Today is Iced Coffee Day at Dunkin’ Donuts! Hooray! 
Stop by your local U.S. Dunkin’ Donuts on Tuesday April 21, 2009 and turn 50¢ into refreshment you can feel good about. You Kin’ Do It. For each small Iced Coffee you buy on Iced Coffee Day, 10% of the purchase price will go to The Dunkin’ Brands Community Foundation to support Homes for Our Troops.
Last year, I was so excited about D&D Iced Coffee Day, I went twice! 
Free Cone Day
Today, Tuesday, April 21st, is also Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s!
Scoop Shops are opening their doors from noon to 8:00 pm to serve a free scoop of your favorite flavor. Wahoo! Isn’t free food the best?!
And, here’s yet another way to get some free food: MixMyGranola Giveaway! Ok, onto breakfast…
Breakfast
I had planned to wake up early and “shred” before work, but I didn’t fall asleep until after 11:00 pm last night, and I’m not sure 6 hours of sleep would have been enough for me. I usually need a solid 8 hours to function well. Plus, I’ve been trying to sleep more since I have started reading this book called Thrive. The author, a vegan Ultra Marathoner, stresses the importance of sleep for recovery from exercise as well as the for the reduction of stress. His thinking behind stress, sleep, and nutrition is so interesting. I’m not even halfway through the book yet, but it has already inspired me to be kinder to my body!
Ok, let’s try this again… onto breakfast!
In the mix:
- 1/3 cup dry oats
- 1/4 cup wheat berries
- 1/4 cup wheat bran
- 2/3 cup vanilla hemp milk
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 banana
- peanut butter Puffins
- 1 scoop of peanut butter
Delicious!
Lunch Preview
I have a feeling that I won’t be able to blog about lunch later today, so I decided to include my packed lunch in this morning’s post. I hope that’s cool with you guys! 
Today’s lunch includes a repeat of last night’s dinner: Garlicky Pinto Beans atop a homemade salad with arugula, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and broccoli.
My sweet treat is banana chips mixed with chocolate chips and a dark chocolate Adora disk.
I also have a lovely apple for a snack as well as a Pure Bar.
All together…
MixMyGranola Giveaway
Don’t forget to enter: MixMyGranola Giveaway!
Question of the Day
What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
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Hey Tina! So strange- I had a dream last night that I had to work with you because our jobs were some how connected. So random! Any who- I can’t wait to go to DD today to get my 50 cent iced coffee!! The iced coffee at DD’s outside Boston aren’t as good…but will have to do
Yummy looking lunch. Hope you have a fab day
I LOVE mint chocolate chip… which is exactly why I use that flavour in my oats sometimes…sans ice cream of course
http://simplyfabulousnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/mint-chocolate-chip-banana-oats/
See??
Enjoy your day!
PUFFINS!!! PURE BAR!!!
**My favorite ice cream flavor = dulce de leche.
Hmmm favorite ice cream flavor is tied between coffee & caramel. I can’t wait for my first J.P. Licks hard fro yo – they have awesome flavors!
I love ice cream with brownies!!! We don’t have DD, sad!!
Your daffodils look so pretty with your placemats!
And I love vanilla
Gotta love free food!
I hear you on 8 hours of sleep. I’m useless with less than 8 or so.
I love mint ice cream. YUM!
Free food is so good!!
Dunkin Donuts left here as well
Oh boy, iced coffee..you have me hooked! Do you make your own banana chips? Hubs just bought a dehydrator and we have been playing around with it but they don’t look anything like those LOL
And my favorite ice cream flavor is a toss up between peanut butter/peanut butter chocolate or mint chocolate chip (the green one!). Hard decision!
yummm your foods look so yummy today! and you are so pretty tina! you look wayyyyy too happy for that iced coffee though haha.
favorite ice cream: vanilla. yeahhh boring. but i LOVE vanilla softserve with fresh berries or (ahem) oreos or just alone in a cone.
great eats today!!!
Favorite ice cream: B&J’s Phish Food!
Yummy eats! I am definitely going to get my free iced coffee! Thanks!
I’m so jealous of iced coffee day! I like lived on dunkin donuts iced coffee last summer. Right now I’m at school and there’s no dunkin donuts around
I made my own though thanks to your iced coffee post!
Favorite ice cream: strawberry or vanilla, it’s a tie
oh man Ben and Jerry’s coconut 7 layer bar is the best!! so delicious. And only in scoop shops, and the closest one to me is at Mohegan Sun… which is way too far.
Oooooh thanks for the reminders! 2 years ago I had almost a whole week of free food because all of the promotions lined up. Mmmm.
mmhh.. your oats look just delicious! hmm.. i think i’m hungry, i might need a snack.
favorite ice cream: since we finally have B&J’s here in switzerland i have to say: caramel chew chew (especially after sitting on the counter a little while)
I will def be hitting up ben and jerry’s today! And maybe even dunkin since its right there at my school!
