One huge health food haul

Hey everyone! Sorry that this is going to be a huge post. I bought tons of health foods the past month, and I'd like to share what I bought. Bear with me. There's going to be tons of pictures and a few reviews of them too. Enjoy!

 I love boca burgers. I usually eat them with whole wheat sandwich thins.
The veggie dogs were delicious too.
The egg whites, well, they tasted like egg whites. I use them to make protein pancakes with the protein powder I bought and I sometimes cook them and put either hummus or salsa.
The Greek Yogurt is delicious. :)

 With the greek yogurt, I tried  it with butter biscuits. Delicious! Tastes like ice cream with a cone, but better!

 Zevia is a healthier option to soda. It tastes pretty good. I was expecting it to be bad but it exceeded my expectations. I also tried the root beer one, but I disliked that one.

This Dark Chocolate Odwalla bar was a bit dry, but it was chewy and delicious. I liked how you can taste the dark chocolate and the walnut. Not too overpowering. 

 The S mores Luna Bar is pretty good. However, I still like my other favorite flavors, Peanut Honey Pretzel, Chocolate Dipped Coconut and White Chocolate Macadamia.

 This Greek Yogurt was delicious. The caramel mixture was on the bottom, but I stirred it and ate it. It was like heaven. Rich, gooey caramel. Yummy!

 I love sandwich things. I sometimes toast the bread and eat it with hummus, peeling off the bread as I dip it in. Sometimes, I make a veggie burger and hummus sandwich or a veggie dog and hummus sandwich with the bread. Yummy!
This roasted red pepper hummus was delicious to! I love the spiciness. Different from the garlic, but still, it was yummy in my tummy.

 I love vanilla soymilk. I just love it. I would drink it everyday, but my parents say it's better to drink regular dairy milk.
The extra dark chocolate chips are delicious! I put it in my greek yogurt sometimes!

 I like baking with whole wheat flour. It's healthier.
The bean curd is delicious! Use it to cook with Asian dishes!

 I love these bean noodle threads. I like it with soy sauce and chicken broth! I also like those vegetarian mock foods. It actually tastes good.
I also love red bean paste. It's my most fav thing ever to eat. 

 The cooking spray can be used instead of adding tons of oil.
I love apple sauce. This one tastes pretty good. There's no sugar added. Yummy Tree top apple sauce.
The Smart Balance peanut butter is my favorite! It's a staple at my house (well, my siblings love jiff and skippy better but they know this one is healthier, without the transfat).

 This is beans and the veggie dog. Yummy!
The Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal was pretty decent. There wasn't much flavor to it, but it was still edible. At least I know it's a healthier cereal that I won't feel too guilty eating.
The frozen fruit is to make smoothies!

 I love brown rice. It's healthy and I eat it for dinner every night. I cook it myself though, since the rest of my family eats jasmine white rice.

Blueberries is one of my most favorite fruits! I also love apples and bananas and strawberries and asian pears. 

 This Sabra hummus is from Costco. It's really good. The downside is that it uses canola oil, not olive oil. Still healthy though, and pretty good.

The Greek Yogurt bars are my favorite! I tried a sample at Costco before I left for China and I knew I wanted to buy it, but it was expensive. After coming back from China, I finally convinced my parents to buy it. They are really yummy! They are healthier than some other types of granola bars.

These whole wheat fig bars were actually pretty good. You can tell they were whole wheat though. Pretty chewy and the filling was sweet and fruity. Yummy! 

I love pop chips. They are delicious. I bought them from Costco! But, they are not as delicious as baked apple chips, but anyway, they are only 100 calories! The downside is that it has a high glycemic level .

The Hi-Chew was from Costco. It's not healthy, but I just wanted to show you guys it. Yummy Asian chewy fruit candy.
The Vitacoco water and the Almond Butter is from Sprout's. The Vitacoco water was absolutely disgusting.
The almond butter was delicious! Creamy..almondy. I like it a lot better than Peanut butter! I wish I bought the whole jar. 

