Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
I’m participating in a 5-a-day challenge on blog to lose to try to eat all your veggies and fruits per day. So far, its going great. I’ve been eating fruits and veggies as snacks and sneaking them in my smoothies, and tonight I snuck a …
I’ve seen a lot of bloggers, including my sister make these for breakfast and I have to say, I was always skeptical. Well, that all changed today, when I decided to take the plunge and see what happened. I wasn’t quite sure what people put …
When I got home from work, I had already made the announcement I was working out before dinner. It was so nice outside, I decided to talk a brisk 30 minute walk. Once I told my kids, I was going walking and would be back …
This is something I can have virtually every day and never get tired of it! It’s a lot of chopping, but I just chopped all the veggies: celery, carrot, garlic, red onion, cauliflower, pea pods, broccoli slaw, water chestnuts and sauteed them in a pan …
Weekend breakfasts are my favorite because I usually sleep in and have a late breakfast, so that usually turns into breakfast and lunch, so I can have something with a little more points. Searching bed and breakfast recipes again, I came across a recipe for …
Since starting back counting points these last few weeks, I always go through all the things I did the first time I lost 60 pounds using Weight Watchers. I’ve kept all my food journals, recipes, tips from my success to try to help me out …
Thanks to Jen @ a2eatwrite@blogspot.com for inspiring me to make these muffins. I visited her site yesterday and saw her blueberry muffin recipe. We exchanged a few e-mails, and I was excited to make them last night. Of course, when I got home, I didn’t …
I’m trying to stick to a program where I work out as soon as I get home from work. I only work about 5 minutes from my house, so I am home by 5:05 and by 5:15 I am ready to go to work out …
Yesterday was a great day! It was one of those days that I got everything done that I wanted, I stayed within my points, I EXERCISED, and made a great dinner! First of all, one of the best things that happened yesterday was this: My …
I had a great weekend, I used some of my flex points, but all in all I did great keeping track of my points!! I think the biggest thing for me is to plan so I don’t have to go out for lunch at work, …
Last night my family and my sister-in-law’s family went to a Chicago Fire Game! The best part?? The company I work for has a suite there, with V.I.P. parking. The suite had a perfect view of the field, you could watch the game from the …
My breakfast this week has made me very happy! I mentioned I was eating a Lite Organic Cereal from Trader Joe’s and topping it with fresh fruit. It’s so good and filling! This was my breakfast today! 1 srv. Trader Joe’s cereal 1/2 cup of …
First of all, today was my very first weigh in after joining Weight Watchers on-line and really keeping track of points. I love the on-line version, its so easy to enter in what you eat, save foods as favorites and I love the recipe builder …
I have a new favorite cereal, and it comes from Trader Joe’s Organic Morning Lite Cereal I had a bowl of this morning, with 1 serving of Trader Joe’s High fiber cereal So, this was my breakfast with 1 cup of fresh blueberries and 1 …
Sometimes its been nice to kind of go back through recipes I’ve made for ideas. Since we have chicken all the time, and even though my family would love it if I made my home made chicken tenders all the time, its nice to kind …
Today is my son Mark’s 11th birthday!!! I took the day off from work, so we can have a fabulous day! Here are some pics of Mark! Mark consoling his sister! Big brother Paul reading books! Spending the day in Chicago Playing in the snow!! …
After a full day yesterday getting ready for my son’s 11th birthday party, which included 5 of his friends, my 13 year old and his friend, our block party + playing kick ball at the park + them staying up way too late, I need …
I bring my lunch to work about 99% of the time. It’s easy, I know what’s in there and I can keep it healthy. I was running late, so I opened my fridge, and took some leftover taco meat, a little cheddar cheese and that …
When I got this months issue of Cook’s Country, I immediately saw this recipe and had to make it. I love the articles about the recipes the most, because the person creating the recipe tries so many different variations to come up with the perfect …
When I got home from work, I got busy in the kitchen since I knew my dinner was going to be a little involved. I was planning on making baked penne, with ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, my own, sauce, until this happened: If you can …
I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July weekend so far! We had mostly rain all day yesterday, but it cleared up for the fireworks, so I was happy about that! (and so were my kids!) We ended up grilling in our garage …
I’ve mentioned before that I get a lot of my recipe ideas from Fitness Magazine. I love their recipes, because its normal food, easy ingredients, and manageable even if you don’t cook much. These will be on my menu this weekend, but I wanted to …
Dinner in about 15 minutes that is! I basically took boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut them into strips and tossed them with this spice mix: I know it says “Hamburger” grill mates, but I think it tastes great with chicken! I just sprayed a skillet …