Cooking with Chobani {giveaway}

It’s NEW YEAR’S EVE!  Which means everyone’s focus has shifted from Christmas cookies and eggnog to carrot sticks and excessive exercise.  Well, that’s where our heads will be after one last night of cocktail wieners and glasses of bubbly, that is.

This past month has flown by.  I guess that’s typical for December, isn’t it?  From Thanksgiving to Christmas, it’s all about squeezing in time with friends and family and bouncing from one party to the next.  The end of the year always leaves me with a bit of PHD (post-holiday depression).  You too?

One of my favorite holiday get-togethers this year was a cooking event at the Chobani offices here in Charlotte.  Several local food bloggers and friends joined up for a night of wine, laughs, and yogurt-filled recipes cooked under the supervision of Chobani’s own chef, Tim Reardon.

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If you aren’t familiar with Chobani, stop what you’re doing and head to the grocery store.  Chobani makes some of the best Greek yogurt on the market.  I’m partial to the pomegranate.

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Technology-1, Mary-0 (plus #giveaway)

So over the weekend, I decided to do a little housekeeping on the blog and categorize all of my old posts.  All 260 of them.  Just so that I could have a nice little category cloud on the right hand side of the screen (check that shiz out!).  Seemed like a fabulous idea, until last night I realized something I was doing was triggering random old posts to get flushed through the RSS feed.

Oooopsie!

I wish I could personally go into each and every one of your feeds and delete all the old posts.  I even tried to hack into a few of your accounts to no avail Winking smile

The only thing I can do now, is offer you free Greek yogurt!

YoCrunch recently sent me a free coupon to give to a reader for their new YoCrunch Greek Yogurt line:

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Honey, blueberry, peach, and strawberry low-fat Greek yogurt all ready to be mixed up with their all-natural low-fat granolas.  Ummm sign me up!  Or actually sign YOU up.

Just post a comment on this post (about anything your heart desires), and I’ll randomly select a winner Monday evening.

Good luck, and sorry if I made a mess of your RSS feed Smile

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3 Ingredients to Breakfast Bliss

What do these three ingredients have in common?

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Cottage cheese (bleghhhhhh), eggs, and oatmeal?

Despite being super healthy and good for your body, these three ingredients have one MAJOR thing in common.

A big ole plate of PURE breakfast bliss, that’s what.

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I hope you are as excited as I am Open-mouthed smile

Thank you to Jessica from Warfield Ninjas for sharing with me one of the simplest yet tastiest belly pleasing recipes I’ve tried in a while!

For two good sized pancakes (similar in size to a toaster waffle), you’ll need to combine the following in a food processor:

  • 1/3 cup uncooked oats (I used quick oats)
  • 1/3 cottage cheese (I used fat free)
  • 2 egg whites

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Give all the goods a quick buzz in the food processor until the lumps are gone, and cook them up like you would “normal” pancakes!

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get. in. my. bellllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I was feeling a little OVER THE TOP, so I decided to top mine off with some all-natural peanut butter, Dannon Vanilla Greek yogurt, strawberries, AND Smuckers sugar free syrup.

Feel free to use the toppings of your choice.  To each her own pancake, I always say Smile

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I made a smaller version of these for my mom over the holiday weekend, and she said they were surprisingly tasty and that she appreciated the “healthy and hearty” texture of the pancakes.  I completely agree!

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Pure breakfast bliss.

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I’m looking forward to playing with this recipe a bit – and hopefully making it waffle-iron ready  Open-mouthed smile  Fingers crossed

Stats on two pancakes (without any toppings):  203 calories, 21g carbs, 2g fat, 22g protein, 3g fiber.

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Waffles in mah belly

I woke up bright and early this lovely Saturday morning to head to Day #4 of Body Pump.  Apparently, sometime between Thursday and today the Y got new weights, which are LB weights as opposed to kilograms…  Needless to say, I was thrown off by this ABSOLUTELY INSANE change, but I managed through the class Smile

When I got home I wanted something a little special for breakfast.  Something delicious but balanced…

After some foraging in the kitchen, here’s what I came up with:

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That’s

  • 2 Eggo Light Whole Grain Waffles
  • 1/2 cup Trader Joe’s vanilla fat free Greek yogurt
  • 3 sliced up strawberries
  • 1/4 cup of blueberries
  • 2 tbsp Smuckers Sugar Free Syrup

And that, my friends, was a whole heck of a lot of deliciousness.

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This may be my new Saturday staple Smile

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Mmmmmmmm…

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Stats on breakfast:  286 calories, 54g carbs, 3g fat, 14g protein, 5g fiber

What’s on the agenda today?  I’ll be running some errands, hopefully grabbing a tasty lunch, then spending some quality time with the condo *hopefully* making a dent in the pile of boxes I now call home Smile

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