by Jenni in Meat Free Monay
Brussels sprouts are in season and have been on our table for almost every dinner. I have been testing a few different recipes for these little green balls of goodness, and my favorite is this sweet and spicy concoction. The original recipe is from Food Network Magazine.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 2-3
Set
oven to 450 degrees.Chop ends of sprouts and remove all outer leaves.
Place in bowl and mix olive oil, honey, chili flakes, and a pinch of
salt and pepper. Place on pan with cut side down and bake for 10
minutes. When finished baking, either leave crisp outer shell on or
remove if desired. If you would prefer them be either sweeter or
spicier, place in a bowl and mix in more honey or chili once cooked.
Divide, serve, and enjoy.
Brussels sprouts are a great source of vitamin A, C, and K and have two grams protein for every serving. They have about 6 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams being dietary fiber. Brussels sprouts have relatively no fat.
by Jenni in Thrifty Girl
I am no coupon clipper. There is far too much patience and paper for me to ever aspire to that level of money saving. Fortunately, there are a few apps that feel my pain and help me save sans the clippers. The extra nice perk, they are free! No "spend money to save money". So, here are two of my favorite money saving apps!
This app is free from Publix and has all of the weekly deals along with special offers that may not be displayed in the store. When you open the app, you choose your store from the nearest to your zip code, and look at the weekly deals! It is a pretty easy app to understand and your store can be changed at any time. The app has four main categories: the store selector, offers, brands, and the weekly add. I mainly use it for the weekly add, but the "offers" tab is pretty neat too!
Offers show you all the offers that are available in the different areas of the store i.e. groceries, pet care, pharmacy etc. For a free app, it is nice, although I do wish that there was a way to collect or copy the offers you are interested in. All that is available now is memorizing what I want and adding it to my grocery app... pretty time consuming for something that was made to make my life easier. Overall, I would give it four stars. It is a solid app for the purpose, just wish it had a few more bells and whistles.
Oh, I love Target and this Target app is wonderful for those who love Target and saving money. Not only does it give you all the weekly ads of your nearest Target, but it also tells you about upcoming events. I have actually found myself using this app more than Target.com and for pretty good reason. It shows all products available, featured products, weekly ads, a list option and a way to check up on gift cards and their balances. Pretty neat! What I love most about the list option is you can create as many lists as you want. Oh boy will this be helpful at Christmas!
The Target app is also compatible with Passbook and works pretty well with it. Although I have still not become a firm lover of Passbook with it's funny quirks, I do love using both these apps together! This app definitely gets five stars from me!
A few months ago I was able to find a completely new form of yoga that I love while staying up in a nice, small town in Michigan at a Ranch away from the big city. It was so relaxing up there, the weather seems to always be the way you want it, the bug population is much lower than Florida, and I get to see more stars here than I do in most places. One night, I decided to take advantage of the perfect weather by doing two of my most favorite things- reading outside and yoga.
After reading a few chapters in my latest book, I decided to move my workout outside and enjoy the night a little more. The home we were are staying at has a massive outdoor patio, so I took my yoga mat out and got to work. This was, possibly, one of my favorite yoga-flows ever. I turned my iphone screen down low, put in some headphones, and listened to vocal instruction for the Yogamazing posture flow. The flow was so relaxing and the stars were the perfect focus point. My headphones were low enough that I could still here the crickets and birds, and there were no outdoor lights on so the stars came out in force. Wonderful.
The weather in Florida has been so wonderful for the past few days that I cannot help but to wish we had a large outdoor patio to do some more night yoga on. If you have the ability to take your usual yoga routine outside, try it! It just might become a new favorite switch up!
Happy Halloween everyone!! To get in the Halloween spirit and work off some of those sweets that go hand-in-hand with Halloween, I have decided to add two of my favorite videos that work the bum.
First off is the Tracey Anderson butt and thighs webisode. Tracey Anderson is a hardcore trainer who works with people like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. They pay a lot to have her but we get her webisodes for free. Score-sees! This workout on the bum is a bit intense and I can, pretty much, guarantee that you will be feeling it tomorrow!
Next is one of my personal faves, the Amanda Russell hip, bum, thighs workout. I love this workout. It is crazy simple but very effective. Fifty lunges followed by fifty squats and ending with twenty-five back extensions. Amanda recommends doing as many reps of this as possible in fifteen minutes. Since I had just completed the Tracy Anderson, I decided to settle at two. The only change I made to this is with the squats on the second rep. Instead of keeping my feet forward, I turn them out so I am doing a second position plie. Just make sure to keep you back straight and your bum tucked in.
What is the best thing about both these workouts? Together, it should only take about 30 minutes! Yep, a solid workout for the hips, thighs, and bum in 30 minutes or less... Now that is what I call a Halloween treat!
