For developers trying to live better (or maybe just me…)
Vegan meal plan for the week!
Breakfast for the week:
and I am going to look for vegan yogurt – my sister said she tried some and it was really good!
Three Lunches:
Dinners:
I have to see if I can find this pasta at the store – otherwise I can get it online!
I will let you know how the recipes turn out! 🙂
So, I got off track on this blogging thing already. But I’m jumping back in! The last couple of weeks started off by me missing a few days and then next thing you know those couple of days turned into nearly 2 weeks!
In the last 2 weeks I have been working pretty hard to declutter, however my eating habits have kind of fallen apart again.
In the last week I have made several trips to goodwill with my back seat pretty full – a box of books, 2 bags of clothes, miscellaneous kitchen items, etc. I still have a bit to go through, but I am definitely making progress on getting rid of stuff I don’t need.
On the food thing, I have not been eating terribly, but I have eaten out a bit more that I would like to be, plus a bit more candy leftover from Christmas that I have definitely not needed.
As I continue to get back on the meal planning train I want to start cooking more vegan recipes. I’m not ready to 100% jump on the vegan train, but more like being what my sister called a “reduce-itarian.” Given that I already am lactose intolerant, and have an egg allergy I will be learning about new protein sources that are not animal based. I do, however, still have some meat in my freezer so I will need to eat that – so don’t be surprised if I am eating some meat over the next while! If I go out, or to someone else’s home I plan to eat what they are offering as to avoid being more difficult than I already am – given my food restrictions already (egg and gluten allergy, and lactose intolerance).
So even though I have already broken my resolutions for the year already, I’m still trying. How are your resolutions holding up? Feel free to leave a comment below – I would love to hear from you!
Today, I continued my steel cut oats steps 6-11 and had a delicious breakfast. I seasoned my steal cut oats today with nutmeg, cinnamon and honey. For lunch I finished the queso/veggies with some tortilla chips. Buttttt… For dinner I slipped of the bandwagon and had Chick-fil-a with my bestie, at least it wasn’t alone! She helped me pick up something I found on craigslist I might use for a DIY project I might tell you about later if it comes into fruition.
I decluttered some books. I had some textbooks people gave to me (some years and years ago) and when they did I was like these are sooo cool so I took them, but I don’t think I have ever opened them so they are officially in my donate bin after hearing Dana talk about going through your bookshelf on her podcast as a quick win to get you motivated to continue decluttering.
I moved this blog to this site! Before I was on a borrowed site for trial purposes, and today I payed for this one 🙂 That, and I got a subscription for stock photos that I can legally use! So that’s a pretty exciting end to the day.
Happy Hump Day! Today I ate lunch out with a coworker so I didn’t eat homecooked, but socialized which is always nice to do. After work, I wend to the gym again and cooked when I got home! I simply made a baked potato and used the leftover queso/veggies from yesterday and it was pretty good! And I meal prepped for the morning by starting overnight steel cut oats:
It’s pretty easy and makes for a yummy breakfast. Do you like to meal prep anything for breakfast? Feel free to share your favorite recipes in the comments!
Today was my first day back to work since before Christmas. I came home for lunch and had leftover chicken. While I was home I put up the clean dishes and put my fresh dirty dishes into the dishwasher! (Keeping up with that habit – woot woot!)
On my way home from work, I also went to the gym! I didn’t include it as a resolution, but that’s also a habit I want to resurrect. I’m worried trying to get all these things going at once I’m going to run myself dry and stop doing everything. So, I’m super focused on doing the dishes and the other things will hopefully stay along too.
Then, for dinner I made this queso recipe, cooked bell peppers and onions and reheated the rest of the chicken making had Fajita Nachos of sorts. Unfortunately, the queso was a bit grainy(possibly because I was using Kraft cheese?), but other than that it was a really good use of leftover chicken! This is a picture of my queso and veggies:
Also, after dinner I did the dishes with the help of my wonderful boyfriend! Yay! Dishes done several days in a row now 🙂
How are your resolutions coming along?
NEW YEARS DAY!
Today I cooked! I got distracted, and didn’t start until later than planned, but I did it! I cooked a roasted chicken with this Martha Stuart recipe, with a few changes:
Here is a picture of the beautiful chicken (and my surprisingly successful attempt at carving it):
While the chicken was cooking, I started simmering the ingredients (minus the chicken bones) in water following this bone stock recipe and then added the carcass after carving up the chicken. I had no idea how delicious the meat in the middle by the chicken’s inner cavity was. YUM. The stock also turned out delicious, however, by the time the stock was done it was midnight so I didn’t make the soup.
Before going to bed I did my dishes! I definitely didn’t want to, but I did them anyway 🙂 I’m trying really hard to build that habit.
Are there any habits you are trying to build this year?? Feel free to tell me in the comments below!