Day 9 and a little pumpkin patch fun

Day 9 was a quick food kind of day. Tuesdays are our busiest day of the week, piano and soccer so easy food is my jam.

What I ate, Day 9

Breakfast: Smoothie and half a chicken breast

Lunch: Salsa eggs, avo and chicken and apple sausage (this is a staple meal at our house)

Dinner: Bacon wrapped beef german sausage, sliced apple and macadamia nuts (I ate super late after soccer, like 10 pm because eating dinner before soccer is a bad idea!)

Exercise: Indoor soccer....oh and we won and my hubs is a boss at goalie

Yesterday we took the kids to the pumpkin patch. Dylan was so excited and it was Sully's first time so he was rather inquisitive. We just took them to the local little patch close to home, but they had a hay bail tunnel, corn maze and billy goats and piggies so the little lady was excited! Here's a few pics from the day :) (ok more than a few, but I couldn't help it!)

Simple fall cookies

Fall is in the air around here. Pumpkins,changing leaves and scarves!

I came up with these cookies the other day on a whim. The base is a classic Weight Watcher's recipe for pumpkin muffins, but I took it up a notch. 

Introducing the 4 ingredient fall cookie aka pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

These are soft "cakey" cookies

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 1 box of yellow cake mix
• 1 15 oz can of canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie)
• 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.  Mix box of yellow cake mix with the can of pumpkin (do NOT add the extra ingredients on the back of the cake mix box). Once mixed thoroughly, add pumpkin pie spice and chocolate chips. Grease cookie sheets. Using a cookie scoop drop dough on sheets and bake for 15 minutes. Makes approximately 15 minutes. 

Variations

• You can use spice cake mix instead of yellow (I haven't tried this)
• Nuts
• Omit chocolate chips and do cream cheese frosting