Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Bowl

CHIA BREAKFAST BOWL

(pale friendly)

Ingredients

Frozen Blueberries

2tbsp Chia Seeds

1tbsp Flax Seeds

1c Almond Milk

TOPPINGS

1/2 Graze "Super Fruit" Punnet

Cashews

Walden Farms SUGAR FREE ZERO CALORIE Pancake Syrup

Directions

1. Blend all ingredients together

2. Let sit for about 20 minutes, this lets the chia seeds expand and

thicken the mixture

3. Top with desired toppings! 

**TIP:

** If you would like your breakfast bowl to be more thick,

add more chia seeds and let sit longer

Frugal Friday

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars,
Decorative Styrofoam Balls &

DIY Flower Vase Lamps

Super fun and creative gift ideas

I took advantage of this holiday : )

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars

 Peanut Butter Cocoa Cookies

FIRST

I found cute little mason jars with already

decorated tops at SAVERS 2 for $1. I bought

6 of them :)

THEN, I searched my cabinets to figure

out what ingredients I had 

FINALLY, I assembled to jars and created tags :)

INGREDIENTS

3/4C Flour

1/3C Packed Brown Sugar

1/2C CoCoa Powder

1/3C PB2 (powdered Peanut Butter)

1/2tsp Baking Soda

Chocolate Chips

THEY ADD:

1 egg

1/2C Butter

1tsp vanilla

TAGS:

On One Side:

"Just Add 1 egg, 1/2c butter, and 1tsp vanilla"

Other side:

Directions

- Preheat Oven to 375

- Blend Butter, Egg, and Vanilla

- Add jar contents, Mix well

- Drop dough balls on ungreased

baking sheet

- Bake 8-10 minutes

Decorative Styrofoam Balls

YOU NEED:

-Styrofoam ball (MICHAELS CRAFT STORE)

-Glue Gun

-Hemp String

- Burlap

- Newspaper 

and, LOTS OF TIME & PATIENCE 

NEWSPAPER DIRECTIONS:

-Tear little pieces of tea-stained

news paper

-Hot glue each individual

ripped piece onto styrofoam ball

- after THREE NIGHTS of tearing

and gluing, I finally finished. It was 

totally worth the time : )

HEMP STRING:

Fairly simple, start your hemp string on one

side finding your way around the styrofoam ball

lining each row closely to the previous

BURLAP:

- Cut strips of burlap 

- glue to the ball facing the same direction

- To cover the top of the ball where there is extra strip,

simply use burlap strips to make "flower petal" shapes and

hot glue to the top.

- Finish with a rolled piece of burlap as the middle of the burlap flower

(sorry for the lack of pictures!! )

Flower Vase Lamp

YOU NEED:

Lamp Shade (Antique shop $1 each)

Vase/base (Goodwill $2 each)

Lamp Kit (Home Depot $12 each)

Burlap

Ribbon (not necessary)

Spray Paint

Glass Drill Bit

Light Bulb

LAMP SHADE:

-I purchased these lamp shades from

an antique shop in Morris, IL

-I used stencils and black spray paint

on burlap to cover the lamp shade 

Single Serving Chocolate Protein Cake

Single Serving

Chocolate Protein Cake

( NO OVEN REQUIRED !! )

INGREDIENTS:

1 tbsp Protein

3 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa powder

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1 tbsp Stevia

2 tbsp Unsweetend Apple Sauce

4 tbsp Unsweetened Almond Milk

DIRECTIONS:

Mix ALLLL ingredients together in a bowl

Microwave 60 to 90 seconds 

Baked Honey Glazed Chicken

DINNER brought to you 

by BBCOM

Baked Honey Glazed Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken Breast

1tbsp Honey

1tbsp Balsamic Vinegar

Minced Garlic

Basil

Pepper

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375

Place Chicken in baking pan

Add ingredients into bowl and pour mixture onto chicken

Bake for 20-25 minutes

BAKED CHICKEN BENEFITS-

Protein Protein Protein >> fat loss, lean muscle

metabolism boost, and increased energy

For More Chicken Recipes from BodyBuilding.Com

Zucchini Chips

Ingredients

Zucchini

Sea Salt

Paprika

Directions

Preheat to 350

Grease cookie sheet

Cut zucchini into slices

Sprinkle each side with sea salt and paprika

Bake for 10 mins at 350

Set oven to broil, cook for 3-4 minutes

For More Savory Side Ideas from BodyBuilding.Com

Honey-Soy Salmon, Cauliflower Rice and Cilantro-Mango Salsa!

aghhh, I totally stink at keeping up with my blog, school, internship, 

job, and all the craziness of life.

