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Cold Eeze Kinda Day

Posted on by Naomi

Hello my lovely blogettes?? I was a bit MIA today, please accept my apology, this little foodie was a bit under the weather. I find that when I am feeling something come on, the best way to approach it is to have a POSITIVE attitude and go along like you feel 100%. If I have this mentality I zap myself out of this ‘awww I don’t feel well” type of attitude and just try to carry on as normal!

Plus a Healthy dose of these suckers! Anyone a Cold-Eeze fan like myself??

Cherry, Sugar Free Cold EEZE – These are magic I tell you! The trick to them is you have to take them at the FIRST sign of a cold and since I woke up a bit sniffly and swollen gland-ish, I ran out to CVS before work and got a box of my oh so favorite suckers!
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Let me share with you all a fabulous recipe I whipped up last night, Literally!!
I am sure you are all aware of the amazingness of Genas banana soft serve , correct? (if not, go make it NOW!)
So I opened my freezer and noticed an abundance of frozen mangoes I had. I decided hmmm well if the banana soft serve was ubberly delicious why can’t I do the same thing with Mangoes? SO I DID!
I only made about a half cup because if this didn’t turn out well, I just can’t stand to waste food! However, I do wish I made more because this was DA BOMB!
  • Put frozen mango in a food processor, I used a mini one like pictured above
  • Blend straight for 3-5 minutes, stopping every now and then to scrape the sides down. 
  • TIP-I found that some of the mangos stayed rock hard, so I added a teeny bit of almond milk to get it going a bit more!
  • DONE! Easy Peezy, correct?
Naomi’s Mangolicious Soft Serve! and Look how pretty the color is!
I was very much in the testing out mood so I also whipped up some speghetti squash!! I have never made this before so I was super psyched to give it a whirl!
Note to self: This is not an easy squash to cut! The knife got stuck mid way, I needed my dad to help me cut the whole thing!! Anyways, after I burned about 50 calories from cutting it, it was good to go!

The beauty cooking in the oven, mid bake!
Baked this sucker in the oven at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes or until fork tender


De-scraped!

Pure Goodness! It made SO much!!!  And of course I took a taste. WOW it was so naturally sweet. I was very impressed with myself, even though this was super easy to make!
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TODAY’s BREAKFAST

Come to me NOW
  • 1/2 C oats
  • water/almond milk (used a little TOO much liquid as you can see this was a liquidy bowl of oats!) still delicious though!
  • 1/2 banana
  • blueberries/strawberries (it turned the bowl a pretty purple!!)
  • 1 egg white
  • chia
  • truvia
  • cinnamon
  • Peanut butter (not pictured!)
Lunch time was a wrap!
  • Josephs lavash wrap
  • Garlic and herb laughing Cow wedge
  • Horseradish mustard
  • lettuce
  • tomato
  • carrot shreds
  • turkey breast
And a salad, which this gal was not feeling too much due to sniffles and ‘off appetite’ I ate about half
  • Romaine
  • cauliflower
  • broccoli
  • tomato
  • yellow peppah
  • balsamic vinegar
WORKOUT
because of my lack of feeling all RAH RAH today, I took it easy with the workout today. I did 15 minutes on the treadmill, running 1 mile then the rest uphill incline (10% grade) Then I did some random weights exercises (shoulder presss, back rows, burpees, hammer curls, bosu squats) Then finished up with 12 minutes on the spin bike doing my own spin workout!
Snack time!
From all of your reviews I decided to dig into this beauty:
Coconut Cream Pie Lara Bar
and made it into this beauty
Greek yogurt, cinnamon crushed up Lara Bar. Look at the huge almond chunk in there!
I liked the Lara bar, certainly NOT my favorite, I think the banana bread is my all time favorite right now, but I have yet to try the PB&J one! It was a bit too coconutty for me, I think I am not a coconutty kinda girl, and the large shreds of coconut weren’t doing it for me as much as I thought! BUT this was a delicious snack, regardless! I really think that adding it to the greek yogurt made it THAT much better!
Dinner was Grilled steak and grilled zuchinni that I made last night! (eaten at work, hence the tupperware)

Yummy grilled marinated steak tips and zucchini.
I had brought a small salad but had no appetite for all that roughage so just in case, I brought a can of light Progresso chicken Noodle soup!

