Overnight Steel Cut Oats and Weekday Egg Bake

My husbands work has moved offices, so instead of a 40min commute he now has to leave the house at 5:20 am to sit on a bus for an hour.
So to help with cutting down time preparing breakfast we make these two recipes and that is what we eat for breakfast Monday - Friday. For the Oats you can add different fruits after, or maple syrup. We like to put a bit of diary free yogurt and some berries on it.

Here we go:

Overnight Steel Cut Oats:
1/2 Cup Steel Cut Oats (we use Red Mill's)
1 Gala Apple grated (leave the core out, but I don't peel mine)
1tbsp Coconut Sugar
1tsp Cinnamon
1 cup of unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
I have a small one quart crock pot that I used to use for queso, I put all the ingredients in and turn it to low at 10pm and my hubby has yummy oatmeal at 4:30am and then he turns it on warm and i have yummy oats at 6am.
Nutriton:
169 Calories, 32 Carbs, 3gr Fat, 4gr protein, 15 sugar


Weekday Egg Bake:
the reason I call this weekday egg bake, it cause I make it on Sundays and cut up the portions and then my husband and I heat it up in the morning in the micro wave.

1lb. Ground lean Turkey
2 cups of sliced Mushrooms
4 cups of Baby Spinach
1 Bell Pepper diced
one carton liquid eggwhites (20 servings)

Heat your oven to 350F. Brown the turkey in a pan and season to your liking, once browned add the mushrooms and bell pepper, sautee for a few minutes then add the spinach. Cook until the leaves wilt just a little bit. Then put the mixture into a 9x13 glass pan and add the liquid egg whites. Put in the oven for 40mins. Let slightly cool and cut. Put into a tupper ware and store in fridge.
Nutrition:
120 Calories, 2 carbs, 1gr. Fat 24gr Protein, 16gr Sugar

Bon Apetit:

~ Claudia

Mustard Salmon with Caramelized Onions, Brussel Sprouts and Carrots...

This was a on the fly Recipe...


Ingredients for the Salmon serves 4:
1lb. of Salmon (I use Sockeye all Natural)
3 Tablespoons of Dijon Mustard
1 Tblsp of Olive Oil
and a dash of Pampered Chef Dill Mix ( you can add just plain Dill)

Preheat the oven to 350, line a baking sheet with foil, place the Salmon on it. In a small bowl mix, mustard, oil and seasoning and then slather over the fish. Put in the oven for 20mins.
Serve immediatly

Nurtition:
206 Calories, 12g Fat, 2g Sat. Fat, 0 Carbs, 24g Protein


Ingredients for Veggies:

1 bag of shredded Brussel Sprouts
3 med. Carrots, Peeled and julianned
1 Large Onion, cut into half slices
1 Glove of Carlic
1/2 tbsp Coconut Oil
Salt and Pepper to taste

Heat the Coconut Oil, and put the onions in and let them caramelize, then add the garlic let it cook for a minute then add the sprouts and the carrots and cook for about 10-15 mins until soft.  I put a lid on it to steam the veggies for 10mins with stirring over medium heat add salt and pepper to taste and serve.

Nutrition:
50 Calories,  1g fat, 9g Carbs, 3g Sugar, 2g Protein

Week 2...

Today started week 2 on my Journey to a better and healthier me.

I was sick yesterday, I am thinking it was allergies as I spend Saturday in Austin at the Football game. So sitting outside in the wind. I woke up feeling like a truck hit me. But I rested yesterday and drank lots of Tea and ate healhty. (well there no longer is junkfood in my pantry)

I woke up today and felt much better, still a bit of a runny nose, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. So I went to the gym. I was told to do the same workout I did last Monday, yeah the one I didn't finish. I was determined to get it done this time. Well I almost did. Circuit 3 was only 3 rounds and Circuit 4 was only 2. But I think I did over 200 squats and I know I will feel them tomorrow. *sigh Also I think I was able to do them, due to wearing my awesome new workout shirt from www.fluffyshirts.com


I am looking forward to tomorrow, I will see my two besties from Austin and we are going to lunch. And as I was driving home, I talked my hubby and told him, that I really didn't wanna blow my food, so I will check the menu again today to see what I wanna eat and plan accordingly.

So this non dairy thing is also intersting. My trainer told me Dairy causes inflammation. Well I decided to give non dairy a go. And on Thursday I woke up and had no pain in my hand joints. How weird, so I am keeping an eye on this for sure.

Other than that I think I GOT THIS...