Food Week - Mini Menu

It's FRIDAY!!! 

As promised, here is a little menu for you to get an idea of some of the things I eat and when in a typical day. Recipes are on their way for the one you would like to see, so leave me a quick comment below so you can tell me which ones you're interested in..:) 

On the bottom of the chart you can see the typical times I eat each thing, I would prefer to eat dinner earlier, but Nick sometimes doesn't get home until later...the joys of commuting....Poor guy. 

-Prograde Nutrition

-Thinkthin bars

-Cheesey Salsa Eggs

-Protein Spinach Smoothie

-Chipotle Chicken

Hope this helps you all out a little bit! PLEASE let me know if you have questions on anything more specific because I know nutrition is a lot more complicated than this little bit of a menu. 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!! 

Food Week - Dinner

Dinner is another hard one to fit in. Especially when using fresh, Organic ingredients, it can get a little overwhelming going to the store a couple times a week so the meat and veggies taste delicious and fresh. Trust me, I feel your pain. going to the store twice a week maybe is just one of those things that you're going to have to plan for and accept. I usually have one day where I get the majority of everything I need, then the second run to the store are usually things I forgot about or just need a little bit more veggies or fruits to get us through the following Monday. I am not a planner by any means, so a lot of times it's my own fault I have to go back, but when I plan properly, everything goes smoothly and the trip to the store is really quick because I know exactly what I'm getting.

Another joy that comes along with cooking fresh is it (usually) requires quite a bit of chopping and slicing. So a good tip is to try and chop up everything you need to, like peppers, onions, celery, lettuce, etc. all at once so for the rest of the week it's just a quick and easy throw into a stir-fry, salad, quesadilla, or sandwich. It's remarkable how much easier it makes the whole preparation!

One of my favorite and most versatile meals is my Chipotle Chicken meal. You prepare all the same ingredients, but you can use it for any kind of concoction--you can make it into a salad, while your other husband makes it into a burrito or fajitas, and your kids have it in a fun, easy-to-eat quesadilla. Lots of chopping, but so worth it for it's versatility and easy, tasty leftovers.

It tastes just as scrumptious as it looks pretty! I also just put a little bit of salsa and squeezed lime on top of my salad, it doesn’t even need dressing! You get a perfectly healthy and balanced meal without sacrificing one bit of flavor and yumminess!

Ingredients (all Organic):

2 chicken breasts

2 bell peppers

1/2 cup onion

1 cup brown rice

1 cup black beans

3-5 cups lettuce

2 TBSP olive oil

Mexican seasoning

Mango Salsa

limes (to taste)

cilantro (to taste)

Prep: Marinate Chicken by first applying olive oil to both sides of chicken breasts. then sprinkling mexican seasoning on both sides, a pretty ample amount so you get the flavor. let marinate as long as you can, at least 2 hours if possible. squeeze lime juice on when you put the chicken on the grill/skillet, this will keep more of the lime flavor on there. Cook brown rice, and when its just about done, squeeze in lime juice and throw in chopped cilantro to taste. chop and sauté peppers and onions in a little bit of olive oil. warm up black beans. 

Food week - Lunch

The hardest meal of the day for me to get in...sporatic schedules in every sense is usually what gets in my way of making this meal a real one and not just grabbing and snacking during the midday hours. So the thing I find most effective is throwing a bunch of stuff together in a blender and drinking it while I go about doing my tasks. Like I said, I've got some work to do because I know it's better to sit down and eat, but hey, it's more important to get whatever I can that is still healthy and keeps my metabolism going. So props to that! Celebrating the small things, right?

My favorite lunch concoction is a strawberry banana spinach smoothie. It's delish and packed full of the nutrients you need so you stay full for hours.


1 cup SO Delicious Vanilla Coconut Milk
4-6 frozen strawberries
1/2 frozen banana
Handful of Spinach
1 scoop CytoSport protein powder (about 30 grams protein)
1 Tbsp Udo's Omega DHA Oil

Throw it all in a blender and mix it up! If you want it thicker, add a couple ice cubes. Thinner, add a little bit of water.

Here's the products I use that aren't as self-explanitory as bananas, strawberries, and spinach (get Organic). Vanilla Protein from Costco: $48.99 and it lasts forever. SO Delicious Coconut milk from Sprouts: $3. Udo's Oil from Sprouts: about $28 and lasts a couple months. 

The Sprouts items you can get from basically any health food store, Sprouts and Good Earth are just the ones we have in our area, and they carry them at both. I know Whole Foods, Trader Joes, any of those places would have them too. 

And again, I'll be doing a menu for more lunch options/recipes, so be on the look out for them:)

Food Week

Hope you all a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend and started off the Holidays with a ton of fun! I was so proud of myself on Thanksgiving because we actually got 2 full 'dinners' about 3.5 apart and I didn't feel sick to my stomach at all, I kept very good control, but was still able to eat everything I wanted and planned for. Me and my husband joined two of his sisters in an early morning 4 mile 'Earn your Turkey' run so that was a great way to start it off.

On to the matters of the week...I've gotten lots of requests to share what it is that I eat. So, this week I'm going to share a typical breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that I would have.

I literally eat the same thing for breakfast every morning, don't ask me how I don't get sick of it, but I crave it daily. Eggs, cheese, and salsa are definitely my go to. I usually pair it with some kind of fruit; apple, orange, banana, grapefruit, etc.

And as always....wash it down with 24 oz of water before 10 am. Try it out and stay tuned for lunch tomorrow:)