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Monday, November 21, 2016

Cheeseburger Burrito


Cheeseburger Burritos....because I was craving a cheeseburger but for a little too lazy to make patties! So I wrapped em up and make something even more delicious!

Ingredients:
1 lb of lean ground beef (or turkey)
Whole wheat wraps
1tsp Garlic Powder
1tsp Onion Powder
1tsp Himalayan salt & pepper 
Shredded cheese
Whatever you like on your burgers! <-- I used pickles, mustard, tomato and purple onion. (Dont use lettuce as it will wilt when you grill) GET FUNKY!!! Think grilled onions & mushrooms, bacon, avocado, ham....

Directions:
1. Brown ground beef in a skillet with salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder.
2. Put ground beef onto your wrap and top with cheese, mustard, mayo and your preferred cheeseburger toppings!
3. Wrap it up like a burrito and grill 💕






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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Sausage & Spinach Stuffed Shells



Nesting at its finest! I am in love with comfort food with this colder weather coming around, Brodilynn asked for lasagna & Andre LOVES pasta....so WINNER WINNER on this one! All 3 pasta dishes literally took me an hour to the table and freezer AND it was all under $30!! You cant beat this one <3 This meal is amazing for those people doing 21 Day Fix, Core De Force or any other color coded meal plan!! <--- and we ate the whole pan!! lol

Sausage & Spinach Stuffed Shells

I doubled this recipe and put into 3 - 9x9 baking dishes (one glass for supper tonight & 2 foil ones to freeze!)

Ingredients:

1 Package Large Shells (brown rice noodle variety is my favorite) <--- manicotti tubes would also work if you cant find big shells!
1 Lb Italian Sausage (remove from casings if you cant find ground sausage)
1 package (12 oz) frozen chopped spinach (thawed & squeezed)
1 cup Ricotta cheese
1/2 750g tub of Cottage Cheese
2 Eggs
1/2 cup Shredded Mozzarella
1 Tsp Garlic Powder
1 Tsp Italian seasoning
1 Jar Pasta Sauce (no sugar added - organic variety)
1/2 cup Shredded Cheese for topping (I used more mozzarella and a little parmesan)

Directions:

1. Preheat over to 400.
2. Cook the shells according to package directions, drain & let cool.
3. In a large pan, brown sausage. Remove from heat, cool & crumble.
4. In a large bowl, combine the spinach, ricotta, cottage cheese, eggs, mozzarella, garlic powder & spices. Add cooled sausage. Mix together.
5. Add a cup of pasta sauce to the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish. (or 3 9x9 dishes if doubling recipe to freeze)
6. Fill your cooked shells with mixture and place filling side up in the baking pan.
7. Top with cheese
8. Cover & Bake for 45 minutes.

FOR FREEZING:

1. In foil dishes, complete to step 7. Cover with foil & label "350 degrees for 2 hours from frozen"

**Color Coded Portion Control Containers**
4 Shells = 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 red, 1 green










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Friday, October 28, 2016

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Tis' the season!! These are one of my all time favourite snacks! Classic salt & peeper are always so good but I decided to et a little funky with them!

Here's 2 recipes I came up with! Hot & Sweet and Dill Pickle

HERES THE SECRET (my dad's secret, not mine as much as I would love to take all the credit) to pumpkin seeds <--- After you have cleaned them, BOIL THEM for 10 minutes before you start baking them!!  This gets them REALLY crispy without burning them.

Preparing Your Seeds

Dig all of the seeds out of your pumpkins. Rise a couple of times until there is no pumpkin guts left on them.  Boil the seeds in a big pot of water for 10 minutes.  Remove and place on a paper towel to soak up most of the water.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease a baking sheet or use parchment paper.  Once you choose your recipe to follow, prepare your seeds with seasoning.  Spread the seeds in a THIN layer on the baking sheet, if they are too close together or you have too many seeds, they will end up chewy. Bake for 25-35 minutes, stirring them up every 5-10 minutes and KEEP AN EYE on them!  Once they are slightly browned, they are ready.  

