I hope everyone had a nice weekend! We went to the Easter Mass Vigil which was an incredibly moving experience because it reminded me that I have now been baptized for one full year! It’s crazy to me that I thought that day would never come and now its has been a whole year, I […]
This week, (well yesterday) I started using the app Happier and I love it! Lately I’ve been doing three things really wrong and I can tell it has taken a tole on my mood. First, I’ve been focusing way too much on the negatives. Also, I’ve been focusing a lot on my future goals which […]
Happy Thursday! Are you surprised to see a blog post on silent Thursday? Me too, but here it is anyway… a yummy quick, healthy, easy Salmon dish to make tonight! Last week I decided to try out the recipe on the front of the Trader Joe’s salmon package. I wasn’t sure how it would taste […]
Happy WIAW y’all, hope you have a great one! Here was what I dug into last week! Monday Breakfast- Muscle Milk, Orange, and Carrot Cake Quinoa Muffin Lunch- Oven Fried Baked Chicken and Carrots (wasn’t feeling that great) Dinner- Green Smoothie (pb, chocolate protein, almond milk, spinach, banana) Tuesday Breakfast- Greek Yogurt Carrot Cake Quinoa Muffin Lunch- avocado toast, […]
Ever since I had the Mango Yogurt Dressing from Zuppas Cafe, I knew I needed to recreate the dressing or get more SOON. So on Tuesday while I was waiting for the man to work on our dryer I whipped some up! It definitely hit the spot and Paul loved it too! It was so […]
Hi Y’all, this weekend was awesome! One of my best friends and bridesmaids came from San Francisco for Country Thunder!!!!!! On Friday, I left the company spring picnic a little early to pick her up from the airport. After showing her the new casa and neighborhood we headed out to Sandbar. I’d never been there before […]
Hello everyone, I thought I’d put up my eats recap this week on Wednesday to participate in the National What I Ate Wednesday (WIAW) blogger fun day. I also thought I’d use today’s post to raise an interesting and controversial question, how healthy are RD’s really? Nutrition experts, RD’s included, vary extremely on their […]
Grocery Shopping If there is one thing I seem to do really well when I’ve got a weekend to myself, its spend money! Shop shop shop till I drop, okay but it wasn’t intentional. On Friday, after going to the mall and snagging these cute new boots on sale at buckle to wear at […]
Hello friends! I guess Thursday is officially/unofficially a day off for me, at least thats the way it has been rolling lately. Anyway, boy do I have a treat for you guys today! On Monday I was driving to work and the topic of the morning on the local radio station was “moments you feel […]
Good morning everyone! Last week we ran out of quinoa breakfast bars and DIY frozen burritos! I was pretty sure that I was going to starve, but then I fell in love with almond butter banana quesadillas for breakfast (1 large la tortilla factory whole wheat quesadillas or 2 small ones, 1 banana, and 1-2T almond […]
(Photo included 3/3/2016) Another Quinoa Breakfast Bar Recipe? Sorry can’t help myself I love these bakes so much because they are so easy to make and eat all week, who doesn’t enjoy the healthy delicious convenience of a portable breakfast? Usually, over ripe unused bananas on my counter are frozen for smoothies, but this […]
Happy Sunday y’all, it is a sad day around the Shallal household, we are mourning the loss for our wildcats. I always hate when games come down to the refs call, wouldn’t want to be them. Worse, today so far we also mourn the loss for Michigan St. …. Paul’s bracket is blown […]
Happy Friday lets do the happy Friday dance!!!! This post was supposed to go up this morning and I totally forgot. I kept thinking there was something I needed to do before I left but couldn’t remember what. Whoops! Yes, I’m dancing right now! Sorry no post again last night, Thursday posts aren’t really working […]
Last night I used the rest of the COSTCO pack of canned chicken that Paul bought before I moved back from California to make our lunches for today. I'm not knocking on canned chicken breast too much, aside from it's sodium content it's a pretty healthy convenient food. I just prefer less processing and fresher ingredients. However, we were running […]
Real quick house update, we have ONE room completely finished, done, unpacked and ready to go… I guess you already knew where our priorities were though right? Guess what else? At around 3pm my phone started blaring with an emergency signal, I guess there was a dust storm on its way. […]
This is so weird I’m so use to posting in the morning and re-reading my posts so I usually start out with Happy *Insert day of the week here* How do start this post now? Happy Monday night? I hope it wast too long for you, I was DRAGGING today I didn’t want to do […]
THIS WEEK’S HEALTHY HABITS CHALLENGE? UNPACK! ha ha okay so I’m not picking a little thing to focus on this week because I literally can barely plan meals this week. I’ve got to get to this house unpacked!!!!! I spent all day Sunday completing a continuing education class for work so I didn’t get to […]
Hey out there, sorry for the blog silence yesterday… we were packing! I feel like we barely made a dent and we are moving Saturday… man it’s going to be a busy weekend but all worth it in the end. This week I took a look at the Whole Foods App I downloaded a while […]
Last week’s healthy habits challenge was to drink more water throughout the day. As I explained in the challenge post, I consume most of my water from 3pm to 10pm. While I drink enough water (at least 64 ounces), its probably not good to tack it all on at the end of the day. I […]
In honor of Saint Patricks Day I started this morning off with an awesome green smoothie, which I attempted to make as green as possible (loaded TONS of spinach into it)! I wish I had mint extract to make it like shamrock shake…. but oh well, it was still delicious! Hint: the sun butter […]
