Get ready loves, I have a lot of goodness to share with you!

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And what better a time than What I Ate Wednesday.

Make sure you head over to Jenn’s at PeasandCrayons and check out everyone’s delicious eats, but I have some pretty amazing things to share with you as well!

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First I will fulfill my promise of sharing with you my wonderful new creation.

My new version of my Protein Plantain Bread.

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It started as a blank canvas.

Ingredients:

- 1 ripe medium plantain

- 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder

- 1 tbsp coconut flour

- 1/2 cup liquid egg whites

- 1 tsp vanilla nut extract

- 5-7 drops liquid vanilla NuNaturals Stevia

- 1/2 tbsp cinnamon

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Directions:

- Blend all ingredients

- Bake in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes

- Become incredibly indecisive on which toppings to use

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- Start with homemade banana coconut butter

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- Follow with homemade almond butter, Click protein frosting and Plant Fusion protein frosting.

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- Admire your indecisive masterpiece.

Plantain bread may have been one of the most amazing things I have discovered lately. Plantains definitely went from something I never bought, to something I will be buying a lot of in the near future. Hopefully I don’t become as addicted as I am to kabotcha squash.

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Seriously, it’s becoming a problem. Once I roast it, I just can’t stop eating it.

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But on to other new creations.

Matt and I are really working on having more family meals. We got so use to eating separate meals and not cooking together anymore, and we both really want to change that. So we scoured the inter-webs for dinner ideas, both chose a few and decided to take turns cooking meals.

I went first and chose a Sweet Potato Lentil Enchiladas.

I based it off of this recipe, but instead of cooking them as enchiladas, I just cooked up the filling, pre-cooked some rice, and figured we would just make what we were feeling that night.

Matt made his into corn tortilla tostadas and I made quesadilla’s out of mine.

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Of course topped with avocado goodness.

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These turned out absolutely amazing. I used Trader Joe’s enchilada sauce, which seriously that stuff is so amazing on it’s own, that I knew it would make this dish.  But the combination of the sweet potato, lentils and veggies was so so good.

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The good thing about cooking family meals? Leftovers!

The bad thing about family meals, I have to share with Matt.

I need to learn to start doubling things like this, but there is always next time right?

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Well loves, that’s all the deliciousness I have to share with you for now. Have a lovely rest of your week.

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Are you an indecisive eater? Or can you make up your mind?

What are your favorite leftovers?

Hello my luvs and happy Wednesday!

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It was so nice to have Monday off and even though I was sick, Matt and I did still enjoy our planned date night.

Because I am convinced Starbucks and Mexican food can cure any sickness.

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And what better way to celebrate What I Ate Wednesday than with Mexican goodness?

I will call this What I Ate on Memorial Day.

Because really, what’s more American than Mexican food…wait a minute..

Well regardless, remember to head over to the lovely Jenn’s and check out all the maybe more American eats, but stick around for my Memorial Day re-cap!

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I receive coupons for Fox Restaurants (owner of our favorite True Foods Kitchen) and they usually send out a discount for holiday’s that typically people wouldn’t go out for.  Matt and I like to take advantage of them and as soon as I told him I had gotten one he immediately  (and enthusiastically) requested we go to Blanco’s Tacos and Tequilla.

Who am I to say no to that?

So sickness and all I managed to make myself look halfway decent for the occassion.

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Ok, please ignore the bags under my eyes, I was sleep deprived.

So of course when you’re sick the first thing you do is order a drink right?

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I figured if anything a margarita would help clear things up.

Chips and salsa also are a great remedy as well.

For dinner even though my hunger wasn’t completely there, I knew I would regret it if I didn’t get my usual chicken burrito. Because honestly, I don’t know what they put in it, but it’s ah-mazing.

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Wait, that picture really doesn’t do it any justice.

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That’s a bit better. Ooey-Gooey goodness.

For not having any “appetite” I demolished the whole thing.

Matt ordered the Machaca Tacos.

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I’m pretty sure his plate was clean before I even finished half my burrito. So I can only assume that they were good.

As much as I would have loved dessert, or to even be social afterwards, I was about at my limits. This girl wanted to go home, put on comfy clothes and call it a night. Matt was a sport and obliged.

So the rest of the night I spent on the couch, then quickly bed. I’m such a party animal I know.

But as I mentioned in my previous post, Memorial Day isn’t for us to celebrate having an extra day off, it’s a day to remember the brave ones that gave their lives for us.

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What are you sickness cures?  Clearly mine is Mexican food and margaritas.

Hello my luffs.

It’s Wednesday yay!!!

Long weeks make me actually appreciate hump day.

