i HATE oatmeal, but i would eat these!
OATMEAL PANCAKES!
I made these for breakfast today and they were awesome! I got this recipe online and modified it to make it healthier :3
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour (or wheat flour)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup soy milk
- 3 tablespoons Smart Balance Light butter
Directions:
In a bowl, combine the oats, flour, baking soda and sugar. Combine the egg, buttermilk and butter; stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls onto a greased hot griddle. Turn when bubbles form on top; cook until second side is golden brown. Top with berries, apples and cinnamon, no-sugar syrup or whatever you’d like and enjoy! :D
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This is such a good way to get a chocolate fix :D
must remember this for yummy stuff at the next get together.
5 years ago I moved to Chicago from South Florida, and I weighed around 135 pounds. At that time it was the heaviest I had every weighed; I used to be super skinny when I was younger, but I could also eat whatever I wanted and never gained weight. Well, with age comes a slower metabolism, and I never really got into exercise so I didn’t rely on that to keep my metabolism high. Plus, living in South Florida I had to drive everywhere, because that part of the country is not set up to easily walk anywhere.
So I moved to Chicago, and suddenly I live in an area where I have to walk everywhere. I didn’t lose pounds, but I did gain muscle. My legs are incredibly strong, and I even think I lost my cankles and grew some calves. Only problem was that when winter comes around I’m not walking as much, so I pack on weight. After 5 years I packed on 15 pounds, and finally I had enough of it.
Last fall I made the decision to get into shape, but then came the excuses. I couldn’t join the gym because my dog developed issues and I thought I should conserve money just in case. Then the holidays were here, and I didn’t want to spend the money, nor did I think I would actually go. Then the new year, and I didn’t want to be a new year statistic in the gym.
December 31st I went to the grocery store and I bought a bunch of healthy groceries. January 1st, really hungover, and January 2nd was my final holiday off. January 3rd………back to work, back to reality, and time to start my new life.
I follow that adage that it takes 21 days to develop a habit, so I started my new habits on January 3rd, 2012. Now 26 days later I have to admit that I’m liking my new habits, and I’m feeling results. I can’t see results physically, but I can feel them, and I can feel them mentally too. I want to keep going, I want to make this my way of life now. I lost 10 pounds in 26 days, and although I realize that weight is just a number and I might not lose much more…I’m more interested in how my body will eventually change, and I’m hoping that being mentally healthy will only aid and keep me going. I realize this all takes patience and time, and that is not something I’m really good at, but I feel that it’s time to also adjust that part of me.
So, with all that being said, here’s what I do, it helps me and it may help someone else out there reading this. Remember, it’s not just doing the physical work, but also the mental. You have to want the changes, and you have to put in the hard work, and you have to be willing to change things about yourself.
1. I make my bed every morning.
2. I eat a small breakfast, I eat healthy snacks of fruit carrots or nuts, I eat a healthy lunch, and every dinner I have a salad of mixed greens and baby spinach with olive oil dressing. I eat thinly sliced chicken breasts or something mixed with ground turkey.
3. I limit how much I eat out in restaurants.
4. I drink about 2 liters of water a day.
5. I check my bank account every day.
6. I cut out a great deal of sugar from my diet.
7. I work out 10 to 20 minutes, 4 or 5 times a week.
8. I read books as much as I can.
9. When I get annoyed with someone or something, I try to take a second to look at the other perspective, or just take a second to cool down and remind myself that it is not a big deal.
10. I receive compliments.
These are only ten things, and they may not work for everyone. Everyone should have their own things. But the important thing is that you should at least try. Our nation, or world is so unhealthy both mentally and physically, and I only see things getting worse if people don’t start taking their lives into their own hands.
I’ll end this just by saying, if there is something you want to do, DO IT!
i can remember the day this happened. Because there was a teacher on board the Challenger, our 6th grade class was watching on tv. When it happened I didn’t understand what exactly happened. I only understood that our teachers were very upset. I didn’t know at the time just how important that moment was, but it has remained one of the clearest memories in my life.
Challenger’s resting place
On January 28, 1986, at 11:30, A.M. just one minute after lift off, the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in an explosion. After pieces of the Challenger were examined, they were lowered into their permanent storage area in the Minuteman missile silo at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
last night i made turkey quinoa burgers, they were delicious..so i had the same thing tonight. and now i have the onion breaths from my salad, but who cares it was good.
Right now, we’re poised to spend nearly one trillion dollars more on what was supposed to be a temporary tax break for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households. Right now, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Do we want to keep these tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, or do we want to keep our investments in everything else? Like education and medical research? A strong military and care for our veterans? Because if we’re serious about paying down our debt, we can’t do both.
The American people know what the right choice is: so do I. As I told the Speaker this summer, I’m prepared to make more reforms that rein in the long-term costs of Medicare and Medicaid, and strengthen Social Security, so long as those programs remain a guarantee of security for seniors. But in return, we need to change our tax code so that people like me — and an awful lot of members of Congress — pay our fair share of taxes. Tax reform should follow the ‘Buffett Rule’: if you make more than a million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned $21.6 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent of that amount in income taxes, using the preferential rate on investment income and charitable deductions to pay a smaller share of his earnings than top wage earners typically do.
Mitt Romney accidentally the Cayman Islands.
