Day of Rest....

Soooo...I don't have a dinner from Friday night to show you since I had no camera for our dinner at Fediric's  (always TOOOOO GOOD!)....butttt, I can show you LUNCH from Friday;)  I met Scott at Trader Joe's for a quick "grab & go" lunch;)  He had an AWESOME sirloin wrap, while I stuck to half of this salmon wrap.  It just sounded too good...yum:)

We had our wraps along with some of our favorite tortilla chips...these taste totally decadent (aka. fried & crispy).... 

....but have a really great & simple ingredients list... 

Andddd while we were in "sampling" mode, I just HAD to pick up these try.... 

...just tooooooooooooooooo good!  Super chocolaty, bite size and totally addictive;)  We each had a few and then the rest of this container went into work for "afternoon cookie hour" ;) hahahahhahahaa.....too tempting to keep around;)  They were SO. GOOD!

Soooo after our pizza/cookie/and ice cream day on Friday, I woke up yesterday craving some extra healthy oatmeal;)  I whipped up some warm spiced pumpkin pie oatmeal with a topping of pumpkin granola...mmmmmm.... 

And after some COMPLETELY INSANE & sweat drenching Power Yoga, I just wanted lunch to be light & simple!  A Mango Smoothie in a Jersey glass along with some "Jersey SHORE" was just the ticket;) hahahahahahahaha.... 

And as a snack...well, you knew it wouldn't be long before we tried out ANOTHER brand of TJ's granola bars:)  This time I had one of these... 

These had the nice little sweet & salty kick I was craving for;)  Yum!

Dinner was yet ANOTHER dinner this week that felt like it was going to take a long time to cook and then was pulled together 1,2,3! :)  Wanting to use up some of the stuff we had on hand, I thought I'd make a Vegetarian Taco Pizza...

I heated up the peppers & onions, roasted corn & a drained and rinsed can of black beans in a skillet mixed with a little cumin & chili powder for a little southwestern kick... 

While the veggies were heating up, I got a crackin on the (99 cent!) crust...

It went from bag to pan in less than 5 minutes... 

Next, I topped the dough with the pepper mix and finally with some of this cheese we found at the farmer's market before popping it in the oven... 

15 minutes at 450 and we were good to go.... 

And finally, I gathered together our final, VERY GREEN, toppings..... 

• shredded lettuce
• chopped cilantro
• diced scallions
• a drizzle of guacamole 

It wasn't the PRETTIEST pizza and it was definitely a knife & fork pie...but was it gooooood.  Scott said it was one of his favorite pizzas that we've ever made!  Quite a compliment;)

And we added more green to the mix with some champagne pear vinaigrette.  I MEAN...SALAD! :) 

Too satisfy our sweet tooths (while catching up on a week's worth of Survivor, Modern Family & The Office:), we had a couple of the "all natural cupcakes" I had made on Thursday night... 

I had made Bethenny's Joyful Heart Chocolate Muffins before and they are one of my favorite recipes.  In her 2nd book, "The Skinnygirl Dish," she topped the muffins with this butter/confectioner sugar/soy milk/vanilla/cocoa powder chocolate frosting.  These were really good, but I must say, I think I was a bigger fan of just the plain, non-frosted, muffins.  I know...ME!  The "more frosting, the better," girl;)  Hahahhahahahha....But my favorite part of these cupcakes/muffins is that they are made with 1 teaspoon of canola oil,  all natural oat flour & turbinado sugar and they are super moist and delicious.  LOVE THAT!  Healthy & guilt free dessert....is there really anything to complain about?? ;)

Well, after a Saturday filled with cleaning our house LITERALLY from top floor to basement; today we are having a much slowwwwwwwwer day;)  You'll see what I mean tomorrow;)  That on top of the fact that between Friday Power Sculpt AND Power Yoga:  My legs are SHOT today! ;)  No Zumba this fine morning...Sunday is gonna be a true day of rest this week;) hahahahhahahahaha

Hope you guys have a great AND relaxing Sunday too!  See you tomorrow:)