#those nut butters taste weird tbh

[thewayilivenow01]

brekky : black coffee, syrniki (Blur) snack : 1 tsp AB, 1 tsp HB lunch : cup of tea, 1 rice-corn cake with HB, 1 rice-corn cake with cheese, 3 ezhiks snack : 1 rice-corn cake with AB, 1 rice-corn cake with cheese, 1/2 apple, cottage cheese snack2 : 1 tsp AB, 1 tsp HB, 1 rice-corn cake with cheese, 1/2 apple, cottage cheese dinner : cup of milk, 1 tsp AB, 1 tsp HB, 3 rice-corn cakes, 2 cheeses, 2 portions choco snack : 2 rice-corn cakes with cheese

[the-starry-seas]

headcanons about Bee, Star, and Winter, because I've been talking about them with @loverboy-havocboy and I love them tbh

Bee:

His hair is long enough to be halfway down his back in a braid. When he's nervous, he reaches behind his back to tug at the end of his braid.

He likes the taste of nuts but not the crunchy texture so he just. Eats an extraordinary amount of peanut butter. His favourite candy are Reese's cups.

Do not trust him to cook, he will set things on fire and have no idea how it happened. But he's really good at finding recipes that everybody loves and follows a bunch of cooking blogs.

He has like seven bottles of screen cleaner on his desk and he never uses any of them, he just keeps cleaning his glasses on his shirt.

All his non-work outfits are open-back to show off his tattoo. For fancy black-tie events, he puts his hair up in updos with a bunch of glittery pins. His favourite set of pins are gold ones that are shaped like bees.

He wants more tattoos but he's worried about not liking them once he has them. He's most likely to get a matching tattoo with one of his squad or a lover.

The first time he smelled vanilla extract, he took a shot from the bottle because obviously it would taste so much better- Anyway there were real tears and he still gets a little :/ whenever he smells vanilla candles.

He loves pine-scented everything. One year he flirts his way into getting all the chopped-off branches from a Christmas tree tent and it's the best Christmas of his life.

Star:

He has anxiety that tends to manifest as anger issues and Winter is the only one who can calm him down. He hates that he still gets angry about Winter but mostly he's scared that he might somehow hurt Winter.

Cheetos guy. He will go through a family-sized bag of Cheetos in two minutes or less. It's honestly impressive. Winter got him a set of those finger guards and Star unironically loves them.

The first time he went to an arcade, he tried all afternoon to win a five-foot-tall stuffed panda and ended up just paying $100 to the guy running the counter to give it to him. His name is Bamboo.

He can tell owls apart by their calls but he doesn't like other birds. He specifically doesn't like the way their heads bob when they walk, he thinks it's weird.

He keeps getting commercial jingles stuck in his head and he really hates it. Sometimes he hums them when he's brushing his teeth and Winter is like "...what on earth is that" and then Star has to pout about it being even more stuck in his head because he thought about it.

He started fencing in high school and competed all the way until graduation. After that be took a break for a few years before he joined a local team and started competing again. He has a massive collection of foils and swords on display at home.

He has a jewellery care sheet taped up next to the bathroom mirror and takes his rings for cleaning every other month. It's the thing he takes most seriously in his life. He doesn't wear anything but his rings.

He does, however, wear black smoky eyeliner and lipstick. It's his favourite way to accessorise. For special occasions, he breaks out candy-red lipstick.

Winter:

In addition to his rings, he wears a locket with pictures of his twins. He was scared about them meeting Star, because Winter would have ended any relationship if his kids didn't like the other guy, and Star could be difficult. But they all got along so it's good!

He has a motorcycle, specifically a candy-red Honda Gold Wing. His riding outfit is a matching candy-red helmet and leather cowboy boots, a black leather jacket, a light blue button-down, and black jeans.

Tuesday evenings are for dining out. He has a list of restaurants he wants to try and keeps reviews of them all in a notebook so he can remember which ones he liked and what their best food is.

He picked out transparent reading glasses on a whim because they seemed cool and novel. He loses them constantly. He refuses to get another pair as long as they still work, to the annoyance of just about everyone around him.

Loves the beach but is scared of the deep ocean. There's shit down there that he simply doesn't want to know about.

Unironically thinks that Bigfoot might exist.

He puts paper umbrellas in all his drinks. Also he keeps forgetting to drink water so he adds in powdered mixes. He likes fruit flavours for those, but his favourite Gatorade flavour is light blue and he has exactly zero idea what it tastes like.

An entire bookcase in his office is dedicated to all the Father's Day gifts that the twins got him. He puts another bookcase next to it for anniversary gifts.

[symphonicspecter]

Favorite foods/ deserts? To eat or make.

Food food food food food

I love. Mexican style. A burrito bowl or taco salad loaded with stuff is my fave but tbh if you just gave me meat bean and cheese I’d be happy too. Cheap American version like Taco Bell, on the occasion I find a more ”authentic” restaurant that too, homemade, literally just throw me something in this general area of food I omnomnom

And in the same vein, guacamole is amazing, I’ll eat it once its own with chips. I can, make it myself and I’ve been told I make it pretty well, but it’s not one of my favorite things to make. There’s a lot of chopping and peeling and onions making my eyes burn and avocado getting everywhere

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Pasta is another general category I love.Mac and cheese, Alfredo with broccoli and/or chicken or plain, spaghetti, ravioli, tortellini..lHOO there’s a lot of pastas you could put in front of me and I’d happily eat it. And which one I prefer just changes! Although Alfredo, spanghetti, and Mac and cheese are ones I make at home more often since other members of my family like those. So if I’m put somewhere I’m more likely to get something different.

Pasta is one of those foods that isn’t necessarily fun to make but it is nice and easy on days I don’t want to do anything involved. Sometimes when the pasta is done I pull out a hot noodle and throw it at the wall and see long it sticks >:3

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Pizzaaaa. I usually like classic cheese and pepperoni, but I like cheese too, and more rarely I’ll eat pizza with olives, tomato, mushrooms, and/or spinach! I’ve never had it with pineapple but I’m willing to try it. Pepperoni and sometimes salami are actually the only meats I like on pizza, ham, sausage, anchovies and all that just have a weird texture with everything else imo. And another important thing. Extra. Sauce.

Pizza is a food I would say is one of my faves to make! Sometimes I put the toppings on English muffins, sometimes I make a crust. It’s not too hard to put toppings on and it’s kinda fun to do so, plus I can eat some of it >:3. When I’m at home, my dog likes to get bites of cheese and pepperoni too! .

Can smoothies count? I think they’re fairly easy to make and they’re yummy. This is another food you could give me just about any and I’ll drink it, bc smoothies are usually fruity and there’s not a lot of fruit I’ll turn down. My personal favorite is peanut butter and banana, but ma go smoothies are really good too. .

OOF cheesecake. I dont get to have it often bc there’s not a lot of places that have it, or it’s expensive, and I’m like the one big cheesecake fan in the family lol. I haven’t made one myself, actually! I think it’s not terribly hard though, so now that I’m thinking of it I want to try making one. I like plain cheesecake with chocolate on top (chocolate flavored cheesecake doesn’t seem to taste as much like chocolate as compared to chocolate on top), or plain with strawberry or raspberry on top. Also, every type of cheesecake that I’ve tried from the Cheesecake Factory has been delicious!

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Wait omg. Deviled eggs. If I didn’t have to respect that the rest of the family want to eat them too, and save room for other foods I want, I would eat probably all of them at holiday dinners. They’re particularly special fro me bc I only have them on holidays. But they’re really good and I usually eat a couple. .

