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Smart Food
While I typically enjoy breakfast quinoa or oats in the morning, I always love a good pancake breakfast too. Or pancake lunch. Or pancake dinner, for that matter. Isn’t breakfast for dinner amazing?
The problem with most pancake mixes is that they have an ingredient list that is a mile-long, filled with ingredients that even this food science student doesn’t recognize. Plus, they are usually too full of sugar, leaving me with a stomachache, not to mention a hunger for more food less than an hour later.
Not so with Kodiak pancakes. They are a just-add-water mix that I absolutely love. As in, I’ve had them 5 times in the past week…what can I say? I’m loving these pancakes, and they don’t leave me feeling uncomfortable or hungry.
Plus, check out the ingredients list:
100% whole grain wheat flour, 100% whole grain oat flour, non-fat dry milk, dry honey (honey, wheat starch), leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), egg whites, salt.
That is only 7 (count ‘em, SEVEN) ingredients. I have never seen such a short ingredient list for a “just-add-water” mix. And I recognize all of them!
The cakes have the perfect fluffiness. While you can taste the wholesome wheat and oats, they don’t have the stereotypical “grainy” texture of whole grain pancakes.
My favorite way to top them? With the Kodiak Red Raspberry syrup and fresh strawberries. Again, we have a super-short ingredient list.
Red raspberries, organic crystallized cane juice, mountain spring water, xanthan gum (a natural thickener), citric acid.
The syrup isn’t overwhelmingly sweet, and I love the chunks of real raspberries. Combined with the halved strawberries, it gives the pancake meal a fantastic texture. I’d love to try the other two flavors of syrup, too!
I adore these pancakes and syrup, so I added them to my Open Sky shop. However, I do want to point out that I bought the mix and syrup myself, and would definitely buy it again!
Smart Fitness
I made a deal with Dan last weekend. One that both he and my parents have been pushing for.
No. More. Running.
It just isn’t good for my knees, especially with my family history with running + knee problems. The only time I will be running from now on is when I am traveling and want to work out, and have no other choice. In which case, Dan will run with me and pace me.
It is funny, though. I think I have been feeling this great pressure to keep running and be a runner, because that seems to be the thing to do in healthy-living-blog-world. But really?
I’m okay with it. While there were times that I loved how I felt after a run, I never quite fell in love with it.
I think I prefer cycling. And weight lifting. And yoga. And pilates.
And protecting my knees and IT band? Priceless.
Smart Life
I found a face wash to replace the St. Ive’s Apricot Scrub for Project Glow. I wasn’t thrilled with the first replacement attempt, but I have high hopes for this one. I’ll report back!
This weekend is filled with wedding-planning fun…including a wedding dress fitting, tasting with the caterer, and buying my makeup for May 30. What’s on your agenda for the weekend?
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