Yummy!

Lately, I've been on a constant hunt for things that I can bring to school with me to eat throughout the day. The catch? I have no fridge space so whatever I bring, it needs to be able to sit in my desk. Also, I'm really trying to stay away from items with too much sugar in them. When Bobby came, he gave me a cookbook from Elie Krieger (my favorite Food Network chef). So I looked through the book and found a fabulous recipe for Carrot Cake Cupcakes!


I don't know the official difference between cupcakes and muffins, but since I don't frost these "cupcakes", perhaps I should call them Carrot Cake muffins. Whatever they're called, they're delicious! Now that I'm teaching at 8, I have to catch a 6:30 bus so I'll be eating breakfast at 5:30 or 6 so I will definitely need a second breakfast after my class and I think these will be perfect!!

If any one has any other ideas for what I can eat during the day, I'm all ears! I will be at school from like 7 or 8 until 4 or 5 everyday, so a few mini meals are my preference! Currently, the rest of my day of eating consists of a Salad (with chicken and veggies) and an apple. I'm also thinking I will start eating some soup a couple hours after the salad in order to keep me from getting too hungry before dinner.

The next challenge? I need to find a lunch bag which will hold my salad container, my apple, my muffin (which I put in a little container), my water bottle, and another bottle (I usually bring some iced tea to drink in the afternoons when I'm done with coffee). I've been using a sturdy plastic bag (that I got when I bought my textbooks), but I'm hoping that one day I'll run across a perfect bag to hold my drinks and food items.

Smile: I'm loving the freedom I now have (post-qual) and I'm loving the fact that things are finally getting crossed off the to-do list! What a great feeling!!!

Frown: My wedding scrapbook is definitely not progressing as I had originally planned! I think it's because I'm having trouble coming to terms with taping and cropping the photos! I have two or three copies of most of the pictures, and I've already put several in a photo album, but I just can't bring myself to complete the book! Also, scrapbooking is not as much fun when you're alone, at least not for me! Any one want to come visit me??? :)