Because I am mid-day blogging perhaps you guessed that I did not get called to sub today. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow. Although I actually want to sit on my butt all day and watch the inauguration. 

Anyhow, today at the gym I intended to do my favorite Gwyneth Paltrow arm exercises, but my arms are sooore from my yoga yesterday. I know I am supposed to strength train and yoga “doesn’t count,” but it is the best thing ever for my arms. Instead I ran (4 miles), ellipticized, did some sit ups (I am in dire need of some abdominal exercises if anyone has any) and stretched. 

For lunch I enjoyed a lovely sandwich of

• wheat wrap
• ricotta cheese
• hummus (hiding under lettuce)
• lettuce
• tomatoes
• shaved carrots

I’ve been eating it a lot lately and I really like it. I also had with a lot of  plain Greek and non-Greek yogurt, mashed banana and flax.  Oh, I accidentally bought Golden Flaxseed instead of the brown, which is what I normally get and thought I should mention it tastes almost the same, but more subtle. So, if you’ve been scared to try flax, you might want to start off w/ some Golden. 

My Oilless Bread

When I first started blogging in July, Victoria from The Idle Loaf  was one of my first blogging buds. She makes the most wonderful bread and even though I’ve made it before, it never quite looks as beautiful as hers. She often makes this beutiful Whole Wheat Flaxseed Bread that I always want to try. In an effort to save money for Budget Month, I finally made it! And knowing that it was made instead of buying bread this week prevents me from eating the whole thing in two days. Gotta make it last. 

Now although I am pretty creative and lose when it comes to baking cookies or muffins, I am a strict bread recipe follower. Yeast does crazy things, ya know. But, I had to use turbinado sugar because that’s all I have and … I forgot to add oil! All I had was olive oil anyway, so not sure how that would turn out, but I meant to at least try! Woops.

My loaf is not nearly as photogenic as Victoria’s, but it sure tastes good and is spectacularly cheap!  I think hers looks more conventionally bread-like than mine and maybe that’s the missing oil, the fact that I had to eyeball all ingredients requiring a tablespoon or the part where my arms were going to fall off I kneaded anymore. Anyway, like I said, it tastes good and that’s all that matters.