Ice cream is a favorite dessert of mine, but it’s not a thing I’ve ever made myself. My favorite flavors are chocolate or chocolate with stuff in it, but I also like vanilla with stuff in it, or some flavors use caramel, cheesecake, or sweet cream as a base flavor and it’s good. For stuff mixed in, I like fudge swirl, peanut butter swirl, caramel swirl, cookie pieces, cookie dough, and chocolate pieces. Anything chocolatey that’s easy to chew! I’m not so much a fan of fruit flavored pieces, nuts, pretzels, anything else hard or chewy, or fruit or coffee flavored ice creams. .

I like making desserts like cookies brownies, muffins, and cupcakes! I think mixing all the ingredients together is fun! And tasting the batter. Cakes are fun too…it’s just that I always worry too much that my icing is crappy looking

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Ive also found recently that I like making rice and vegetables. Over the last year I’ve tried some different veggie and seasoning combos just to see what’s good, and I think that’s part of what makes it fun.

[shiro-0197]

aw shiro, my love, don't worry about it!! i only hope you're okay and safe :d please only reply when you're free, and don't feel bad about it!! >:(

my day yesterday was okay, i've just been relaxing, and studying occasionally. went out to explore a nearby town too, it's so pretty there. and much colder (since it's a highlands) of course!! Today was great too. I bought doughnuts (they're amazing?? I love doughnuts), and I had instant ramen, but it was SO spicy I nearly died. (Three bottles of water later, because someone finished all the milk in the household *cough* me *cough*) and I'm still just reeling. Sucks having such low spice tolerance HAHA. I'm listening to some old school hip-hop rn, while typing this out :D how were your two days?

here are some i'll be using to teach english :d and that would honestly be much appreciated, he's getting on my last nerve rn. (I included the first few, what do you think?)

thats such a priceless feeling i so totally agree. you're so precious 🥺🥺 i'm sure they're prouder thank you imagine. you're so dedicated!! i'm sure all that extra research you've done will definitely pay off. it's good that you know what the job is roughly like, so you'll be really prepared when you finally do start it. you know that one scene, in the 2nd season of the great pretender? when the chinese mafia boss emphasizes the importance of a translator in literally everything? (like that book award example) i may be getting the thing muddled up, but i found that so cool. like yeah, a book or speech could be absolutely beautiful, but if everyone can't enjoy it due to it being a different language, it would be such a shame. i just find translators really important. sorry, i'm really dorky haha 🥺🥺

awww but i think your personality type is wonderful. a lot of my favourite characters are intj (they're all so precious istg grrrr) yes!! i was in a tooru brainrot yesterday too 😭😭😭 (saw a bunch of couples on my walk, and I was like "if only Tooru was real grrrr") and yes?? there'd be so much to learn from each and every one of them. dedication from hinata, savage lines from tsukki, kindness from yams/yachi, how to be a dork 101 from atsumu. aaaah 😭😭i'm sorry they're all so wonderful.

No pftttt I totally feel you. I saw some people without masks today and I was like "bro wtf" and just really loudly said "I sure hope everyone starts following the rules so the cases don't increase" because I'm a lil bitch like that xD

awww okay!! I'll definitely keep that in mind. Mayo makes everything better, tbh >.< aww that's understandable! I don't have specific preferences but hearing the phrase "soggy cheese" makes me want to cry somewhere :( I don't like nuts in chocolate. I'm very passionate about that? XD ikr??

I'm surprised too, I usually never pass on murder, but I guess you're just special like that 👉👈 sir I'd get married to you as many times as you'd like 😼 oops sorry for being cheesy, but—you like cheese ;)

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I won't ask why, don't worry. Since I kinda feel the same about Malaysia tbh. It's a love hate relationship, I think HAHA but yeah 😣😣 i don't look up to US at all, and it sucks because people generally do. And I'm just like ;-; why (no offense to Americans tho lol)

is that even legal omg they're so chaotic?? XD how cute tho. Angel does stuff like that all the time too, but I'd never know that when I first met her (she has the most perfect exterior, and then when you get to know her; she's the biggest dork) Schools opening on the 20th, I can't wait to see her then :] (I can, however, wait for the exams which are scheduled for the 25th ugh)

peanut butter is indeed yellow, not up for discussion hehe :) here's my favourite hues!! I love gentle, soft hues like these (pastels) , for yellow; I don't have a favourite. they're all wonderful

ahhh no that's so precious of you!! :)) I'm smiling rn.

yeah skdhskdjsk I'M JUST SO GRRR. Whenever someone goes "hey Ari can you ______" and we both respond?? The tension?? In the air?? Bro skdjskks. 😔🤚 You share a name with one of the most precious characters too tho!!;

This is Shiro from Voltron hehe. I love him so much, just like I love you (tho I'm sure we both know I love you more <3)

I share a name with a book character. His name is Aristotle Mendoza, but his crush-turned-boyfriend calls him "Ari" (which has been my nickname since I was 12). Reading it for the first time was the BEST feeling ever. It's also my favourite book, "Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe".

—Ari :D (no pfttt I love the tag so much. I have my own tag, that's like the best thing ever 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)

Heyyy I'm so sorry for answering so late!! I know you said not to apologize but..... well hmm no excuse I just feel like apologizing, but either way thank you for your patience!!♡ This is the third time I'm rewriting this, and this time I'm doing this in my notes because fuck it😔

Im glad to hear that!! Highlands are always so pretty. Wish we had those here, but it's only steppe here:( Boring~ ooh, donuts!!! They're really good. I havent much, but I tried them like 3 times and they're so good. I really hope I will get to eat more<3 also WHAT'S THOSE NOODLES' NAME I WANNA KNOW- Are you feeling okay now, though? XD

My days were nice!!! Felt as if I had been hiding three bodies, but I've been feeling better lately. We had online school yesterday so I'm excused from the errands for the half of the day, thankfully. But your messages make me very happy. Though I dont always feel like writing a response (or I get stressed because it doenst save) so very sorry for that😔

Ohh those look so pretty!! I'd totally join to just look at them. The colors are so nice🥺 it looks like one of our olympiad prep slides, though better. I dont have the screenshots sadly😩 Either way I really love the little details like the squiggly thingies or the Ж .... they seem unnecessary but the energy changes a lot without them hehe

I really hope they will be🥺 that'd mean a lot to me. And I'm also really hopeful itll work out. I really don't wanna disappoint my family, which is literally just one person. The less people there are, the more it hurts, you know?

Yeah, that scene meant so much to me!! I dknt remember much, but I was very happy they said something like that, because I've been told being a translator wont work out for me. Now look at me, I'm about to tell them to fuck themselves<3 I was also so surprised to see Laurent know that many languages ..... I aspire to be like him😩 And honestly, I havent though so deep of that but you opened my eyes and now I'm about to float off into the next universe😭 dont apologize though, its very cute!!!♥︎♥︎

Heheh, I guess you're right.. every single anime INTJ is a silent sexy mastermind and I love them . ... YEAH every single time I see a passing couple i cry because I dont have anyone 😡💔 and sometimes when I see people doing something amusing (which includes people failing cuz I'm evil) I just imagine one of the characters doing that and I smile all the way xD Honestly, I'd sell my father on black market for a single day with one of them:( though that may sound like a really low price because his cigarette filled lungs wouldnt cost a lot... I sound like my 7th grade self again I'm so sorry

BAHQHHANEJWJD I HOPE THEY WERE EMBARRASED. I HOPE THEY FELT AWKWARD AND OTHER PEOPLE DID TOO, they deserve it. Like, learn your lesson bitch, it's been a year!