Hot & Sweet Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients:

For every 1/2 cup of seeds, you'll need:

1 Tsp Coconut Oil
1 Tbsp Coconut Sugar (or brown sugar)
1/2 Tsp Himalayan Salt
1/8 Tsp Cayenne Pepper
1/8 Tsp Black Pepper

*If your nervous of the heat on these, leave out the black pepper.

Coat your seeds until evenly spiced!




Dill Pickle Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients:

1 Tsp Olive Oil
1 Tsp White Vinegar (this gives them the sour kick like a pickle)
1 Tsp Dill (I used dried)
1/2 Tsp Garlic Powder
1/2 Tsp Himalayan Salt
1/8 Tsp Black Pepper

Hope you enjoy these combos as much as my little family did!!  





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Shakeology & Pregnancy


Shakeology & Pregnancy/Nursing...I've been getting TONS of questions!! So let's chat 💕 Of course I say check with your doctor but....

Everything that I put into my body, especially when pregnant is heavily researched (both because I care &I because it fascinates the heck outta me!Doctors have VERY little nutritional training in all their years of schooling, which just blows my mind and makes me rather disappointed. Ivr had many women come to me after taking shakeology to a doctor and they don't "approve" because of the level of Vitamin A.... Sadly enough, If they did a little research into the important stuff like sourcing, they would find that the Vitamin A source in Shakeology is from beta carotene - the same Vitamin A in your fruits and veggies - your body converts what it needs and then the rest is used as antioxidants in the body. It is NOT the synthetic form of Vitamin A which is not safe for our unborn babies in excess. <--- this is where education is vital for US to do!

Why wouldn't I drink Shakeology?? It's filled with superfoods, vitamins, nutrients and NOTHING artificial. It has everything my body and my little Scooter needs - it fills the gaps in my diet that I can't fill, I don't have intention of eating raw onions, mushrooms, algae...Brodilynn and Andre drink it DAILY and I've been enjoying it since my nursing days with Brodi...

So yes, I drink my Shakeo while pregnant, I will drink it while breastfeeding and I will drink it every single day for as long as possible because I love it, it's good for me and I haven't been sick in over 3 years. Adaptogens keep stress levels at bay...here's a cool thing, if I don't have Shakeology for a day, the next day my depression starts to slide in....it's SCIENCE, you cant make this shit up ✌🏼️

Take a McDonald's cheeseburger...you don't think twice about feeding that to yourself or your child and you have NO CLUE what's in it <-- and I GUARANTEE there is shit in there no human should EVER ingest. But then you take someone advice on putting raw, organic superfoods into the group the way nature intended into your body and there is even a second thought about it?!?! WOW....this is mind blowing to me!!!

So yes...I drink it up DAILY, baby in and when baby is out and I will give to my baby when I can't give via my milk anymore ✌🏼️ if you want to read more about the Vitamin A, I wrote a blog post about it awhile ago 💕

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

CORE DE FORCE - Week One Workout & Meal plan



Leadership in Coronado was AMAZING! I will post all of my excitement and pictures from that tomorrow but all I can say is I am coming whole home a WHOLE NEW PERSON! One of the REALLY exciting perks of being down there was having the opportunity to get my hands on a signed copy of our new program CORE DE FORCE launching October 31, 2016!  I cant even tell you the level of excitement I am feeling for the new program and being able to rock it in the final trimester!


I also got the chance to workout LIVE with Joel & Jerico, the creators of this amazing program, in California and i'm telling you, there is NOTHING live the energy of a room full of pumped up people working out together!!




If you haven't had the chance to check out the details on this new program yet, CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!
I am about to go the workout this morning, I  am IN LOVE because even though I am min my 30th week of pregnancy, I am still able to kick ass!! The modifier for this program is amazing and makes for a great workout for ALL FITNESS LEVELS!  It's doesn't require a ton of coordination or balance which is nice.


