feb day 6

dinner

The only downside to the subject for the February Photo a Day being dinner, is that you can't take your snapshot to the sun is down. This got me really backed up for my photos. After dinner, I just started to wind down, and didn't have to motivation to get on the computer and update the blog as well. So, here is it, Monday nights dinner. I have to say, I have a soft spot for Chipotle (and that we needed to go grocery shopping). I always let myself get to the point of hunger where I need food now! And monday was a prime example, I was starving, and had hardly and ingredients in the fridge to work with and by 8 pm I threw my hands in the air and caved. For all "fast food" choices, I usually go for something like  Chipotle. I'm getting full off not even a cup of rice, black beans and every topping that's not meat or dairy. I know it's a sorry excuse to eating healthy, but you'll never see me pulling up to a drive through!

feb day 5

10am

My morning ritual, for the most part..I wake up and juice for two (not like that, for ben too!). I suck it down and get enough energy to something, anything, whatever, I don't care I just had the most delicious fresh juice and nothing is going to stop me from doing something to make me feel accomplished! SO REFRESHING! 

On that note, tomorrow is Monday which starts my Clean Eating Week Challenge! I'm so excited to push myself to doing something so healthy for myself. being able to know exactly what I am eating and taking in will not only cleanse my body but help me cook a lot more at home. I will keep a log on my progress.

A good morning from little zip who wanting in on the this mornings breakfast! haha

feb day 2

words

Ben and I love Netflix, but when ben has ahold of the computer, old/weird horror movies are our bedtime lullaby. Most of the time I'm am okay with it because I am usually scrolling through my phone right when I settling into bed, so the background noise just helps me get a little more cozy. 

p.s.

I'm doing this again, goal is at least once a day but aiming for twice. I usually just throw a bunch of stuff together, but here is this mornings recipe:

3-4 apples

3-4 handfuls of spinach

2 carrots

4 strawberries 

6-8 blackberries

feb day 1

my view today:

Ben and I bought ourselves a Kinect during Christmas time. Our New Years Resolution was to  use it daily, so we bought a few workout and dance games and have been using it religiously ever since! Ben, I hate to admit, is much better at the dancing game than I am! What the HECK!!

On top of the dancing routines, I have been experimenting with being vegan. Not that hard of a resolution as I thought. One month strong! I try to stay away from bread and empty carbs and refined sugar. which leads me to Sometimes Sweet Clean Eat Challenge! I'm a few days late from discovering this so I'm going full force starting Monday!
Has anyone else tried this out?! 

the domestic stay at home girlfriend

One thing you need to know about Benjamin and I is that we love food! We love to shop for it, cook it, photograph it, share it and eat it; and our next endeavor will be to blog it. Our typical grocery list is made by surfing the web for delicious recipes. Our current obsession is pintrest for D.I.Y.'s and gourmet food!

Today, while we were searching for a new hummus recipe, we stumbled across Haylie Duff's new (ish?) food blog. OH MY, does she have the most mouth watering hummus recipe!  A Chickpea FREE alternative which means GLUTEN FREE, kids! Ben has some food allergies, one being gluten; so when we found the Real Girls Kitchen recipe, he already had the ingredients on our shopping list.

Zip and I want to surprise dad with a snack when we comes home from playing with the boys! We will post some photos of the recipe, a how-to, and Benjamins face when we comes home to delicious homemade snacks!