The weather in San Francisco is still gorgeous, and Velvet Husband and I spent a lot of time together yesterday! Such a change from how crazy the past few months have been! For breakfast, I made a bowl of strawberry shortcake oatmeal fit for Miss Strawberry Shortcake herself! I crushed about ten Newman’s Own alphabet grahams (because I’m 10) and added them to the almost-cooked oatmeal on the stove. The crushed graham crackers tasted wonderful with the natural sweetness of the strawberries and bananas. Velvet Husband was too hungry for a photo shoot, but his oatmeal add-ins included whipped bananas, brown sugar, walnuts, and strawberries. He didn’t even notice the chia seeds, so my sneakiness paid off. Nothing R-rated here, just Red Velvet splendor!
Creatures of habit that we are, we walked to our local Peet’s Coffee for a little refreshment. I enjoyed an unsweetened black tea and conversation with a sweetened Velvet Husband.
For lunch, I made a delicious strawberry banana spinach smoothie with dark chocolate whey powder, glutamine, TCHO cocoa nibs and some sinking peanut butter. Good eggs sink, bad eggs float. This was a good peanut butter egg. Ooh, that just made me think of Cadbury peanut butter eggs! What’s your favorite Easter candy? More importantly, when can you send me some? 😉
We got twenty of these festive plastic margarita cups in all different colors as a wedding gift from a friend of mine. She was so cute and spot-on to get us margarita glasses and margarita mix because we used to drink margs together after work at Baby Acapulco in Austin, also known as Baby A’s.
There’s a two margarita limit on the world famous Baby A’s purple margarita, so arrange for a designated driver if you plan on partaking. Come to think of it, my smoothie yesterday kinda resembled the infamous purple marg! Good thing I stopped at two. 😉
After my purple margarita nutritious smoothie, Velvet Husband joined me in the evening for a strength & sculpt class. Obviously, I was feeling super ambitious with my weights. Ha! Even though I got a good burn yesterday, the lame music and general lack of enthusiasm in the class made me miss Body Pump. 😦 They don’t have Body Pump at our gym, so this class will have to suffice. There was a sub for the regular much-loved teacher, and whew…she had a tough crowd! I would have preferred the normal teacher, but I sympathized with the sub because people just weren’t receptive to her style. Velvet Husband and I tried to go along with her, but there weren’t too many other happy faces in the room yesterday!
For dinner I made pan-seared salmon and oven-roasted asparagus with garlic. I topped the salmon with avocado-mango salsa with cilantro. Velvet Husband and I were both very pleased with dinner.
Hope you’re having a great day!
everything looks delicious – I especially like the lettered graham cracker 🙂
sorry you don’t have body pump but great for you for doing your own strength training 🙂 I have some workouts on my site if you need any ideas 🙂
Thanks, Jenny! I love your site–you are such an inspiration! I will definitely check out your workouts, too 🙂 And hopefully I’ll find a body pump class again someday! Working out to hip-hop like Usher is just so much more motivational to me than random weird aerobic music, you know? 🙂
I love the marg glass I always put smoothies and juices in special glasses then I feel like im indulging 🙂
Exactly! Keep me posted on any cute new glasses you find, and I’ll do the same. Our smoothies will win best-dressed for sure!
Your dinner looked delicious! And I love the name of the smoothie. Too cute. 🙂
Thank you! Yes, dinner was SO delicious. I could eat different varieties of pan-seared fish almost every night of the week, so I’m trying to branch out and try new things for my husband’s sake!