Smoothies

My husband and I are trying to get back into shape now that the fun of summer is coming to an end. It's fall-ish weather here already in the Northeast and I love it! I'll miss summer, but for some reason with the summer being SO busy and every weekend planned, it's nice to be home a little more and fall back into a routine (no pun intended)....

We haven't belonged to a gym since last April, so we joined a new one (woo hoo!) and are watching what we eat (ABS Diet style - we did this before, it worked, so we're back on it --- and it's really easy to adjust for gluten free with this).

My favorite part is bringing smoothies back into our lives!

While I generally am an egg person in the morning, I like mixing it up. Especially since we're trying to work out before work - so a smoothie is the perfect thing to mix up and have pre-workout.

This one pictured above (with my super fun straw) included:

Frozen strawberries
Frozen mango
1 banana
0% fat greek yogurt
GF whey protein powder, vanilla flavor
splash of low-sugar orange juice
splash of 0% fat milk
ice cubes


YUM

Mariposa Gluten Free Bakery

After my unfortunate pizza experience in San Francisco, the next day I was lucky enough to be down at the Farmers Market at the Ferry Building for work. I remember someone telling me about Mariposa a while back, and went inside to look for it. Didn't take long, it's a small-ish kiosk right in the middle (they mentioned they're moving soon to a new location in the Ferry Building).

I was like a kid in a candy store. EVERYTHING is gluten free - pastries, breads, bagels, SANDWICHES, cookies, brownies, etc etc!!!

It was really hard to decide. I should really have filled my purse with goods, but I only had room to get a few things, and found out they deliver, so we've all got that goin' for us.

I had a Blue Bottle Coffee in my hand, and thought that a Cinnamon Roll would go quite well with it...
Ummmm - yeah. IT WAS AMAZING. I should have bought every single they had and brought them home with me. Delicious, moist, great flavor. Perfect size.

Then I saw they had little bags of pre-made sandwiches, so I had to grab one of those. IT WAS ALSO AMAZING. The bread was fantastic - soft, perfect texture, not crumbly at all, not chewy - just good. I had one that (I think) had arugula, red-pepper spread, salami... Can't quite remember, meant to take a picture but was too excited about the sandwich & grabbed these two shots with my phone:
I also got a little bag of bagels - 2 per bag. I think they were multi-grain. Also very good... Not the best ever - but excellent flavor, not too crumbly.

All in all -- if you are in San Francisco and you are gluten free you MUST go to Mariposa! I linked to their website again, here it is again --- they also deliver. I'm sure it's expensive to do that. I may order for a special occasion -- otherwise, my friends who live in San Fran will be getting calls from me to bring me home goods when they're back east :)

Extreme Pizza Gluten Free in San Francisco

Got Extreme Pizza GF delivered last night.... While super delicious last night, seriously not feeling good today. Hmm.... not cool.

Essential for me on the road

Since I'm traveling for work for a few weeks - eating can be tricky. I'm on sets for photoshoots for my job and we have different call times in weird locations for long hours. Just keeping a loaf of Udi's and a jar of peanut butter is perfect if I'm not sure I'll be able to eat.

Most of the sets I'm on have a huge supply of bagels, pastries and sandwiches. Yeah, not so good for me - so it's been a lot of Udis & PB and lots of little baggies of chips.

Almost out of bread now though - time to re-stock.

Don't laugh at me for eating the full-sugar full-fat Jif - it's awesome and I don't like to travel with peanut butter that separates & gets oily.

:)

Pizza Port - Solana Beach - San Diego

I was SO excited while out here for work to be at Pizza Port in Solana Beach... They have Gluten Free Pizza and beer!! They also have a location in Ocean Beach, I would guess they have it there as well. Yum! It was delicious! Off to San Fran tomorrow...

Traveling...

Hey all! I'll be traveling for work - so next week I'll be in San Diego, then the week after I'll be in San Francisco! Let me know if you have any good gluten free recommendations. I got some last year for San Fran - so I have some options there - but I've never been to San Diego before!

hope you all are enjoying the summer :)

B.Good Gluten Free Hamburger Buns!

Feast your eyes readers.... It's just a burger I grabbed for lunch around the corner from my office. No big deal. Yeah right!?

Thanks to the lovelies at Udi's who are now making really good GF Hamburger Buns, B.Good has started carrying them!

I literally read Jen's post about it this morning, and called the one near me, discarded my boring 'healthy' salad for lunch, and headed over there as soon as it was acceptable for me to eat lunch, 11:59.... They noted I had an Allergy on my order... and you watch them make the food so I was keeping an eye on everything. I noticed mine was made away from all of the other gluten-filled buns - and I noticed gloves being changed for my food. PROPS TO B.GOOD.

Oh, and their fries are TO DIE FOR.

Check 'em out if you're near one, here's there site again.