Hi everyone!  I know I am a day late posting the picture of what my foodie penpal sent me…..so sorry and I’m getting to it very soon….  For those of you who don’t surf around the blog world like I do, you might not have come across The Lean Green Bean blog.  She has an excellent blog and she hosts the Foodie Penpal each month.  It’s a lot of fun, you get someone to buy for and someone gets you to buy for…check it out at her website!

My Foodie penpal this month was Yashica.  She was awesome!  She listened to everything I like and even things I couldn’t find here, she found for me!  Check out my foodie box:

  Thanks Yashica……you rock! 

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Hi everyone!  I hope your Saturday is going good!  It is still snowing here.  We drove down the road a bit to the river and I got a couple of pretty cool looking pictures

I know it looks pretty but it is cold and I am super sick of it!

Anyways…..so when I got up this morning I grabbed my juice recipe and set off to making some juice:

Ginger, lemon, cucumber, celery, broccoli, parsley and cilantro.

This is what I ended up with:

Looks kinda good, right?  It was absolutely disgusting!!!  Lol  I even put ice in it, that didn’t work, so I cut up some watermelon and juiced that and put it in there.  Oh….I’m telling you I got about 3/4 of it down and then I almost hurled!!  I’m sorry…..veggies are meant to be eaten, not drank!!  Ugh!! 

I poured that out and grabbed me a bowl of Grape Nuts with Chia seeds

MUCH better!!  

Also, we made our stir fry tonight and I put the tofu in it.  It was really good!  I really don’t think tofu has much taste to it, it just adds some protein to your meal.  I liked it because it was quick, easy and cheap!! Lol

Okay, have a good rest of the weekend!

I know, my bad!  I guess it’s just been a mixture of nothing really to post and laziness….I will not lie!  

My food last week was kind of boring.  I had turkey wraps for lunch all week and salads for dinner all week.  Terry and I did go out to dinner last night and I had a bison burger for the first time. It was delicious!  And so good for you, I didn’t know bison was leaner then even chicken!

Okay, so here is what I ate today:

Breakfast

I’ve not had Grape Nuts in years!  They were on sale the other day and when I read the ingredients and found out there were only 4 ingredients in them I knew they were a winner (plus I had a coupon)!  I forgot how much they soak up the milk though and kept having to add more milk to my bowl.  So dang good though!

Lunch

The other half of my bison burger from last night and a side salad of mixed greens, green peppers, yellow peppers, carrots and broccoli….yum!!

Then a snack

I had a coupon for these cookies and they were on sale at Giant Eagle last week so I decided to try them.  The nutritional value is not great, but not awful either.  They taste pretty good too!

Dinner

Oh yes!!  And everything about this is made from scratch!  Terry made the dough and I made the sauce….so good!  We watched a movie while we had our pizza too.  The new Total Recall movie……yaaaawn….OOH sorry!!  (hehehe)  It actually wasn’t too bad, just a lot of fighting I could do without.

Okay, I’m off to bed.  Terry is going to watch football with his Dad tomorrow and I have the house to myself….planning on cooking up a storm and also trying some new recipes so check back tomorrow!

Have a great night everyone!

Hi everyone!  Hope you all had a great weekend.  The weather here this weekend was unbelievable, it was 60 degrees outside yesterday!  I actually went out and cleaned the inside of my car in yoga pants and a t-shirt!

Anyways I wanted to show you the other project I worked on last weekend.  Here is a pic of the door before

and I wanted to paint a chalkboard on it:

Chalkboard paint

A chalkboard!!

This was so easy too!  All I did was wipe the door down, tape it off and paint the chalkboard paint on it.  It took 2 coats and was done within 24 hours.  The hardest part of all of it was finding somewhere that sold chalk!

Have a great week everyone!!

Hi everyone!!  Finally I have made it back again!  Getting caught up with work and getting back into the groove again kind of blind sided me!  I should have known, there really is no easy transition between vacation and work!

I’ve got some random shots for ya and some pics of the projects we’ve been working on. 

This has been my lunch all week this week:

vegetables, ranch, hummus and pita chips.  I thought I would get sick of it after a few days but I actually had it for lunch all week this week….awesome and awesome for ya!

One of the couple of projects we worked on this past weekend was tackling my extremely messy pantry!

We have lived here for almost 6 years and I’ve yet to tackle this project.  Do you see the note taped to the shelf?  That says “more stuff in the extra room”  because Terry thinks if something isn’t in the pantry we are out of it and I have a whole other room full of groceries from couponing!  So that’s just a subtle reminder.  Lol!    Anyways, we moved everything out

Got it all taped and ready

Then got it all done.  OMG does it look so much better then it did.  I put everything back in just to get it off the table, but I ordered a bunch of canisters from World Market and I’m going to get it all organized even better!

Stay tuned….more to come on this!

And also more to come about my chalkboard I painted in my dinning room!  Thank you for reading and sleep good!!

Okay, I know I’ve been bad about staying current with my blog posts this past month so I’m aiming to get caught up with this one  

We finished decorating the bedroom:

We went to Burlington Coat Factory one day to pick up a couple of things and ended up finding just the right things we needed to finish our bedroom.  I love it!!

Pesto Chicken for dinner one night…..just in case you have some chicken and your at a loss as what to do with it! Lol

It was pretty tasty!!

We got a juicer for Christmas from Terry’s Dad.  I couldn’t wait to put this to use!  I peeled a bunch of cuties and made a nice breakfast for us:

The fresh squeezed OJ was delish!!  Along with 2 over easy cage free organic eggs, Panera Bread sourdough loaf and all natural bacon….totally awesome breakfast!!

And here is a pic of Little Girl so happy her Daddy  is home from vacay!…….SPOILED!!! 

Okay, we started on some home projects today but I am ready for bed now and will post on them tomorrow!  Thank you for being patient with me and for reading my posts.  Have a great night!

So the last part of vacation is all about the food!

Lunch at Delights.  Fruit smoothies, caprice salad, grilled cheese and French fries.  Delish!!! 

After eating basically no protein for 2 days because there was no all natural meat close to where we were staying, we hiked 2 miles to Whole Foods and let me tell you……I put on a display with their hot food bar!!!    It was time for some protein!! Lol  All of it was fantastically delicious too!!! 

This is dinner on Española Way.  I can honestly say these were the best tasting nachos (no meat) that I have ever had in my life!!!  If you go to South Beach, you have to go here FAB.U.LOUS!!!!!!!

The last night of our vacation we decided to order in.  We found a Mediterranean restaurant a couple of days before and grabbed their menu.  They delivered so we ordered up!

Delicious and a wonderful way to spend the last night of our vacation…..order in and watch Parenthood!