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What’s Baking this Weekend?

 From My House to Yours…

Happy Sunday! What’s baking in your kitchen this weekend? I hope you found some great inspiration with this week’s posts and Saturday’s Oatmeal Toppings link love. I’m ready to dive into the banana bread recipes and whip up some muffins in the kitchen with Ashley. What’s baking, and do you love nuts or no nuts in your banana bread?

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Oatmeal Toppings – Food and Moves For Your Weekend!

This post is part of a weekly series, Oatmeal Toppings, featuring a few of the best healthy living posts on OatmealinmyBowl.com.

Here are some of the best articles that have been found on Pinterest, read on Facebook, been retweeted on @OatmealBowl and @CaitPlusAte, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Fit and Tasty Things:

  • Am I Too Young To Count Calories? – Alfonso gives an honest, impressive answer to a reader’s email. I’m proud of him for giving a good response with sensible advice!
  • Banana French Toast in a Mug – There’s drool on your keyboard. Oh, there isn’t? Well read this post and look at the photos with Steph’s creation and then, trust me, it’ll happen.
  • Living WITH Intention – Erin shares her healthy-minded intentions (I may steal some!) and how she tries to live each day by each one, from the moment she wakes up.
  • No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent – Jess reflects on one of my favorite quotes! Is it yours too?
  • Vegan Ricotta – Who says you can’t enjoy cheese as a vegan?! Not Carolina!
  • Goat Cheese Corn Waffles – Yup, if you didn’t already believe Cat was a genius, you certainly will now.
  • 10 Ways to Plank – After eating your waffles and/or ricotta, head over to Gina’s post and bust out all different kinds of planks to hit every part of your core!
  • Salad With a Twist – Lettuce wraps are popping up more and more on both restaurant and kitchen tables. Meg gives some helpful tips for making your own, and some gorgeous photos.
  • Hungry – Carrie discusses the idea of intuitive eating and the debate over whether or not it’s okay to allow yourself to get hungry. Very interesting discussion – warning: this post may be triggering for those who have suffered or are suffering from eating disorders.
  • How I’m Being FitFluential With My Students – Kasey just graduated and is on her way to becoming a physical education teacher. During her student teaching, she brought fitness into gym class by teaching Zumba. She showed her students that moving can be fun!
  • Garbanzo Brownies! – Yum alert…Laura puts a healthy protein punch into some brownies for a guilt-free dessert treat.

Cardio Dance & Crossfit:

Trouble viewing? http://youtu.be/DvuWozMYpV0

YouTube superstar Sarah gives an inside peek at a special blogger event that took place last Friday, at Reebok. The montage she’s put together is fabulous and gives viewers a really comprehensive sense of what the day was like. Okay, okay, I make a few appearances, so forgive me if I’m a bit biased in using this video this week ;-) but it was SUCH a fun day and I want everyone to see what we got to do!

{Photo credit: SliceofChic via Flickr}

10 Best Banana Bread Recipes

Banana Bread Recipes

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What do you do when you have ripe bananas? Make banana bread!

Since the weather is getting warmer, the bananas are ripening faster. The other day they were almost ripe enough to eat. I come home in the same day – Bam! – they are already turning brown. And there is a whole bunch to be used real quick. Few thoughts come to mind – freeze the bananas for smoothies, eat lots of banana & peanut butter sandwiches in one sitting, or make the tried & true banana bread recipe. MORE »

A Slight Change of Plans…

A Gosling Tale | Part II

Catch part one: A Gosling Tale | Part I

As you can see, in order to get to the irrigation ditch, the new family had to get by the cows first

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A Goslings Life

Hi y’all. This story comes from my sister-in-law and the wild life on the farm. Enjoy! It’s epic cute. But within 24 hours of being hatched? Crazy!

Sister in law writes:

So, I’ve wondered just HOW the little goslings get to the ground after they’ve hatched, that haystack is pretty high.

I did a little research and it seems that they don’t fly — they “float” down, as they are almost weightless. The parents will lead the goslings to the safety of open water within 24 hours of birth.

Since half of these hatched yesterday and the other half sometime during the night, we knew they’d be moving them soon. I grabbed a chair, a cup of coffee, and my camera this morning and waited to see what would happen………

All 6 goslings awake and it looks like Mom is ready to move them MORE »

WIAW: CSA Goodies

The sun is out and I’m addicted to my Starbuck’s iced coffee.

Breakfast:

[Venti, 3 pumps classic syrup with soy milk. Mm-mm.]

I wasn’t craving a substantial breakfast. So, I went with a large banana and my favorite Kind bar – Cranberry & Almond.
Breakfast was perfect. MORE »