Yeah!!! I love mayo, not to the point where I would gulp it down from the package, but it does make dishes taste good. Same, soggy cheese on itself sounds like a dish served in the ninth circle of hell. You should try nuts in honey!! Like, just straight up dip them in honey. Sounds weird, and it doesnt always taste NEJFJKSKF (depends on the honey)but I think it's worth trying xD Walnuts are the best with honey I think

That was so funny ... TOO FUNNY, I LAUGHED FOR LIKE . 3MINUTES STRAIGHT and I do not laugh when I'm tired. You really are special 😭😭😭😭 cheesy ... HAHRNFJJSF

I'm so sorry for being a bully like that but it's so funny how you left a single U there . Its so mysterious, was it in purpose? Or were you lost in the excitement if messaging me?

I was one of those people, honestly 😭 but mostly because I wasnt aware of its political condition, I guess. Maybe theres more than just politics that's bad about US, but honestly, it has more opportunities than this hellfire. Though now I'm more into Norway and Japan. Really wanna travel there :(

Heheh, yeah, we never really show off to strangers at first. I dont know what exactly I mean by we, but you get my point ♡ Good luck though!! I hope it goes well for you<3

Oh they looks so pretty!! They're really wonderful. Like bubblegum and cotton candy and literally anything sweet... it's so cute !!! And I totally agree, there isnt a bad yellow.

HAHAH, honestly, that reminds me of how there were 4 people with the same name in my class, and whenever the teacher did the attendance thing, they would all stand up. Teachers usually dont say the last names, so we always gotta ask which person they mean if theres more than one person with that name, so yeah.. That happened on accident at first, but then they just did it for trolling xD

OH MY GOD HES SO PRETTY? HES SO PRECIOUS?? HUHHH??? I gotta thank Kuro for this wonderful opportunity of sharing a name with someone like .... him🥺

Oh that's so cool!! Also, he has a boyfriend ... I really need to start reading xD it's so cute though! It sounds like such a good book, I'm glad you share a name with him, hehe!!

I also share my real name with one of the characters in a kids' show, and its SO ugly, I'm in pain. Every time my friends see one of those on TV they go

Which is a pain in the ass, it's so embarrassing...........

Awh, okay!! I'm glad you love it, cuz I do too. Because it's your name.... cuz I love u. That was so lame PLEASEJWJDJSJF I HOPE YOUR DAY WAS GREAT !!! LOVE YOU

[pam1256]

Tagged by the awesome @sperus-art Sorry for my rambling after each one, I like giving more than just the answer ^^

go apple picking vs go on a hay ride (I get hay fever like 50% of the year so nO THANKS FOR EXTRA HAY)

scary vs sweet (I’m a big ol softie)

sweaters vs boots (in terms of cuteness)

socks vs mittens (they can be so groovy and funky I literally have dog socks they are so cute)

bonfires vs football (not a fan of football or team sports in general)

trick or treating vs watching scary movies (I really don’t enjoy horror movies DX candy all day every day!)

apple pie vs pumpkin pie (not a fan of pie but I like apples more than pumpkin)

halloween vs thanksgiving (thanksgiving is just a time for awkward family time and turkey which is bleh)

bake pie vs bake cookies (I make the best chocolate chip cookies tbh)

rain vs fog (this was so hard? But rain is wonderful to fall asleep to)

black cats vs owls (also difficult!! But I’m allergic to cats. My bf: “But you smother your face in my cats all the time!”)

ghosts vs wizards (As much as ghosts fascinate me I think I’d be scared shitless if I met one. So... Harry Potter ftw!)

harry potter vs halloweentown (haven’t seen halloweentown sooo...)

go hiking vs sleep in (I’ve hiked, all it makes me want to do is sleep in and die XD)

cinnamon vs nutmeg (I probably gained weight from working in a store near a cinnabon)

reading vs writing (BOTH YOU CAN’T MAKE ME CHOOSE, WIL, NO)

hot chocolate vs tea (chocolate over everything tbh)

live in a cabin in a forest vs 24/7 autumn (Family owns a chalet in the forest and I’d love to live there. Love autumn, but love skiing more :D)

candy apples vs caramel apples (Caramel when done right is wonderful!)

blankets vs pillows (I have one memory foam pillow to go with all those blankets. 2 pillows vs 3 blankets on my bed rn)

roasted marshmallows vs roasted chestnuts (Not a fan of nuts, and I love s’mores so damn much)

coffee vs apple cider (like with pies, not a fan of either but I like apples)

red leaves vs orange leaves (RED IS BEST)

braids vs bows (Haven’t be able to braid my hair since its too short now, and bows are super cute!!)

scented candles vs the smell of freshly baked goods (Candles give me headaches. Or at least the stores that sell them do)

carve pumpkins vs make pumpkin pie (LET ME DESTROY A PUMPKIN!)

pumpkin spice lattes vs chai lattes (Neither)

coats vs oversized sweaters (What else are boyfriend’s for??)

beanies vs berets (BOTH but beanies are super cute on me)

candy corn vs peanut butter cups (I don’t mind either in small doses, but PB over dissolving my teeth)

s’mores vs apple crisp (”Hey Smalls, you want s’more?” “Some more of what?”)

jump into a pile of leaves vs swing on a tire swing (My brother and I did a lot of the former when we were kids, I’d love to do it s’more!)

corn maze vs haunted house (Corn is creepy, but mazes are logical and haunted houess have jumpscares which I do not Like)

bob for apples vs visit a pumpkin patch (I’d visit with my camera!! And I don’t like water up my nose XD)

whipped cream on hot chocolate vs marshmallows on hot chocolate  (MARSHMALLOWS ANY DAY OVER WEIRD TASTING FOAM CREAM)

I tag @septic-aye  @jamjarsthebook (for one of your characters or yourself!!) @splendidpluto (though he probably wont do it XD)

[yoursummerfrost]

Tagged by @bitsandshits ! And I’ll taggggg @abominableobriens @zombizombi @disarmd @samwell-womens-hockey @shipped-goldstandard @polyamorousparson @omgpbandj @blithelybonny @soundslikepenance

