You know you eat too many a lot of bananas when you start just finding them randomly around your house. It was half a banana to be exact, just chilling on the floor. I don’t know how it got there. Somewhere between the case of bananas by the window and my peeling-freezing-bagging station in the kitchen I must have dropped it. So many bananas I didn’t even notice. So many bananas that it wasn’t even missed. The main thing I’m wondering is what happened to the other half??
This case of bananas that I am currently eating my way through were on their way to the grocery store garbage because they were “too spotty” to sell. Too spotty? They were the baby dalmatian of bananas–just a few spots kinda sorta maybe starting to peek through. I really don’t understand what is so ugly about spotty bananas that they will just ruin the produce section aesthetic. Craziness.
But I’m happy to save the from their trash can fate! If only the ripe banana-haters could see those beautiful bananas now in all their creamy nicecream glory.
Banana rant over, onto the point of this post: a very nicecream-heavy what I eat in a day…
Featured in the video:
Vegan Cheese Broccoli Soup from Vegan Does It. This soup is amazing. I’m on my third batch in two weeks!
Oat Rawnola. The best easy healthy nicecream topping.
The gluten-free flatbread recipe still needs some tweaking, but hopefully coming soon!
Have you ever asked for the unwanted produce at your grocery store?
Do you know that I might run to the grocery store today…just to get some ripe bananas…..obviously there are ZERO in my possession…but I need them for….something 😛
(I’ve found an old “room-dried” grape tomato in my room that must have “fell” and I almost lost a Brussels sprout yesterday by my desk…but I found it!! Thank god…that would have smelled!)
Something!?! That sounds like something I’m gonna like!! You were just using your room as a dehydrator for the tomato that’s all 😉 And yeah aged brussels sprout would’ve been nasty! Glad I’m not the only one with the produce mis placing problem hahaha!
Living in FL must be wonderful. I’d have to eat that soup all day long to stay warm here in Chicago. Great video, Natalie!
I certainly am lucky down here. It’s still been in the 30-40s here, but nothing compared to how crazy cold you must be! I was still freezing after eating that nicecream, but that’s what I have a space heater for 🙂
Spotty bananas are the BEST!! I purposely buy more bananas than I know we will eat in a week just so when they turn brown I can slice them up and freeze them for smoothies and nice cream! That is pretty funny that you found HALF of one on the floor. I think you have banana their running around your house. 🙂
So smart, you never know when you might need a banana! Sudden onset banana bread and smoothie cravings happen haha 😀 Well if there is a banana thief, they have come to the right place!
I love your video, Natalie! 🙂 This all looks so delicious! You’re so lucky to live in Florida and be able to have nice cream without being cold for the rest of the day. 😉 I was there in December and I wish I could just hop on a plane and go back. We only have about 25 degrees here. And unfortunately that’s in Fahrenheit not Celsius. 😀
Yikes 25F sounds freezing to me! I suppose I shouldn’t be complaining over here when it’s in the 40s haha 😀 I still get chilly after nicecream though, but fuzzy socks and space heaters make it work. You were in Florida?? What part? How did I not know that 😮
I still have to laugh at all the people who are afraid of spotty bananas! Madness. My uncle only eats green bananas even after I’ve told him a gazillion times that the riper the banana, the easier it is for your body to digest..Have you ever had a green banana? YUCK. Anyways 😉 Everything looked SO yummy! Watching the chocolate-y goodness stacked high made me want to run and make another bowl this morning! Willow obviously approved of your lunch, especially when you showed the bag of chocolate chips. We’re making that soup on Saturday and I absolutely can’t wait!!! Looks so creamy and cheesy!
Confession: I actually used to like my bananas green too! 😮 I can’t believe it now looking back, they taste terrible to me now. My dad is the same way, I keep telling him to let them ripen but he never listens. Oh well, their problem when their digestion is all messed up. I guess not everyone is as highly in tune with their digestive system as we are hahaha 😀 Obviously this was from last week, so watching that nice cream while editing and trying to avoid chocolate for a while was rough. So puppies and chocolate chips, those are Willow’s two favorite things to see in a video huh? lol I hope you love the soup. Actually I know you’ll love the soup it’s delicious! Thank you for watching Mandy <3
Oh! and I can’t wait for the flatbread recipe!!!!
It all looks great! Especially the broccoli soup and chocolate nicecream!
My favorite parts too 🙂 Thanks for watching Tiffany!
I’m always finding banana peels around the house from my husband, it’s SO annoying, he can never just throw them away! That chocolate ice cream looked amazing and creamy and piled high and of course my favorite part was when you added all the chocolate chips, lol! The broccoli soup looks delicious. I’ve been making a version of my fat-free cheese sauce with broccoli and brother to water it down. I’ll have to check out that version! Everything looks delish!
Hahaha that would be annoying. There is something about banana peels that actually weirds me out, which is surprising with how many bananas I peel. I loved the tower of chocolate too, mmmm chocolate in abundance <3 The soup is really similar to your cheese sauce, just with carrots instead of zucchini and not as many flavorings. I bet your cheese sauce over broccoli would be incredible! Maybe I'll try that next!
