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Easy Meal Prep Recipe: Eggroll in a Bowl

I can’t believe it’s already FEBRUARY.  It seems like New Years was just yesterday and I was making all sorts of goals (new and old) for 2018.  If you’re like me, you might have had some health + fitness related goals on your list this year (like every year, am I right?).  Since I started my own health + fitness lifestyle a few years ago, I’ve found things that work for me and my busy schedule and others that just don’t.  MEAL PREP is one of those things that just WORKS.  The better prepared I am at the beginning of the week, the more likely I am to stay the course.  But on those weeks that I don’t have time or just decide to “wing it,” I’m 100% more likely to veer off track.

Quick, easy and healthy recipe

In the perfect world, I would love to spend hours + hours on meal prep, have enough time to workout and take a long shower to release those toxins from a nice long sweat sesh but in reality, my days are busy running around between work, kid’s homework, after school activities, tournaments and church obligations.  This means I have to be smart about how I’m spending my time and my preference is not to slave over a meal for hours on end.  I’m all about quick + easy – and if it’s healthy, that’s an added bonus!

Enter: Eggroll in a Bowl.  This meal is so quick that in the time it takes you to read the ingredients, you’ll have made the entire dish start to finish!  This dish is easy to make in bulk which means when it comes to meal prep, you make it once and have lunches for the rest of the week!  #winning!  Being Korean, I’m always looking for Asian inspired dishes for meal prep (something other than rotisserie chicken and broccoli because we all know that gets old…FAST!).  Try this for your next meal prep and let me know how it turns out!

EGGROLL IN A BOWL

Prep Time: 10 min.

 Ingredients
  • 1.5 pounds ground turkey
  • 2 bags cole slaw mix
  • 1 teaspoon grated ginger (or ginger powder to taste)
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic (or garlic powder to taste)
  • 1/4 cup liquid aminos (or soy sauce)
  • 4 eggs beaten

Instructions

1.  Heat ground turkey, ginger and garlic in a large skillet on medium high heat (season with sea salt + pepper).  Drain fat.

2.  Add in 2 bags cole slaw mix and liquid aminos (soy sauce).  Stir to combine.

3.  Push eggroll mixture to the side of the pan and pour in beaten eggs.  Scramble.

4.  Return to heat and combine eggroll mixture and scrambled eggs.  (NOTE: cook as long as you like depending on how cooked you like your veggies.  I like mine with a bit of crunch so only stir to combine and let the heat from the mixture wilt the veggies slowly)

5.  Serve by itself or over brown rice.

ENJOY!!

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4 Ways to Make Your Water More Fun + BONUS: Favorite Infused Water Recipes!

Summer is finally here and with the hot sun + long days playing outside, it’s important to remember to stay hydrated!  We all know you should be drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day (or 1/2 your body weight in ounces, whichever is more) but sometimes plain water can get BORING.  So here are some of my favorite ways to make your water more fun!

1.  INFUSE with fruit + herbs
You can put just about anything in your water but fruits + herbs make your drink so pretty!  There are tons of combinations that you’re sure to find one that you love.  A couple of my favorites are lemon + ginger + cinnamon and strawberry + lime + basil.  Instructions on how to infuse water here.  BONUS: Check out this list to find a recipe combination you love!

2.  FREEZE flavored ice cubes
If you don’t want to make an entire pitcher of infused water, you can freeze flavored ice cubes to have on hand for a single serving.  Chop fruit + herbs into small pieces, put them in an ice tray and fill with water. For more flavor, crush the fruit or add a squeeze (for citrus fruits) of juice directly into the ice tray.  Do the same with your herbs and it will release more flavor as the ice melts!  Here are instructions and ideas on what kinds of cubes to make!  

3.  SPARKLING water for fun bubbles!
We all know that soda is not recommended when trying to quench thirst and staying hydrated but if you must have your bubbles, try adding some sparkling water to your fruits + herbs!  It gives the affect of a soda without all the sugar and chemicals!  Perrier has regular as well as a bunch of flavored sparkling waters with all natural flavoring! 

4.  Add an UMBRELLA
Lastly, since it’s summer, what better way to dress up your water than to add a fun umbrella to your drink??  It might not be a cocktail but when you’re sipping your infused water in the backyard, it will take you away to that tropical beach even if just for a moment!  Find cocktail parasols here!

So there you have it!  4 ways to dress up your water and stay hydrated this summer!  What are some ways you make your water more fun?

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How to Easily Feed a Family of 5 (Bonus: It’s Healthy!) || Hello Fresh Review

I’m all about making meal time easier so I thought I’d give a meal plan service a try. Here’s my honest review of Hello Fresh! (And make sure to scroll to the bottom of the post for a $70 off discount!)

Being a mom with a full-time career, kids + their extra curricular activities and staying active myself – trying to cook dinner for the family is easier said than done. 