BUT, for now, I am back and I would absolutely LOVE

 to share this recipe and little video snippet with you : )

Honey-Soy Salmon

Cauliflower Rice 

&

Cilantro-Mango Salsa

Ingredients

Salmon Glaze

Honey

Soy

Olive Oil

Lime Juice

Cauliflower Rice

1 head of cauliflower

Coconut Oil

Cilantro

Lime juice

Salt & pepper to taste

Cilantro Mango Salsa

Mango chunks

Cilantro

Lime Juice

Garlic

Garlic

Directions

Salmon

1. Marinate salmon with glaze and place

in a plastic bag for an hour

2. Grill salmon for 5 to7 minutes

 [I used a George Foreman]

Salsa

1. Mix all ingredients for salsa into a bowl 

and let chill in refrigerator until the rest of 

dinner is prepared.

Cauliflower Rice 

1. place cauliflower into food process 

and process until rice texture is formed

2. Coat medium sized skillet with coconut oil

3. In a thin layer, let cauliflower cook in skillet

until golden brown

4. Add cilantro and lime juice once heat is off

ALSO, as a side I had an 

Apple Swiss Salad

ingredients

Apple

 the Laughing Cow Light Swiss Cheese Wedge,

 Lettuce

 and Balsamic Vinegar

Simple and Delicious!

NOW PLEASE MEET

MY BEST FRIEND….

 BOSU

heres a little video I put together. 

I absolutely LOVE getting my hear rate going

by creating fun workouts on the bosu.

The options are ENDLESS!

ta ta for now, friends 

Grandma's Eclair Cake

I'm not sure if it's ONLY my Grandma's recipe so I'm not going

 to make a little claim to fame…

 but it is delicious and I had to re-make it for myself!

Simple little ingredient list; as healthy as I could get it :)

1C Unsweetened Almond Milk (use more if needed)

2 Packets Fat Free Vanilla Pudding Mix

1/2 Container of Fat Free Cool Whip

Reduced Fat Graham Crackers

Dark Chocolate Chip Morsels

Coconut Oil

Directions

1. Combine milk and pudding mix

2. Stir 1/2 container of cool whip into pudding mixture

3. Line dish with layer of graham crackers

4. Top with Pudding mixture

5. Line with another layer of graham crackers

6. Followed by a layer of Pudding Mixture

7. And a final layer of Graham crackers

8. Boil water in a pot on the stove

9. Place a heat-resistant bowl on top of the pot of boiling water

10. Heat coconut oil and chocolate chips in heat-resisitant bowl

11. Stir until completely melted 

12. Add chocolate on top of graham cracker layer 

13. Freeze for at least two layers; until graham crackers soften

ENJOY < 3

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

After MANY trial and errors,

 I think I have finally mastered the cauliflower crust :) 

Whatcha need, what whatcha need!?

And so the process begins…

1. Preheat oven to 425

2. Cut up your cauliflower and place it into a food processor

3. Process until it becomes super fine, almost a fluffy rice texture

(See picture below)

Step #4.. the step that is literally CRUCIAL to crispy crust

4. Place cauliflower into a cheese cloth to drain out AS MUCH 

water as possible. The less water in the crust the more crispy and pizza like it will be.

( See cheese cloth picture below)

5. Mix cauliflower in a bowl with egg and cheese

6. Place a sheet of parchment paper over a baking sheet

7. Season "dough" with whatever you choose ( I used Mrs.Dash Garlic & Herb)

8. Spread dough across parchment paper as THIN as possible

9. Lightly spray top of "dough" with non-stick spray

10. Bake 10-15minutes

TOPPING IDEAS:

- Salsa, Black Beans, Corn, and Grond Turkey (taco pizza (as shown in mine))

- Sauce, Cheese, Pepperoni, veggies, etc. (traditional pizza)*

- Leave plain and dip in red sauce (bread sticks)

*If you are topping with traditional pizza toppings, feel free to put

the dough back into the oven after you have placed your toppings

to let the sauce and cheese heat up

Nutrition
Crust:
183 Calories
8g Carbs
10g Fat
16g Protein

Now you can have your pizza and eat it too ; )

Mexican Spring Roll

 Had a taste for something with salsa and beans…. 

anddd the Mexican Spring Roll was created!

Whatcha need, what whatchaaa need!?

Ingredients:

1.5oz Chicken

1/8c Salsa

1/8c Black beans

1/8c Plain Yogurt (used as sour cream replacement)

1/2 Avocado

1 Spring Roll Wrapper

How to get shredded chicken: 

1. Boil 1 chicken breast

2. Once cooked all the way through, transfer to cutting board

3. Use a fork to shred chicken 

Directions

So there's not much to it.