Answers under the cut because it’s loooong

1. Coffee or tea? Coffeeeeeeeee 2. Black and white or color? So. Much. Color.

3. Drawings or paintings? Paintings! 4. Dresses or skirts? Dresses 5. Books or movies? Fics > movies > books 6. Pepsi or Coke? Coke 7. Chinese or Italian? Italian! 8. Early bird or night owl? Suchhhhh a night owl 9. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla ice cream, chocolate otherwise 10. Introvert or extrovert? Extremely outgoing ambivert 11. Hugs or kisses? Kisses :-* 12. Hunting or fishing? Neither, please :( 13. Winter or summer? SUMMER, which I am clinging to with my tiny queer hands 14. Spring or fall? Fall but only so I can wear bi flannels 15. Rural or urban? Urban, please never make me leave my city 16. PC or Mac? PC 17. Tan or pale? i am very pale lol 18. Cake or pie? Uhhhh icecream cake? 19. Ice cream or yogurt? Ice cream 20. Ketchup or mustard? Mayo 21. Sweet pickles or dill pickles? Dill pickles 22. Comedy or mystery? Comedyyyy 23. Boots or sandals? Sandals 24. Silver or gold? Silver 25. Pop or Rock? ........pop-rock 26. Dancing or singing? Both at the same time 27. Checkers or chess? chess 28. Board games or video games? board gameeeesss 29. Wine or beer? Wine 30. Freckles or dimples? Freckles 31. Honey mustard or BBQ sauce? honey mustard 3000% 32. Body weight exercises or lifting weights? Body weight? 33. Baseball or basketball? Baseball because I’m sure N is gonna make me care wayyyy too much about softball soon 34. Crossword puzzles or sudokus? Sudoku 35. Facial hair or clean shaven? So much facial hair please 36. Crushed ice or cubed ice? Cubes 37. Skiing or snowboarding? Skiing 38. Smile or game face? :D 39. Bracelet or necklace? necklace 40. Fruit or vegetables? veggies 41. Sausage or bacon? bacon 42. Scrambled or fried? scrambled 43. Dark chocolate or white chocolate? daaark 44. Tattoos or piercings? Tattooooooooos 45. Antique or brand new? Brand new! 46. Dress up or dress down? Up!!! 47. Cowboys or aliens? Aliens 48. Cats or dogs? :3 49. Pancakes or waffles? Pancakes 50. Bond or Bourne? Bi Bond plz? 51. Sci-Fi or fantasy? Sci-Fi 52. Numbers or letters? Numbers 53. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter 54. Fair or theme park? Fair 55. Money or fame? Money plz 56. Washing dishes or doing laundry? DISHES FUCK LAUNDRY 57. Snakes or sharks? Snakessss 58. Orange juice or apple juice? Orange 59. Sunrise or sunset? Sunset 60. Slacker or over-achiever? Both, simultaneously, at all times 61. Pen or pencil? Pen 62. Peanut butter or jelly? peanut butter 63. Grammys or Oscars? Grammys 64. Detailed or abstract? Abstract 65. Multiple choice questions or essay questions? Essay 66. Adventurous or cautious? Adventureeee 67. Saver or spender? Spender 68. Glasses or contacts? Contacts for me, glasses on others 69. Laptop or desktop? laptop 70. Classic or modern? Modern 71. Personal chef or personal fitness trainer? Like, as a career? Both sound like hell. I’d rather hire a chef tho 72. Internet or cell phone? How can I have a cell phone without internet? 73. Call or text? Text 74. Curly hair or straight hair? Curls 75. Shower in the morning or shower in the evening? Either or 76. Spicy or mild? As much spice as I can handle (which tbf isn’t much lol) 77. Marvel or DC? Marvel in general but DC gave me Wonder Woman soooooo  78. Paying a mortgage or paying rent? Rent 79. Sky dive or bungee jump? Bungee 80. Oreos or Chips Ahoy? oreos 81. Jello or pudding? Jello 82. Truth or dare? Dare 83. Roller coaster or Ferris wheel? roller coaster 84. Leather or denim? leather 85. Stripes or solids? stripes 86. Bagels or muffins? bagels 87. Whole wheat or white? Wheat 88. Beads or pearls? Pearls 89. Hardwood or carpet? hardwood 90. Bright colors or neutral tones? bright coloooorrrrsss 91. Be older than you are or younger than you are? Can I be 22 forever? 92. Raisins or nuts? Nuts 93. Picnic or nice restaurant? Fancyyyyy af 94. Black leather or brown leather? Brown 95. Long hair or short hair? Short :D 96. “Ready, aim, fire” or “Ready, fire, aim”? what 97. Fiction or non-fiction? fiction 98. Smoking or non-smoking? non-smoking 99. Think before you talk or talk before you think? Realistically, talk first lmao 100. Asking questions or answering questions? Answering, plz slather me in attention 

[bitsandshits]

I got tagged in this so long ago and I saw it and forgot about it and nobody is surprised in the least

Thanks though @peppernine, @yoursummerfrost I’m gonna make you do it now (if you wanna)

1. Coffee or tea? Coffee 2. Black and white or color? Color for most art, but black and grey for tattoos 3. Drawings or paintings? oh god I don’t know, both? 4. Dresses or skirts? dresses, skirts invariably look weird on me 5. Books or movies? books 6. Pepsi or Coke? All pop is gross and idc what anyone says, it’s called pop 7. Chinese or Italian? Chinese 8. Early bird or night owl? APPARENTLY IM A MORNING PERSON NOW WHO KNOWS HOW THE FUCK THAT HAPPENED 9. Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate 10. Introvert or extrovert? I’m a shockingly friendly socially anxious introvert, people are either shocked by how good with people I am or shocked to find out that I’m introverted and mad socially anxious, it’s a constant source of amusement for me 11. Hugs or kisses? how the fuck am I supposed to choose??? 12. Hunting or fishing? I straight up refuse to do either, but I guess if I really had to choose I’d fish. My grandpa is constantly disappointed that I wont anymore though 13. Winter or summer? mmmmMMMMM god fuck if I know, I guess summer???  14. Spring or fall? FALL IS MY SHIT 15. Rural or urban? Urban, I get bored easily 16. PC or Mac? PC 17. Tan or pale? If you’re asking me what I am, I’m a ginger and therefore Pale As Fuck 18. Cake or pie? Generally pie 19. Ice cream or yogurt? ice cream 20. Ketchup or mustard? ketchup but tbh, I’m one of those people that will put ranch on fucking everything 21. Sweet pickles or dill pickles? all pickles are disgusting  22. Comedy or mystery? mystery, but comedy if it’s well done 23. Boots or sandals? boots, preferably of the leather variety 24. Silver or gold? Probably gold 25. Pop or Rock? hmmm I’ll say pop cause I’m really into Halsey’s and Kesha’s new stuff right now but punk is my true love 26. Dancing or singing? I can’t do either but I like to sing a lot anyhow 27. Checkers or chess? I don’t know how either works but I like reading about Harry and Ron playing wizard chess  28. Board games or video games? board games I guess but I don’t do either of these either 29. Wine or beer? I like the taste of wine a lot but if I’m going for feeling of inebriation, I find really vodka is where it’s at  30. Freckles or dimples? dimples, perhaps cause I’m full of freckles so it really doesn’t hold much appeal for me 31. Honey mustard or BBQ sauce? Look, ranch is where it’s at idk what to tell you 32. Body weight exercises or lifting weights? lifting weights cause im not even strong enough for body weight anymore fuck 33. Baseball or basketball? basketball I guess, but the only sport I actually like is hockey 34. Crossword puzzles or sudokus? crosswords 35. Facial hair or clean shaven? Clean shaven, only a very very few people can pull off facial hair tbh 36. Crushed ice or cubed ice? cubed 37. Skiing or snowboarding? these are both a solid way for me to break a bone/die 38. Smile or game face? smile! 39. Bracelet or necklace? necklace 40. Fruit or vegetables? vegetables 41. Sausage or bacon? bacon 42. Scrambled or fried? scrambled is the only way I’ll eat them 43. Dark chocolate or white chocolate? I’m a baby, I can’t do dark chocolate 44. Tattoos or piercings? Oh man I have SUCH a thing for both but I’ll go with tattoos 45. Antique or brand new? I’m afraid to break either 46. Dress up or dress down? Dress up 47. Cowboys or aliens? Depends, are aliens as gay as cowboys are? 48. Cats or dogs? I have a cat tattoo if that gives you an idea 49. Pancakes or waffles? Waffles but only with chocolate chips and no syrup 50. Bond or Bourne? I have no idea what this is referring to 51. Sci-Fi or fantasy? Fantasy 52. Numbers or letters? Letters I guess, math can get fucked 53. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter, no question 54. Fair or theme park? theme park 55. Money or fame? Money, I would hate being famous oh my god 56. Washing dishes or doing laundry? I’m currently putting off doing both, but in general laundry 57. Snakes or sharks? How could you make me choose??? Sharks, purely because they’re water animals 58. Orange juice or apple juice? orange  59. Sunrise or sunset? Sunset 60. Slacker or over-achiever? Over achiever in everything but school, where I’m a slacker 61. Pen or pencil? Pen 62. Peanut butter or jelly? peanut butter 63. Grammys or Oscars? ngl I’m not sure what either of these are for 64. Detailed or abstract? Detailed 65. Multiple choice questions or essay questions? Multiple choice, I can usually guess pretty well even if I don’t know shit 66. Adventurous or cautious? adventurous as long as someone else is choosing the adventure 67. Saver or spender? saver 68. Glasses or contacts? glasses, on myself and other people 69. Laptop or desktop? laptop 70. Classic or modern? classic 71. Personal chef or personal fitness trainer? I desperately need both tbh 72. Internet or cell phone? internet 73. Call or text? text, I have trouble processing speech 74. Curly hair or straight hair? i fucking love curls 75. Shower in the morning or shower in the evening? heavily depends on my schedule  76. Spicy or mild? I’m a baby, mild as fuck 77. Marvel or DC? marvel  78. Paying a mortgage or paying rent? rent at this point in my lief  79. Sky dive or bungee jump? I’m terrified of heights 80. Oreos or Chips Ahoy? oreos 81. Jello or pudding? After putting jello in my hair for years, I will never be able to eat it again 82. Truth or dare? truth, I’m a wimp who will tell anyone anything 83. Roller coaster or Ferris wheel? roller coaster 84. Leather or denim? leather 85. Stripes or solids? Solids 86. Bagels or muffins? muffins 87. Whole wheat or white? Wheat 88. Beads or pearls? Pearls 89. Hardwood or carpet? hardwood 90. Bright colors or neutral tones? neutrals in clothing, bright colors otherwise 91. Be older than you are or younger than you are? older, unless I could be younger again but this time without mental illness 92. Raisins or nuts? Nuts 93. Picnic or nice restaurant? Nice restaurant 94. Black leather or brown leather? Black 95. Long hair or short hair? my hair currently goes down to the small of my back 96. “Ready, aim, fire” or “Ready, fire, aim”? the... second one???? obviously??? 97. Fiction or non-fiction? fiction 98. Smoking or non-smoking? i fucking love cigarettes but I will never let myself smoke an entire one cause I refuse to allow myself to get addicted 99. Think before you talk or talk before you think? I try very very hard to think first 100. Asking questions or answering questions? answering, I love talking about myself, please ask me questions  

