Weigh-in stats, Garbonzo Bean Brownies and this weeks best coupon victory!

This was an AWESOME weekend for food and movies and other stuff!

We found an awesome recipe online by Clean Eating Machines that makes brownies out of Chick Peas...SERIOUSLY! and it works!! It cuts almost all the worrisome stats in half (calories, fat, sodium, etc) compared to a regular coffee shop brownie. We take no credit for the recipe but are going to play around with it a bit. For sweetener we used 1/3 cup of Splenda instead of Agave Juice or Syrup (Splenda liquefies when heated so it works well). This texture is a little more like a moist cake than a fudge-y brownie but honestly....they were good enough that I can def eat it in a chocolate craving crunch and be more than satisfied! Super easy , cheap and quick to make and bake...give it a try!!

Weigh ins went AMAZING this week!
Between me almost giving up my Iced Coffees all together, along with dumping my relationship with chocolate chips and keeping up with most of my walking...I lost...drumroll......1.1 KG (2.5 pounds) this week! That puts me at 227.5 and Kal had another big loss...1.6 KGS (3.5 lbs)!!!! Honestly..we were both really surprised. We have been eating super clean during the week, indulging a little on weekends and planning our meals more. We decide what we want to eat during the week, make a list and grocery shop together on Sundays. Its been saving us some $$ too I'm sure.

CONFESSIONS from this weekend: Kal and I shared half a box of snack crackers, split a McDonalds ice cream cone, and shared a Kit Kat chunky. We had pizza night on Friday and had a 10" baked panzerotti each. There were no samples at the grocery store except for fruit...which just led to us buying more fruit lol so that worked out. We tried a London-licious participating restaurant called Marienbad that serves Eastern European food and it was really good. We really wanted to try some new dishes. We tried Goulash soup which was DELICIOUS! Best soup/stew I have had in a really long time...Not really a confession but the cheesecake for dessert (me) and Chocolate Truffle cake (Kal) sure does count!!! lol

Best coupon victory this week was on ..........MAKE-UP!!
Mascara, lipstick and a few other cover girl products were on for 2/$9 ($4.50 compared to $6.99-9.99 each). Then I broke out the coupon I got online ($3 off when purchasing any 2 covergirl products) and BAM I got 2 name brand make-ups for $3 each!!! ROCK ON! I signed up for the P&G brandsaver program and it was like a week later I got 4 whole pages of coupons for things that regular people actually use lol. Its been pretty great.

Ok novel is over lol. Talk soon.
Amanda

Kal Quote of the Day: "Empty it? Why? The dishwasher is just another cupboard "
Maybe you had to be there, but it was hilarious.