day 48: chocolate explosion
I got so many comments from you guys on my willpower over the weekend. I guess it’s easy when you’re in a room full of people to hold you accountable. If I were alone with a tray of lasagna and breaded chicken, I think I’d be telling a different story.
I’ve been known to binge eat when I’m by myself. It’s a terrible cycle of: binge on sugar, feel euphoric, crash, feel like shit, get pissed at myself, repeat. I haven’t done this since I first started on my Bikini Birthday quest and I’m really pleased with myself. That, to me, is willpower.
I was, I must admit, having terrible cravings for something sweet last night so I whipped up some chocolate pudding. Don’t worry, the mix of ingredients is entirely acceptable for my green smoothie weekends.
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 frozen banana
- 1/2 avocado
- 2 tbsp almond milk
- 2 tbsp dutch cocoa powder
- hemp seeds
Directions
Blend the banana, avocado, almond milk, and cocoa in a blender until creamy. Sprinkle with hemp seeds. Drizzle with honey if desired. It tastes better than instant pudding and it’s faster, I swear!
Usually I make this recipe with a banana that’s not frozen and it’s easier to blend.
Warning! If you do use a frozen banana, be sure to keep the lid on the blender. If you don’t want to keep the lid on the blender, then at the very least don’t put your face over the blender while it’s on. The blender contents may explode in your face!
I had just taken a shower (hence my wet hair) and wasn’t keen on washing it again to get the chocolate out. Naturally I was still picking out chunks of chocolate from my hair today at work!
I promised to mention my baking adventures on the weekend. This weekend I made English Muffins for the very first time! It was another recipe from the BBA Challenge. They weren’t as flat as store bought ones, but everyone said they were delicious. I had a bite of Matt’s (for quality control purposes, of course) and thought they were great! Get ready for the photos (I take pictures of my bread like it’s my first-born child)
Tonight Matt and I had cabbage soup for dinner. I love cabbage, but I hate how big it is! We made a huge pot of soup and only used about 1/4 cabbage. I have a feeling I’ll be eating cabbage all. week. long. (Lord help the people around me!). Luckily Wednesday is St. Patty’s so it’s a good excuse to have extra cabbage lying around. I’m thinking about making colcannon. Are you making anything special for St. Patrick’s Day?
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I’m just making extra $ St.Patty’s day as drunks love french fries which I sell.
LOL I would have had the smoothie explode in my face too! And your English muffins look amazing…I never thought of making them from scratch! I made truffles for St. Patty’s Day (very unhealthy) but also green spinach pancakes, which are like pancake green monsters
YUM!
I agree! I never buy cabbage because I can never use it all! But I love all things cabbage. I’ve been wanting to try that chocolate avocado pudding for too long, I need to get on it!!
Wow! that chocolate explosion pudding looks amazingly creamy and delicious! Mmmm. I think it will taste out of this world with an extra handful of chocolate chips or some chopped nuts or even a few Medjool dates to top it off!
Your English muffins look fab!
My favourite thing to do with cabbage (aside from coleslaw) is to char it in a cast iron pan with lardons or diced bacon. Or you could do it without the bacon. Either way…yum.
omg i want to make english muffins! lol about the blender, something i would totally do
St. Patricks Day is not really celebrated in Finland, so a normal day for me on Wednesday
maybe some Irish pub have something going on.
I love cabbage, especially red! it goes so well in salads
That smoothie looks like your best to date!! Nothing special for St. Patty’s, I’ll be on a plane!!
homemade english muffins! thats so cool! I didn’t even know you could make those so easily!!
mmm chocolate explosion looks SO good!!
mmm that pudding looks really good. I love how the avocado makes it so creamy!
Chocolate explosion sounds and looks delicious!! Like the Jello pudding I used to love.
I love that your pudding is still smoothie-friendly. And congrats on quitting the binging–that IS willpower. As for the pudding in your hair, did you eat it? jk.
Hahaha, that explosion has happened to me one too many times!! The pudding looks amazing though! I love how simple the ingredient list is!
And I just love cabbage. I’ll be making corned beef and cabbage and other Irish goodies for tomorrow.
Lastly, I can’t believe how great your english muffins turned out! They look perfect!
Haha, that picture of the blender explosion made me crack up! I’ve definitely done that before
Your English Muffins definitely look like the real thing – wow. I’m coming over for some of those
I’m not making anything for St. Paddy’s day because I’m working late, but I think Peter’s making soup … ? I guess it’ll be a surprise.
I have to try this pudding! It’s all over the blog world. No special St. Patty’s day plans for me.
omg!!! u are too freaking cute!!!! Woops with the blender!!! lol!!! Yeah I have done that before to , explosion of a green monster once!!! Well the pudding looks amazing, it looks hot on u too!!!!
The Clif Mojo Peanutbutter pretzel bars are amazing!!!! U should try one!!! xoxoxo
OMG, I have to try that chocolate amazingness…as soon as I can eat bananas again! Wow!!!!
Ha ha – totally been there with the blender explosions! I’ve wiped pink smoothie from my ceiling, and then there was the chia seed incident. I still find those little suckers stuck to my cabinets in random places.
Never had homemade English muffins, but yours look so puffy and delicious. Yum!
Yummm almost the same exact recipe! I definitely want to add things like chia + hemp seeds but was avoiding it for now with Jake since he’s only 1. But the next time I make it I will definitely incorporate more!