Welcome, Spring!!! 
It is a beautiful, sunny day here in Cambridge! The birds are chirping, the tulips are blooming, and the streets of Harvard Square are alive! 😀
Spring, I am so happy that you are finally here!
I ended up eating lunch at my desk this afternoon, but only because I wanted a little extra time to enjoy the gorgeous weather this afternoon.
Lunch recap: a Pink Lady apple, Stonyfield yogurt with pumpkin seeds, golden raisins, and walnuts, a Soy Joy bar, and tomato salad made with olive oil, ground fennel seeds, and feta.
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Hemp Iced Coffee?
I’ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate more hemp protein into my diet– mostly because hemp protein has an excellent nutritional profile and I want it part of my life! 😉 I’ve toyed with the idea of mixing hemp protein into my daily cup of joe, but I wasn’t sure if it would work and if it would taste okay.
This afternoon, I purchased an iced coffee, added a spoonful of hemp protein, and then began to stir it in.
After about 15 seconds of vigorous stirring, I achieved hemp iced coffee success! 😀
With the addition of soy milk and a little agave nectar to my iced coffee, I couldn’t taste the hemp protein at all. There was a slight “chalky” aftertaste, but nothing too obvious.
I’m glad that I tried this little hemp protein-iced coffee experiment this afternoon! Hemp protein instantly “health-ifies” a regular, old iced coffee! I’m a big fan of this addition! I wonder if hot coffee works, too?
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good idea with the iced coffee!
I wish it were sunny here – our tulips have started blooming, but it’s gray and rainy right now 😐 I guess we need the rain!
What a gorgeous Spring Day!!! I am so jealous. It’s all rain here.
Lunch looks great. Cool hemp coffee experiment =)
How do you like those soy joy bars? I’ve heard mixed reviews…
@Kristin @ Iowa Girl Eats: They’re a little dry, but overall, the flavor is pretty good. I like the mango flavor a lot!
Interesting coffee experiment! Glad to know it worked well!! Love the flowers 🙂
Welcome, Spring. 🙂 Cincinnati is beautiful as well right now, though I was in Harvard Square in Feb and I can’t imagine how wonderful and alive it must be!
what beautiful pictures of the flowers, they look professional!
great idea on the hemp iced coffee bc i love ic. im gonna have to try that.
nice pics! We have freezing rain right now in Cleveland. It’s beautiful, I tell ya!
Enjoy the sunshine!! It’s raining madly here.
It looks so much nicer where you are than New York! I can’t wait to get some warm weather! I never tried hemp protein before but it looks like I should!
What a great idea, I have soy protein but next time will be buying hemp protein, I wonder if the soy protein would work, I’ll have to give that try one day.
Pretty flowers!
I have always wondered about adding protein powder to my cup a joe, maybe now I will actually try it!
that hemp protein coffee looks good! ahhh yaaay on the determination to keep stirring!
and oh – those flowers look gorgeous!
Im sure everyone can say how nice spring is!! especially us up here in Maine.. i go to school up here and boyyy has it been cold:)
Your weather is 100x better than mine!
I need to try hemp protein. Such benefits!
I bought this hemp powder as well and have added it to my breakfast cookies in the morning…which gives it a STRANGE color, but no taste difference 🙂
Yay for spring. Two hours away from Boston, in Amherst, flowering are blooming as well!
I’ve tried hemp protein in a bfast cookie and it has a distinct, chalky taste. I’ll have to try it in coffee!
Enjoy the weather here Tina… I woke up to snow today 🙁
Hemp can be hard to disguise sometimes, but its pretty easy to sneak into baked goodies!! Glad it worked out with your coffee though! Amazing what a little agave and milk will do!
Awesome coffee addition!
yay for spring! love the pictures 🙂
I’m super glad your hemp protein powder experimentation was successful! I, on the other hand, just cannot get over that chalky business. I even tried regular hemp milk, and that was hard to stomach. Any suggestions as to how I can realize hemp’s amazingness?
Seeing the flowers on your blog made me very happy. Thanks for the spring boost!
Beautiful spring flowers!
And great idea with the hemp protein 🙂
Ohh, we’re at the tail end of winter here in CO, I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my own tulips 🙂 LOVE the pink lady with lunch, I have one almost every day.
Beautiful flowers! : ) And delicious sounding tea!!
Great photography 🙂
I’ve always had trouble getting that hemp powder to mix thoroughly. If you did it with iced coffee, I’m sure it would work well with a hot beverage.
I tried those Soy Joys and just
couldn’t get into them. The taste
was so different. I saw someone
eating one the other day-and admired
them for being able to swallow it down.
Therefore, I admire you too! :o)
Love the hemp iced coffee idea! I might have to try that with my canister of the chocolate flavor…
Beautiful flowers!
Loved the Flowers. I must recommends flowers bouquets and flower boxes for make the strongest bond between you and your loved once.