This blueberry acai greek yogurt bar was pretty good! Chewy, with the right amount of sweetness and saltiness. I liked how the almonds gave it a bit of a crunch. Yummy. I also like that the had blueberries!

The Van's Waffles looked pretty good. I've hear reviews about them and I just had to buy it to try it. I bought it today. I'll give you my review once I have tried it. I plan on eating it with vanilla greek yogurt. Sounds like a plan to me. I also bought the Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bar and the Chocolate Almond Fudge bar today. I plan on eating it as snacks at uni. I've heard good reviews about those flavors, so, hopefully, they'll live up to my expectations. 

 Now, I normally don't like cherries, but this cherry almond greek yogurt bar was delicious! I liked the blueberry flavor better, but this one is still pretty good! Same texture as the blueberry but this has dried cherries.

I've heard of Vitatop muffins for a couple years now. I actually never got around to buying them until this summer! I just had to try it! The first time I ate it, it was delicious! Chocolate cake, with gooey chocolate chips! However, after eating it again, it didn't live up to my expectations. It actually tasted to healthy. 

 Now, the Luna Fiber Bar. I received this one from the company in the mail. It was actually pretty filling! It was chewy like a cookie, a chocolate cookie. I liked how the taste of the raspberry filling blended in with the cookie.

 The apple chips are delicious! I've tried them before because my cousin gave me some to try. The shirataki noodles were ok. It just depends on how you cook the. The chocolate dip from Walden's farm is disgusting when you dip it in something. There's an artificial, metallic taste at the end. However, if you eat it on its own, it's pretty decent. The other things, like the banana bread lara bar, the clif crunch bars and the cereal, I have not tried yet.

 I got these things from Costco! The hummus was delicious! I like how they are snacker packs so  that I can bring them on the go! I plan on eating it at uni. Annie's variety pack is pretty good too! I'm not eating the cheddar though. I don't like cheese.
The Fuze drinks are awesome! They taste like regular juice! However, they do look kinda watery though.

 This is how the hummus looks like!

 This is the chocolate chip bunnies from Annie's. It looks like so few, I know. But, they were pretty good. I ate them as a reward for passing the written permit test on my first try..in 5 minutes. I also baked a Victorian sponge cake, but still. I was so happy!
I just love red bean. Red bean popsicles are my favorite! So is red bean paste..anything red bean! However, the red bean popsicles taste a lot better in China. Their kind is better. Then again , their ice cream is better too.

So, what's your favorite "health" food?

• I love granola bars and greek yogurt! I like anything sweet and anything chocolate and anything red bean. Frozen yogurt sounds good right now.

Do you guys like grocery shopping? Where do you guys like to shop?

• Grocery shopping is my favorite thing! I sometimes like it better than clothes shopping. I like Trader Joes, Costco, Sprouts, Sunshine Farmer's Market, Winco, Raley's (the health section) and, I know I will like Whole Foods (I haven't been there before!). 

Brown Rice Sushi Salad

大家好！How are you guys today? I'm doing pretty fine on this hot summer day. Well, not that fine, actually. I feel like I've been eating a lot lately. I haven't gained any weight, but I just had to say that. Anyway...

Today, I made brown rice sushi salad. I was actually planning on making regular brown rice sushi, but I realized that I didn't have any seaweed. I was still craving the sushi rice though. So, I decided to through the filling in together with the sushi rice, and there you go! Brown rice sushi salad. Sounds pretty easy to make. And, it was easy to make! The only problem is that it's sort of time consuming, the way I made it. So, here's the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups uncooked brown rice
• 3 sticks imitation crab meat (add another stick if you like more)2
• 1/2 package of firm tofu
• garlic salt
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons mirin
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1  1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

1. Cook the brown rice how you would normally cook it. I soaked the rice in water for 1 hr, then drained the water. Then, I added 3 and half cups of water and cooked it in the rice cooker. 
2. In the meantime, cut the tofu into small cubes and then season the tofu with garlic salt. Preheat the oven to 400 F.  Bake it for 20-30 minutes.
3. Once the rice is done cooking, mix together the vinegar, mirin, sugar and salt in a small bowl. Then, pour it into the rice and mix. 
4. Cut up the imitation crab meat and mix it in with the rice. 
5. Then, mix in the tofu. 
6. You can add avocado, if you want, but I didn't have any on hand. 
7. Enjoy. :)

I hope you guys enjoy this recipe. :)

On another note. I can't wait for school to start. A new chapter of my life. Oh. College. 

