I randomly came across the above image today and thought I'd share. There's so much truth to that statement. After all, being healthy and physically, mentally, and spiritually balanced is at the core of finding happiness in your life, right? As my title suggests, I have 2 recipes to share with you today. I'll get down to breakfast first. Yum, I'm a huge pancake lover. As with everything I make, I try to create pancake recipes that are both healthy and delicious. This one hits the spot and makes the perfect portion size for breakfast (ok, I might have eaten it for lunch yesterday!). Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pancakes Serves 1. Ingredients: 1/4 cup all natural whole wheat flour 1/2 banana, mashed 1/4 cup Quaker old-fashioned oats, dry 1/2 cup Blue Diamond unsweetened almond ... [Read More]
Archives for January 2012
A 30-Minute Treadmill Workout for Those Who Hate to Run
My Deal with Running I've been athletic and exercised on a constant basis my entire life. But for some reason, I'm just not a runner. I've never enjoyed it. And that's coming from me, who actually loves to workout. Even as a kid playing soccer, I remember feeling like I was going to die after we ran sprints. Not much has changed since then. The first time my husband deployed, I decided that I would add running to my workout routine as something new. Even though I disliked the actual running, I loved how I felt after a hard (well, hard for me!) run. I wasn't training for anything in particular, but decided I would build up my running endurance and then figure out a specific race/distance to do. I got up to running 5 miles at the end of my workouts, and I thought I was doing pretty ... [Read More]
Starting Your Day Off Right
Happy Monday! Rewind to yesterday: I started my Sunday off hiking with my pup at a nearby park. There's just something so serene about hiking in a great park, whether it's sunny or not. It's so peaceful for me! The rest of my day was full of football, and I'm quite a happy girl because THE GIANTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!! Besides being glued to my TV all afternoon, I made a dinner worth sharing: hhomemade tomato soup! I am a big tomato soup fan, and I usually buy the organic Trader Joe's brand. While eating some of it last week, I decided that I should try to make my own. That very day as I was flipping through a magazine, I saw this advertisement: (My apologizes, blurry photo courtesy of an iPhone shot.) I decided to give it a go! I tweaked some of the ingredients a bit, and ... [Read More]
Goat Cheese & Veggie Penne
Last night my friend Tiffany and I ate dinner at a place called Crepes & Corks, a cute restaurant and wine bar in Del Mar. San Diego Restaurant Week is going on right now, an event in which 180+ restaurants in the area feature prix fixed menus at discounted prices. We split a bottle of wine and each had a salad for an appetizer, crepe for our main entrees, and gelato for dessert - for $30 each. So much fun! I had the veggie garden crepe, which was filled with tomatoes, artichoke hearts, grilled onions, spinach, and mozzarella, drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette. I've attempted to make crepes before, but they wound up being more like pancakes. I think I need to figure out the secret to good crepes and try to make em again sometime soon - and hopefully recreate this dinner! I love how ... [Read More]
Grilled Cheese Craving
Sometimes I'm in the mood for a bangin' grilled cheese. If you ever get it at a restaurant (oh, diners make the best ones!), chances are, it's saturated in butter and loaded with full fat cheese. To satisfy my craving without all the guilt, I make them with light, whole wheat bread, reduced fat cheese and just a smidgen of light butter. To add a bit of produce into the mix, I include sliced avocado and tomato. Healthier Grilled Cheese 2 slices of Nature's Own whole wheat bread 2 Sargento reduced fat medium cheddar cheese slices 1/2 TBSP Land O' Lakes light butter with canola oil, half spread on each side 1 oz of sliced avocado (about 1/4 of one) 3 slices of ripe tomato Nutrition stats: 300 calories, 18 g fat, 20 g protein, 24 g carbs Earlier I made what we'll call a ... [Read More]
Peanut Butter & Strawberry Quick Jam Burrito
Check out the cutie pies I got to play with last night at the San Diego Humane Society: If anyone out there lives in the San Diego area and is interested in rescuing a dog (or cat or bunny or even rat!), they have a special going on called My Furry Valentine. From now through Valentine's Day, the adoption fee for any animal is only $14! There were tons of people looking to adopt last night, and the two dogs above will most likely be gone very soon, but there are always a lot of dogs to look at and see if they're right for your home. And, in case you were wondering, the 9-month old Siberian Husky mix pictured above had to get her leg amputated after getting attacked by another dog. She is incredibly sweet and all she wanted to do was lick my face! Life is pretty entertaining when you ... [Read More]
