Random Eats

I know I'm official behind on Vegan MoFo but man retail is kicking me so hard in the butt. That it physical feels like I go home eat shower sleep and repeat over and over. I haven't had a single day off in almost now two weeks. 

However I have captured a little bit of my food during the past few weeks plus I have found some new favorites at Whole Foods down the street from my house and work. Well I guess I should show you some food huh? 

First new item I found that I like is Whole Foods Organic Orange Strawberry Banana Juice.  Me and My boyfriend are so totally in love with this juice.

Second item I found was this juice called evolution it's so delicious. It's sold at Whole Foods and Starbucks; Starbucks happens to own Evolution juice products now.  I buy mine at Whole foods because they are 3 dollars cheaper than Starbucks. 

I have found other things that I love and that are favorites but some of them are for the next post. Maybe it's a fake meat or maybe it's a dessert would knows.

Take a guess...

Awesome Weekend

Oops. It's been two days since the last post and part of my MoFo theme was to blog each day of the month no matter what. Will, I guess I could make it up later and create two other posts about something random later in the month. I have been really doing nothing this weekend but just relaxing, and enjoying my time off before I start working.If you follow my Instagram you would have seen that I post a half of vegan pumpkin pie to celebrate my new job but that wasn't all I got. 

Now on to the pictures, I apologize but they are from my iPhone... 

Yes I love zombie games, plus I'm on Xbox Live too.

Blueberry Muffins enuff said

Surpise from my boyfriend for getting a job.

My celebration "cake".

I'll be back on Monday with a normal post for now I'll be playing RE:6 and reading MoFo posts.

Do you play any video game systems yourself?

You Deserve Some Chocolate

The past few days I have been really stressing that I had an interview coming up, which was very important to me. Simply because it was my second interview in the past year that I became unemployed, so I wanted a job badly before my next birthday. So there was alot of stress for me trying to get someone or a company to hire me within less than 66 days or so.  That hard work plus lot of time, really paid off yesterday; I got a part time job. I'm happy as can be even though it's not my dream job, it's a job I get to work with people face to face everyday which is nice.

So since I got myself a job, I decided that I deserved a treat. So I made myself a chocolate milkshake with banana and sweet cacao nibs in it. It was a perfect treat to fill that reward that I deserved. Now I did record the recipe below can be adjusted to fit your needs.

Chocolate Milkshake w/ Sweet Cocoa Nibs

• 1/2 cup Trader Joe's Chocolate Coconut Ice Cream
• 1 cup So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut Milk
• 1 Medium Size Banana
•  Handful of Nativa's Naturals Organic Raw Sweet Cacao Nibs
• 1 tsp of Fresh Ground Peanut Butter (optional)

For this recipe all you really need is a single serving size blender and a spoon. I basically add only a little coconut ice cream but next time will add more for more of a thick milkshake recipe. This recipe gives you a milkshake that's in between. 

1. So get your single serving size blender cup put in the ice cream at the bottom.

2. Then peel the banana and break into chunks, after that is done then put banana in the cup.

3. Put coconut milk into the blender cup

Before blend.

4. Put any peanut or nut butter in it (optional)

5. Sprinkle a handful of sweet cacao nibs and blend for 30 seconds.

After Blend

I feel this milkshake was well deserved after the hard work look for a job, I can't wait to actually start. However this isn't the really celebration that I have a job, my friends want to celebrate this weekend that I got a job.

Do you have any tips on making a milkshake?
What's your treat for when you accomplish something? 

Vegan MoFo Wordless Wednesday

Today I'm busy getting ready for my interview plus having my interview so I'm going to leave you with a few pictures of food porn.. Maybe I might post later or not, we will see.

Smoothie Tuesday

I'm really spacing out today so for today I'm going to give you my favorite smoothie recipe in the morning that is really quick and easy. I was going to write up a long post but I'm nervous about my job interview tomorrow; lets just say it's my second interview in a year. I'm so freaked out but excited and oh so so nervous; so I'm not focusing very well today due to the nerves.

So on to the recipe, it's fairly simple you can change out the plant based milk to almond or even oat. Even the fruits can be switched out too, in this recipe I used strawberries and banana's that's what I had in my kitchen. Also fresh ground peanut butter is preferred in the recipe but I was out so I used jarred. On to the recipe:

Strawberry & Banana Coconut Smoothie:

• One Medium Size Banana
• About 5 Strawberries ( 1/2 cup - 1 cup depending on how strawberries you want)
• 2 tbsp of ground flax seed
• 1 cup of Unsweetened Coconut Milk
• A pinch of green powder
• 8 Ice Cubes
• 1 tbsp Peanut or Almond Butter (Fresh Ground) Optional

Smoothie before the milk is add in & it's been blend.

I basically throw it all in a single serving size blender like the bullet but mine's not the bullet though. So I put my smoothie in the blender cup in this order: ice cubes, banana, strawberries, flax seed, green powder and then the cup of coconut milk then the nut butter if I want it.  Then you just blend together until it's smooth or to the texture you want it to be.  

I didn't get a picture of a the finished product, I was way to hungry this morning and well it disappeared before I got my camera out.  However instant of the finished product, I'm to give leave you with a picture of my favorite cat right now; he's not mine I wish he was though.

 He's in a animal shelter here in Houston called CAP ( Citizens For Animal Protection), he was given to that shelter from another shelter in Houston for a second chance. His name is Snicker's he's declawed and a sweetheart, I would know I got to hang out and play with him in a room for an hour. I'm sad that I couldn't adopted him, because he's been going from one shelter to another shelter. 

Have you ever come across animal that you want to adopt but couldn't?

Leave a comment Below.

Plan + Attack = Vegan MoFo

It's been a few days however I'm prepping for Vegan Mofo, it's my first year and I want to make it a good one. I am going to apologize in advance for couple things I may not be able to respond to comments right away due to job hunting and interviews. I'm really focused on trying to get a job at least two months before my next birthday, so I'm really focused. 

If you want to a sneak peak at what I'm doing for Vegan MoFo head over to Instagram and look up me @southernpurplevegan, feel free to look at any of my other pictures. All Vegan MoFo pictures will have the hashtag #veganmofo.

Exciting News

Hello everyone, it’s been over a week since blogging. I do apologize, I actually have some posts that I was/am going to write up but life got in the way. I’m not going to give a long excuse why I didn’t blog; I just got busy and forgot. It happens everyone is human, with that being said. I am actually going to start going something creatively fun on Etsy which was a recommendation from a friend of mine who I used to work with; plus my boyfriend thinks it’s a good idea too.

I’m not sure what I am going to do on Etsy yet, all I know is that I’m thinking of doing something with my photography that I have stored on my computer. I’m thinking some modern yet arty like jewelry with my pictures, or even making my pictures into homemade cards or postcards. I have lots of ideas but none are solid ideas yet. As you can see I have a lot of thinking to do; besides the Etsy excitement I have a lot of stuff to write up.

Some of the things that I have to write up is the September Vegan Conscious Box, a review of California Pizza Kitchen and some personal recipes plus a few movie reviews. So as you can tell I have some fun stuff planned to be posted soon than later, hopefully before the month ends. Oh the last thing is I have joined this year’s vegan MoFo, which I am so excited for; my first year on MoFo. Of course I kind of have a theme it’s evolved around recipes I have pinned on pinterest plus cooking from a cookbook.

If you want to take part of Vegan MoFo you need to sign up before the 26th of this month to be included, I have linked the sign up sheet below if you want to join.

Sign Up Sheet For Vegan MoFo

Question of the day:

Have you done Vegan MoFo before and what was your theme?