Housekeeping detail that I am so proud to announce: All Links have been restored and the pathways are correct! No more Page Not Found errors!
So if you were desperate for a recipe in the past 48 hours (I got quite few panicky emails from people in dire need of recipes), or had Yoga FAQs, or wanted to see some Popular Posts or Workouts, everything has been restored. Ahhh. You don’t even know how happy this makes me. Thank you, Dustin and Jenn! I bow down to them and kiss their feet. They are The Best!
Remember when I reorganized my pantry?
Well the things I totally forgot I had gifts just keep coming. Like these Brad’s Raw Chips.
These are tasty and if you like Cheeze-I’s or Doritos, you could maybe pretend you’re eating one of those with these. Not really, but ya know, I’m trying to find the silver gluten-free lining because I loved both Cheeze-Its and Doritos when I was growing up.
I can definitely taste the garlic and scallions in them. For me, that’s not great because I am not a fan of garlic and onions. But if you’re looking for a GF Vegan cracker or chip, other than say a Mary’s Cracker, these are good. They are far lighter and less dense than a Mary’s, too.
Or just make your own crackers….
From my Sights Around Here post…
… and Being Silent, or not. Many of you said you struggle with being silent. And that you explain yourself and talk in circles many times when really, you wish you could just have more golden silence moments.
And being pyschic, as I mentioned, I am and some of you said you are too. Cool, maybe we can get together and have a premonition that I’m going to win the lottery.
Dessert: Vegan GF Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peanut Flour
Questions
1. How’s your week been going? Anything new or exciting?
To say my life has been full, and full of “new and exiting things” is an understatement of epic proportions.
The Blog Move and all the behind the scenes glitches that have come with it but that are mostly done. It’s totally worth it for me to have moved. I love blogging from Wordpress, I love my new blog, all of you seem happier with the page load times and layout, but just getting to this point has been “new and exciting”. Like a new glitch around every corner. Remember that Wine & Whine Post. Yeah.
And work has been really busy for me.
Of course, family life and being a mother, wife, head chef, lead dishwasher, and the best toilet bowl scrubber around keeps things “exciting”!
Seriously though, it’s all good. I’d rather have my life be full of exciting things and stay busy.
2. What would you be more excited to find: Food or Other Things?
It kind of depends on the food for me. I would be more excited to find cookies than I would be to find my old CD collection from 2005.
But I’d be more excited to find $10 bucks stashed in the pocket of jeans or a MAC lip gloss I forgot about I than I would be to find a bag of chips in the back of the cupboard. Just being honest.
Would you be more excited to find food or something else? Or would it be a case-by-case basis?
3. When it comes to gifts or shopping for yourself, do you prefer to buy one big really awesome thing, or many smaller (less expensive) things?
Hard call because sometimes that one really big item is totally worth it.
But other times I think, well would I really use, say a Kitchen Aid Stand mixer enough to justify buying one?
Or, would I rather have 10 other smaller things like new coffee mugs, a new shirt from F21, restock my ‘good’ shampoo and conditioner, etc. Because I could buy a lot of little things for the same price.
But in the end, I would probably remember the Stand Mixer and the other things would be forgotten about.
Are you of the One Big Ticket Item or the Spread it Around mentality?
there’s no chip out there that I love more than the dehydrated “nacho cheeze” kale chip….nothing.
I have to say I broke my tooth on a mary’s cracker and I’ll never eat them again! anything softer is a huge plus for me. I’ve had mixed experience with Brad’s. One time they were stale but it probably was the store’s fault.
Usually don’t like to buy much except small things but if I really have my heart set on something big I’ll get it. For Christmas I usually get a bunch of smaller things and it’s more fun to open.
I never really “find” food, I guess my cabinets are not that big! One time I found a macaroon in the freezer that I forgot about and that was a score. Otherwise of course I’d rather find money.
1. Yes! I just started Nursing School and I finally figured out how to take Blood Pressure correctly :-) Yippy!!
2. Food!
3. Small things. I would like to have better willpower, but I find that sometimes I need a latte or a snack when I’m out and that ends up being all my “extra” income- just to clarify I dont’ buy lattes out a lot, but I pretty much get $10 extra bucks per week so there it goes!
Yum, the chips look great, I’d love the garlic and onion flavors. And more great snack ideas here.
