Motivation For Healthly Eating

What Motivates Me? 

Well let me tell you how my addiction to Pinterest has change my ways of eating. 

First off, I work at home and attend class at home so I have to sit a lot during the day. 

With Online Networking and Promoting teams & listing & creating things. 

It's a lot of sitting, so its important to not put garbage down into your body.

It's also important to get up and move around. 

Here's my list of healthy habits I have picked up along the way of my long working days online. 

Every Sunday I shop for fresh veggies, I head to the veggie isle 1st.

 This reminds me of what I need vrs what I want. 

Shopping for 1 for 1 1/2 week of food.

Finding the freshest and cheapest foods is the hard part. Here in the northwest we have a WINCO a great savings on family shopping and budget shoppers.

 I can buy about 15 dollars in veggies for almost 2 weeks or maybe a little more. Great prices. 

Once I get home from my shopping trip I wash all veggies & fruit and start cutting and preparing in my mind what I would like to eat.

 I cut all veggies into different sizes for breakfast foods, lunch and dinner. 

The fruit is for all day snacks so I just mix it all together. 

After I have prepared my foods.

Finding good containers that will keep your food fresh as long as possible for storage.

This is a good way to keep veggies in front of you as a reminder of what to grab for a snack and cook for a meal. 

I have found a very good gluten free fat free cheese, and have replaced my bacon for turkey bacon.  1 egg with fruit and a little bit of squash potatoes.

Believe it or not alot of my ideas of how to shop, store, and cut.

Even cook some of the my new foods have come from  Pinterest.

I have lost 20 pounds this summer by cutting out the bad stuff, including sugar, major bad carbs, most pastas etc.
I have basically replaced alot of the bad stuff with sweet fruits and delicious fresh veggies. 

Spring and Summer Tabouli Chicken Pasta Salad

Tabouli Chicken Pasta Salad

I am not known for my cooking but I do have some experience I was a sub cook for a hospital feeding patients and staff every day. I also currently own a deli with my mom which has been re opened now for nearly 2 years from a family business 10 years ago. 

I sometimes like to experiment with different foods just to see how they would taste together. This I had to share. 

You will need the following to start. 

Pasta of your choice~ cooked and cooled

Grapes ~ any kind will do but part of the taste is the red grapes

Radish~ for a crispy freshness

Green apple~ I use a full green apple to this mix I peel all the skin off and dice into very small pieces 

Celery ~ to compliment the radish crunch

Chicken ~ A few chicken tenders cooked on how you prefer could be baked or crispy ~~ If your not a meat eater just simply leave this out. 

Blue cheese~ your choice of blue cheese crumbles 

Blue cheese dressing ~ not to much just enough to wet the pasta down and make stick together. The crumbles and all the flavor will be powering enough

Tabouli ~ I found this Tabouli at Costco but can be homemade if you desire to get that fancy

Cut up all your ingredients into a large mixing bowl.

After your pasta is cooked and cooled down start to add the ingredients together.

Once your diced goodies are in mixed with the pasta add dressing and mix good. 

NOT to much dressing it will overload your pasta and you will not be able to taste the fresh crisp fruits and veggies. 

I add the Tabouli at the end If your serving a good number of people the strong lemon taste may not be everyone's cup of tea. So its a great side dish. 

This is a great recipe for serving at pot lucks, family events and simply just to have for a snack at the house. 

I hope you enjoy .. it's simply delicious!