Black Bean Quesadillas

So I was actually home the last couple of nights and I was able to cook. YAY! I have been reading a Women’s Health book the past few days and last night I made Black Bean Quesadillas (from the book) and Lightly Seasoned Southwestern Corn from Birdseye, a simple but oh so good meal. Here is a picture of how it turned out and a link to the original recipe.

Black Bean Quesadillas

Instead of making the corn salad in the recipe I just made the steam fresh bag from Birdseye.

Since it was only me at home last night Luke and I have leftovers for lunch today. Yum!

Shakeology and Morgan’s Veggie burgers

Hi everyone,

  So I have been have been eating really healthy and work out since the new year and I am happy to say I am down 10lbs! I couldn’t be happier. A couple of weeks ago my friend from High school introduced me to this amazing, awesome tasting shake called Shakelology. You can drink it as a meal replacement or a snack and it’s only 140 calories. I loved it so much I became a beachbody coach so I could tell everyone I know about it and help people get healthier happier lives.  

Shakeology helps reduced your appetite and increased your energy, it can lowered your total cholesterol levels and it can help you lose weigh and maintain your weight loss.

You get a lot of vitamins and minerals from Shakeology, but to speed up your metabolism you should stick to a workout plan and this simple healthy eating schedule. With five meals or snacks.

Breakfast: Within an hour of waking up.
Snack: 2 to 3 hours after breakfast.
Lunch: 2 to 3 hours after snack.
Snack: 2 to 3 hours after lunch.
Dinner: Finish at least 3 hours before bed.


On Valentines Day they are coming out with a 100% Vegan Strawberry flavor... nom nom nom.

The price of the shake breaks down to $4 a day for 30 days.

You can read more about it and order it using this link: http://myshakeology.com/esuite/home/MorganLaRue

  You can also purchase a bunch of workout videos like P90X, INSANITY, Brazil Butt Lift®, ect from my coach site:
 http://beachbodycoach.com/esuite/home/MORGANLARUE#

 Now on to the Morgan’s Veggie Burgers

 This is my go to veggie burger recipe. I can’t stand the frozen ones from the grocery store so I double or triple the recipe and freeze my own.

 This recipe has a lot of ingredients but do not be intimidated. Once you make these you will never buy morning star again.

Here is the original recipe: Morgan's Veggie Patties

I change it up by adding chopped carrots, no oil, I grind up the gluten free oats to make oat flour, I do not use the bread crumbs and I use a ¼ cup of egg whites or if I want to make it vegan I use ground flax seed and water instead of the egg whites. Also sometimes I use pinto beans instead of the white beans. All depends on what I have on hand. I also do not fry them, I put them under the broiler for 5 min flip and put back under the broiler for another 5 min. Once cooled I put in freezer bags and grab one out as needed. To heat them up just pop one in the microwave, cover with a damp paper towel.
I usually do not eat these with bread either I just put spicy hummus on top and top that with spinach a side salad or brown rice (depends on my mood) and some kind of steamed veggie.

YUMMY!

Happy New New

OK it’s been a while since I wrote in here, just seems like there is not enough time in the day sometimes. So on that note HAPPY NEW YEAR! As of Jan 2^nd Luke and I have been back on the detox part of The Fat Smash Diet and doing pretty well on it so far. I love cooking and in this diet you must cook. Plus exercise and since I got Just Dance 3 and The Michael Jackson Experience for the Wii for Christmas I have been dancing my way into a new me. Plus I have been doing the Wii More Active 6 week challenge.    

So to get back to the cooking here are 2 things I have made in the past few week that I really love.

Garden Vegetable Soup from the Food Network.

The only difference I made is that I use Sweet Potato instead cousin the white potato.

Luke and I loved this soup so much I ended up making 2 batches last weekend. Nom Nom Nom

And last night my dad came over for dinner and I made Mexi-rice and bean Tacos, with Spicy Sweet Potato

Adapted from this recipe: Mexi-riceand bean burritos, with spicy sweet potato..  (scroll down till you find the recipe on the page) 

I made some changes instead of using flour tortillas I used the small corn ones.

I used one can of low sodium kidney beans, rinsed and drained.

I also mashed some of the beans with a masher

I used 4 tablespoons of no salt diced tomatoes from a can

And I used Mexican style brown rice from this recipe: Mexican rice

 (I use Brown rice and Veggie broth instead of the chicken broth)