Whole Foods Haul

First off today, a big thank you to Kristy for having the OATrageous Oatmeals giveaway, which I won! I eat oats nearly every morning, so I can't wait to delve into this cookbook. The savory oatmeals intrigue me.

This morning, Olivia and I attended storytime at Whole Foods. Afterwards we joined some friends on the patio, where we read the paper and let the kids run off some steam. I picked up a Suja Elements holiday flavor, Wassail To You. Oh my God, I want a whole case of this stuff! Cinnamon and vanilla...it's like drinking a cinnamon roll, you guys.

We also grabbed a Red Rabbit Cooperative Bakery vegan maple donut to share later.

Wearing Halloween tops after Halloween? That's how she rolls. There is no such thing as a fashion faux pas if you own it.

And we'll keep right on eating pumpkin spice everything, long into winter I'm sure. We brought home some So Delicious pumpkin pops. They have a strong coconut milk flavor that didn't really do it for me. Now they will probably linger in the freezer until after the Halloween candy is all gone.

I also searched for the new Field Roast sliced cheese, but my Whole Foods hasn't got it in stock yet. So I tried this Treeline creamy scallion cheese that always catches my eye, but I usually pass it up due to the price. It's really nice, great on flatbread or crackers. However, having just made a batch of Veganomicon cashew ricotta, I find the textures very similar and the homemade stuff quite a bit cheaper, so this may be a one-time purchase. Now, I need to track down that Field Roast! 

I also picked up a couple of The Bu kombuchas. Tropical flavor, with mango, passionfruit, and hibiscus, and also lavender flavor. $2 each, couldn't pass that up. I wonder why some brands of kombucha are $2 and some are like $4? #kombuchamysteries

A post-bath game of Memory...

She always wins.

Tortugas and Bu

Started off the day with a smoothie. Cherries, spinach, acai, raw vanilla protein powder, almond milk, chlorella, and stevia, topped with bee pollen and hemp granola. 

We met Tony for lunch. We decided to try out Tortuga Flats due to its proximity to our new house. When we sat down, the kids were given some brightly-colored wax sticks to twist into sculptures.

We started with a salsa sampler. The smoky dark salsa was my favorite, but the avocado tomatillo salsa and pico de gallo were good, too.

I had the veggie enchiladas filled with quinoa, sweet potato, and kale.  Mostly sweet potato. Maybe one bite of kale per enchilada. An all right lunch, but we wouldn't go out of our way to go back.

Light dinner: Hatch chile baguette from Central Market, and honeydew kombucha. I had never tried this brand, The Bu, before. I love honeydew so I'll look for it in the future.

Olivia learned to play dominoes before bedtime. This girl loves games and she can beat me at many of them.

Monster, my companion and also my spirit animal.

See you on Monday for Vegan MoFo!