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I Went Vegan And Here’s How Much I Was Judged Betches

At the start of the summer, I decided to go vegan. Before you come at me (plz chill) I know there are a billion articles about how it ruins my health, destroys the environment, and exists only as trendy holier-than-thou diet (thinking of you, Gwyneth Paltrow!)

People loveeeee to hate on vegans. Sure, we have a rep for being pretty judgmental hypocrites (like Phoebe from Friends and her love for her fur coat in that one episode—but tbh in the spirit of journalistic integrity, she was vegetarian, not vegan, but still). And I was one of those haters. I used to think veganism was a fad diet that wasn’t even that healthy. Also, how do you even get enough protein? Tofu, a chalky white sagging blob I’d seen at my dining hall’s salad bar, didn’t seem a particularly appealing alternative.

So what changed? Well, I moved to California and was brainwashed started learning more about veganism. One of my best friends at college is vegan, so I learned more about it this year by eating with her. Obviously, we went to the most extra vegan restaurants in LA, but that was the first thing that convinced me: I actually liked the vegan food.

Judging by my super healthy diet of vodka and brownies, by the end of the school year I felt like crap. I needed a lifestyle change, and this summer was the perfect opportunity for that. I would be cooking all of my own food for the first time while living in a dump old frat house on the Row at Stanford.

My family was concerned by this idea—well, actually, I didn’t tell them initially because I knew they’d freak out, but had I informed them of my plans before, these are the questions they would’ve asked:

What will you eat for breakfast?  Ummm….seaweed and hummus? Some nuts? Kale chips? Tofu? Realistically a really weird assortment of food, but also, like, who even eats breakfast? I’m in college. Coffee counts.

What do you eat at restaurants?  Since one of my best friends is already vegan and since California is the Mecca of vegan restaurants, it isn’t hard to find restaurants that served, like, salads and tofu.

Can you still drink?  JK, my fam wouldn’t have asked me that, but for all the concerned alcoholics out there, vodka is vegan. In fact, all liquor is, though some wines and beers are processed with animal products. Yet another reason shots reign supreme.

Week 1

It’s 11pm and I’d just arrived at “The House,” aka the trap fraternity house where I’d be living this summer. Even though it’s no longer a frat house, it still feels like a frat house. The state of the house may seem irrelevant to my diet, but the kitchen is a disaster. It’s a place where we’d all made blackout quesadillas at 2am during the school year, so using the same pans crusted with our drunk food seems rather unappetizing.

After moving all of my stuff up three flights of stairs alone (chivalry is dead), I head to Whole Foods to scour their vegan options. This being California, they have loads of options. I buy what would become the starting lineup for my summer diet: eggplant and tofu from the salad bar, a few pre-made salads, kale chips, seaweed, pickles, hummus, and vegan jerky. I feel so healthy.

A few vegan days pass. Do I feel any magical results? No. I do not feel less tired, as some people have promised. I do feel healthier though. Like those vegan models that I follow on Instagram, with my Bragg’s Nutritious Yeast (vaguely cheesy powder?) and zucchini noodles (these taste like zucchini, not pasta, don’t let others convince you otherwise).

That Friday my friends and I go to San Francisco. It all fun and games until everyone decides they want to go to IHOP for some drunk 3am pancakes. I then realize I can’t have any because they aren’t f*cking vegan. I eat some kale chips instead to soak up all the extra vodka in my stomach. The next morning I want to kill myself. Kale chips aren’t a good drunk food. My hangover is deadly. Who would’ve f*cking thought?

Weeks 2 & 3

The glow of being healthy is fading. First of all, I’m worried I’m anemic because I’m tired, like, all the time. Literally, allll the time. All I want to do is sleep. I went from being fine on six hours of sleep to wanting to sleep 12 hours. What college student sleeps for 12 hours? HOW IS THIS OK.

Also I really, really, really want something sweet. I’m craving chocolate like mad. So I buy some Hu Chocolate from Whole Foods and happily eat an entire hazelnut-butter dark chocolate bar. It’s vegan, so ha!

Realistically, there isn’t much more to say about these weeks. They pass in a sort of foggy blur of vegetable eating. I don’t go out because of my summer courses. This is shaping up to be the best summer ever, wow!

I questioned stopping. But that would be giving up, now, and I’m no quitter.

Week 4

This weekend, I drive down to LA with my vegan best friend, and naturally, she brings me to all of her favorite vegan restaurants. The Green Temple for the best tofu sauce (literally I want to drink the sauce). Café Gratitude has absurd buffalo cauliflower and honestly it’s expensive ($11 for a side of cauliflower? What is the profit margin here?). By Chloe (there are multiple in New York too!) has the best vegan kale Caesar salad I’ve ever tried in my life. It has shitake bacon and almond parmesan and literally, this is why I became vegan. Also, there’s a little sign that says how much waste you’ve prevented by eating vegan food inside By Chloe, which just made me feel like a really great person.

