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I could not get enough to eat today.

There is something about the day after a long run that leaves me starving all day! I’m not sure if my meals and snacks were too light, but I could just not get full.

Despite my very filling waffle breakfast, my stomach started grumbling around 9:30. I broke into my cantaloupe a little on the early side.

30 minutes later I was hungry again. Cantaloupe is not very filling.

I held off until just before noon then bounded out the door for lunch.

I have been craving sushi for the last couple of weeks, but have been unable to find a good sushi place around my apartment. Yesterday at Publix I caved and bought a combo sushi pack from the sushi counter.

Publix sushi is actually really good. I especially like the fact they offer brown rice sushi.

With my sushi I had left over yuca

And left over asparagus.

When I finished eating I wasn’t full at all, but knew I had ate enough. I went to work and figured my stomach would catch up with my head. That never happened.

I barely survived by 1:30 meeting before breaking into my afternoon snack.

Blueberry Oikos + Glo-Nola.

Again very yummy, but I still wasn’t satisfied.

I left work starving and made myself an early bird special as soon as I got home.

I still had about a cup of pumpkin puree left over from our pumpkin fiesta on Saturday and had been casually googling how I could utilize the last bit in my dinner tonight. After g-chatting with Anne I came up with a winner…

Pumpkin Falafels

This recipe is based off Anne’s brilliant Pancake Mix Falafels that won her the BSI last week. I just made a few tweaks, you can find the original recipe here.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 C whole grain pancake mix
• 1 C garbanzo beans
• 1 C pumpkin puree
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tbsp pumpkin spice
• 1 tsp ground flaxseed
• 1/2 tsp dried coriander
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• juice from 1 lemon

Instructions:

First, preheat oven to 400. Then toss all the ingredients into a food processor and whirl it around until it’s pretty much evenly mixed.

Form the mixture into flattened balls (it should make about 5 or 6) and place on a cooking sheet. Pop in the oven for about 15 minutes.

Mine expanded in the oven, if I were to make this again I would make 8 or 9 smaller smalls instead of the 6 larger ones.

I stuffed two of the Pumpkin Falafels in a Whole Wheat Pita with Tomato, Spinach, Cucumber and Plain Greek Yogurt.

Wow!! These pumpkin falafels came out great! Its a a great fall twist on a classic recipe.

On the side of my falafel pita I had the other 1/2 of my Apple from this morning.

And a side spinach salad topped with cucumber, olives and a greek yogurt dressing.

Dinner was finished before 6:30 and dessert was ate not to long after that. I just can’t seem to gent enough to eat.

Pumpkin Surprise Cookie topped with Pumpkin Ice Cream *swoon*

Now, the kitchen is officially closed. The dishes are done, the lights are out and a hot cup of tea is waiting for me. I am more then ready to call it a night.

Good Night.

For once when my alarm went off at 5:30 this morning I had no desire to get up. I turned the alarm off and figured I would simply rest my eyes for a couple of more minutes before getting up.

45 minutes later Maddie was barking at a shadow in the window and I realized simply resting my eyes just doesn’t cut it. I managed to sleep through any time I had set aside for yoga or strength training. Instead, my body obviously preferred more sleep and I was happy to listen to it.

The extra sleep oddly enough gave me extra time to focus on making a great breakfast courtesy of this little guy.

Isn’t he beautiful?

A reader who I have been e-mailing sporadically back and forth since the start of the blog, offered to send me a fall themed package of Trader Joe goodies last week.

When I received the package and discovered all the pumpkin inspired goodies, I nearly squealed in excitement!!

Thank you Kristen for stocking my cabinets with Trader Joes! You’ve made me the happiest girl on earth!

And Thank You Allison for sneaking your note in as well!

The Pumpkin Pancake and Waffle Mix was of course on my first to try list. I followed the directions on the back of the box to a T in an effort to make the world’s best pumpkin waffles.

While the waffles were heating up in the waffle iron, I heated up a mix of chopped apple. crushed almonds, and pumpkin butter in the microwave as a topping.

Wow! Is all I can say. These waffle was sweet, fluffy and very pumpkiny. I was in pumpkin heaven.

The topping was the perfect pairing with the waffle. The pumpkin butter melted with the mushy apples and thinned out creating a perfect syrup like consistency to coat the waffle with. It was too good for words.

Giveaway Time…

Tired of eggos? Want to be able to produce gorgeous, fluffy waffles of your own at home?

Sadly I don’t have any Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Pancake & Waffle Mix to give away, but I might have the next best thing.

For the past year I’ve taken notice that when ever I post on my morning waffles, I receive several comments from readers wishing they could recreate my morning plate if only they had a waffle iron of their own. Well, guess what? Here is your chance to finally have that wish refilled.

This morning I’ve paired up with CSN Stores to present one lucky Inner Workings… reader with a Chef’s Choice 8300100 – International WafflePro Waffle Iron!

This state of the art waffle maker has the promise to turn out the world’s most delicious waffles in just 90 seconds and usually retails for $49.95!

Other features include-

• Waffle “ready” beeper and light
• Easy clean overflow channel
• Space saving, upright storage
• Recipes included
• One year limited warranty

Ready to win?

Entering is easy. Simply visit CSNStores.com, browse any division of their site including their partnering sites www.allbarstools.com for counter stools or pub tables and www.cookware.com for every piece of cookware unthe sun and find three items you think would make a great addition to your home.

Leave a comment with your three items on this entry by tomorrow morning, when I will select a random winner.

Good Luck!!