One week...

…until summer! The biggest thing getting me through finals is the fact that in one week, I’ll be posting from my big red comfy couch, with a kitchen full of cookware and functioning appliances at my disposal. You know you’re a food blogger when the kitchen space is the thing that most excites you about going home!

I started to feel way better today, which put me in a great mood all day! I set my alarm for my last early workout of the semester in the hopes that I’d feel better, and woke up with my cold symptoms way better. I had a pre-workout snack of a banana with Maranatha PB before heading out to the gym! It’s been over a week since I’d been there last, and even though it was a refreshing break, I was happy to be back. I did an easy half hour on the elliptical so I wouldn’t be wheezing, followed by three reps of 12 in the 12-machine circuit. (I used to be horrible about wiping down machines after I used them, but in the last few months I’ve wised up and carry a few of the sanitizing wipes with me to every station!)

Post-workout breakfast was a new cereal: Nature’s Path Optimum Slim (stupid name, especially since it’s nutritionally identical to the other Optimum cereals), with blueberries, almond milk and cinnamon:

After eating, I headed to my first final. It went really well! I treated myself to the usual Thursday Power-Fu sammie, with a side of seaweed salad and some fresh pineapple and an apple from home:

On the way home from my afternoon lecture, the blustering wind blew what turned out to be a tiny BUG into my eye. I spent over an hour attempting to flush it out with eye drops, water and tears, and finally laid down in bed with my eyes closed, hoping a catnap would resolve the problem. Thankfully, when I woke up half an hour later, I managed to rub a GNAT out of my eye. Gross. Nothing the rest of my Endangered Species dark chocolate and a few dips in the sunbutter jar couldn’t cure:

I was weirdly un-hungry for the remainder of the afternoon, so when the hunger set in at 4:30 I just went ahead and made my salad beast for dinner:

Romaine, tomato, roasted yellow squash and tempeh smothered in humnut sauce

Dessert was an unpictured apple with sunflower seed butter, plus some of April’s protein cookie dough:

2T Nutribiotic Chocolate rice protein powder, 1t cocoa powder, splash of almond milk

Post dinner I got a baking urge, but didn’t want to purchase more ingredients before going home. When I realized I had all the ingredients on hand for Averie’s peanut butter chocolate chip protein bars, I got started right away! I followed the directions almost exactly, simply subbing dry roasted peanuts for the dried fruit, and a broken Lindt 85% bar for the chocolate chips.

I sampled one as soon as they were chilled enough, obviously…perfection J

Tonight I’m taking it easy and catching up on The Hills and The City. I’ve got a fun last weekend in NYC planned, including dinner at the Candle Café tomorrow with a friend, and a formal at Mike’s school on Saturday night. Happy Friday loves!

Do you wipe down gym machines after using them? Be honest! Like I said, I used to be really bad about this :/

Any fun weekend plans? The weather is finally getting nice, so hopefully you all get to spend time outside!