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I know it’s laden with sugar. I’m a sugar and salt freak – I freak out when there’s too much of them. However, nothing can really compare to this. I have lunch and I still want to have a bowl of it. I wake up at home and I feel unsettled without a bowl of it. It’s the taste of bananas. It’s whole grain cereal! No trans fat. But of course they don’t mention anything about its sugar content.

You guys should try it. Come to my place I’ll share the joy with you.

I had to sit myself down and have a one-to-one chat with myself. Laptop turned off; just me and my mind. It took a while, but I finally began to admit that I had a problem.

An addiction? As I walked by the holocaust of cigarette butts at the smokers’ area outside my school, I wondered if my consumption might escalate to that extent. It is a costly habit that I strangely have no urge whatsoever to kick. Walking amongst everyone else, I felt different. What shall I do with this new revelation at hand? Do I allow myself to drown silently in it, or seek help? I know that I am consuming it a lot more than I should be – it does not hold a candle even to coffee. I do not have coffee every day. I can do without coffee.

I cannot do without Banana Nut Crunch.

Nothing like a good salad when you’re feeling a little fatigued for no particular reason. It looks exceptionally delicious today because it’s so colourful! Lettuce, cherry tomatoes, eggs, honey mustard chicken with a good healthy dressing to top it all off.

I’d have taken a photo of it if I weren’t in a hurry to get the colours into my gullet.

The only downside of it is that I still have to chew on it with the right side of my mouth… The food getting into the gaping hole on the left really, really bothers me.

Extracting the tooth to save money… Why do I suddenly feel like that’s not the best decision in the world?

I’m gonna keep using the right side of my mouth until the teeth there get decayed too, then I’ll get to have a hole on each side!

This is the art of finding balance in life.

… gives you peanut butter – Homemade!

I cannot begin to tell you for how long I’ve been wanting to do this. I love peanut butter, I love its savoury goodness and awesome texture, not to mention the health benefits. The thing is, when you buy peanut butter, peanut butter isn’t really the only thing you get:

INGREDIENTS: Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Rapeseed Oil and Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil) to Prevent Separation, Salt.

What’s in homemade peanut butter then?

Roasted Peanuts. Salt to taste, and peanut oil as an emulsifier if you don’t like your peanut butter to separate – and you get to add these at a healthy pace.

Now I can eat my peanut butter from the spoon with no guilt. Mmmmm.

I was intending to go out and grab a latte from the nearby Starbucks about a half hour ago, but I’m still here.

Why?

Soy is bad for you and milk is bad for you, and I really can’t stomach coffee without any form of milk.

So I’m definitely getting my latte, but the problem is I’m trying to find out which is the better choice of the two.

I don’t think they offer goat’s milk.

Edit: I think I’ve found the answer. Off to get my drink!

al·co·hol (āl’kə-hôl’, -hŏl’)
n.

1.A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C2H5OH, synthesized or obtained by fermentation of sugars and starches and widely used, either pure or denatured, as a solvent and in drugs, cleaning solutions, explosives, and intoxicating beverages. Also called ethanol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol.

2.Well-known cause of weight gain, empty wallets, belly bulge, stupid (sometimes amusing) actions, allergies, stamina loss, recurring fatigue, eyebags, shitty morning-afters and many other unpleasant experiences.

3.We still drink it anyway.

Click on the picture to get to the COOKIESHEEN blog how cool is that!

How to screw yourself up psychologically on a drizzly Saturday night: skip dinner, drool at Nigella Bites, then gawk at the Biggest Loser season finale.

Seriously.

Exercise will make you healthier, but won’t make you thin.

That explains why I stuff myself with food after I exercise. But then again, I do that whether or not I exercise. Hmm.

Bliss? Close enough. Looking at images of Lace‘s cooking endeavors I decided to go ahead and bake something too. It’s been a long while since I bothered to cook/bake (besides the occasional carbonara, yum) anyway, and I really didn’t want to realize that I’d forgotten how to a few years down the road!

Anyway, lo and behold – Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’ve been in the mood for these lately, and was trying to find a recipe similar to Famous Amos’s, but couldn’t seem to get anywhere. The sites that claim to come close to it leave me unconvinced when I see the pictures. In the end I decided to play safe and use a recipe that seems quite popular among the people on the Allrecipes site.

I had to scour the house for chocolates since I had no baking chocolate chips at hand, so there’s an interesting mix of Cadbury pralines, Lotte chocolates, Australian Chocolate-Covered Macadamia nuts, and a few other random ones. There was just enough to make 2 cups, lucky me.

No regrets there! If you’re lucky you might get some from me, heheheheh. Now to get an ice cream maker.

In other news, your dominant hand actually affects you more than you think.