I saw this on Pinterest: Yummy Balls

A few days ago I saw these adorable little 

cookie dough-ish looking balls with a recipe right under them.

It seemed to good/easy to be true.

It read:

2 ripe bananas, 1 cup quick oats, 

1/2 c choc chips, 1 heaping spoonful of natural peanut butter.. 

mix well, plop spoonfuls onto baking sheet, bake at 350 for 15 mins. 

Delicious! #healthy

So... I did what I do and I scavenged my cabinets to find

that I sort of had all the ingredients.

I used dates instead of chocolate chips, and almond butter instead of peanut,

and then for half of the batch I added in a tsp of dark cocoa powder.

The funny thing though is that they looked nothing like the picture I had Pinned.

Nothing.

Now I know that this is a common anomaly of Pinterest, 

and you can't believe everything you see on the internet, but I was still baffled. 

The good new though,they are delicious.

I had to hide them from the boy to keep him from eatting them all!

Well upon my confusion I decided to do a little more research into that 

original Pin to find that the recipe that was given

 was not at all what was pictured.

Those are actually Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

that you can find over at Averie Cooks.

So I guess that I am going to have to try those now too! Ha.

The End of A Cleanse

Well it's over, and to be honest,

week 3's menu was so unappealing that we kinda 

just faked the last week.

Sticking to ingredient guidelines we decided to

take our diet decisions into our own hands.

What ever it was about being on this particular 

cleanse for so long did something to us.

We noticed a change, and not just the obvious

weight loss.

We noticed ourselves really truly feeling better

and making better decisions about food.

At "the end" we splurged with pizza

and pasta and sodas, and you know what....

we felt like shit.

Who knew? Well I guess we could have guessed it.

So after decided that we didn't want to gain the weight back and sink

right back into old habits, 

we have decided to make this change a bit more permanent.

While we are NOT by any means going to be following a strict diet

of only rabbit food, we will be using some of the recipes and eating clean-er.

I was so excited to get back onto the coffee train,

but I must admit it's just not the same.

I used to use a delicious powdered sweet processed creamer.

Well I cut that out because of all of the chemical-ish ingredients.

 For a substitute I started using almond milk and honey.

It just wasn't doing it for me, and I was finding myself 

making cups (for the ritual of it all) and only drinking half of them.

I am going to be skipping the daily 3-4 cups from here on out.

Not to say that I will stop drinking it all together, it will just

be more of a special occasion type of thing now.

I am going to try a Chicory Root smoothie substitute out 

and I will let you know how that works out and share the recipe.

This has become one of my favorite meals, 

Baked Salmon with Coconut Broth.

After making it the first time while on the cleanse,

I proclaimed to the hubs that he would be seeing this one again and again.

Really this is not problem for him, he thinks it's super yummy too.

I followed this recipe, 

but added some purple cabbage and a hand full of sweet peppers.

So all in all, I am so happy that we did this 

grueling cleanse and even more excited that I had such great 

support from the hubs and our friends.

I could have never done it with out all the encouragement.

Thanks you all so much.

Peanut Butter Puke.

The first day of our cleanse is behind us.

I woke up and didn't crave coffee.

That's not to say that I don't think about it non stop, but I feel like I can function with out it.

I rubbed my tired eyes so that I could see the numbers on the scale a little clearer.

168.

That's where I will start.

I was excited to make the first breakfast off of our three week menu.

Mango Tahini.

The blender whizzed the ingredients into a 

sort of muddy yellow drink.

I took one sip and damn near upchucked it back into the glass.

I sat watching the hubs, in retrospect this was kinda mean.

I knew he was going to hate it.

I was sitting there choking mine down anticipating his first sip.

One quick draw on that straw and his face turned to instant horror.

He promptly shook his head,

and quickly made his way to the kitchen to discard the remaining smoothie.

On his return he looked at me like I was nuts, 

and said that the smoothie tasted like

"someone puked peanut butter into his mouth".

Honestly there is no better way to describe this horrid taste.

Peanut butter puke.

And now that's all I could think of.

I tried to finish mine, but could only gag.

So we started over. 

Mango smoothies.

Just plain mango.

Which we dertermined we don't really like either,

but it's better than the alternative. 

DIY: Herbal Lemonade

Ingredients:

6 whole lemons (juiced)

1/2 cup of Raw Hoeny*

3-5 sprigs of Rosemary

2 oz. Dill

2oz. Mint

2 quarts water

First boil the 2 quarts of water and add the honey to dissolve.

Place the mixture in fridge until cool.

*tip: after it was all done I added an additional 1/2 cup of honey.

Juice all  your lemons,

and muddle your herbs.

In a large pitcher mix the sweetened water, lemon juice, and muddled herbs.

Place in refrigerator for 2 hours.

Garnish with Rosemary and we also added some blackberries.

Enjoy!