So, what's your favorite type of sushi?
Do you prefer certain types of ethnic food?
Do you guys have any tips for college?

Victorian Sponge Cake and my day today

Hello everyone. How are you guys doing today? I'm doing pretty good, actually. I had a fun day today. I'll talk about my day later in the post. But, for right now, I have to tell you guys about the Victorian Sponge Cake I baked yesterday.
The cake is absolutely delicious. I received the recipe a long time ago last October, when British exchange students came to stay with some of my classmates. They gave me the recipe, but I never got to baking it until yesterday. Here's the handwritten recipe they wrote:

I thought that British handwriting would be different, but I guess it looks the same.

Anyway, that's the recipe they gave me. However, I did have to research it a little bit. As it turns out, it is self rising flour that is needed. If you don't have self-rising flour, you can add some baking powder to the flour. Just search online on how to make self-rising flour. I also added vanilla extract to add a bit more flavor. I didn't add any strawberry preserves or whipped cream, but I know that it would have tasted amazing if I had added it. Unfortunately, I didn't have any at home. I will remember to buy those the next time I bake this cake. It's still a very good cake. Enjoy. :)

Ingredients:

• 4 oz self rising flour (1/2 cup)
• 4 oz sugar (1/2 cup)
• 4 oz butter (1/2 cup, I know. A lot of butter.)
• 1 tsp baking powder (if you are using regular flour. Add baking powder to regular flour.)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• strawberry preserves
• whipped cream
• powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 
2. Grease a cake pan ( a very small one).
3. In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. 
4. Mix in the eggs. 
5. Add in the vanilla extract. 
6. Mix in the flour really well. 
7. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 20 minutes. Use a toothpick to test if the cake is done. 
8. Wait until the cake cools. Cut the cake in half (horizontally) so that you can make a cake sandwich. Put strawberry preserves on one side of the cake and whipped cream on the other. Then, put it back together like a sandwich. 
9. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top and serve. 
10. Enjoy. 

So, I had a fun time today. It was a hot day though. I rode the lightrail with my cousin, met some random people while on the lightrail, bought my textbooks at the university and ate some yummy food. 

Well, in the morning, I was really hungry. I went to my cousin's place, but I hadn't had breakfast yet. So, we walked by a gas station, which was close to the lightrail station and I bought myself a Chocolate Chip Clif Bar. It costed twice as much as buying it from my local supermarket, but I was hungry. It was delicious though. We met a random person on the way there and that person kept talking to me and my cousin. That person was pretty nice though. Talked to us as if they've known us for a long time. Finally, we arrived where we were suppose to go and by then, it was lunch time. 

For lunch, we ate at a burrito place at the university. It was actually decent. It also came with chips and salsa. I ordered the veggie burrito. It tastes a lot better than the veggie burrito I bought at a different Hispanic place I talked about in June. 

We got our textbooks after and then we walked around for a bit. Then, we went back to my cousin's place, picked up my other cousin and went to get some froyo since it was a hot day! The froyo was delicious. I got toffee froyo, peanut butter froyo and milk chocolate froyo. You have to love self serve froyo. For the toppings, I got  sprinkles (my fav!), dark chocolate chips (my MOST fav), yogurt chips (I wanted to try it) and one chocolate covered pretzel ( I didn't want to overdo on the calories). All of it was delicious! 

So, I guess that's basically it. 

I really want to make horchata and naan. I will be able to sooner or later, once I get the ingredients. I'll post the recipe once I get it right. 

So, do you guys like froyo? Or do you guys like regular old plain ice cream? 

Have you guys had any weird experience while using public transit?