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My days have been long, but exciting, so I guess it all evens out. My externship is giving me exposure to so many new things, and even though it’s a bit frustrating I don’t know how to do everything yet, it is also so exciting to experience it! (for example we had an emergency where a dog jumped though a window and ripped the tendons in his foot and was bleeding all over the place and then I delivered my first C-Section puppy and revived it back alive!)

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But as exciting as all that is, I know that is not why you’re here. You’re here for the foodie wonderfulness that is What I Ate Wednesday.

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I am going to call this the ugly, but delicious edition, because that is seriously what my meals have been.

I have come to realize there are not many ways I can make eating breakfast in the car pretty.

So I quit trying.

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But a new breakfast obsession that I have come to love?

Breakfast Protein Wraps

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My first breakfast wrap in the making.

Banana, peanut butter and chocolate fudge protein frosting.

Then things got ugly.

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This is what happens when you have to eat in the car, at random stop lights, that always turn green right as you’re biting, so then your food starts to get melty because you live in Arizona and it’s already 100 degrees.

But even though it may not look super pretty, seriously, these things taste amazing.

Clearly hooked, I had another one the next morning.

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This time I added some blueberries and cinnamon.

Same melty problem, but you guessed it.

Yup. Still tasted ah-mazing.

I then attempted to get creative and made a green egg wrap.

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Fail.

The egg wrap totally fell apart and it quickly turned into a egg pancake in some classy tupperware topped with banana and peanut butter.

But again, still delicious.

And just so you don’t have to stare at my ugly (but delicious) breakfast creations, I was actually impressed at the breakfast one of my co-workers created.

Talk about mountain of fruit goodness. She also used Chobani greek yogurt, so I was very impressed with that as well.

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(Note: I totally took the risk of asking her if I could take a picture of her food. Did she think I was weird? Probably. I may have to explain myself later for this.)

We have a guy who boards his dogs with us at the clinic every Tuesday (I guess free of charge), so in return he brings us masses of fresh fruit and donuts or some baked treat. Fair trade if you ask me, and you better believe I gorge on that fruit. You guys know me and fruit. I’m obsessed.

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Well loves, I wish I had more to give you, but I think my ugly (but delicious) breakfasts are all I have to offer.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week!

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Have you ever had to eat in your car?

(There is still time to enter my giveaway for Extend Nutrition snacks. Hurry over and enter!)

Oh lovies, get ready.

This post is going to be here there and everywhere.

But that seems to be my life as of lately.

Up. Down. Right. Left. Sideways. And all directions in between.

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But I somehow found my way back for What I Ate Wednesday.

I’m going to warn you, this post is no where near a healthy one.

But lately my days have been fun, carefree, and me just living.

So sometimes that’s what you get.

Matt and I have really been taking advantage of me having some days off.

And honestly, one of the things we use to always do, how we met, how we bonded, how we fell in love.

Was going out day drinking.

#sorryimnotsorry

I’m a beer girl. I like to drink.

And I don’t care if you deem it unhealthy. As cheating. Or as bad.

Because I don’t. I like it.

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Proof.

If drinking some beers get’s Matt and I’s spark back in our relationship, well I’ll bite the bullet.

We have had some amazing days together, just enjoying each other and having a good time.

That is all that matters to me. Us being happy again. And falling in love again.

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Oh and some of this deliciousness makes me a happy girl too.

Yup, and I even ate this after all the beer and before dinner.

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But there has been another liquid lately in my life that could possible get me in some financial trouble.

This guy.

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If you follow me on Instagram, you know I’ve had a bit of a Starbucks problem lately.

There is a Starbucks literally connected to the clinic I am externing at.

Yea. And when you work with a bunch of co-workers who are just as addicted to coffee as I am, it tends to turn into daily walks next door for coffee. And since I am not getting paid during my externship, well this could really turn into a problem.

It needs to stop.

But I kind of don’t want it to.

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But my week hasn’t been filled with only liquids.

There have been some decently healthy meals sneaking in here and there.

I mentioned that my go to breakfasts lately have been green smoothies.

They are easy to make the night before and the more and more practice I get, the better they are tasting.

It started with my protein green lemonade smoothie that I shared with you all.

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But now I am starting to get more creative.

I mean. You guys have seen my oatmeal, it’s really hard for me to eat not dressed up food.

Especially breakfast, I am always proud of my breakfast.

So I’ve played around with my toppings.

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In the mix:

Baby spinach, pear, cucumber, Plant Fusion vanilla bean protein powder, lemon juice, chia seeds and NuNaturals liquid lemon stevia.

Topped with:

Click mocha protein frosting and Love Grown Granola and a cinnamon sprinkle.

Delish.

I think it got better the next day.

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My containers may not be pretty and well neither are the smoothies to be honest, but I can try be a bit fancy with my toppings right?

