Happy #thinkingoutloud Thursday! No idea what I’m going on about? Click here!
1. You guys are a nosy bunch! But I love it because so am I 😆 Thanks for all your feedback on my What I Ate Wednesday posts! Survey saysssss — keep em, so they will most definitely be kept. And if you bribe me with cookies (or, let’s face it, anything else sweet), I’ll even do my best to start posting them every week again.
2. Speaking of food… has anyone else ever noticed that you can be perfectly satisfied and content in terms of hunger levels until you take a small bite of something and you’re suddenly starving? This happened to me the other day. I got home a little after dinner and put off making a meal because I wasn’t feeling all that hungry. That is… until I decided to grab a “quick little something” because it was getting late and I figured I should eat. One bite, two bites, three bites… omg I need food NOW. I ended up having to resort to eating a pimped out bowl of cereal for dinner because I couldn’t imagine waiting for a proper meal to cook. Satisfied to starving in 2.2
3. Also, my apologies for taunting you with visions of salted caramel cookie dough smoothies. I’ll share the recipe tomorrow — I promise!
4. Oh, and just as a head’s up… you might wanna consider freezing some almond milk in preparation.
Actually, you might wanna consider freezing some almond milk even if you’re not planning on making this particular smoothie. Not only do almond milk cubes taste way better than ice cubes in smoothies because they thicken them up without watering them down, but freezing almond milk is a great way to avoid it spoiling if you’re trying to get through one of the big 2L cartons on your own!
5. Oh, oh! And while we’re talking about that smoothie, can we just take a moment and laugh at the fact that iPhoto apparently sees faces in it?
Call me unimaginative, but I just don’t see it… Still, further proof that it really is out-of-this-world delicious 😉
6. Also delicious? Dried papaya spears…
I know they’re basically just glorified candy, but at least there’s some real fruit under that layer of sugar… right? Right! There are chocolate people, and there are gummy candy people… and when it all comes down to it, I’m definitely a gummy candy person. Back in the day, I’d go through bags of Fuzzy Peaches and Sour Watermelons like it was my job.
7. And are you spying what I’m spying in the background of that photo? Yellow leaves!
The scary thing is that they were still pretty much all green last week… and I remember this because I got all excited when I saw a small handful of yellow ones and I was going to share it on last week’s ToL. At this rate, all the trees will be naked in about… oh… 2 weeks. This is why us Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October — it doesn’t look like fall by the time November rolls around (read: it’s basically winter).
8. Speaking of fall, a small update on the canned pumpkin shortage. I found some… sort of.
I’ll admit that boxed pumpkin is a first for me, but I can’t afford to be picky at this point. I’ll keep you updated 😆
9. And to end things on a lighthearted note… have you guys seen this clip from Jimmy Kimmel where he went around asking people who follow a gluten-free diet if they knew what gluten was? It makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time because it just goes to show how quick people are to jump on diet bandwagons without even knowing the how or why. “Here in LA, [gluten] is comparable to Satanism.” 😆
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All your fall inspired thoughts make me so excited to see some weather change in my part of the world!
Haha that’s so funny that it saw a face in your smoothie. I swear I see faces in everything. The other day I was taking a shower and I saw a face in one of the tiles haha.
I love dried papaya too! Basically I just love any dried fruit.
I can’t believe you’re almost at 100 Thinking Out Loud posts! Crazy. It feels like just the other day you were asking us if we’d like to have it as a link up. How time FLIES! 😉
Patiently waiting for the smoothie recipe. Holy freaking heck. Any salted dessert-like food/drink is a winner in my books!
I knowwww… And what’s even crazier is that the linkup is only on #40 or something. Seriously can’t believe it’s been that long.
Ooh dried papaya is so good!! I like dried mango too. Have you ever had chili dried mango? It’s covered in a chili powder type something. It’s strangely delicious.
I haven’t! But I’m the biggest wuss when it comes to any kind of spicy food, so it might kill my tastebuds 😆
I want some of those papaya spears!! They look so good. Pumpkin must be consumed no matter which way you get it!!
I’m intrigued by the boxed pumpkin! I’ve never seen that before. And I love that gluten video – that’s hilarious. I was telling Chef-friend about that the other day because he gets a LOT of people asking for gluten-free options, and you can never tell if someone is legitimately sensitive to it or jumping on the bandwagon as a way to lose weight.
It feels a little more fall-ish around here, but the leaves are still green…I give it another week or two and it’ll start to turn.
I agree, the whole gluten thing is kinda funny… but kinda sad that they don’t really know.
I LOVE your little pear molds – adorable!! 🙂
The video is pretty funny.. I liked the coughing part lol… Im glad you are continuing on with the WIAW posts..Its actually giving me some ideas like the snack plate!!!! Im also going to be trying your recipes soon too!!! Thanks for posting and have a great day!!