Eh, not great, but it was what my tummy wanted. I mean there is nothing like homemade soup, Progresso has NOTHING on my mama! It did the job tonight though!
I came home to this:


Let me explain: Whenever I feel a bit under the weather, this signals my mom to make HER MOM’s famous “get well remedy” besides, Cold Eeze, this stuff is even MORE magic that those suckers. I should warn you, it is utterly gross, I mean actually hard to swallow down, BUT I do it because it works!
  • water
  • lemon juice (Fresh lemon)
  • FRESH ginger-very important that its fresh grated, not out of the jar
  • Cayenne pepper
Boil the water and add the lemon juice, ginger and cayenne, let it steep for about 10 minutes then strain it into a mug and DRINK, FAST… It is gross, but it works!
lastly a giveaway!
Janetha is having a SWEET giveaway here! 
Allison is having a vega giveaway here!
I also wanted to share the Hungry Girl clip from todays Rachel Ray show!

I love hungry girl and LOVE Rach so here ya go!! Click HERE to watch!

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Off to bed to kick the sniffles!!
xoxo
*Naomi*

Naomi
Naomi

28 thoughts on “Cold Eeze Kinda Day”

  2. Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga) says:

    For a sick girl you sure whipped up alot of great looking fooooooood!!! Wow you did good 🙂 The mango softserve with a hint of almond milk? Nice work. I have frozen mango chunks and almond milk just screaming to get used. But I also have tons of other raw desserts. I could open a bakery lately LOL but I love that mango tip for future ref. xoxoxo

  4. The Candid RD says:

    Where do I begin? Everything looks fantastic. I’ve got to try out some of these crazy flavors of LaraBars everyone keeps talking about. Coconut cream pie sounds so tasty.

    I was at the story today and looked for some spaghetti squash, but they did not have any! What a bummer, seriously, it looks SO good! I can just imagine all of the fun things I would do with it…only in my dreams 🙂

  5. Burp and Slurp~! says:

    Feel better soon, dearie! Cold and sniffles just aren’t much fun.

    Gosh that mango thingy sounds and looks AMAZING! Glad you didn’t have to waste any food, because I HATE wasting food, too!

  9. Sherlock says:

    Mmmm.. zucchini. and wrap looks yummy!! Im sooo going to try the mango soft serve ..I have so much frozen fruit

    P.S. Did you eat the spaghetti squash plain?
    P.S.S Hope you get better soon girly:)

  10. MelindaRD says:

    I love spaghetti squash. This is tough to cut. I haven’t done this one in about 6 months and my brain is fried right now, but I think I bake mine first and then cut. I do mine with tofu and brocoli marinated in a thai curry sauce. This is a super fun and nutritious food.

  12. Melissa says:

    Spaghetti squash is worth the effort it takes to cut it. I’m a big fan. My favorite way to eat it is to mix in a Laughing Cow wedge. It’s almost like alfredo.

    I have a cold too! I hope you feel better soon.

  14. Julie says:

    hope you’re feeling better today! i loooove spaghetti squash & just made some the other day… i’m eating the leftovers for lunch today. 🙂

  16. LisaOU11 says:

    Ill have to go pick me up some coldeez or whatever its called for emergency sickness! Food looks great–like your attitude about being sick!

  17. Liz says:

    That squash idea is good! I tried that back home but the squash was so tasteless that it sucked 🙁 I am going to retry with it this week and let ya know what I think!

  19. platipus329 says:

    Great clip from Rachael Ray. I only worry that all these low cal foods are going to encourage people to be undereaters. A full bowl of fettucinne for 165 calorie might be appealing but it’s not really enough for a meal

  21. Missy says:

    Feel better girl! I am a big fan of Cold Eeze too! I always make sure I have them as soon as I feel a sore throat coming! Great idea with the mango soft serve! I tried the banana and loved it!

  22. Janetha says:

    bah i had a whole comment it got erased! i was saying, that is my fave way to eat a LB and my fave flava! and i swear by coldeeze. thanks for the link love!

  27. Thinspired says:

    Your mango soft serve is genius! I also hate wasting food! It’s just a button with me!
    That is one of my favorite flavors of Larabar 🙂
    Oh, you asked about Barney Butter on my blog. Yes, I got it at Whole Foods. I know what you mean about shipping being totally ridiculous! I would try another WF location if you can…it should be there!

  28. Jenny says:

    I have the sniffles too! bech, no fun – no fun at all! Make sure to have tissues on hand.. you don’t want to have to resort to your sleeve 🙂

    oh banana soft serve.. how I love thee <3

    Happy Friday Naomi!

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