Pretzel Bagel
You gotta get in on this!
A colleague of mine brought a box of bagels from Einstein Bros. Bagels to work this morning to raise money for her Relay for Life team. Put doughy bagels for a great cause in front of my face and I’ll glady fork over $10!
I snagged a freshly baked pretzel bagel and smeared it with honey almond cream cheese to help me power through a boatload of work today.
Schmear!
Our typical writing team includes four writers and with two out of the office (one sick, one on vacation) I was quite innundated with assignments. Gotta pick up the slack!
Though I thought the bagel would give me fuel, it unfortunately left me feeling sleepy. I figured a nutritious smoothie would serve as a great pick-me-up, so I headed home for lunch today to bust out my blender and spend some time with Sadie in our backyard in the warm sun.
Blend, Baby, Blend
I tried to make myself a vanilla-based smoothie, but after swiping a taste from the blender, I added a few scoops of cocoa powder because chocolate is just better than vanilla.
Chocolate Lovah!
In my lunchtime smoothie:
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
- 1 1/4 c. almond milk
- 1 c. frozen strawberries
- 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 handful fresh spinach
- 2 pinches xanthan gum
Slurp!
I enjoyed my smoothie bowl while playing with this nut job.
"You Should Come Home For Lunch, EVERY Day!"
She’s so joyful. I can’t help but smile around my lil’ pup!
Less than three hours of the work day remain! I am both excited and sad about my plans for the evening. I’m meeting up with some of my girlfriends tonight (yay!)… but we’re meeting up for a final goodbye dinner for our friend Merri who is moving to New York on Monday. Goodbyes are tough.
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Yum! I love me some sweet and salty, so I would put some jam on my pretzel bagel! I actually just talked about sweet and salty in my last post, haha!
I’m going to the store tomorrow and protein powder is on my list! I want to start making some smoothies 🙂
I LOVE the honey almond schmear from Einsteins! That + a cinnamon sugar baegel is my weakness…
Could Sadie get any cuter?
And I love soft pretzels, so that bagel looks delicious… plus how can you say no when it’s for such a good cause?
Oo I love Einstein Bros Bagels. I didn’t know they had a pretzel one! I’ll have to stop on my way home 🙂
Well let’s see here. I love carbs and pretzels and bagels are two of my favorites. So pretty sure this bagel would ROCK MY WORLD! I know NYC is all “bagel city” or whatever, but I miss Einstein Bagels. It reminds me of college -I went to school in a very college-town with very few chain-like restaurants. Einstein was one of them, and I lived for it!
I’m so sorry you have to say goodbye to your friend Merri, but you have to come to NYC to visit her. I think you should have a blogger meet up, because I’ll bet hundreds of NYC bloggers want to meet you.
Oh and also, if I made smoothies like yours, I’d totally hop on the subway and try to go home on my lunch breaks. They look that delicious 🙂
I second the NYC blogger meet up (plus our bagels ARE awesome).
Sounds like a good Friday so far – It’s neat that your smoothie infactuation is contagious! I dove into a carrot cake smoothie for dinner last night…smoothies are the new spaghetti 😉
I’m so jealous you live close enough to your work that you can go home for lunch! I would LOVE a smoothie for lunch! Darn commute…
the restaurant where I worked as a college student on summer vacay had pretzel ROLLS as their dinner rolls.
it’s safe to say I consumed a whoooole lotta carbs in the summer of 2009.
Chocolate always trumps vanilla. No contest.
Honey almond cream cheese? Holy deliciousness. My fave is strawberry cream cheese on a toasty cinnamon raisin bagel. Yes, please.
Pretzel bagel? So excited.
Suzanne
I love Einstein Bagels! There is actually one not too far from my house. I had no clue that they had pretzel bagels!! That looks delicious!!!! 🙂 Honey almond cream cheese sounds good! They have a really good strawberry cream cheese there.
Mmmmm pretzel bagels sound like a dream! Yum!
