Healthy Me Recipe

Hello bloglings! So for this crazy health kick, and my brand new crock pot mom bought me! I decided to try it out and make a super healthy recipe. It's like a minestrone soup, with just vegetables, but you can add what ever you want to it!

What you will need:

3 cups chicken stalk
2 cups tomato sauce
2 bay leave
Italian herbs (fresh or dried)
2 celery stalks
2 large carrots
2 onion
1/2 cabbage
3 potatoes

So pretty much after washing and chopping everything up, just add it all to the crock pot, then add salt and pepper to taste, leave it for about 5 or 6 hours until all of your vegetables are fully cooked through. If you want to add chucks on beef, that would work, or even little shell noddles, that would be good to, I also added a couple dashes of hot sauce for a kick. Once the soup was done, I sprinkled some grated cheese on top with the heat it all melted through out, delicious! This recipe is very versatile, so make it the way you like it, with you favourite ingredients!!! give it a try :)

peace.love.shoes.

Healthy me: First Week dieting.

So I started my new "diet" Tuesday. I think it's going well so far, I'm not use to eating so healthy, or even eating fruits and vegetables at all, so I have a lot more energy, and I feel a lot better about myself. I know it's only been 2 days, but I really do notice a difference. I went from eating fast food every single day, sometimes even twice a day! it was terrible, and I would constantly eat junk food. I think this diet is going to help me be more healthy, while dropping the pounds.



I also find my self experimenting with new recipes. Today for example, we really had no food in the house, all we had was this stu dad made last night with contained a lot of carbs. So what I did was take a few pieces of the beef out of the stu, for 1 serving of protein and warmed them up in a frying pan with no oil. I then took the beef out and fried up a pita bread with 1tsp olive oil until it became crisp on the outside, and soft in the middle. Then I added the beef, melted some cheese for dairy, then added lettuce tomato, fat free sour cream, and a dash of hot sauce. It was delicious! I recommend everyone to experiment with different recipes like this one, and share!

Well happy dieting days :)

peace.love.shoes.

KITTENS!!!

So yesterday morning we got 2 new additions to our family! My little Luna had 2 little tiny kittens. We were so afraid because Luna is so small herself, we though that she would have complications with her birth, and there was a high risk that either her or her babies wouldn't survive, but luckily, they are all healthy, and she is a proud mommy.

The labour started Sunday evening, and with us not knowing anything about whats was going on and what to expect we consulted the web. I want to share this website with you, just in case you end up in my situation.

So she had the babies way in the back of our shoes closet, so I couldn't get that great of pictures right now because you are suppose to leave them alone for 2 days; so for now here is a sneak peak of my new additions:

So as you can see our whole family is thrilled about a new bundles of joy!!! I can't wait till we can play with them :) well ta ta for today!

peace.love.shoes.

Aspiring Role Model.



Vivien Leigh. The traditional southern bell raving the bit hits through the 1900s. My grandma and I used to get together every week and just have a movie marathon (and being my grandma, of course it was the oldies!) Gone With The Wind, my all time favourite movie, I must have seen this movie 50 times, there was so must history, love and passion, and of course with Scarlett O'Hara's (played by Vivien Leigh) beauty and charm stole the show.



peace.love.shoes.

Fashion Spotlight: H&M

It feels like I haven't done a fashion spotlight in forever, and with the spring and summer approaching fast, new collections are a must. Lately I've been seeing a ton of commercials on H&M, completely in love with there new summer collection. Hope you like it too :)

Have you seen any new Spring/Summer collections too absolutely die for???

peace.love.shoes.



The Healthy Me.

So this Monday I am going to get back on my new diet, I haven't been on it since October, but when I was on it, not only was I feeling more energetic and happy, I was losing a pound a day. Now this diet is designed to make you chose for the more healthy foods in life, no you don't have to count calories, or add up points, this diet is different. It's called the Herbal Magic Diet. Now, there are supplements that go along with this diet, but I ma not taking them, and I haven't taken them before, I was just following the meal plan a losing a pound a day!

So here is the just of the diet:
2 carbs
2 dairy servings ( a couple slices of cheese would be one serving, or a cup of milk)
2 protein
2 fruit servings
3 vegetable servings
2 fats (tbsp oil or tsp butter = 1 fat)
1 free exchange (this you can either have an extra serving of any of the above, or treat yourself to a light snack (crackers, 100 calorie snacks...etc)

*you must have 8 cups of water a day* and for other drinks, coffee and tea is unlimited.

Now the trick to this diet, is you have to eat everything in the menu, you can't skip out on a serving of vegetables, or no carbs, everything works together for he diet to work.

Also, when cooking you food DO NOT USE SALT. find replacements for salt, for example, use fresh herbs and spices, and when your shopping in the seasoning section check for things with low sodium intake (Ms. Dash is a good example)

To flavour your vegetable with a sauce, again look for sauces with low sodium intake, use a tbsp of olive oil and some fresh herbs, maybe a splash of hot sauce, that's a healthy way of spicing things up.

*** A SIDE NOTE: 1 banana = 2 fruit servings and 2 eggs = 1 protein serving.
Also, a way to cheat on your carbs, if you buy those weight watchers bread, 2 slices = 1 carb.

So Monday is the day I will be starting this diet, I will let you know my progress, and show you any healthy meal ideas I come up with. So if your going to join me on this diet, good luck! oh, I forgot to add 1 more thing, this meal plan is designed for my weight range, so anone between 130-170 can follow this meal plan, If you are in a different wegith range you do get some extra servings, so just message me and I will let you know what you will need.

peace.love.shoes.

A new happily ever after.

So on the weekend my work friend Lauren got engaged. I am so unbelievably excited for her. We would talk about it every day, shes been waiting for him to propose for a while now, so when he did it it was just a shock! I was so excited for her, I told everyone (even people that didn't know her) wedding's make me happy.



So this morning I told my mom the Lauren got engaged, she at least somewhat knows about her, because I talk about work people like crazy. When I told my mom, she said Lauren was stupid to get married. I got so enraged, I yelled and said "just because your marriage didn't work out, doesn't mean hers won't" all she had to say was she is too young, even though by the time she actually gets married will be 24, which I think is a reasonable age, and my mom got married at 20, and my gramma got married at 18, my grandparents have the happiest marriage in the world. I really hate when people are so opinionated. Why does everyone look at marriage like it's a trap? It's not, if you don't love someone, and you can't stand being with them don't get married for the sake of a title. THERE are actual people in LOVE out there. That will make a strong marriage. I guess there influences would come among how they were raised as well, parents surprisingly, have a big influence on the way there children portray life. I know my parents do, and lately it hasn't been a positive influence, sometimes you just have to learn, taking a stand is better, than listening to the "poison" of life, parents don't always know better. You have to make the decision, are they really giving me the right advice, or is it coming from a negative outlook on life that comes from bad decisions that they made in there past.

Just something to think about i guess.

peace.love.shoes.