The next day I get a migraine and lie in bed for the entire day. Soooo fun. Exactly what I drove six hours for! We go to Whole Foods that night though, to find dinner stuff, and I’m delighted by their eccentric chip selection (jicama chips. WTF?) and extremely elaborate salad bar selection. They also have about five types of vegan mac and cheese, which is like, absurd.

We head to the Farmer’s Market in Hollywood the next morning. Everyone makes fun of me because I buy a jar of pickled brussels sprouts and a tin of soy shitake mushrooms to eat for breakfast. Yes, I get that’s a really weird breakfast. But seriously, anyone who knows me by now should realize that I thrive on eating really strange foods. And pickled (well, technically fermented but stick with me) foods are good for your gut health. It’s why so many people are obsessed with drinking apple cider vinegar!

We drive home, stopping at the Ostrich Farm on the way through Santa Barbara. This trip has taught me:

LA has the best vegan restaurants. New York may have By Chloe and Candle 79, but LA just has sooooo many more options.

I actually can drive for seven hours without killing someone. Genuinely a miracle!

Ostriches are vaguely cute.

There is nothing to do in LA besides workout, eat food, and sit in traffic (while occasionally visiting ostriches).

Week 5

I feel less tired, so maybe my body was just adjusting. Or maybe I am anemic and should start taking iron supplements. My doctor keeps bugging me to do bloodwork and I keep putting it off because I’d have to fast before getting it done and that’s so annoying. Yes, I am a responsible adult, thanks for asking.

I make the mistake of telling my mom that I decided to go vegan, and receive a whole lecture about how it’s a horrible idea. You will ruin your health and become anemic and are you getting enough protein and don’t you know about living life in moderation?

I give her a speech about animal rights and the environment (yes, this is a little late to the game, but I started following all these vegan Instas because I needed more motivation), and the environmental benefits of veganism. It really tugs at the heartstrings. But photos of cute little pigs with the caption “is eating bacon really worth it?” kind of make me want to cry.

Now that my mom hates my vegan diet, I’m even more motivated to continue. I’m massively stressed studying for my summer course midterms, but at least I’m stress-eating seaweed and hummus instead of cookies. After I finish midterms we go out that weekend to celebrate one of my friend’s birthdays. Personally, I blame my later behavior on the restaurant for lacking vegan options. A plain salad is not an ideal pre-drinking meal, tbh, and my lack of memory for the rest of the night can be entirely explained by my meager dinner of iceberg lettuce in conjunction with the seven shots of ginger vodka I had later.

Weeks 6 & 7

These two weeks are also a blur. My family comes to visit the first weekend and are genuinely incensed that I refuse to eat meat. We all go out to dinner to some non-vegan place where the only thing I can eat is a kale Caesar salad without dressing (because of the fricking anchovies). So I basically eat a bag of dry kale for dinner. Yummmmm. But I can’t back out on being vegan now. That would mean my mom was right. Again. I abandon my family after dinner to run to Whole Foods to buy a late night snack of eggplant and hummus (why am I so weird?!).

The next day, my mom treats me to dinner at Nobu, which opened in Palo Alto at the start of the school year. I’d been dying to go the entire year, but it’s not exactly a place you go with your friends when you’re in college on a budget. My mom orders sashimi for the entire table and I eat a piece of tuna.

YES, I BREAK MY VEGAN DIET. NO ONE IS PERFECT K?!

Seriously though, the tuna is fine. High-quality fish, but ultimately not even that tasty. Honestly, one thing I’ve realized is that food tastes good because of the sauces and spices on it, not because of the base. It could be cauliflower or steak, chicken or tofu, all that really matters is the sauce. (Okay, clearly I’m not a steak connoisseur. Red meat has always grossed me out and I know theoretically a good steak doesn’t need any sauce. This is why I’m a mostly successful vegan, and my brother will never be a vegan. He thinks vegans are wussies and real men eat wagyu beef.)

My family leaves, and  I’m getting bored of eating the same 10 foods every day. So I start exploring some of the other weird vegan foods that Whole Foods sell. Vegan cheese dip, for example, is disgusting. It’s a mix of pureed potatoes and cashews, and it does NOT taste like cheese and now I feel nauseous. I also buy chocolate covered chickpeas a few times, which sound gross but taste like chocolate covered pretzels. They are as addictive AF so consider yourself warned. Banana brittle (pureed dehydrated bananas with coconut flakes) is also incredibly addictive. As is chocolate mousse made with silken tofu and cacao powder.

If I sound like a raving lunatic who has lost all concept of what good food actually tastes like, it is quite possible that veganism has addled my brains.

Week 8

I spend the entire week studying for my finals. Woohoo. All I want is to go home and sleep. The fatigue never entirely left, so maybe I really am anemic. But I honestly feel much healthier. My body is more toned, my hair is thicker, and my complexion is brighter. Most importantly, I don’t feel gross every time I eat. It’s nice to finish a meal and not regret eating junk, but instead feel happy knowing that I’ve put healthy nutrients into my body.

Even though I’ve been eating less protein, I feel more muscular too. Until I have to move all my crap and I realize I still lack basic upper body strength. Veganism forced me to abandon my mini fridge since I don’t have enough strength to carry it down three flights of stairs (if anyone wants a mini fridge HMU. I warn you though, the freezer has about an inch of congealed apple vodka on the bottom because my idiot friend put a bottle of vodka in it sans lid). I fly back home to New York and eat a bag of coconut chips for dinner because the airplane has no vegan food.

Week 9 – ???

Now that I’m home and no longer cooking for myself, I guess I could stop being vegan. Despite the fatigue, I really have enjoyed it. It forced me to cut the unhealthy junk out of my life but still allowed me to treat myself by eating things like chocolate covered bananas or vegan brownies. Moderation!

I did finally get some bloodwork done and it does turn out my iron levels are dangerously low (oops?), I can always start taking a supplement to fix that and start drinking blackstrap molasses because apparently, that has 20% of your daily iron per serving. Yum. Besides that, I really do feel much healthier. I feel fit again, instead of constantly stressed about what I’m eating. My hair and skin both feel amazing.

It’s honestly not hard to find food to eat, either. I just eat the vegetables my mom makes for dinner and heat up some tofu for protein. Now I’m campaigning for my dad to join me since his cholesterol is through the roof and I know he’d benefit from less butter and red meat. (I’m really trying to not become one of those preachy vegans that try to indoctrinate everyone though, don’t worry.)

If you’re still not convinced

a) I don’t care b) it’s fine, you can join my family, who are still convinced that I went to school in California and became “some sort of new-agey hippie.”

Realistically, will I stay vegan forever? I have no clue considering it’s been only 10 weeks and forever is, like, a really long time, but I have no concrete plans to stop anytime soon. Unless I actually do become anemic from an iron deficiency. Then my mom might start force-feeding me red meat again…

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With the whole “new year, new me,” business that comes along with the new year, I thought I would throw some ideas your way and give you a little peak into my everyday healthy eating tips! I know eating healthy can be expensive but I feel like knowing when to splurge on certain things and also knowing when to loosen the reigns with yourself are vital to success in the kitchen.

