Planning Ahead

Mac N’ Cheesey (click for printable recipe)
One of the keys for me staying on track is having dinner already prepared and ready.  If I make extra of something, I preportion it, and put it in the freezer for a quick meal. 
Lately though I’ve been falling into the convenience trap.  Well we’ve been traveling a lot, so [...]

Spring Pasta Salad

This salad deserves it’s own post – it’s that good. Oh my.

Spring Pasta Salad
(Click here for a Printable recipe)
I don’t have a lot of experience with asparagus or squash. In fact I’ve exhausted a lot of energy avoiding these two vegetables quite successfully for the last 20ish years. Last week though for some reason I [...]

Week Rewind

We all know I haven’t been blogging this week, so what have I been up to?
Saturday:  My husband, and fellow youth group leader, took our teens to see The Chronicles of Narnia:  Prince Caspian.    It was another great movie by Disney.  It did deviate from the book a little too much for my husbands liking, but [...]

Saturday Supper Recipes

Wheat Berry and Wild Rice Salad

Pesto Wheat Bread

Pot Roast with Veggies
Click “read more” for full recipes!

Black Bean Bonanza (Burgers and BROWNIES!)

I’m sorry; I couldn’t resist the alliteration.
I was craving a burger today. Real. Bad. I really didn’t want to halt any progress though so I began to look for alternatives. I’m not extremely comfortable with the idea of eating weird vegetarian food quite yet. I get very hot and flustered [...]

A love affair with Ellie K. and her Smoothies

Ellie Krieger has got to be one of my favorite Food Network personalities.  She not only makes healthy food, but it’s delicious and easy.  My husband bought me her new cookbook The Food You Crave for Valentine’s Day this year and I haven’t put it down since.  I can’t say the same for many of [...]

A Taste of Morocco

I was feeling adventurous today so I decided to try a new recipe, and then I modified it to something completely different and came up with:  Moroccan Chicken Soup.   And, well it’s delicious!
 Moroccan Chicken Soup
INGREDIENTS:

1 can of Garbanzo beans (Chick peas)

6 cups FF low sodium Chicken Stock

1 cup Durham Semonila (couscous)

6oz. prepackaged Chicken, diced into [...]

Veggie Delight

It’s leap year, so technically today is an extra day! I celebrated by trying out a recipe I’ve always wanted to try: Spicy Black Bean and Zucchini over at Green Light Bites. Honestly, I really wasn’t prepared for it to knock my socks off because I thought I hated zucchini … well, [...]

Did He Eat It?

As scheduled, I made Stuffed Portabello Mushrooms last night. We’ve had them once before and DH (Disagreeable Husband) ate them “to be supportive”. Last night produced a much more pronounced grumble when he saw what was for dinner. “No Meat? I can’t eat dinner without Meat!”. [...]