Daily Archives: September 26, 2010

Lolz[thateattoomuchpumpkinandyogurt]

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Here are my current obsessions:
1. Greek Yogurt. I decided I’m saving all my yogurt containers for storage. At the moment, I store all my coffee and sweeteners in them. I feel in a month-I’ll need something else to use them for. This is from the first month of school and doesn’t count all the individual containers I’ve bought hehe.

2. Pancakes-I don’t think I need to explain hehe.

3. Canned Pumpkin-How sad this is only half of my collection from my recent hoarding experience.

I could lie to the blogging community and say that I haven’t already used an entire can of canned pumpkin since my purchase yesterday-but too my credit I did make pumpkin pancakes for two.
I wasn’t sure I was going to do a food blog today because if you haven’t noticed-I’ve updated other things around the blog. Including a new article about swimming!

I swear last night all I could think about was making pumpcakes in the morning so when I woke up this morning (thanks to an elbow in the face) I was ecstatic! I literally jumped out of bed and into the kitchen. The pancakes are were just as I remembered and I put them in a bowl and topped with Chobani vanilla yogurt.

10:00
Pumpcakes in a Bowl

12:30pm-After a couple hours of studying, I went to the student union and got a (don’t judge me please) Pumpkin Spice coffee, some pears and apples.

2:00pm-It must have been a chobani yogurt bowl day. I made cinnamon pear and apple on top of yogurt. I had never made it with pears, but I didn’t know what I was missing. There is about 6 ounces of yogurt somewhere in there. :)

4:00pm-Yes, indeed. I finished off the can of pumpkin with a protein pumpkin smoothie. I didn’t take a picture because pumpkin shakes aren’t too eye-appealing. That is my general consensus with all my shakes that come out of my magic bullet. I’m going to buy a fancy cup like this to display them in.

Chocolate Pumpkin Protein Shake:
6 ounce Greek god yogurt
½ cup canned pumpkin
½ scoop whey protein powder
1 packet hot cocoa mix

It was a strange combination of ingredients that I was surprised went to together as well as they did.

6:00pm For dinner, Aram and I went to Lehman dining hall. Tonight was prime rib. They finally realized I was a hungry girl and gave me a large piece of Prime Rib. I don’t like the fat of prime rib, so there was obviously a lot I cut out. I also had fruit salad. The end of family weekend marks the end of my dining hall produces the best food possible ha. I had mangos and strawberry fruit salad.
Tonight I’m back to studying and of then morning practice tomorrow. Hopefully with my rest day, my body will recover from be reading for practice tomorrow.


What are your go to staple foods?

Watching Swimming

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A Basic Guide to Watching Swimming

Swimming is a rather complicated, little known by the outside world sport. Every four years, it dominates the Summer Olympics but what about after that?

Does swimming just ceased to exist in the public eye after that?

Well yes-unless you count when Michael Phelps had his incident with drugs.

It humors me because there are many more swimmers that compete at a national level versus NFL players but a person off the streets wouldn’t be able to name more than one. Honestly though, I don’t mind it. I don’t mind how secluded swimming is to the public eye-just periodically explaining to my nonswimming friends what actually happens.

Step 1: The Pool
To understand swim meets you must first understand where it all starts-a basic pool. A pool can be any of the following lengths for competition, 25 yards, 25 meters or 50 meters. Most standard competition pools in the United States are 25 yards versus the rest of the world which is on the metric system. An Olympic sized pool is 50 meters. Short course is considered 25 meters and long course pools are 50 meters.

When watching an event, it primarily counted by lengths.  For instance, in a 25 yard pool,a 200 event consists of 8 lengths.  The swimmers mile (1650) is 66 lengths.   That number is cut in half when swimming in a 50 meter pool.

Step 2: The Strokes
There are four competitive strokes.

Butterfly

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Freestyle

At a college level they are combined to make the following events:

Freestyle: 50/100/200/500/1000/1650

I am known as a distance swimmer, so I swim anything above a 500. A sprinter swims the 50 and 100 as well as relays. The 200, is an event the either distance swimmers or sprinters may engage in.

The Strokes:

Backstroke/Breaststroke/Butterfly: 100/200

Individual Medley: 200/400

The individual medley (or IM) is a combination of the four strokes. It is done in the following order: Butterfly, backstroke, Breaststroke and then freestyle. In the 200IM, a person would switch strokes at each 50 at the wall. In the 400IM, they switch at the 100 point.

Relays: 200/400/800
Relays consist of 4 people and the distance is divided up equally. Once one person touches the wall, the next person is safely allowed to dive in without getting disqualified.

Free Free to add anything.
Next: A guide to practicing swimming

Pumpcake in a Bowl

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As I said, I bought 15 cans of Pumpkin.  That means for the next month, I will be on a pumpkin making spree.  Today’s pumpkin adventure?

Pumpkin Pancakes in a Bowl
½ cup fiber one cereal
½ cup cottage cheese (I prefer low fat, small curd)
¼ tablespoon baking powder
¼ cup egg substitute (1 large egg)
½  cup canned pumpkin
Nutmeg, sweetener and pumpkin spice to taste

Combine cottage cheese and egg with blender.  You still want it to be a little chunky but not too much.  Set aside.
Combine fiber one cereal and baking powder and sweetner and blend.  I use my magic bullet.
Combine dry ingredients to wet ingredients and add pumpkin.
Cook on a griddle like a pancake.
I add all of mine to a bowl and add a dash of sugar free syrup and Greek Yogurt.

Walaa Cakes in a Bowl!

After being Mixed Up

350 calories/60 carbs/3 fat/35 protein