had a few weeks ago! I am also not sure what I would do without the Cavendish banana!! Do you?!
Speaking of unsustainable practices (re: bananas), apparently advice to eat fish hurts the environment! Surprise, surprise! In other news, the EU is apparently phasing out some aspects of animal testing in the cosmetics industry.
- Aly
VeggieGirl said,
March 16, 2009 @ 8:02 pm
Happy belated birthday to Maureen; good luck to YOU on your thesis!!
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 6:21 pm
Merci :)!
Ricki said,
March 16, 2009 @ 8:28 pm
Happy Birthday, Maureen! :) And best of luck with the thesis, too!
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
Thanks :)!
Carrie said,
March 17, 2009 @ 10:01 am
It might not LOOK amazing, but that pita creation certainly sounds delicious.
Good luck with your thesis! Been there..I know how stressful it can be!
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
Thanks :D!
Bianca- Vegan Crunk said,
March 17, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Happy B-day Maureen. And I’m glad you’ve found a good sub for peanut butter. I’m not what I would do without nut butter….die, perhaps. But maybe I should check out the other seed butters just in case.
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
Haha, I wish that I could eat nut butters without fearing death!
Sunflower seed butter is quite tasty, and pumpkin seed butter is even better and has also sorts of fabulous minerals and fats (http://www.omeganutrition.com/products-gourmet-pumpkinbutter.php)!
Andrea said,
March 17, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
Happy birthday to Maureen.
Happy almost finished thesis to Aly.
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
Oooh, I wish it was almost finished ;)!
shellyfish said,
March 18, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
Happy birthday Maureen!!!!! Rock the thesis – and I need to try me some soy butters!
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
Hehe, good luck! Some soy butters can be quite unpalatable. I am really not a fan of Freenut Butter (http://www.totallynutfree.ca/freenutbutter.html). I would definitely recommend the brands mentioned in my post, especially the I.M. Health chocolate spread, mmmmmm ;).
Liz² said,
March 18, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
good luck with school! that looks like perfect study-power food, and indeed the messier banana-nut-butter sandwiches look, generally the more delicious they *are*, so you’re gold here. :)
oh, and I’m glad they’re getting down on fish eating. There are so few left!
Aly said,
March 23, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
It is such a tragedy that so many people chose to eat fish without being selective about the sustainability of the fisheries they are supporting!
Here are some more articles if you are interested in reading up on the past and present collapse of our fisheries:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/35/13096.full
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/5530/629
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u634344r0n316020/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VDY-3VVT3YD-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=c65b22e0f2d6363d5bbbee774ae1f104