In the mix:

Baby spinach, 1/2 frozen banana, 4-5 strawberries, Fitmixer chocolate protein powder, NuNaturals liquid vanilla stevia, chia seeds cinnamon, ginger.

Topped with:

Coconut flour/BSN banana cream protein frosting and graham cereal crumblies.

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So there you have it, a mix of healthy and not so healthy, but you know what it all balances out.

It always does.
I have finally realized life is too short to dwell on being 100% healthy 100% of the time, because honestly, to me healthy is living, enjoying life, enjoying food, and enjoying love.

I’m doing all of the above.

Are you?

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What’s your definition of healthy?
Do you enjoy a healthy balance in life?

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Hello my loves!

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I think this may be a first for me with my What I Ate Wednesday. I can actually show you a day of eats!

Usually I just do re-caps of what I’ve been eating lately because honestly my days of eats can be somewhat repetitive.

So Jenn, I hope you are proud of me for actually following the rules for once! And make sure you guys check out everyone’s eats over at Peas and Crayons.

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Yesterday was quite a day though.

Before my externship starts we had to attend two days of career prep. Class started earlier than my normal classes, but I really thought I had my mornings planned out time wise.

I made some amazing Overnight Oatmeal Cookie Dough TVP prOATs and of course dressed them up.

I went to sit down to enjoy my breakfast only to realize I totally “forgot” what time I had to leave the house and realized I had to leave ASAP. Actually, I was late. I don’t know where my brain was, but I knew I had to leave the house at 8:30am, and it was 8:40am. I don’t know, my mind was else where I guess. Thinking about my beautiful breakfast instead.

So instead of sitting and enjoying my beautiful breakfast it quickly turned into this.

It was breakfast in the car for me. And even though it may not be as pretty, it was still super tasty.

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Even though the class was only a few hours earlier and honestly, I get up early anyways with Matt, I was dragging the past few days.

Thank goodness I have great pick me up snacks always on hand.

I love The Good Bean bars, but this chocolate berry flavor I think is by far my favorite.

Just what I needed.

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I didn’t actually take a picture of lunch, but I made another batch of my Banana Avocado Spread, so I had that on top of some sprouted bread again.

This stuff is so addicting.

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I have been drooling over some  photos lately of mug cakes in squash that seems to be sweeping the Instagram world.

Since I am  home earlier I figured I better try it now while I have the chance!

This was the very first mug cake I made and after reading about 20+ recipes online, I decided to do what I do best and wing it and make it my own.

Chocolate Protein Mug Cake Stuffed Acorn Squash

Seriously guys if you haven’t heard or seen mug cake stuffed squash, I highly suggest you  make one. For my very first mug cake, this turned out amazing. I of course had to top it with melty peanut butter drizzle. This will be happening again soon.

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I’m not sure what my schedule is going to be once I start extern, I may be crazy busy, I may have more time. We shall see, but for now I’m enjoying the down time!

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Have you seen/made stuffed squash recipes?

Already Wednesday. Good golly Molly.

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I had all intentions of doing a Marvelous In My Monday post, but I swear there are just not enough hours in the day. Since I didn’t get my post up for that, I want to say a belated Happy Birthday to the beautiful Katie!! Since I stalk follow her on Instagram I got to see what a marvelous day she had and she deserved a wonderful, relaxing birthday, so I am happy to see she had a great time.

But it’s not Monday anymore. It’s Wednesday, so let’s get on to the Wednesday goodness.

The What I Ate Wednesday goodness. And this is thanks to another beautiful expecting lady Jenn.

Make sure to visit her and check out her and everyone elses eats. So yummy.

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I actually have a ton to share with you. I am going to try and keep my words short and let the pictures speak for themselves, but you know me, I tend to ramble on quite a bit. So I apologize ahead of time if this post gets lengthy. But I actually have made some tasty meals and it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, so this WIAW is kinda going to be a photo dump of what I’ve been eating lately.

Hope you don’t mind.

Breakfasts around here have been pretty amazing.

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Overnight TVP prOATs are making a pretty regular appearance around here. The one thing I love about oatmeal is I never have the same bowl twice.

By the way, I am so happy strawberries are back in season, because they have been so juicy and fresh. Fresh fruit makes me happy.

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Proof I’ll put my oatmeal in any empty jar I have.

But seriously, every last bit of fig butter needs to be enjoyed.

And enjoy I did.

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And sometimes I let others do the work for me.

Love Grown did not disappoint with their oatmeal. I had been hearing amazing things about them and so glad I finally tried them.

Topped with more Love Grown granola of course.

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I’ve also been on a protein frosting kick lately. But when you have company’s like Plant Fusion and Click that make the best protein powders for making protein frosting’s with, it’s hard not to. Oh and a cinnamon over load on my apple of course.