Wow that looked super delicious!! I still can’t get myself to eat something sweet for lunch or dinner, it somehow feels wrong to me 😛 I should just go for it and made banana ice cream one day for lunch! That soup also looks so yummy and comforting 😀
I actually can’t get myself to eat something savory for lunch, so we have opposite problems haha 😀 I guess it’s all about habit!
So much fruity goodness! Bananas can never be too spotty to be enjoyed, they are the best that way!
I agree 100%, never too ripe to do something with them! Thanks Rachel 🙂
(N)Ice Cream for lunch sounds too good to be true.. but there’s no reason why not when it’s really THAT good for the body 🙂 Love your what-i-eat-in-a-days – they are always so inspiring and your videos are so pleasing for the eyes. I finally made granola this week for the first time ever and next up is your rawnola 🙂
Haha yeah ice cream for breakfast and lunch does sound too good to be true. Can you imagine growing up as a vegan kid with nice cream in you life, it would be amazing! Whaaaaat?? You just made granola for the first time? Ever? That’s crazy but exciting! Do you love it? And thank you for always watching Bianca <3
I would have been the happiest kid munching nana ice cream 😀 Now… I’m the happiest adult eating it ..thiiihii. I have no idea why I waited so long to try granola.. it’s so good – my boyfriend and I haven’t even got a chance to eat it with milk (that’s what people do with granola, right? :D) because we were munching the granola by itself. I absolutely love it and I can’t wait to make more and try other flavors as well.
I never put it in milk, idk why i just love it so much dry or as a topping though. But yeah people definitely do. That’s what cereals in a box are for in my opinion…but I’m probably just the odd one out haha. You should try it you might really like it! And maybe we’ll see a granola recipe from you soon?? 🙂
Oh my gosh, that half banana… 😀
And those spotty clearance bananas — I HUNT for them, and sometimes bring home like 30-40 bunches at a time for freezing…. I can never believe people sell them because of those couple of spots.
That soup from Melissa is so good — love it.
And I’ve been working on a flat bread recipe too! haha. I don’t think mine will be ready any time soon. I ended up with more savory pancakes than anything else. I know it will work well with oats, but since I get a bit of wrath every time I share oaty things I’ve been struggling to come up with a simple recipe without. Can’t wait to see (and try 😉 ) yours!
Spot phobia, what’s up with that? I don’t blame you for searching for them, it’s a win win situation for us crazy fruit munchers and the store. Great minds think alike 😀 Flatbread is a tough one, but something I’ve really wanted for a while. Savory pancakes sound good too, at least you have yummy trials to enjoy. My recipe actually isn’t oat based either. I have the opposite problem, people don’t like it when I don’t use oats but oh well. People just don’t like change of flours I think. Mine is still in the works, the dough is great but not as soft as i want after cooking. They might become crackers instead. We’ll see. Can’t wait for yours too, it will fun to see how we take one concept in two totally different directions 🙂
Oh, no oats?! Even more interested now 🙂 And yes, it’ll be fun to see the final products! Not you’re making me put mine ahead of the queue so we can do some cross taste-testing 😉
But yeah, people totally don’t like a change of flour, and moreover I’m discovering that my most vocal readers are all Aussies and oats are not considered gf over there… so it’s an issue. I have some good oaty breads I wish I could share but at this point I feel I want to wait until I come up with oatless alternatives first… so my breads will have to wait.
I’m up for that! A flatbread swap 🙂 Interesting that oats aren’t GF over there. Well now I really want you to get your oatless one down so we can see all the oaty ones too! But smart to do oatless first, so then if anyone complains you can just send them there 🙂
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OK, I had to laugh about the half a banana chilling on the floor because yeah that’s happened here! Although it was because one of the kid’s set it down while playing and then forgot about it, haha. That chocolate nice cream! Yum, I could look at that all day although I’d much rather eat it ? Thank you so much for including my soup too! It makes me so ridiculously giddy like you enjoy it as much as I do!
Yes see the banana thing would make so much more sense if I had kids around. Or at least I could blame them haha 😀 And my obsession with your soup is a little crazy! Just when I saw you post it on IG yesterday I wanted it all over again! Love it, definitely a new winter staple for me <3
Okay now I want to run to the grocery and ask for all their overripe produce! That’s so cool that you get a lot of your bananas that way.
You’re making me hungry with your amazing pictures and video! You are a wizard of graphic design. HOW do you do it!? And your logo is super cool (and so fitting).
Have a great day!
xx Ellie
You should! It took me forever to actually feel comfortable asking, but it’s worth it if you eat lots of fruit. They are just going to be thrown out otherwise…do it for the bananas haha 😀 And I do all my graphic design in Adobe Illustrator, I love doing it! It’s my other favorite creative outlet next to baking <3
I loved reading this post! Loving your videos also…I need to try rawnola!
Thanks Anjali!