I love Cooking!

I have discovered that I really do enjoy cooking-when I have the time to do it!  And, these past few days...I'm making the time.  It's important not only for me, but my family as well.  I suppose I'm just at a good place now...being able to stay at home with the kids-not rushing to work and back and all is allowing me some freedom to cook a little and explore! 

Breakfast was Ezekiel toast with sun butter and strawberries and some coffee w/almond milk & stevia...nothing fancy...lunch we had out (yikes)!!  At trader joes....Alyson wanted a turkey and cheese sandwich...I found a turkey and bacon with lettuce and tomato wrap (whole wheat) premade and since we lost track of time this morning on some errands, I thought it was the healthiest choice I could have made considering.  Snack was a low fat string cheese and cherry tomatoes...then came dinner!!! 

Homemade Chicken Nuggets and Sweet Potato Fries

Made by....ME!

Eat Clean Diet-Recharged Family and Kids Book has the recipes and I was dying to try them!  My girls LOVE Chicken Nuggets (McDonalds..Chick Fil A, Burger King...wherever) so I was interested to see if they would take to these....oh they did!!!  As you can see in the picture, we had the chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries and left over beet/carrots from last night...and yes, that is ranch dip.  That's the one thing in the dinner tonight that wasn't clean....I realized (bad planning) that I didn't have all the ingredients to make either the homemade ketchup or honey dijon dip.....so I gave the girls a little ranch and I had a couple dips...but with the sweet potato fries and the nuggets...found that I really didn't need it.  The taste was so yummy to me, it was good on its own!

After dinner...I exercised!!!  I had to or I knew that after I put the girls to bed, I would get on this computer and that would be the end of my day.  So, I loaded up the 20 minute Jillian Michaels 30 day shred (Day #2 for me) and just did it!!  I do feel more sore (actually, earlier today I felt it in my butt walking up the stairs and when I went to sit down on the floor with my girls, I literally fell over when my bootie hit the ground because it hurt so bad..lol :) But, being Sore means I am moving parts of my body I'm not used to moving and doing great things for myself!!!  

Sweet Potato Fries-ready to go in the oven...Easy!  Olive oil, dried oregeno, sea salt, garlic, pepper (and supposed to have fresh rosemary which I didn't have)

Chicken Bites - YUMMO!!!  Link to recipe:

http://www.eatcleandiet.com/food_and_recipes/clean_recipe/crispy_chicken_bites.aspx