Yay!! Can’t believe I won. I can finally try love grown. Mailed you my info!
And that pretzel bagel.. yea.. looks great! I’ve seen them a few times in blog world.. and definitely want to try them ASAP!
awww haha Sadie will be disappointed when you don’t come for lunch. so adorable!! congrats to Cait for winnin’!
I also love running home at lunch to make smoothies! I’ve done it a couple of times and always bring it back to work in an opaque cup of some sort so my co workers don’t ask about the green lol! The bagel looks awesome!
Vanilla could never stack up to chocolate. That pretzel bagel looks delicious, I’ll need to try one of those. 🙂
I love bagels and I love pretzels — but neither of them really do a good job of filling me up.
Ahh I agree chocolate is soo much better… pretzel bagels sound interesting but im open to try it!
I have got to get on this pretzel bagel. I love, love, love turkey sandwiches on pretzel buns so I have no doubt this would be equally amazing!
Never tried pretzel bagels, but we get pretzels rolls all the time from a local bakery. They are amazing as garlic bread or buns for turkey burgers. Or I just eat them as soon as I get home from the bakery!
Now I have a craving for bagels and just ran out of my bagel thins.
Ooooh, I need to try those pretzel bagels. Sounds delicious! It’s almost the weekend – you’re so close to being able to work on your crafty projects! 🙂
Chocolate IS so much better! We may as well write “his” and “hers” on our two tubs of whey protein – I very rarely use the vanilla and the husband rarely goes with the chocolate. 🙂
Pretzel bagels look a-MAZING!! I must find the einstein brothers and buy them. 🙂 And then slather it with peanut butter.
how’d you get your hair to look like that?? a curling iron?
Yep! There’s a tutorial on my Favs page.
Einsteins here i come that is so awesome i have heard of pretzel bread loafs(=delicious) but not bagels
I love pretzel bagels. SO delish!
OMG I’ve never heard of one before! I want to try them. Also, I just melted a piece of swiss cheese on raisin bread and thought of you : )
looks delicious!!! way better than my boring, bland cereal i had this morning. yawn.
im not sure whats more impressive.. the fact that you got ur hands on a pretzel bagel or the fact that you had 995 entries for the giveaway!!!!!
Man, that must’ve been stressful with so many of your team out of the office. I hope you have a fantastic time at the farewell party… don’t be sad… b/c just think, you have a HUGE excuse to visit NYC, now!
Hmm I’ve never had a pretzel bagel either! But it does sound delicious! But I LOVE the honey almond cream cheese! I have it on a whole wheat bagel thin almost every Saturday as a weekend treat! And all of your smoothies are making me crave one too! The only thing I’m usually missing is the xantham gum… how much thicker does that really make it?
And I’m glad tonight will be so fun but I’m sorry that it’s bittersweet… my best friend is moving to DC soon (I’m in SF) so I’ll be right there with you! 🙁
That bagel looks AMAZING!!! 😀 Hope you have a nice weekend after working so hard this week!
Awww, I love the look on your puppers face! Cute!
I recently stared my “big girl job” and there is so much unhealthy food around. Props to you for eating healthy and staying true to your fitness routine. The transition have been tough for me. I woke up once at 5 a.m. to work out and by 2:30 p.m. I was ready to take a nap under my desk, lol.
Pshhh chocolate ain’t got nothing compared to vanilla! It’s funny cos I can eat chocolate like it’s my job yet when it comes to ice cream, milkshakes, or cake I’m definitely more of a vanilla girl!
Same here! Bring on the vanilla 🙂
I love pretzel bread, so that pretzel bagel looks so good! I will have to try one soon!
I love pretzels and I love bagels. Now something tells me I need to buy some pretzel bagels! 😉
Have a great weekend!
You’re lucky you can go home for lunch if you want. I live so far from work my whole lunch hour could be spent just driving.
Hope you had a fun girls’ night last night!
Pretzel bagels are the best!