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Longest Week Ever

June 11, 2010 23 Comments

I have never been so happy to wake up and realize it is Friday!

This week has been LONG.

What is even better is that it is the last Friday of the school year :)

Next Friday I will be basking in all my summer glory-YAY

Last night we had a funny throw it together kind of meal.  We are really out of groceries and with not much left in the pantry, we created this:

What is this you ask?

First some pasta:

Then this:

I am not a big frozen food fan, but this was good!  Tasted quite homemade.

Do you like certain frozen foods?  Which ones?

Before I say goodbye for today I wanted to share a few fun pics of Pepsi.

Yesterday when I worked out with Khrystle and Sarah in the park-Pepsi ran around and got in a workout too.

This is her “I am tired from a work out” face:

Hope you have a great day planned!

Anything fun going on for the weekend?

Don’t forget your smoothie today :)

Filed Under: Fitness, Food, Fun 23 Comments

Thursday Check up

June 3, 2010 37 Comments

This week, I have been trying to keep up with some of my goals.

They are:

  • eat more fruits and veggies-easy for me
  • run twice-has not happened
  • workout with Khrystle-will do that today
  • and ride this weekend-will do!

So in my effort to have more veggies, last night we had a fun dinner based around this sauce:

and these roasted veggies:

I wanted to have some of this too:

Love this stuff!

I layered bulgur, veggies, tofu, sauce (mmmmm) and avocado for the perfect veggie bowl:

We ate while watching a new to us show called, “One Big Happy Family.”

Have you seen it? We kind of liked it.

And as promised the winner of the Living Harvest Hemp Protein is:

Berni from According to Berni!

Berni, make sure you send me your address so I can mail your coupon out to you.

Hope you all have a great day!

And yay for tomorrow being Friday already :)

Filed Under: Food, Fun 37 Comments

Pasta Salad and a New Store

March 21, 2010 21 Comments

Today was a very relaxing Sunday.

Took Pepsi to on a great little hike.  My legs are so sore from my race yesterday. Ouch ;)   That I only managed to walk with her for about 30 minutes.  She still loved it though :)

Then instead of doing my normal TJ run I ventured to a new store.

I have to be honest I LOVE Trader Joe’s but the store in my town is ALWAYS so busy.  It makes me crazy.

Sometimes I just can’t fathom the idea of grocery shopping there while fighting the crowds.

So I tried this place today:

Have you tried Fresh and Easy yet?

You know it was not so bad. 

  • It was NOT crowded.
  • It had some fun “new to me” products.

However, there was not a lot of organic produce and you have to self checkout.

Other than that, I think I would go again.

 

Tonight featured some of those new items.

First we had to try a bit of this gem.  How do you pass up wine that has a bicycle on it? 

Two loves merged into one!

It is real good.  If you like a light Pinot this is for you :)

Then I made another great salad.  

I actually could not decide if I wanted pasta or salad so I decided to go with Pasta Salad!

Started with organic spring mix:

Added lots of love:

Including these fun new nuts:

And a fun new sauce/dressing:

Altogether with the pasta (yes there is salad under there!):

And my bowl:

It was delicious!

What is your favorite grocery store?

 

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a cute Thermal Hoodie!

You can enter more than once…….Just comment on the post again :)

Have a great night lovelies!

Filed Under: Food, Fun 21 Comments

My Kind of Taco Salad

February 18, 2010 16 Comments

Thank you for all of the great comments about The China Study!

It was fun to “hear” what others think about this matter. I appreciated all of your honest opinions.

On to dinner time……..

These three items were my inspiration behind my version of Taco Salad:

First I made a fabulous salad with lots of fixins:

There is lots of love in that baby…….

Then I warmed up the beans with the corn in a saucepan.

Microwaved the brown rice.

Chopped up the avocado:

Nothing says, “Taco Salad” more than cheese in my opinion:

I prefer the goat over the yellow kind.

All together now with some hot sauce on top:

Super good!

Happy Thursday………

Any fun weekend plans yet?

Filed Under: Food 16 Comments
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