Saturday, February 4, 2012

I hope you're sitting down for this...

Not only am I writing my second post of the week, but (drumroll please!) I had a salad for dinner! Hahaha ok that's really not news, except I don't eat salad 360 days of the year. I called my dad to get his INCREDIBLE vinaigrette recipe (he's ruined me for any other salad dressings!) and in order to convince him to give up the recipe, I had to promise I'd blog about my salad eating adventure :) 
It's kind of sad when you eat so few vegetables that a salad is a blog-worthy event. That's why I've been focusing a lot more lately on eating as healthy as possible. I've actually been eating a lot of fruits and vegetables this week, and I'm really enjoying it! I was able to grab some really great berries and bananas on my last shopping trip, and fruit has become my go-to snack food this week, instead of candy or other junk food. 
Honestly, this was one of the tastiest salad's I've had in quite some time. I got a salad kit on sale at Meijer a couple days ago and miracle of all miracles, I managed to remember there was lettuce in my fridge before it went bad! Here's a picture of the super yummy salad kit that I will definitely be buying again:

As you can probably tell from the label, it came with a packet of walnuts and dried cranberries, which just made the whole salad extra super delicious. I even put a cute tablecloth on the table and sat down at my dining room table to eat tonight, something I don't do too often. I had some sweet tea to go with my salad, too :)


Overall, it was a pretty delicious and filling dinner! I think I'll be doing this again quite a bit in the future! :)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Yay! A new post!

My wonderful Grandma has been reminding me a lot lately about how much I've neglected this blog. I finally had something exciting to post about, so I thought I'd break my blogging dry spell! Today at work I got the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers delivered to me, thanks to my sweet, sweet boyfriend :) Not only are they gorgeous, they smell wonderful too! And of all the days to send them, he sent them during what was one of our first real "snows" of the winter (without even realizing it!). Such perfect timing! Here's a look at the goodies I received today...



Aren't they so pretty?! Now all I have to do is figure out a way to ensure that Emma can't get to them. This apartment is short on "safe" spots when it comes to Emma. I'm sure I'll figure something out - in the meantime, back to my homework pile!