August 30th Week Meals

If you haven’t checked out Whisk.com, you are missing out! It allows you to save recipes to your account and then place them on the calendar to plan out your week. The best part is that the recipes can be from anywhere and not only does it bring them into the site in a cuteContinue reading “August 30th Week Meals”

Butternut pasta with sausage and spinach

This one is GOOD! Per usual, we subbed a few things. 1. Frozen butternut squash 2. Sweet sausage instead of spicy 3. Banza noodles instead of wheat It comes from Skinny Taste One & Done . Ingredients Salt 1 lb butternut squash frozen 10 ounces pasta of choice 11 ounces sweet Italian sausage 1 tbsContinue reading “Butternut pasta with sausage and spinach”

Meals for the week – August 9th

We have been in a rut but to take care of my body means fueling it with what it needs. That’s impossible without having the right food on hand. I plan Monday through Thursday and stay flexible on the day we actually make it. Life happens! All these are out of the skinny taste cookbook!Continue reading “Meals for the week – August 9th”

Chicken chili and “1 minute” quinoa

Instapot use #2 and #3 yesterday. The first thing was quinoa. And I was pretty excited because it said it cooks for ONE MINUTE. Quinoa is one of the only grains I eat on the regular so that sounded incredible. Little did I know, it takes a few minutes to heat the instapot and thenContinue reading “Chicken chili and “1 minute” quinoa”

Instapot for the win! Barbacoa beef

Some days, you win and others you just take different! Today was a little bit of both. I told myself yesterday I would be in bed earlier and set goals and pull up my boot straps and knock things out. Today was a day of a million tasks and ending with a feeling that leftContinue reading “Instapot for the win! Barbacoa beef”

The New Year – YES, it’s February

When the new year occurs, everyone decides to be healthy. Okay… maybe not everyone but it’s definitely more than the average amount of people that are trying to be healthy. The gyms are full. Stores carry more protein powder. Active wear sells through the roof. And I’ve jumped on the same trend. The truth ofContinue reading “The New Year – YES, it’s February”

Meals for the week of Aug 26th

The plan for this week is easy! My mom heads home tomorrow and it’s going to be my husband, me (three days post knee surgery with my leg in a straight brace), and our two year old.  Our Hungry Harvest options included spaghetti squash this week.  Since those can get kinda pricy, I went ahead andContinue reading “Meals for the week of Aug 26th”

Chicken chili

Lately, we have been pretty successful in having homemade healthy and yummy food! This is due to a few different factors. The largest one being that my husband made it a priority for himself and has spent multiple evenings cooking some sort of delicious breakfast and putting it in the fridge for the week (pumpkinContinue reading “Chicken chili”