Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
Over the years I’ve made dozens of versions of this soup and this by far is the BEST Chicken Tortilla Soup! There are a few things I added to this batch which could have helped: What makes this soup the best? Kettle and Fire Bone …
One thing I am working on when making dinner now – is making dinner only for 2! With my kids grown, I’m used to cooking for so many years for a family of 5 – it’s still an adjustment not to make a ton of …
Typically every week I cook chicken breasts for dinner – but always make leftover so I can morph them into something else. This is such an easy lunch or dinner idea – literally ready in 10 minutes. I do have a few shortcuts to make …
Eating salads while you are trying to lose weight can get tiresome after a while. To be honest – I don’t eat big salads every day while on my weight loss journey – but if I do – this is the one I want. I …
Egg rolls are probably one of my top favorite things to make. So many options for the fillings! I’ve made the traditional egg rolls with ground chicken, veggies, cabbage. But the filling I used for this recipe uses an ingredient you may not use all …
I can’t wait for you to try my copycat Panda Express Black Pepper chicken! I am a HUGE fan of Panda Express – there was a Panda Express on the ground level of the company I worked at in Chicago. If I forgot my lunch, …
Welcome to another day of What I Eat in a Day on Weight Watchers! I shared a breakfast I made recently for breakfast nachos using canned refried beans. I had a lot of refried beans leftover, so I decided for my first meal of the …
I can’t wait for you to try making these breakfast nachos as part of my “What I Eat in a Day” series! When organizing my pantry – I saw a can of fat free refried beans – ZERO points for me – and I was …
What I Eat in a Day – Quick and Easy! Today’s eats are all about EASY!! I love to cook, I love cooking from scratch, but some days I just want to just make it easy on myself – and using shortcuts or prepared foods …
Today’s eats were amazing! And I’m going to share a few things that I eat on the regular too. My favorite thing about eating healthier is when I can make things that are super tasty – not complicated – but super filling! My first meal …
Welcome back to another day of showing what I eat while in a day following Weight Watchers. This post is actually for anyone who is looking for creative ways to eat great on a healthy lifestyle journey. I’ve been changing up a few things how …
Updated 2022: For my Weight Watcher friends – use THIS LINK – to add this recipe to your recipe builder and it will calculate YOUR #personalpoints for the recipe. Today I am excited to share one of my favorite recipes! How I make deep fried …
Update Jan. 2022! For my Weight Watcher friends – use THIS LINK to have this recipe added to your recipe builder on the ww app and it will calculate the points for your #personalpoints plan! This is such a great blackened seasoning – I’ve made …
If you want to impress someone for dinner or a brunch – turn my sisters Skinny Pizza Dough into a stuffed buffalo bbq chicken braided bread! I promise it’s super easy! To start – you want to make a batch of Skinny Pizza Dough. My …
My inspiration for tonight’s dinner: This dinner was inspired by Inquiring Chef. How many of you go to Pinterest to look for ideas of what to make for yourself or your family? Even though I’ve been cooking my whole life and I still go to …
Have a bunch of garden veggies that need to be used up? This is my go to summer easy pasta salad. You can customize it based on whatever you have on hand! I’m on Weight Watchers – blue plan – this comes in at 8 …
I have had a number of kitchen gadgets over the years that I thought I couldn’t live without, and once I got it and used it a few times, it goes right back on the shelf to collect dust! Examples are my spiralizer, my juicer, …
I love shopping Trader Joe’s . I am lucky to have one in my town, but before that I would drive 30 minutes to the closest one to my house. We affectionately call it “Chicken Joe’s” because when my daughter was little- that’s what she …
My husband and I had our weekly training for the Christy Clinic Illinois Marathon and Half marathon on Saturday and we’ve noticed a trend. It will be super mild during the week high 30’s and 40’s but EVERY Friday night we’ll be watching the news …
Before going to the grocery store this weekend, I thought I would make a batch of soup for my lunches this week. I just put in whatever veggies I had leftover from the week so I wouldn’t have to throw them out. My daughter Claire, …
99% of the time I bring my own lunch to work, but yesterday I wasn’t really digging what I brought and I remembered I had a gift card to Panera Bread in my wallet, so I decided on getting that for lunch. It’s about a …
Sometimes when I go to the store, I don’t actually have a plan of what to make, I just get stuff and will figure it out later. I bought 3 packages of boneless chicken breasts, and I was thinking about what to make, when I …
Yet another version of macaroni and cheese! I’ve posted two macroni and cheese recipes before. The first one is your basic ham macaroni and cheese recipe and the second one was a stove top version from Cook’s Illustrated which is fantastic. So last night I …
I woke up late yesterday which meant I was pretty much just going to have brunch! I hadn’t gone to the store yet, so I was searching for what I could make. I decided to make a pizza. I used to be so afraid of …
I’ve been getting a lot of use out of my crock pot this fall! Yesterday I decided to make ahead enchiladas by cooking the chicken first WITH the enchilada sauce (I just used the packet kind of enchilada sauce) so that when I got home …