Sooooo it landed perfectly for us to arrive home Sunday night so I could get a head start on my new program MONDAY morning!!  I spent some time over the weekend going through the nutrition guide, the program manual, the workouts and I created a game plan for myself.  What I love most is that the program walks you through exactly what you need to eat, what your customized calorie bracket is and then helps you to stay on track by giving you recipes and tips for success. Im a FOODIE so if the meal plan wasn't flexible and delicious, I wouldn't make it past day 3! I also love that it comes with a customized workout calendar that totally takes the guesswork out of what workouts to do on which days!  You literally check off the boxes, follow the program from start to finish, crush it and get a total body transformation!  SO SIMPLE! I get to walk through every step of this program then walk YOU through it!!

NUTRITION is always going to be the biggest factor in your success with any program!  This is where I want to REALLY spend some time with you and walk you through my plan so you can see how SIMPLE it really is!
There are 4 potential plans that you can fall into {Plan A, B, C or D}
First, you figure out your calorie target.
  1.  What is your current weight then multiply that by 11 and that is your calorie starting point.
  2. You take your calorie starting point and you add 400 calories because that is what you will burn with each workout and that gives you your maintenance calories.
  3. Then, take your maintenance calories and subtract 750 calories to give you a deficit and that is your calorie target.
  4. Then figure out which category you fit into based on that number!
Once you know your plan for calories you can check out how many servings of each container you get to eat per day.  Yes Core De Force uses the portion container system or it gives you the measurements for  each one as well.
I fall into the HIGHEST bracket which is Plan D (because I am "eating for 2") which means I get to eat:
6 servings of veggies per day
4 fruit servings per day
6 protein servings per day
4 carb servings per day
1 healthy fat serving per day
1 seeds and dressings serving per day
6 oils, nut butter servings per day
This eating plan is all about a balanced approach to nutrition with each plan working out to be about 40% carbs, 30% proteins and 30% fats.
So now it’s time to create a plan to follow:

MANY of you will fall into Plan A or B bracket, it will look something like this!
So for a sample of a days eating:
Breakfast:  Plain Greek Yogurt with berries (1 red and 1 purple)
Mid Morning Snack:  Ezekiel Toast with 1 tsp of almond butter (1yellow and 1 spoon)
Lunch:  Steak salad with Mango Lime Dressing (2 green, 1 purple, 1 red, 1 orange, 1 blue)
Afternoon Snack:  Shakeology with 1 tsp of almond butter (1 red, 1 spoon)
Dinner:  Grilled Steak, steamed green beans, and a baked sweet potato (1 red, 1 green, 1 yellow)


TIP:  it’s important to keep your energy up by eating ever 2 1/2 to 3 hours and spreading your servings over breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks <--- I even add another snack to this!!  Make sure you aim to drink 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water per day for hydration and to prevent feeling hungry when your not!
You want to stay away from any processed sugars and breads.  Skip the cream and sugar in your coffee and tea, pass on the soda and fruit juices and say hello to lots of water and seltzer water, black coffee and tea!  Yes it is an adjustment but it’s one that will pay you dividends in your health.
My favorite part about the fitness programs is walking people through the nutrition plan.  So join me in my Core De Force Exclusive Test Group to get results and mentoring 1:1 from me!
Once you have your meal plan together it’s time to press play!
Have you ever walked into a gym and had NO IDEA where to start? YAAA, me too!! So you do 5 minutes here, a few crunches here, a few biceps over there...NOT EFFECTIVE! I love this program because it lays out for you EXACTLY What to do each day to hit the right areas and maximize your time! <--- the days of spending 2 hours in a gym are GONE!  You get a calendar that shows you exactly what workout your going to do that day, press play on your dvd or stream it live for 30 minutes and your done!! you can do that right?!
Do you want to join me??
Snag a spot in my EXCLUSIVE Test Group NOW!!  

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