Does anyone remember that jingle for pizza bagles that aired about 10 years ago? I still get it stuck in my head from time to time…pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at suppertime, when pizza’s on a bagel you can have pizza anytime…
I’ve never been wild about pizza. So I like to replace it with cake. Think I’m kidding? Just wait.
I started this morning with an early speed workout:
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2 mile warm up @ 8:25 min/mile 1600m @ 7:30 min/mile 1200m @ 7:20 min/mile 800m @ 7:20 min/mile 1 mile cool down |
The wind was INSANE, and it slowed me down considerably. I am really ready for springtime to be over. Afterwards, I decided that I wanted to walk to work, which meant that I only had 30 minutes to stretch, shower, eat breakfast and get out the door. For breakfast, I chose a pancake.
Cake #1: Oatmeal + Protein
¼ cup oats, ¼ cup ww flour, 1 scoop protein powder, stevia, cinnamon
It was large and in charge. Because I was in such a rush, I actually held the pancake and my coffee in my hands while I walked sprinted to work. It was quite the sight. I ate the pancake while at my desk, smothered in crunchy peanut butter.
I took a cake hiatus at lunch and had leftover taco salad.
Lettuce, black beans, salsa, chicken, crumbled tortilla chips
After work, I hoofed it home and made some spinach/blackberry protein ice cream. Ice cream goes well with cake.
½ cup frozen spinach, ¾ cup frozen blackberries, 1 scoop protein powder, splash of water – into the food processor for a few minutes and topped with chopped almonds
I went to the grocery store after this snack, and then came home for…
Cake #2, 3, 4, and 5: Red Velvet Pancakes
Mine weren’t as attractive as the Queen of Sweet’s, but they were dang tasty. I topped mine with greek yogurt and a few chocolate chips.
In the 3rd grade world…
Remember when it was fun to sharpen your pencils down to little nubs?
It drives me crazy when my kids do this because we are ALWAYS running out of pencils; which makes the classroom come to a halt. This is proof that they are all just being eaten by the pencil sharpener.
Hehehe your pancakes look amazing!!! That is the littlest pencil ever – I don’t remember sharpening them that small!
Red velvet pancakes? That is by far the most intriguing recipe I have ever seen!
Pencil nubs hahahahha
Ha, ha. I’d forgotten about that pizza jingle!! Now I’ll probably be singing it all day and will drive my husband crazy. Lol.
Hahahahahahahaha!!!! I totally could have written that blurb about the pencils!!
Sounds very familiar!!
HAHAHAHA. I have no idea why but that picture of that pencil CRACKED me up. I was seriously crying I was laughing so hard. I guess cause I can picture your kids just standing at the automatic pencil sharpener for days waiting until it got down to a little nub and then you being SO annoyed the next time you can’t find one. Ha. Oooooh kids.
Anyway – YES! Bethenny has a yoga/workout DVD! And I LOVE it. She’s so funny in it. I kind of just got it because I’m obsessed with her and think she’s so funny and by far my favorite on the show (on an unrelated note, can we just talk about how much i love her and Alex being friends on the show??) but I wasn’t really expecting much out of it. But it’s actually REALLY good! I definitely recommend it to you – it was only like $12 or something on amazon.
Also – RED VELVET PANCAKES!?! OH MY GOSH KATIE!! I’m dying!
I have a billion other things to say to you but I always feel like you and I must annoy other commentors with our insanely crazy long posts to one another, so maybe I’ll try to get my act together and compile it in an email to you
Happy Wednesday!!
Hi Katie! I recently discovered your blog and just love reading it! I relate so much to you- I live in CO and taught 3rd grade for 4 years (staying at home with my 2 year old now). Anyhow, I love reading your little third grade blurbs, but they make me miss teaching SO much! I actually had to make a rule in my classroom one year that pencils had to be at least the length of your pinky thumb. Too many got stuck in the sharpener!
I love your Red Velvet Pancakes! What a fun idea!
And I completely forgot about the pizza jingle until just now. Haha…too funny.
hahaha I remember hwen kids did that and they thought it was “cool” to use a pencil that way!! too funny
and I also remember pizza bagels and ELIOS! that square frozen pizza?! I always had those, and they were always soggy hahaa
your protein + oatmeal pancakes look aaaamazing!
OMG. these past three posts have been full of *stellar* eats. the taco salad, all the pancakes (red velvet pancakes?!?!?!), hugh jass salads and reused coffee cups (i do that all the time).
and i love your phrase “google it up”. i might have to start using that one
Taco salad? Massive win. Red velvet pancakes? DECADENCE!
Pancakes for breakfast is not QUITE the same as eating 3 large slabs of birthday cake for breakfast. I’m not saying I’ve done that. But I’m not saying I haven’t.
Of course I remember that pizza jingle! I used to always get that stuck in my head!
I sent that recipe to Mike when our lovely Sweet posted it the other day and he won’t stop raving about how good they look. I need to make them, soon!
OH MY GOODNESS can I relate to the pencil thing! One of my students got theirs so small that while sharpening, it literally ate up the pencil! So now I have a stub of a pencil in there, and a broken pencil sharpener.
We’ve been through 3 electric pencil sharpeners this year! It drives me absolutely nuts. Now the kids are only allowed to use their “pocket sharpeners”
Whoever sharpened that pencil is impressive…I never got it down that far!! Reading your blog always brings back the best elementary school memories
I love that taco salad too- so colorful!
haha I remember doing that to pencils!! Sharpening pencils was fun in general!
I do remember that jingle! I can’t believe it’s been that long ago, lol. I feel old.
I waaaaant those pancakes!
I used to sing that jingle in my head…I never actually had one of those pizza bagels though. haha
I’m a pancake girl, fa’sho. I actually prefer them over oats! That first pancake recipe looks great…so simple! Although, how do you get the oats/flour/pp to combine? Water or milk or something else? I’d love to know so I can make one myself!
I used an egg and a splash of milk! I’m sure water would work well, too…
Those red velvet cakes look TO DIE FOR!
And now I’m craving bagel bites…
I want those red velvet pancakes. Or pizza.
The pencil nub cracked me up as I just caught my son doing this to most of the pencils in the house. He is also in the 3rd grade:)
your blog is so fun…really neat and fun!