I think my fav ice cream would have to be vanilla with chunks of chocolate or peanut butter…I also like strawberry and cookies and cream, but I don’t like real strawberries hahaha
My fave ice cream has always been chocolate chip mint. However since I’ve gotten older I really appreciate a good, creamy vanilla (especially if it has actual vanilla bean in it!).
I was definitely about to hit up my Ben and Jerry’s today.. until I found out the one I could have gone to, Rittenhouse Square, closed down
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hooray for free food! I would totally hit up Dunkin Donuts, but we don’t have one here! So sad. I am going to Ben and Jerry’s today though.
I LOVE mint chocolate chip probably the best. But I don’t think there’s any flavor ice cream I don’t like
Thanks for the heads-up on the free treat! favorite ice cream flavor – ben and jerrys PHISH FOOD. or pumpkin! at a local chain in Ohio they make pumpkin with marshmellow swirl… yummmmm
When I saw the add for a free Iced Coffee I immediately thought of you! My favorite ice cream flavor would have to be cookies ‘n cream!
Pumpkin pie ice cream! Yum!
Or a local flavor called Crumbs Along the Mohawk, which is graham cracker flavored ice cream with chunks of graham crackers and a caramel swirl. Yum!
I completely agree – if I’m even five minutes short of eight hours of sleep, I feel completely out of it all day! Fave ice cream…mmm…birthday cake ice cream from Coldstone!
Wow! So much free stuff and delicious-looking oatmeal.
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mint chocolate chip!! yummmm!
Dang I wish I had a ben and jerry’s near me!!!
Free iced coffee and ice cream?! What a wonderful day despite the super blah weather!!!
nothing beats chocolate chip cookie dough. nada.
Hi Tina~ I’ve been doing Brendan’s Thrive in 30 series (up to lesson 5 on digestion) which is based off of his book Thrive. He has some very interesting thoughts and views on topics like alkalinity and what foods promote a more healthful body and lifestyle and those that don’t. For example, basically all meat, poultry, fish shellfish, dairy are not so great. I think it is important to take into consideration that the book is coming from the view of a vegan lifestyle, but he has me thinking and wanting to dig a bit deeper into these topics. Brendan doesn’t push for an all or nothing approach, rather a gradual change to a more vegan lifestyle, but I am very interested in hearing your thoughts (maybe a full-out review) on the book in general.
Enjoy the iced coffee, and have a wonderful day!
I have been waiting to get my free ice cream for a whole year. The time has finally come! haha
And I am most definitely not kidding 
Tina– your breakfasts ALWAYS make me want ridiculous amounts of peanut butter! Haha. So good!
Wow there’s a lotta freeness goin’ on today- thanks for the scoop!
Fave flavor: chocolate chip cookie dough! I mostly pick out the cookie dough and eat that though
cute coffee pic! i wish we had dunkins around here, i buy their flavored coffee at grocery stores, yum!
Yum! I love banana chips – they look delicious with the dark chocolate. And my favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip by far!
Strangely enough, pistachio ice cream has grown on me lately. It’s the perfect combination of salty and sweet!
MMM PUFFINS
i seriously eat a box in a week :$ so bad!! haha
fav ice cream flav? any coffee like! SOY MOCHA FLAVOR! CAPPICCINO<3 oh yum
I don’t have a Dunkin Donuts or a Ben and Jerry’s in my town!
My favorite ice cream flavor is Cookies and Cream. Yum
Any kind of coffee ice cream with krap in there, like toffee, Heath, snickers, almonds, etc.
What a pleasing PB-ery breakfast!
All your food looks fantastic!
so jealous about the dunkin donuts!! there are none in LA and I MISS IT!!!
anything with peanut butter in it!
those puffins… i am wayy too addicted. you’re right about the price variance though, i saw them at shaw’s for $6, whole foods $4, TJ’s $3!
I wish we had Dunkin donuts here!
yeah~~~ 8 hours to function properly! same here!
favorite ice cream flavor: chocolate!!!
I love coffee ice cream with chocolate in it. I worked at a homemade ice cream shop in HS and am obsessed – I think I’m going back there this weekend! I’m also obsessed with Whole Soy & Co’s Soy Frozen Yogurt- it’s the bomb!
My sister used to work at the Ben & Jerry’s at Haight Ashbury in SF
Yum – free ice cream… my downfall. Must remember the 30 day jump challenge I am doing
I LOVE your sweet treat – what a great idea – banana & chocolate chips.
Have a fabulous day!
My favorite ice cream is cookies n cream! I eat ice cream almost every night of my life haha. I tried to get my free coffee this morning but overslept blahh.
My favorite is chocolate chocolate chip
Hands down, vanilla – it is like a blank canvas that you can add to!
Cotton Candy is definitely my fav flavour!
I dont even want to know what’s in it but it just fabulous! lol
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