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Now let’s move on to some dinner fun.

So one thing that Matt and I are working on, is him cooking dinner. As I’m sure a lot of you know a biggest challenge of an eating disorder is control of food. Knowing exactly what goes into a dish, and having to be the one to prepare it. Much safer that way. Matt has also dropped the ball a few times on making me dinner, or following up with challenges we were suppose to do together. So this is really something we both needed to work on.

We had made plans to have him have dinner ready for me when I got home from work. I was actually convinced he forgot – again – to start cooking. But when I let him know I was on my way home his response was “dinner is smelling so good”. He didn’t forget!

When I got home I had a wonderful spread ready for me. He had made a crock pot chicken and I didn’t even ask what he put into it. I didn’t care, I was actually just so happy he remembered to make it.

I made myself a nice little huge bowl of goodness.

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Brown rice, black beans, salsa chicken and look at all that avocado.

My nutritionist really wants me to up my fats, so I am really working on that as well.

And who doesn’t love avocado? Love me some healthy fats.

And then guess what we did the next night?

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Oh yes, long awaited sushi date. It has been so long since we had sushi and I have been craving it like a mad women.

We had gotten a Groupon for The Sushi Room, so I was finally able to convince Matt to take me.

So good. So worth it.

And after sushi?

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What’s a date night without fro-yo.

After taste testing probably every flavor I decided on the Pecans and Praline and Milk Chocolate Hazelnut.

With sprinkles of course. Duh.

Heaven in my mouth.

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After posting this picture on Instagram and Facebook, one of Matt’s friends had commented how she loves fro-yo and challenged us to who can make the biggest bowl. Challenge accepted. Yup, we went out for more fro-yo the very next night.

No pictures, new friends = no food pictures yet. It was literally my first time meeting them, so I didn’t want to seem too crazy. Although with some of the conversation that was had that night, me taking pictures of food probably would have been the least of strange things that could have happened. But trust  me, no shame, no guilt of having fro-yo two nights in a row.

Because honestly. Its’s fro-yo. And delicious.

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Ok, I seriously have more to share, but this is getting pretty lengthy, so we’re gonna leave with a

To Be Continued…

But one last teaser for my contribution for this weeks #strangebutgood hosted by the lovely Laura.

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I’ll give you a hint.

More healthy fats.

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How long do you wait before you take pictures of your food with new friends?

Would you eat fro-yo two nights in a row? If you answer anything other than heck yes, then there is something wrong with you Unless you don’t like it, then there is something really wrong with you.

Holy Wednesday Batman.

Seriously?

I debated even writing a post because honestly, my eats have been boooorr-ing.

But I thought I would scrap something up for What I Ate Wednesday with the lovely Jenn, because I love catching up with everyone’s eats, hoping for inspiration, getting it, but never following through.

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Story of my life.

I did have one pretty epic meal that is worth sharing.

And I had no part in creating the wonderful-ness.

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Because seriously, when it comes to PB Crave and OIAJ, my work is pretty much done.

(can you guys see the massive amount of peanut butter left in that jar? that may or may not have been done on purpose)

I did my best to dress it up though.

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Wanna guess what’s in there? It’s a shocker I’m sure.

You guessed it.

Frozen banana, berries and a sprinkle of local granola.

I’m a wild one I know.

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Close up goopy goodness.

But seriously, the Razzle Dazzle stole the show of this breakfast.

But really, anything with peanut butter is a win in my book.

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Other than that meals have been kind of boring and predictable.

I roasted some veggies.

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I also like making my green veggies brown.

My motto is the crispier the better.

I’ve also eaten my weight in Arctic Zero lately.

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(confession: i hated the coffee flavor the first time i ate it. then became obsessed, chocolate mint is still #1 in my book though)

School snacks have been bar-tastic lately. They just seem to do the job.

I found a new favorite.

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These Good Bean bars are seriously amazing.

I do love my chickpeas though.

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One thing I don’t love love with all my heart.

When this little love bug stops me from studying.

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I welcome the studying interruption, especially when it comes in the cutest little package ever.

Well loves, short sweet and to the point.

That’s how I roll. Have a great rest of your week.

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What are your obsessions lately?

What’s your favorite on the go snack?

Happy Wednesday my loves!

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I think I say this almost every week, but is anyone else’s weeks just fly by? Having surgeries in class really makes my time fly by even quicker, which is good and bad. My days are exciting, class time is no longer sitting taking notes, but assisting in surgeries, but then at the same time, another week is gone in the blink of an eye.

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But I still find time for the important things in life.

Things like What I Ate Wednesday.

That’s super important right? I think Jenn would say yes.

So make sure you head over and check out all the other eats as well. Because us foodies put a lot of time and effort into our meals.

We’re so silly.

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