1. Long, can’t wait for the weekend! It’s been a good week though.
2. Depends, food is exciting, but so is a huge wad of money.
3. Depends on what I want, last year I got lots of little things for Christmas and that was awesome. This year a new camera and that was awesome too. :-)
I love finding new things, or old things that have been forgotten. I usually find more food items than anything else, which isn’t very often. As far as getting one big vs. lot’s of little – it depends on what I am wanting and how bad. Take that kitchen aid mixer for example. That baby will be mine next weekend. I have wanted one for a while. Well J.C. Penney’s is having a two day sale, I have about 3 coupons I can use, so that lovely little addition will be mine for around 130$…gotta get it! Or my Tom’s shoes – I really wanted another pair of those so I opted to spend the majority of my Christmas money for that one purchase as opposed to a day of shopping; however, for my birthday I wanted more little things than one big. I guess it changes with me :)
I’ve wanted to try those raw chips, but the price tag always stops me. I can (and do, often!) make my own delectable chips for so much less!!
ahhh YOUR peanut flour cookies look DIVINE.. i honestly cannot fault anything you make Averie- you are a culinary GENIUS!!!!!
My hubby has discovered how good Mary’s Crackers are. Looks like we will be making our own crackers if we are both going to be eating them.
“best toilet bowl scrubber” Love that!
Case by case basis for finds. Mostly I’m happy whenever I rediscover things that I had forgotten about or misplaced.
Bought a pair of snowshoes after Christmas. Granted, they were on sale, and tax free, so that brought down the cost. Have been having a great time with them on the weekends, so I’m happy I bought a higher end pair. Much better than an assortment of smaller items – at the moment that is ;)
Thanks for the heads up on those chips, I hadn’t heard of them! And I love garlic and onions :)
I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but I get your email subscription, and it always shows up with a different post, and when I click on it, I get a 404 message. Hmm, I’ll try signing up on this “new” blog specifically. That may fix it now that I think about it.
I’d always rather find money of course, but food is good! I really just buy things on an as needed basis for myself, so I guess it would be smaller items. I always think about buying something big as a treat, but it never happens.
I bet I would love those chips.. i love garlic AND onion… mmm makes for some pretty breath, haha :)
My week is going good so far! Had my first biostatistics course for my graduate school course, and I ended up doing pretty well for me! 91% for this non-math oriented girl :)
congrats on being glitch free…I’ve simply changed my blog header and that was frustrating enough..so huge kudos to you for making it through the switch!
This week has been pretty low key but that’s okay, I’ll take it! Working out, reading,working,studying, cleaning, cooking…the norm:)
I would way rather find money than food…finding 20 bucks in a jacket or jeans is so awesome!!
As for buying one big expensive item or a few cheaper ones…well for clothes it’s usually buying more cheaper things but for things I consider big (computer, electronics, household appliances) well I would rather save up and get one really great thing that will last more than a year!
Have a great day!
1. My week is going good- hung out with the boyfriend, running, olive garden, mall, gym, class, tanning, an hung out with my friend
2. I’d rather find clothes, money, and accessories :)
3. I’d prefer one big thing
Have a good day
Yayyy! I’m so excited to finally be able to see your new blog! It looks SO great!! :)
I always love finding new health food goodies from the health stores! Luckily I rarely ever loose anything, but I do misplace things once in a while (yes, I think there is a difference! LOL), but its always nice to find something you’ve been looking for but coudn’t find. I think I would prefer several smaller things as opposed to one big gift. I don’t like the feeling of spending a ton of money on just ONE thing. Oddly enough, I’ve been known to get more excited over small gifts (like a pair of cute socks) than over larger gifts.
whoa, juust checking out the new blog layout now and i LOVE it. so sophisticated!!
Finding food I forgot about in a cupboard somewhere? This has NEVER happened to me!!! Okay, not entirely true – sometimes I find jars of random spices at the back but that’s not a wonderful surprise to snack on, it’s usually a stale or funky ‘oooops’. Now cash, I enjoy finding so much that I’ll even stick a 5 or 10 in a random place when I’m feeling flush so I will have the pleasure of discovering the unexpected in the future :)
I wish I could be a big ticket item gal since I would love a VitaMix but have never been able to drop 400 dollars in one shot on something like a blender, regardless of how much I would use it etc. I prefer to get 10 new things I’m excited about even if they will provide only short term gratification.
I want to add I made your Raw Vegan Caramels and they are little balls of melt in my mouth goodness… Mmmmmm fantastic! Thank you for sharing your recipe.. I’m already thinking hmmm cacao nibs in here would rock – I always loved those little plastic wrapped caramel cubes that must have been pure corn syrup, glucose syrup and hydrogenated cottonseed oil or something all stuck in my teeth.
I’m new to blogs but it seems everyone knows ‘switching over’ is lots of work so I’ll say congrats on the move too :)