Another Day, Another Dollar

At least today is Saturday though! That means I just have to work half day, and I have no SCARShelter trips that I need to make after I get off work here. Hurray!

Muesli for breakfast again. I took a picture this time before I mixed everything together.

1 cup organic uncooked oats

1 cup coconut milk

1 Tbsp organic hemp protein

2 Tbsp shredded coconut

2 Tbsp chia

1/4 cup organic raisins

1 Tbsp cinnamon

Drizzle of organic honey

Questions for all you vegans out there. What are your thoughts on honey? Should we or should we not eat it? Since becoming a vegan, I never ate honey until my vegetarian friend sent me some in the mail. She said it was from a lady who had a small business there and the honey was organic. I don't agree with bee factory farming as I don't agree with factory farming for any other type of animal. From what I have researched online, I learned that in most large bee businesses that they kill the queen bee every two years. The normal lifespan of a queen bee can be up to 5 years. I read all of this HERE. I don't know. I think that if their are so many different sweeteners out there, then we should probably use those. What do you guys think?

Moving on...here is my bennings tint squash flowering nicely in the rain and my Manoa lettuce is loving this rain.

Am I obsessed with my plants? Maybe. I love these beautiful bright flowers coming out of my squash plant!

Sonic just chilling outside watching me water my plants. I think he has just woke up in this picture.

Being broke

I have been pretty broke lately. My husband is unemployed and just does side jobs here and there. So don't mind if my next few posts aren't super exciting food wise, since I will be working with whatever I have in the house.

Breakfast today, sorry for the crappy picture. This is my version of muesli:

1 cup organic oats (soaked the night before in water, not necessary)

1/2 cup coconut milk

and the rest to taste

Goji berries

Cacao nibs

Chia seeds

Hemp protein powder

Organic almonds

Coconut shavings

Sweetener of your choice

My husband works at an acupuncture office part time to help with computer work. He got this for me from the office. How cute huh?

I wanted cookies yesterday, so I looked through my cupboards and I had just enough vegan chocolate chips to make one of my favorite cookies. These are chocolate chai cookies. So so yummy! The recipe is in an older post on my blog HERE. My friend stopped by and I told her, guess what? I made THE cookies! She screamed, YES!!! I gave her a baggie full, and she ate about four just standing in the parking lot. If you love the taste of chai tea, you will adore these.