Pinterest Monday ~ Food Glorious Food

I’m now linking up to Tina’s meme Piquing my Pinterest which is run on Sunday’s, however I’ll still be posting my pins on Monday as I’m already doing Sunday Selections, and linking up the following Sunday…double the fun!
This week I am starting the 1 Million Kilo Challenge. No I’m not planning on losing a million kilos (even though it sometimes feels like I have that much to lose). By using their menu plan and (trying to) following their exercise regime over the next ten weeks I hope to get some of my Moving More, Eating Well happening…. but more of that later in my MMEW post on the 10th Feb (ish). Anyhoo, a lot of people have been saying in the forums that they think a lot of the food will be wasted as the quantities consumed is far less than the quantity you buy. That reminded me of some pins I had on my “Food Stuffs” board.

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Spring onions in a bottle in the freezer! I have done this yesterday. It will be interesting to see how long they last.

Salad in a Jar! I’ve not tried this yet but I can see how it would be quick if to make these to take to work. Some people have tried this by including other veges but they don’t seem to stay as fresh longer term.

This looks like a great catering idea rather than having one big platter and pots of dip. (I’d be real classy and use plastic cups so I wouldn’t have to wash up!)

I try to have at least one cup a day.

Gotta burn that fat!

This looks yum but I’d have to remove the waffles being on the no wheat, no gluten thing…. so I guess that makes it a fruit salad.

Now I have tried this recipe and it is so delish! Well it does have nutella in it so of course it is. I’m not sure how healthy it really is though. Maybe as an occasional treat. (The ice block thing didn’t work for me so it’s probably best in a container)

For more yummy goodness of the not so healthy variety and nutella droolings check out my Food Stuffs board on Pinterest.

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Sam x

Move More, Eat Well 2012

One of the year long classes (or life long – depending on how you look at it) that I am doing in 2012 is Move More, Eat Well 2012 by Cathy Zielske. It’s a motivational class with monthly prompts to keep you on track with your health and fitness goals. It is not an exercise/diet program. Registration is still open if you want to join in.

Note: I had originally planned on keeping all of this offline as it is very personal stuff. No one really likes to talk about their weight and fitness struggles. However I finally decided that if I’m really going to do this… for real… then I need a place to make myself accountable.

I thought I’d start this month by showing you my pre-class pages. Then in February I’ll reveal (with the horrid before shot!) the January prompt and how I coped with making changes, along with a progress update. I’ll keep these posts for the 10th of each month so that they appear regularly, to a schedule, and spaced out from the other monthly posts I have planned for 2012.

So here goes…

The Start – where we make a statement of intention for 2012. What we do if we succeed and what happens if we don’t.

If I succeed I am going to reward myself with 1 Sizzix die cut each month – since I got a Big Shot for Christmas. I’ve defined success as…

• eating healthy with 1 treat per week
• exercising on planned days each week
• a loss of more than 2kgs per month

If I don’t succeed then I will start again and learn from my mistakes. I WILL NOT beat myself up. We also had to pick a recent photo we liked….mine is from early 2011.

Five Things – Here we had to list five things we do well. Honestly I struggled a bit here. Then we took a photo of our joggers. Mine are next to the rowing machine that I plan to use.

See you again for Move More Eat Well on February 10th! And please let me know in the comments below if you are also along for the MMEW ride.

Sam x

Project 365 – Day 363 – 364

Day 363 – The iPad Bribe.

Grace has been begging and saving up for an iPad for months. We told her to wait until her birthday when the iPad 3 is due to come out, but like all teens, she had to have it now! So we caved in on one condition…she had to clean her room. 3 days, and 2 seasons of Scrubs later she finally finished. Even though she paid for half, she’s happy and her room is clean. A great way to start a New Year.

This photo above was taken on December 29th, 2011 using an iPhone 4S

Day 364 – Breakfast.

A wheat free/gluten free breakfast that tastes good too. Bran flakes and muesli. Om nom nom. (don’t forget the coffee)

This photo above was taken on December 30th, 2011 using an iPhone 4S

Last day tomorrow! I wonder what photo I’ll take….?