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Baked Oats to Warm The Heart

by Nicci on 02/11/2010

Today is a SNOW DAY here in Texas! Meaning my office is closed and hopefully Friday too, in order to have a fabulous 5 day weekend! I only hope that the snow does not ruin any weekend plans.

This weekend Chris and I will be attending the Vagina Monologues. The Vagina Monologues is part of an amazing global movement called V Day. www.vday.org.

It addresses violence against women and children. We went to the play last year and it was humorous but also some monologues were sad.

Extra Bonus: RENT is being performed on stage by our local community college. Chris and I are going with a group of friends on Friday. I love this musical… I’ve got all the songs on my ipod, cd in car and the movie.

I tend to break out the RENT soundtrack when I have parties…all the straight people tend to leave. Wait! maybe that’s why I have few straight friends attending my parties.

What to eat on a snowy day…something warm.

Breakfast:

Baked Oats with Banana

Missy always pops up when she smells something cooking in the kitchen.

Agenda in the snow:

30 Day Shred- (I don’t run in the snow, so no 2 miles)
Post office – mail packages and V-day cards
Grocery store
Cleaning

I might as well take advantage of this day off and get things rolling.

Anyone stuck indoors or having to work in the snow? What’s your snow story?

Vitalicious asked me to share their new giveaway with my readers. I know diamonds are my best friends!

While Vitalicious’ nutrient-packed, 100-calorie VitaTops and VitaMuffins are the perfect gift all on their own, they are sweetening the deal with a genuine, diamond-studded Tiffany Pendant valued at $800! This is going on through February in honor of National Heart Month and Valentine’s Day:

To enter, visit http://www.vitalicious.com/diamond-sweepstakes.html.

Even if you don’t win the Grand Prize, you will be automatically entered to win one of 150 one-monthsupplies of VitaTops!

They’ll notify winners in March.

Have a great Thursday!

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Hearty Bowl of Baked Goodness

by Nicci on 01/30/2010

Happy to sleep in this Saturday morning and spend the day hanging out with the boyfriend. We have plans to lounge around and then do some apartment cleaning, followed by lunch somewhere around town.

I really wanted to try baked oats this morning, so I put together a delicious recipe. Oats for myself and scrambled eggs with toast for Chris.

Strawberry Almond Baked Oats

Ingredients:

1/2 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup plain Almond Breeze
1/2 Tbs cinnamon
almonds
1Tbs Almond Butter
1 tsp agave nectar
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp chia seeds

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375
Mix all ingredients
Pour batter into mini casserole dish
Top with strawberries and blueberries and more almonds
Bake for 20 minutes

Dive Right In

Giveaway Winner

The Winner of the new book by Sparkpeople.com ”The Spark” goes to Morgan at ”Live, Love, Eat and Play”.

Congratulations!!

Morgan Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 6:06 PM edit 1
Remember-you can always do one more…one more step, one more breath, one more rep!

Please send me your address and I will send you this great book.

I hope everyone has a lovely Saturday. Stay bundled up if it’s cold where you live…it’s freezing in Texas!

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Drink Me Silly on Taco Tuesday

by Nicci on 09/22/2009

I’m happy to say…Monday is Complete! I didn’t think I could make it through a 3 hour board meeting w/ a headache last night.

Had to pump up this Tuesday with some cardio.

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Ladies of the Firm kick my booty into gear every morning!

I needed a smoothie for breakfast BUT decided to quench my thirst with my current #1 Love.

Coconut Water!!

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I had the Pom flavored Chobani too (not pictured)

I’m loving this water and at $1.30 a can, you can’t go wrong!! I recently learned ”Goyo” has sweet and unsweetened coconut water. I ended up drinking two of these babies throughout the day.

Lunch was brown rice w/chickpeas, carrots and apples.

I’m try to mix it up with dinner but I could not stop thinking about Kashi’s Pilaf. I decided I would make simple tacos with the pilaf tonight.

Introducing… The best tacos I’ve ever eaten.

”Nothing Fancy Pilaf Tacos”

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Yummy Balsamic Cucumber salad.

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Ingredients:

Kashi ”Fiery Fiesta” Pilaf
Lean ground turkey
2 T McCormick taco seasoning
fresh cilantro
dash of S&P

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There was no need for tomatoes, cheese or any other thing else on the tacos.

Last but not least my 2nd Love: Organic Green Tea Pomegranate from Old Orchard.

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I don’t see this bottle lasting too long b/c Chris liked it. I was shock because the only tea he drinks is ”super” sweet tea.

He also started telling me the health benefits of Pomegranates

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Yeah for only 45 cals, but boo! on the 12g of sugar…oh well it’s still great!

Can you name some health benefits from Pomegranates?

Pomegranates Promote a Healthy Heart

Clinical research shows that pomegranates, when part of a healthy diet, might help prevent heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. This is because pomegranates have the potential to thin the blood, increase blood flow to the heart, reduce blood pressure, reduce plaque in the arteries, and reduce bad cholesterol while increasing good cholesterol.

Time to erase the DVR before tonight’s shows like 90210 .

Do you prefer the original or new cast of 90210?

Remember tomorrow is the last day for Dr. Kracker Giveaway, winners announced Thursday!

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Dr. Kracker Giveaway

by Nicci on 09/16/2009

I’m still on my blogcation but a surprise came to my doorstep today!! Dr. Krackers

Giveaway Time

I’m excited to be doing my First Giveaway!!

Dr. Kracker was nice enough to send me crackers & flat breads just for you guys.

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Two lucky readers will be able to munch down on these crunchy crackers and flat breads.

You have up to three ways to win: (point for each comment)

1. Leave me a comment telling me which flavor of crackers or flat breads you’d most like to try and/or is your favorite.

2. If you have your own blog, mention this giveaway in a post and leave me a second comment letting me know that you’ve done so.

3. Tweet about this comment (@NiccisNiftyEats Dr. Kracker Giveaway) and link back to this giveaway, then leave another comment.

Bonus: Add niccisniftyeats to your Reader and leave a comment below.

You have until 12:00pm central on Wednesday, September 23rd to enter. This contest is open to US residents only. On Thursday afternoon, I will announce the winner! I will be generating the numbers with Random.org

Good luck to everyone!