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- I’m in my extra easy meals era and enjoying it. I shared this 5 minute easy lentil salad lunch on the blog and this 5 minute lunch on Instagram. The caveat is that I make a batch of quinoa, beans, and sweet potatoes at the beginning of the week so I can quickly whip up a meal. I highly recommend doing this to make life easier. Quinoa can even be made into a breakfast cereal besides the usual, some of the beans can be made into a hummus or dip some weeks, and sweet potatoes can be made into boats or added to various meals.
- I shared on Instagram that I’m snacking less. I used to eat something every 2-3 hours throughout the day and I’ve changed to having more filling breakfasts and lunches. This is on the norm, but nothing is 100%. My morning is still a graze, but I generally have around 4 hours between main meals.
- My morning is broken up into 3 parts- fruit (papaya, berries, grapefruit, or apple), an all green juice, and a coconut milk protein powder chia pudding – the breakfast of the moment that sustains me for a long while.
- I take some supplements including probiotics right away in the morning on an empty stomach and then wait 30 minutes until I eat fruit. Around an hour later after I’m done working out I’ll have chia pudding. When juice is made around an hour or so after that I’ll have a green juice. Sometimes I’ll have the green juice first, but this week it’s been last. It all depends on when it gets made and what our morning schedule is. Mark’s schedule is a bit all over, so even though we each have a morning routine that helps both of us thrive (I swear by a morning routine), our times fluctuate. Work days start at 10am most days, so we have a lot more time in our morning than many. We each do our own thing, workout, and then go for a walk together before making a juice/video and packing him meals for work. Mark doesn’t come home until almost 9pm many nights so we don’t have evenings like many. He’s also off Tuesday’s and Sunday’s most weeks so we don’t have a typical week either. It’s our norm though. 🙂
- Chia pudding is around 9am, a more filling lunch around 1pm, and then an earlier 5ish dinner. I drink a good amount of various liquid drinks in-between meals, one being a mushroom coconut milk powder drink that is extra satisfying, and have tea in the evening. Nothing is set in stone of course and I listen to my body. I eat more around my cycle. If I’m on vacation, with others, or have a later dinner date, then of course I’m snacking between lunch and dinner. As always, I share what I do and as I tweak things, but always do you. Xx
- My morning is broken up into 3 parts- fruit (papaya, berries, grapefruit, or apple), an all green juice, and a coconut milk protein powder chia pudding – the breakfast of the moment that sustains me for a long while.
- Many of the supplements I take have changed so I updated the supplements blog post.
- I also updated the clean products & picks links on my website for those that look there, but I do add and update the ShopMy page a lot more. They each contain some different products though.
- Did you see the new Wonder Oven Pro? It’s much bigger and looks like it got upgraded. I have the original 6-in-1 Wonder Oven and use it most often to reheat meals. In the summer, I use it to bake salmon and very small trays of things too, but I use the oven for baking more in the winter since I’m doing large sheet pans of things. It all depends on your use and how you cook, but it’s an appliance I use often enough. It’s especially great for singles, small families, and small spaces.
- Feeling Fall? Make these Stewed Spiced Apples.
- 4 larger apples of choice, I like pink lady for these
- 4 good dashes of ceylon cinnamon
- 3 dashes of ground ginger
- 2 dashes of ground clove
- 2 dashes of ground cardamom
- 1/4 cup water, use 3 TBSP if using small apples
- Apple Tidbit – Each type of apple will deliver a different flavor. I prefer a more mild apple to eat like Macintosh, but with these stewed apples, the sweet tartness of pink lady’s deliver a lot of flavor.
- Method:
- Wash and cut the apples into small chunks, leaving the skins on. Recipe with lots of pics here.
- Add apples, 1/4 cup water, and spices to a medium sized pot over medium-high heat. Stir and bring to a good simmer. Now turn down the heat to medium. Cover with a tilted lid and simmer for 10-12 minutes, stirring here and there.
- Depending on desired consistency, cover completely for 2-3 more minutes, or remove the cover.
- They are delicious as is, but you can also top to simple chia pudding, coconut yogurt, oatmeal or pair with granola and ice cream for dessert.
- If you don’t make your own ice cream or even if you do, a scoop of this clean store-bought ice cream is really delicious paired with warm desserts. Stewed apples, some granola, and this ice cream would make a great Fall dessert.
- This week’s Quince Picks: Free shipping, 365 day returns, and quality products for amazing prices is why I shop Quince often. I needed some new undies and was over seeing the same black plain ones on me for awhile, so I opted for these lace ones. Such a great value. If you were/are a Hanky Panky girl, they remind me of them. I ordered XS, but they do run tighter.
- Gratefulness, contentment, happiness, being more at ease, and stressing less, can often be the missing link to healing.
- I’m so focused on watering my own grass that I don’t know if my neighbors is greener. “The grass is greener where you water it.“
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