When I tend to cook, I always end up cooking something healthy. Even if its pasta, I’ll throw a veggie in the sauce or have veggie/whole grain pasta. It’s the smallest changes that make the biggest difference. There are certain things that I don’t believe in which are taking supplements, (besides protein if I don’t plan to eat enough that day or something) taking multivitamins because I’m not at the age yet where I’m in need of them, its usually geared toward someone who needs extra joint support or just an extra boost of health, and the biggest thing I’m against: cleansing. If you think draining your body of “toxins” is going to magically make you healthy then I suggest you look more into it. Sweat out your toxins in the gym, everything in moderation and eat your veggies, simple as that.

Now, I am no where near a professional and I have no training in discussing this topic besides one college class about nutrition that I don’t remember anything from #college. 

Anyway, here are my fav healthy tips/things I implement in my everyday routine:

Drink your fruits and veggies! Something that I do everyday is make a smoothie. I usually don’t switch it up very much because it’s SO GOOD. Look for the recipe at the bottom! Now, if you’re like me and can’t eat fruit just by itself more than once a day, meaning for example, you can’t have an orange for breakfast and then a banana later and a handful of grapes. I don’t know if that makes sense but I would rather drink my fruits and veggies and then add them additionally to my food throughout the day instead of eating them by themselves.

Eat a hearty breakfast…. EVERY DAY. I know a lot of people who will not even eat breakfast or just have a small piece of fruit. Breakfast is what you need to fuel your day and it should always be your biggest meal of the day. It’s easy for me because the morning is my favorite time of day and I love to cook breakfast foods like my beloved breakfast tacos.

Switch out your grains. This one has always been tough for me. But tbh no matter what fad diet bs (and they are bs) that I hear about, I could never live comfortably without bread and pasta. That being said, I try and switch out white rice for brown, regular pasta for whole wheat or veggie (they have some weird ones at trader joes like black bean, which was disgusting, but if you’re curious about other pastas, thats your place!) and whole grain bread instead of white or sourdough. Believe it or not, eating this stuff is not detrimental if eaten in moderation, which brings me to my next point…

Moderation is key. It doesn’t matter the health kick that I’m on, I will not skip out on life to meet a calorie count. If I have a family gathering and we’re eating hearty lasagna and bread, I’m not going to load up on salad and feel like I’m missing out. I’ve tried to do this in the past and every time I do, I find myself longing for bad food throughout the night or whenever, instead of enjoying the company I’m with. Now, I’m not saying let the gate open and run wild in a field of cupcakes BUT, I am saying you need to stop being so hard on yourself. Unless you have a strict goal or timeline of what you want your body to look like or you’re happiest when you eat clean then DO YOU. You guys, this post is not meant to attack those that live a strict diet lifestyle. I’m talking to those of you that try and implement healthier habits into your day to day. Also, I’m telling you more about myself and my own personal habits. Back to moderation, having a burger once in a while and a slice of pizza is O K A Y. Its when fast food is consumed everyday or when you go most days without anything green entering your system, then it becomes a problem. There is a very fine line and it takes a while to find it, yes, I’m still searching for mine.

Eat food that you actually like. Do not try and force down healthy food if it’s the worst thing that you’ve ever had. If you’re a picky eater, try foods every now and again cooked in different ways and you might be surprised. For example, I think broccoli is satan on earth in my mouth when its not cooked. It doesn’t matter how much ranch I put on it, I absolutely hate it. But, when it’s steamed or baked, it’s my favorite vegetable. My point is, don’t force feed yourself healthy food because you’ll never adjust to a habit of eating that way. You should enjoy what’s in front of you rather than dreading what you’re about to ingest.

It’s okay not to eat meat for your protein. This is for my non-vegan/vegetarian friends. I used to only base my meals around a meat. It took me a long time to realize I don’t need to have it every meal. There is a lot of protein to be found in other sources and while I do eat meat, I love making vegan recipes and stripping down typical recipes to be healthier. I hear a lot that a good tip is to make one day a week a vegetarian/vegan day and I have been doing it recently. I honestly haven’t really noticed a difference but I love trying new recipes and challenging myself.

Drink your damn water. I think this is the most obvious and we all know we need to drink a lot of water but I think this one is not only the most important tip but the most impactful. I definitely feel it when I don’t drink enough water. I rely SO heavily on my hydroflask to get my daily serving of water. I usually drink two servings in my 40 OZ bottle and then drink two glasses at home. This has made a huge difference in my skin, my energy and it helps with cleaning out all your toxins instead of a harmful cleanse.

Now, I wanted to give you guys a brief peak into what I typically eat in a day and how I balance things out + extra tips!

Breakfast:

-2 egg whites

-handful of spinach

-1 piece of turkey bacon

-green bell pepper in my eggs, about 2 tablespoons

-about 2 tablespoons of cut up white onion

-1 slice whole grain toast

-handful of fruit (usually blueberries)

-teaspoon unsalted almond butter on toast

-1 tablespoon of trader joe’s super seed blend on toast

Snack:

-Nut butter filled cliff bar (coconut almond butter flavor)

Lunch:

I would like to say that I make lunch everyday but its definitely the meal I eat out the most. Most days I go to Grill Hut and get chicken, rice, salad and pita bread and it’s my favorite lunch. But, if I make it at home I’ll usually have something like this:

-1/2 cup steamed broccoli

-Veggie patty

-romain lettuce (to wrap veggie patty)

-handful of mixed nuts

-sautéed sweet potatoes ( cooked in coconut oil and seasoned with thyme, garlic powder and paprika.)

Snack:

-Always one of my smoothies which is:

1 tangerine

1 banana

1/2 cup frozen strawberries

handful frozen spinach

a little less than a handful of frozen peas

1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar

1 tablespoon coconut oil

fill halfway with water

Dinner:

-If you know my family, you know that we eat chicken, rice and salad for dinner almost every night (fitting that I eat it for lunch too…) so that’s what I’m going to list here:

-1 grilled chicken breast

-Brown rice, a little over 1/2 a serving

-Roasted veggies, usually broccoli, carrots, cauliflower and onion

-Salad, I like mine without dressing most of the time, about a cup of spinach

After dinner snack:

-usually always dangerous but I have a GIANT sweet tooth so I usually keep my favorite cookies on deck. They’re the Trader Joe’s gluten free chocolate chip cookies and I am clearly not gluten free but they are SO tasty. It doesn’t make it healthier by being gluten free necessarily but I just like the taste of them! If I don’t have those handy, I’ll also have a couple pieces of dark chocolate or honestly just drink a cup of tea (peppermint of course) and it keeps me full enough for bed time to where I don’t feel starving going to sleep.

Total Calories: 

2,379.

Macronutrients:

Carbs- 43% Fats- 37% Protein-20%

This is obviously a rough estimate of what I eat everyday because its never the same but everything I’ve listed is common in my days so this is pretty accurate! (this is based off of a 2,000 calorie a day diet, I also used the Fitbit app to figure this out for reference.)

  I hope this was helpful to you! The only change that can come to your healthy habits starts with you and you only. However, with some help on the way, slowly I think your potential will surface and be used fully. This is not to bash anyone or their eating habits, its only here to encourage you if you feel in need of a change. Or if you’re just curious about what I eat/ think is healthy. I would like to say that I eat perfect everyday and I love my body because of it but I’ll be straight: it’s something I have to work at everyday. Over time, I’ve cumulated habits that I’m proud of and I’m hoping to only continue that in this new year! Regardless of your body or eating habits- you’re all beautiful. You’re all loved.