Healthy meals for the family

Cooking a HEALTHY dinner for the family is even harder.  Enter: HELLO FRESH.  A meal delivery service that shops, plans and delivers fresh ingredients to your doorstep with easy, step-by-step recipes so you can relax and enjoy all there is to love about cooking.  And eating!  With all the subscription boxes out there, this was one I HAD to try.

How it works

First you pick a plan that fits your lifestyle.  We don’t cook at home every day (or have time to due to various activities and obligations) so it was important that I wasn’t locked in to ordering a whole week’s worth of meals at once. 

Delivery is always free and you have the control to pause, modify or cancel your subscription at any time.  Since I wasn’t sure if my kids would enjoy these meals, I decided to go with 3 meals for 2 people for my first box.

Next you get to pick your meals from a variety of different recipes each week, including preferences such as vegetarian, low-calorie diet, quick + easy, etc. so you’re sure to find something you love. 

I’ve found that they typically have a variety of options for starch (rice, pasta, potatoes), protein (beef, lean protein, fish), as well as a breakfast option for most weeks which is great in case brunch on the weekends is your thing!

Unboxing the meals

I received my delivery around mid-afternoon which gave me plenty of time unbox, select and prepare my first meal. 

The boxes were insulated in bubble packaging and ingredients were fresh / cold to touch.  There was an additional cold pack with the protein underneath to keep them extra cold. 

       Our 3 recipes for the week:

  1. Pineapple Pork Chops
  2. Lean Green Steak Machine
  3. Chicken Sausage Pizzas

Each meal came with a recipe card as well as it’s own box of ingredients, making it super easy to grab one and put the other two boxes in the fridge for another day.

Preparing and cooking

Each box comes with perfectly portioned ingredients (aside from kitchen staples like salt + pepper, oil, etc.).  Preparing and cooking was super easy with the step-by-step instructions (with photos!).  And all of our meals were made in 30-40 minutes! 

When you get home late and don’t want to think about what to make, this is the perfect solution for a quick, healthy, homemade dinner.  As an added bonus, each recipe also has a wine pairing suggestion (for those nights when you just need to decompress). 

As for making the meals, you really don’t need any fancy kitchen tools, just your regular kitchen tool essentials will do!

All in all, I had a GREAT experience with Hello Fresh!  The dinners were healthy, convenient and really tasty!  The recipe cards that come with the box are great to keep in your recipe library for future use. 

Next time, I plan on ordering 3 meals for 5 people as it was so easy and a good way for my kids to try new foods. 

Easy to substitute

I will also likely substitute a couple ingredients (such as brown rice as whole wheat pita). Since I don’t eat dairy but my family does, it’s easy to omit it for myself but add it to their dinners. Overall, it’s a great way to stick with your nutrition plan as all meals are pre-portioned.

Take $70 off your first order

I love that Hello Fresh has a convenient app that you can download so you can manage your weekly menu, pause your deliveries or modify your plan right from your phone! Order now and you can get $70 off your first order of Hello Fresh!

Hello Fresh review and coupon code 2021

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Flaxseed Oatmeal Cookies

I’ve got such a sweet tooth and I try super hard to stay away from sweets when I’m trying to be healthy.  I substitute my cravings for sugar with fruit but a baked good is a baked good and can not be replaced.  I had a bunch of raisins that I wanted to use up so thought to try out a healthy oatmeal raisin cookie.  Now I know that healthy probably isn’t a great word for a cookie as a cookie is still a treat and something that you should indulge in but these cookies use whole wheat flour, ground flaxseed and honey which means no butter and less sugar so in my world, that’s definitely healthy.  The best part is that they are totally yummy and do not taste “healthy” at all.  It’s a great replacement when you are craving oatmeal cookies and you can even sub the raisins with chocolate chips. My husband requested peanut butter chips and they tasted great with those too!

I had bought ground flaxseed meal as I had read that it was a replacement for butter in baking so this was my first time using it.  You can’t really taste it, maybe just a hint of a nutty flavor but it seems to be a fab replacement for butter so I will be working it into other recipes.

1/2 cup Ground Flaxseed Meal
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups rolled oats

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 
  • In your mixer (or bowl if you don’t have one) mix together the flaxseed meal, brown sugar, honey, egg and water.
  • In another bowl mix the flour, salt and baking soda.  Add the oats and mix well. 
  • Add the dry
    ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix.   
  • If you’d like to make batches with different ingredients (one batch raisin, one batch chocolate chip) split the batch now into different bowls.  
  • Add in the raisins (or other ingredient of your choosing) and mix well into the batter. 
  • Using a spoon, scoop the batter and roll into a ball.  Place onto the cookie sheet. Don’t worry about placing them too far apart as they don’t spread much.  
  • Sprinkle each ball with a little cinnamon (optional but I loved it!)
  • Bake 13 to 16 minutes until edges and top of the cookies are slightly brown. Cool on a wire rack.