Bahahahaha I love that video, particularly the woman. “It’s in rice…” No it’s not, sweetie. I’m not GF, but even I know there isn’t any gluten in rice.
I think she was just trying to suggest that people stop eating carbs in general 😉
Pumpkin shortage?? What?? Hy heart is heavy, so thanks for ending on a funny note with with Kimmel clip. Wow, it is amazing what people will do to fit in!
EVERY time I think I’m not hungry and just have a snack or something silly for dinner, I immediately regret it, ha. Conversely, when I’m not super hungry and then go to eat a meal… I typically have no problem finishing it. ; ) Darn hunger, playing tricks on us!
I’m with Jimmie Kimmel. I’m pro pizza, and that clip was great.
Stop the pumpkin madness ; ) and instead let’s focus on that ridiculously cute ice cube tray you have. Um, totally envious of that. The tree is pretty, beautiful actually, and our leaves will start to change (like really change) the end of October, early November and the Hubby and I have plans to go hiking again during that time since it’ll be breath taking.
boxed pumpkin??? I’m intrigued!!
I wonderrrrred why pumpkin was almost $4 at Whole Foods and there were only a few cans left… now I know!
What GORGEOUS yellow leaves!!! We never have that here (I’m in Florida) – what’s this “fall” that you speak of? 😉
It’s the two weeks of gorgeousness before winter hits for 6 months 😉
I’m always so enamored with cute ice cube trays (like #4), but I never buy any. I think I should change that 😉 I strongly dislike pumpkin, so I wasn’t aware of the shortage, but I’m glad it won’t impact everyone’s insane desire for PSL all winter! Hope you find some, no matter what packaging they come in! xoxo, ganeeban
Actually, the only reason I bought that one was because I couldn’t find any normal ones. Like… really?! They have crazy shapes but not the boring kind? Kind of boggled my mind…
HAHA funny video!! 😀 what jerks…
I actually know the feeling when you’re not hungry, take a bite and get SUPER hungry immediately! It’s weird. I don’t know what it is. I hate that! Best not to eat when you’re not hungry I guess.
I go to extremes on both the chocolate and the gummy candy side of the spectrum…I’ll go through phases where I can’t get enough of one or the other. It’s a problem 😛 And that ice cube tray is too cute!
That video was so great! And I seriously need to get myself some of those papaya spears!
I will now be in search of dried papaya spears. It kind of reminds me of a Twizzler.. my favorite candy! 😉
I love that Jimmy Kimmel video! Hilarious. 🙂
I love Jimmy’s videos. And that smoothie – I cannot wait to see the recipe for it! My go to lately has been peaches n’ cream and its so good but I need to switch it up a bit!
Way too much deliciousness of this blog today to comment on all of it, but the almond milk ice cubes are seriously an awesome idea, and I am really excited for that smoothie recipe, like really, really, excited!
And I know exactly the phenomenon you’re talking about when you eat a bit of something and then NEED to eat the whole thing right now. Happens to me all the time 🙂
For someone that doesn’t have an ice maker, freezing coconut milk is genius! Now I just need an ice cube tray as cool as yours. Mine suddenly seems so ordinary. lol
I love when the leaves start to change but I hate how quickly they begin to fall and disappear. You have a very tiny window where everything is pretty in warm colors. The WORST is when a storm comes through and blows them all down immediately… It makes me angrier than it probably should haha!
And I LOVE THOSE PAPAYA SPEARS!!! laskdklfajsdf They are quite possibly one of my favorite snacks. Plus, they don’t have sulfur in them but still have light sugar which is amazinnnng. My stomach does not like sulfur.
I found the same thing the other day with the pumpkin – it was SOLD OUT in a couple DIFFERENT stores!! Crazy! Great picture of the yellow leaves 🙂
Haha your ice cube tray.. killin’ me! Lol. Love that so much.
I bought three huge cans of pumpkin at costco the other day. It was an impulse buy because it felt so much like fall outside. Anddddd when I walked outside the costco doors, an overwhelming smell of spicy sweet warm apples overwhelmed me. I’m not sure where the hell it was coming from but I was euphoric in that moment.
Can you believe the main reason I bought it was because it was literally the.only.one I could find? Like… they didn’t have normal boring ice cube trays, but they had those 😯
Those fall leaves are BEAUTIFUL…And yes that has happened to me when I start eating something and then all of a sudden I am ravenous…Why the heck does that happen anyway? Our bodies are so kookie sometimes!
I had no idea they even made boxed pumpkin!! That’s a little odd to me, but hey desperate times call for desperate measures haha. And I’m jealous of your fall leaves!!!! Just when I think the temp is starting to feel like fall it warms back up { here in California }. And hell yes to that recipe tomorrow, I can’t wait :D!!