Winner Winner

Hi friends!

& new friends I made from my latest giveaway! I love you guys. Meeting new bloggers is so much fun!

Well, today is the big day. Let’s find out which two readers won a sample of my nut butters! But first, let’s talk about me!

Some of you on Twitter read my tweet about how I found 19 jars of nut butter in my house! 19! Oh man. This wasn’t even including the 2 jars I just used this week for OIAJ. Now do you believe me? I wasn’t lying when I told you I was getting serious about this Operation Overstock.

I started my cleaning yesterday after my post:

Wow that’s a lot of stuff. I turned that into this:

That’s a little better huh? You can tell which shelf is mine.

I found so much PASTA! Not just all mine either. I guess buying large amounts of pasta runs in the family.

Then I tackled my tea obsession:

And turned it into:

Taa-daa!

I’m really scared to get started on my canned goods. So many beans! That’s okay though, I can live off rice and beans. It’s one of my favorites!

I finally made an appointment to go see my Doctor for my knee pain.

The reason I don’t want to go to see my doctor is because I know she is just going to tell me that I need to stay off my feet and rest or take some painkillers. One, I’m not going to stay off my feet. My job requires me to stand on my feet for eight hours a day. Two, I love being active, hello! I love working out, I just don’t feel the same without it. I have recently developed a love for step aerobics and I’m not going to give that up. People keep telling me, “it’s probably just your joints..” or “you just have weak quads…” Well you know what? Excuse me for caring but, I want to fix that. I’m 19 years old, not 87. Even if I “rested” okay, then what? My knees are going to keep hurting whenever I work out? I’d rather them hurt then sit on my butt all day.

Anyway, I just hope my doctor sends me to see a knee specialist and actually does testing on me so we could just figure what the heck is wrong. I’ll keep you posted! But for now…

And the NUTTY winners are……

Mindrunningwild (pecan butter) & Butterjessfly (plain) !

Both new readers I believe!? Yay!

Congrats girls! Please email me with your addresses so I can send you that nut buttah!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Operation Overstock

Wow! Lots of my readers have entered the Nutty Giveaway! I cannot wait until tomorrow to see who the winner is!

As you know, one of my May Gals is to save money. To be honest, I’m not the average 19-year-old who spends all their money on designer clothes, getting my nails/hair done, purses, shoes, and the newest electronics. If you must know, I wear yoga pants just about everyday, have NEVER had my nails done, is lucky enough to have a mom that is best friends with a hair dresser, uses the same bag everyday that I bought on my Paris trip in 2009, has never spent over $60 on a pair of shoes and has used the same Ipod since 2006.

Now, if you haven’t noticed, I do spend most of my extra money on food. Not because a vegan diet is costly but because I sometimes choose to spoil myself with the latest health foods like Chia seeds, fancy nut butters, and the entire Bob’s Red Mill collection oh, and not to mention my obsession with Amy’s Kitchen frozen meals.

U n n e c e s s a r y !

My pantry is jammed packed with all of these things I never even use. My mom, very seriously, tells my dad that he needs to build another shelf in the laundry room for all of my food (I almost took a pictures of my overstocked kitchen but I’m actually too embarrassed!). This has gone too far.

Anyway, there is a point to all of this.

Operation Overstock means….I am making it my mission to NOT shop for anything but fresh produce until my pantry is CLEAN. Or at least close anyway. I have endless boxes of pasta, different types of flour, cereal, dried fruit, protein powder, beans, and of course…nut butter. For the next few weeks I will just make do with what I have for most of my meals.

Today I started with my pasta:

I added these veggies I bought from the market for $3:

🙂

& In honor of CINCO DE MAYO…

Fantastic World Foods Review Part 2

Part 2- Taco Filling

(Incase you missed it: Part 1)

!!!REVIEW!!!

My family decided to make taco’s for dindin and I kinda felt left out. Just kidding! I reached for my Fantastic World Foods TACO FILLING and joined the fiesta. The taco filling is made from TVP which I happen to be a huge fan of. With only 100 calories a serving who wouldn’t be excited? What I loved about the taco filling is that it didn’t taste like ground beef. Sometimes I feel like companies try too hard to make vegetarian products taste like the real deal and I don’t like that. Then it’s just weird. I like “fake meats” to taste like veggies and seasonings. Does that even make sense?

I remember how greasy and dry real ground beef tacos would taste, not pleasant at all. you can tell just by looking at these tacos that there is no dryness here!

 Would I buy these again? No doubt! 🙂

Have you tried FWF’s Taco Filling?