XOXO,

New year, same beautiful you.

    OUTFIT DETAILS: leggings- Fabletics. top & sports bra- Forever 21. Shoes-Nike. Also wearing a Fitbit Blaze.

Healthy Habits With the whole "new year, new me," business that comes along with the new year, I thought I would throw some ideas your way and give you a little peak into my everyday healthy eating tips!

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wanted to make a list of food textures that are Hell(TM) as opposed to those that are not, bc tbh i think my weird sensory problem w food is p interesting. for reference this is not a list of my favorite/least favorite foods this is just texture 

Hell textures:

anything thats the same/similar texture all the way through thats served as a meal... lasagna is a good example of sometimes being 100% fine and sometimes being the Worst.  if something is too samey i literally stop being able to eat it 

PEAS + anything simultaneously mushy and gritty (like overripe banana or applesauce)

milk (in terms of drinking it) uhgh u can feel all the separate lipid molecules in it basically.... i dont want it.  bad mix of watery but oily ?? why

pears ??? why are they like that 

marmalade w seeds --- too slippery and yet it wants to break ur teeth

steak hhhh also pork chops

good textures:

well cooked rice

peanut butter 

anything crunchy

anything crunchy on the outside but soft in the middle (EX: cherry sours/jellybeans)

stuff like avocado thats smooth and soft with no grit 

peanuts/nuts in general (i dont like the taste of walnuts but will do it to myself bc the Good Texture) 

cucumber

refrigerated gummi candy of any texture.  notable favorites are white mice-style marshmallow gummis and the thicker/opaque licorice-esque ones 

apples

oranges are also great bc the slices have all those little juice sacs in there ... nice

raw onion ??

arugula

c a r b o n a t i o n -- i like my water so carbonated that it hurts a lil to drink it, that when u stick ur snoot in there after pouring its fizzing so hard little droplets jump up on your face *heart eyes emoji* 

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CHICKEN AND COLESLAW SANDWICH RECIPE

In olden days the bread part of a sandwich was merely used for transporting what was inside. Cavemen would receive their subs (via dinosaur) and scoop out the filling (not with a scoop but with their hands) and discard said bread. Thus being the origin of the paleo religion AKA caveman diet. “No bread, I’ll just have the filling please” #nocarbs. Discarded bread jackets (or brackets) were swept from the cave floor at 7am every morning and lobbied towards “firewood” to keep everybody in the cave nice and toasty. Which, coincidentally, is where the phrase “toasty” actually comes from. Toasty as in toast. As in they’d burn the bread jackets on the fire, inadvertently creating toast, which led to toast becoming the first kind of bread that was ever eaten by human. Partly because it smelled so nice and toasty when it was on the fire! And partly because a bit fell out and people were like dogs back then. Haha!

If you’re still not getting it. Bread, for a time, was used in the same way that pork pie pastry, for a time, was merely the suitcase for the meat compact inside. Shell discarded, much like that of the nut. The much maligned jelly of today worked functionally back then as a grout, or wadding, to stop the compact rattling in transit. On horseback, presumably. Pre-jelly it was horrific. That dull meat rattle of un-stabalised meat weight inside cold pastry walls. It was the Victorian equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard. Though at the other end of the spectrum, sonically.

Nowadays we eat the whole sandwich, bread included. And that’s what this recipe is a celebration of. Bread, for a long time now, has come in so many different forms. White, brown, mixed seed. I could go on. Seeded batch, mixed grain, 50/50. I could go on.

I picked up a Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference “Stonebaked White Baton” for 70p. It’s what you might call a demi-baguette. Or what an idiot might call a semi-baguette. I just called it a semi-baguette in my head before I wrote that. Demi-lol. The thing that stuck in my head was there was two in the chamber at Sainsbury’s and I’m looking at it and I’m thinking, hang on, that one there, on the right, is at least a couple of inches longer than the one on the left and I’m looking at it and I’m thinking, hang on, they’re both 70p. Kinda wanted to wait for another customer to saddle up to the “bakery section” so I could say, heh, have you seen this. And then they’d look at me blankly and take the longer baguette. Or they’d say, well that one on the left is a bit wider so it’s works out the same really bread-for-bread. People, even imaginary ones, are really annoying when they just don’t get “it".

But what I’m saying is, you can use ANY bread for the recipe. But please do eat it and don’t throw it away. Or do! Let’s get into it.

RECIPE

1 x Bread, at least two sheets or one sliceable form. Could be seeded batch, white, brown etc. Make sure it’s enough to make a sandwich. 1 x Leftover roast chicken, fork from tub 1 x Leftover half full coleslaw, fork from tub 1 x Butter, too hard from fridge 1 x Red’s Kansas City BBQ Sauce

I semi’d my demi. One half for now, one for later. Go all in with the full Subway-esque stretch if you’re looking to up your white bread cells. Part the baguette horizontally down the full length. I went all the way through, but you could leave a bit intact at the edge if you prefer a “paperback” style filling method i.e. a sandwich with a spine.

The butter, once taken from the fridge, was too hard and I knew it would be so I just put it back in the fridge. If your fridge is anything like mine then you may wish to do the same. Subway don’t use butter and not that this sandwich is supposed to be like Subway, nor am I holding them up as a sandwich beacon but when it comes to sandwiches it kind of is their bread and butt…er, bread.

Apply a liberal smear campaign of coleslaw to your base bread jacket. This will be your foundation on which to build. Dip your finger in it at this point and give it a little taste. Too spicy? Throw a little yoghurt in there.

You want to open your tupperware tub of leftover roast chicken scrags at this point. Fish around in it with a fork looking to avoid any weird looking bits. Airlift the pure forms onto your coleslaw bed. I went for a bit of a mound as my tub was plentiful. I don’t know what your tub looks like but I’m going to say you want at least 120g on there. I also moved the tub closer to the bread to avoid dropping chicken on the work surface. Didn’t fucking work though did it.

Grab your nearest condiment at this point. I reached for a disappointing bottle of Red’s Kansas City BBQ Sauce. Disappointing because, a) it’s bland b) it’s affiliated to a restaurant I’ve never been to, nor have I any interest of ever going to c) it’s from Co-Op and I can vividly remember half-heartedly purchasing it when they didn’t have anything better

I attempted to put down some lattice work with the sauce. A sashayed one-take lazy flair kinda move. I recommend it.

Blitz it at this stage with salt and pepper. Chicken literally does not taste of anything unless it has salt on.

Last thing you have to do is put the lid on. Boosh. Squash it down a bit. Go on. Some of the filling will fall out onto the plate but I don’t mind. You can pick that up later. Though you might want to take a tea towel over to the sofa with you so you can mop your mitts a little halfway as it’s a lil slippery.

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Verdict: Bland. Tasted of nothing despite the seasoning and sauce. That stupid sauce is so voiceless I kind of want to squirt the full contents out of the window. I could offer that the thick application of coleslaw muted the accent of those additions. Could have got up to add more salt and pepper after a couple of bites but I wasn’t arsed for moving tbh. So sue me. The roast chicken was in fact an 8-hour slow cooked (in a slow cooker) chicken that I was told in recipes would amplify the taste of the chicken and make for one almightily tasty bird. I finished it in the oven too to crisp up the skin. Still didn’t taste of shit. I put a lemon up its arse from the off too, and three garlic cloves. I saltbae’d some seasoning and paprika on it. Nothing.

Try it at home and let us know how you get on!