National Peanut Butter Day!!!

Made these Honey Peanut Butter Bars for National Peanut Butter Day (Which is today, January 24th)

I Made up this recipe myself!

Servings Size: 15 big granola bars (can cut them smaller if you want)

• 3 cups Granola Cereal (Kashi works fine too)
• 1/2 cup dried cherries
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1/4  cup sliced almonds
• 3/4 cup honey (or less it was a little to much!)
• 1/4 cup Sucanat
• 3/4 cup Peanut Butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  1. Mix  cereal, cherries, raisins and almonds in a large bowl. Set aside.
  2. In a saucepan, mix honey and Sucanat Bring to a boil while stirring. Add peanut butter and vanilla. Stir just to blend well.
  3. Pour the wet mixture into the bowl with the dry and mix mix mix!
  4. Pour the mixture into a 9 by 13 pan and let cool for 1 hour, Cut into bars and serve!

I ended up drizzling chocolate chips on top of the bars:

Yummy!

Mouthwatering!

Ok so I went a little chocolate crazy, oh well…

Yesterday I also made some appetizers before the Bears game (if you even call what  I watched a game, they might as well have not shown up!)

Brushetta and Zuchinni/Yellow Pepper Patties

Zuchinni Yellow Pepper Ground up Whole Wheat crackers and 1/4 cup Parm

Dinner for my consisted of several pieces of Brushetta, Green Peppers, Veggy dip (made with Fage yogurt!) and sliced up Zucchini patties!

I received some goodies in the mail from winning Lana’s Giveaway!

Check out all these goodies:

Lana is so awesome, She wrote me a card and everything! ... I really appreciate all the goodies they are SO AMAZING

Homemade Chili, Granola, Two Snickers (protein packed bars!) 3 packs of JAB (Justine's Almond Butter!)

Today I also received my PERSONALIZED cereal in the mail. Go to Meandgoji.com to make your own cereal!

The five grain Muesli is composed of:

• Barley
• Spelt
• Rye
• Oatbran
• Wheat Germ

Extra add ins that I wanted:

• Multigrain Flakes
• Cinnamon
• Goji
• Apples
• Bananas
• Soy

Me and GOJI!

I can’t wait to try this tomorrow!

Lunch today:

Everything Bagel with Laughing Cow Cheese, a Left over Zuchinni pattie and Apples with Cinnamon on the side!

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Dinner was filling! Quinoa with Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cherry tomatoes and Fava beans in a lemon cream sauce.

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Did a 3 mile run in 26 mins today, had some discomfort in my knee though, time for ice

:(

I had knee surgery when I was 8th grade after tearing my ACL, MCL and lateral meniscus. It really sucked coming back from that injury and I don’t wanna overdo it with my knee on the tredmill tomorrow… maybe some elliptical instead to take the pounding off my knee and of course some Meditation (the one healthy habit I WILL be doing!)… I tried it today, wasn’t a big success maybe later tonight before bed I’ll give it a shot!

Have you ever had any athlete related injuries? What do you do  to make sure you prevent injury? Any prevention tips you can share with me? Hope you all have a wonderful night and a fabulous Tuesday! Once again thanks to Lana for all the goodies from the giveaway!  I encourage all of you to REMEMBER this tomorrow:

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball

God Bless!

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