Don't knock it 'til you try it. (Knock knock)

Thanks ladies for your responses yesterday to my bumpy skin frustration. I'm going to continue with my tea experiment but also pay way more attention to exactly what foods I'm putting in my mouth. I've gotten a little careless lately since that bake sale last weekend, so maybe cutting way back on sugar and focusing on whole foods will help. My facialist did say that it looked like something external was causing the tiny bumps, like a make up or lotion, so maybe I'll hit up the dermatologist again and see what she thinks. Ok...so maybe this Get Gorgeous challenge won't be totally accurate since I'll be changing a thousand other things, but it can't hurt, right?!

This week I tried one of these Jocalat bars for the first time. I'm a huge Larabar fan and an even huge-r chocolate fan so I thought I couldn't go wrong, but I'm sorry...this was way wrong. Was it the mint? Did I chose a sucky flavor? I totally chose the sucky flavor, didn't I? I know a lot of you love these things. Tell me what went wrong!!!

And speaking of all things mintchocolatey, I went all Alicia Silverstone today and bought one of these Rice Dream Mint Pies from Whole Foods. If you read The Kind Diet you know our girl is all over these like white on rice (well... brown on rice in this case). This is a totally vegan novelty dessert that has Mint Dream rice-based ice cream in between two oatmeal cookies and dipped in chocolate. Hello?! Yum, right?! But again, I was somehow inexplicably not lovin' it. Maybe it was because I had to eat it while wrapped in blankets due to the fact that it's 24* outside, or because I couldn't come to terms with the fact that I was eating a quarter of my daily calories in this little ice cream sandwich. But I know that it was good, and I'm sure I'll be hopping on the Mint Pie bandwagon as soon as it gets hot outside. I can just imagine enjoying this creamy cold treat while soaking by my (inflatable kiddie) pool this summer. Mmmm. Bliss.

And now for something seasonally appropriate and unbelievably delicious. I have only had split pea soup a few times in my life and nearly forgot that it existed until I saw a can of Amy's Split Pea Soup at the grocery store. I took it home and finished the can in under an hour, paired with a salad and a better mood. This soup is healthful, flavorful, totally vegan, and will completely warm you up on these ungodly February evenings. AWESOME.

Other things I tried this weekend with varying degrees of success:

• Kundalini Yoga.
• Hanging out with boys from high school who I haven't seen since graduation.
• Cleaning my room.
• Not drinking.
• Old Fashioned Lentil Loaf (pics to come).
• Being nice to my dad.

Tomorrow: A new Bikram yoga studio! What new things have you tried lately?