1. Get the ingredients you'd like to place in your spring roll

2. Drench the spring roll wrapper in water, then transfer wrapper to rolling surface

3. Place ingredients on paper, and roll er' up! 

Disfrutar! 

(aka. Enjoy!)

STOP BUYING SNACKS!

Stop buying over priced nut butters, granola bars and dried fruit, seriously. 

Those are the EASIEST snacks to make, really.. what are you thinking!?!!?

Lately I have been making all of my peanut, almond, sunflower seed, and cashew butters. I'm OBSESSED.

NUT BUTTER

All you need is 1. Food Processor and 2. Your choice of nut and/or 3. Flavoring

Directions:

1. Throw those puppies into a food processor

2. Sit and wait atleast 8 minutes for it to become a creamy texture.

Yes soo first its choppy, then crumbly, and when all hope has been lost

 that it's not going to get creamified... just keep waiting, I promise it will :)

In my cashew butter I made today I added some honey, cinnamon, sea salt, vanilla and coconut oil.

to make it 1. super creamy and 2. a little more sweet. 

It was extremely worth it, extremely yummy, MUCH more affordable, AND you can add whatever you'd like to it.

LARABARS

Larabars are one of a few granola bars that don't use unnecessary, hard to pronounce, unknown ingredients. They are delicious and all natural. 

So of course what did kayla do? Learned how to make them! 

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

1. Choose a "paste", which usually a dried fruit works best

- Dried Blueberries

- Dried Cranberries

- Dates

-Raisins

- Dried pineapple

- Prunes

- Dried Apple

2. Choose your crunch

- Peanuts

- Almonds

- Cashews

- Pecans

-Walnuts

3. Choose a flavoring/extra

- Shredded coconut

- Flax

- Lemon

-Vanilla extract

-Almond extract

- Ginger spice

- Cinnamon

- Dark chocolate

DIRECTIONS

1. Place the chosen crunch into a food processor until it is finely chopped. 

2. Empty the crunch out of the food processor into a bowl

3. Place the chosen paste into the food processor and process until it becomes thick, while processing add in the chosen flavoring as well.

4. Empty food processor of the paste and flavoring, into the same bowl the nuts are in. 

5. Mix everything together and form into bite size bars

6. Place onto plastic wrap or parchment paper to refrain from stickiness. 

7. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours in order for bars to become sturdy. 

Chopped Almonds

Combined with cranberries and almond extract

1. Cranberry, Almond, Almond Extract (top)

2. Peanuts, dried apples, vanilla extract, topped with cinnamon (bottom)

APPLE CHIPS

This dehydrator is going to become my BEST FRIEND this semester. 

It is time consuming, but also very convenient when looking for something to replace a crunchy snack. 

Slice up some apples, pour some lemon juice on them, and let them hang out in this

handy little dehydrator for about 12 hours.

Put them in at like 9pm and by the time you wake up in the morning you'll have some tasty chips :)

I also stuck some blueberries in there, just to see what would happen. After 12 hours they were still a bit juicey, so next time I would possibly leave them in their longer. 

Apartment Sweet Apartment

WE HAVE INTERNET, freaking finally. 

I have been wanting to blog about the little decorations I put together for the new apartment over summer, but figured i'd wait till they were all finished and put together.

I told you guys earlier that I got a little Goodwill/Garage Sale happy...so here are the final masterpiece how-to's :) 

PICTURE FRAME COLLAGE 

Yes, this is set up on the Goodwill floor. 

Each of these frames cost me $1 and the middle costed $3 .. sooo $12 for 10 frames? 

BARGAIN. 

And yes they're from Goodwill, let the haters hate. Cause once it's all put together

no one would even know.

After I purchased the frames, I went to Walmart and found a teal spray paint and a black chalk spray paint. Using the teal spray paint, I went over all of the frames to get rid of the horrid colors they once were (to later match the color scheme of my new room).

With the spray chalk paint, I made a chalk board using the big frame in the middle

( Spray a piece of ply wood,

 big enough to replace the glass in the frame)

Final Product! 

Here is the finished masterpiece how it is now!

 6 pictures, 3 square mirrors and a chalk board

These are some other decor items I purchased from Goodwill.

The tree statute was featured in a previous post, using little paper flowers

to fix up a plain piece. 

Once we get some flowers (from the many men in our lives...) we will fill

the teal vase (; 

Wine glasses also add a cute touch when turned upside down topped with a tea-lite candle.