Apparently, in my mind you either get something completely premade or do it from scratch, because last night I was lamenting the thought of making chocolate pudding since we didn’t have any Simply Well left. Thankfully, I was reminded there was such a thing as “instant”. Instant? Genious! Next you know they’ll be making cookie dough you just need to cut and bake–crazy.
Chocolate Yogurt Pudding With Peanut Butter And Chocolate Biscotti
Instant wasn’t really quick enough so I mixed 1 1/2 tablespoons with a low-fat plain Stonyfield yogurt and added more cocoa powder and stevia to taste. After that, it was quite possible perfect. And the biscotti was such a nice touch; I think my favorite thing was the peanuts which got so flavorful after all that baking. I need to pick up more instant organic pudding flavors to play around with 
Right before bed, I made some oats for some good snoozing.
Oatmeal With 365 Crunchy Peanut Butter And Advent Chocolate
I was definitely on a chunky kick after these biscotti; I forgot how good a little crunch is and how it’s like making peanut butter in your mouth when you bite down! They should definitely make flavored nut butters crunchy, too. It’d be the best of both worlds.
This morning I was still a bit sore from my workout 2 days ago, but I thought I’d give things another try. I did a core that consisted of(and I’m pretty sure I’m making up half of these names)
- 240 alternating arm rotations
- 40 squats
- 5 sets of 7 chair swings
- 70 rower arms and a 50 second pose hold
- 70 standing marches
- 70 side crunches, both sides
- 100 regular crunches
- 70 second crunch hold
- 100 air bicycle rotations
- 40 push-ups
- 100 sit-ups
- 70 tricep dips
- 50 standing and 50 walking lunges
After that I took a cardio tip from The Biggest Loser and for all the commercial airtime from 8-8:30 of The Today Show I did jumping jacks. The original plan was to do that for the hour but I knew by the time I showered and had breakfast ready it’d be time to eat. Speaking of which, I really couldn’t decide what to do with my typical oatmeal and peanut butter. Instead I went for a spread-fest.
Pumpkin Oatmeal With Maple Cashew Butter, Walnut Butter, Pumpkin Cream Cheese, And Banana Pineapple Rum Jam
I used Artisana walnut butter, Tierra Farm maple cashew butter, Ciolo pumpkin cream cheese, and Earth & Vine banana pineapple rum jam. Since I’m such a creature of habit, naturally I was hesitant to ditch the proteinous yogurt for breakfast thinking there was no way this would fill me up the same way. I have to say, this has worked wonders; fats are definitely very satisfying for a full but not bloated feeling. Now I’m pondering what final dessert I’ll be making for Christmas day, and watching Little People Big World which I tivoed. Sadly, it looks like the Roloffs are having marital troubles 
But I haven’t heard of anything about them in the tabloids so I’m going to assume they’re still one big happy family. If TLC ruins another marriage, that’d be depressing.
hi-o! those biscotti look YUM!
since we share a love for ginger cookies 
I know you are thinking of making my pumpkin cinnamon rolls, but might i suggest instead, or in addition to the ginger bread recipe i just posted. It is pretty fab if I do say so myself. I usually dont boast about my own recipe creations, but this one is GOOD haha. I thought out of anyone you would appreciate a super gingery ginger bread
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All your breakfast creations looks so good!!!!!!
Great workout you got, wow!!! U go girl!!!! I like the Jumping Jack idea, I will have to do that!!! Good idea to get to watch your show and workout on the breaks!!!
Have a good day!!!
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chunky pb is the best! chocolate yogurt pudding sounds really good
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great workout!! gah, im dying to try pumpkin cream cheese…where do you find it?
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YUM looks great!! love the biggest loser tip
walnut butter sounds HEAVENLY!
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heh i’m in the middle ground. everything i make is 50% scratch 50% pre-done haha. great workout. definitely going to incorporate it somehow
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Yikes!! Once you get to the triple digit repeats, i start feeling tired for ya! hehehe
Eek, a 7/10 for the butter ain’t very good….uh oh…they need to hire Evan to re-tweak their flavors. hehehe
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AMEN ON THE TLC THING!
ummm that oatmeal and toppings looks ridonkulously good. the fact that you get a little bit of each makes me so happy
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I love the cream cheese idea!
Happy Tuesday,
Katie
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pineapple rum jam??!!! NOW we’re talkin!!!! Nice!
Thanks for all the contest entries, too! And I do hope you can make up some PB cups. They take like 10 mins or less and they are sooo tasty
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I am officially crowning you as the “Nut Butter King!”
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