So I may have mentioned that I'm doing Jenny Craig. I love it. I love the ease and I love the food. However, this last two weeks some stuff has come up and I could not get my Jenny food so I had to eat low calorie low fat food and really watch myself. I already know that I cant be trusted when it comes to eating especially since I am such a foodie. I had seen a picture on pinterest on some egg muffins and I tried my own version with two eggs, a ton of diced green chilis, and a small amount of cheese. The flavor was so yummy that I made them for breakfast and dinner that night. Ok honestly, I ate them four days in a row. But only because it is so easy and I was running low on groceries. Sunday morning I knew I wanted to have them but maybe a little different since I had been eating them a lot already. So I looked in my fridge and grabbed what I thought sounded good. Some turkey pepperoni (you can eat 15 of these for 17 calories) I think I grabbed 7 and chopped it up. Then I chopped up some baby bella and spayed them with a little olive oil spray, added garlic salt and pepper and popped them in the oven on the broil setting on high for about 5 minutes I mixed together two eggs added some chopped tomato and cheese. Then I added the pepperoni and mushrooms. And then I added two table spoons of spegetti sauce because it is what I had. ( I didn't take a picture of the completed mixture cuz lets be honest it looked yucky) I then sprayed the muffin tin with Pam and scooped in my mixture. I only filled each one about 3/4 full. It made four muffins. I had turned the oven onto bake at 325 and then popped them in for about 20 minutes. They don't always transfer from pan to plate so nicely :) I know you are loving my plate right??!!!! I also made a kid friendly version with just eggs and cheese for Little Joe. These are simple and yummy and honestly you could do anything with them. 2 is perfect and fills you up. So then if you are only making them for yourself you can put the other two in a container and eat them the next day! Anywho... hope you are having an AMAZING Friday!!! Have a happy weekend! ~Heather

So in my never ending quest to better myself I am going to be doing a month long better me experiment. This month will include trying to better me all around. I'll post updates weekly so you can see if you care my progress. I’m already dieting (let’s get real, when am I not dieting, I’m doing Jenny Craig so I am expecting good results), and going to the gym regularly. In addition to these I will also be trying out some suppliments to see if they change my overall health. I will be taking 2000mg of Evening Primrose oil per day, and calcium cuz’ my mom told me I have to. I will be washing my hair with shampoo and baking soda (1 part shampoo 2 parts baking soda, I’m actually really excited to see if this makes a difference). Drinking all the water I’m supposed to. Whitening my teeth with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide (via pinterest) and doing a bible study. Whew I think its gonna be a busy month!

So I have this awesome craft that I have been meaning to do for Pinspiration Sunday but yesterday when I was cleaning prior to working on my project I thought of something that I had been wanting to do. I have seen all of these cool cleaning tricks that I have been wanting to try so I thought that this week for Pinspiration Sunday I would try those, especially since I still need to pick up a couple items for my fun project. So here are the pins that I tried out. I hate to admit that when I clean the bathroom every week I mostly focus on the floor, toilet, and the sinks. I have neglected the bathtub/shower area, so this whole idea would be perfect. So I started out with my cleaning essentials... Almost all of these pins suggested using baking soda and vinegar to clean, but I enlisted a couple other tried and true cleaners just for the extra help. Here is what my bathtub/shower head looked like before I started. (I'm embarrassed to show you but for this project it was necessary). So I started out with the shower head. I filled my baggie with the suggested 1/3 cup of baking soda and then added the cup of vinegar. Guess what happened? Once the vinegar hit that baking soda it started bubbling and overflowed out of the baggie (wasn't expecting that) I added a little more vinegar to the baggie and placed it over the shower head. Then I set out to clean the rest of the tub. I should note that before I had decided to do this project I had already sprayed the whole thing down with Mr. Clean, but I went ahead and added the vinegar and baking soda solution as directed. Then I waited a little while, then started scrubbing. And then guess what.... it didn't come clean...hmmm imagine that. I scrubbed hard to, it was sort of annoying. So since I had gotten this far I decided that I needed to enlist the big guns... .....and started scrubbing..... And low and behold it started to come clean. Magic eraser and elbow grease, imagine that! I didn't even realize how yucky the walls were until I started scrubbing them as well. The worst part of that whole thing is that I know exactly why there was so much build up. I bought the Costco/Kirkland brand bar soap and boy is it yucky! It leaves a gross film on your skin and everywhere else. I actually don't even use it I use body wash but bad mamma that I am let Buddy use it because honestly the box of soap was like $13 and I didn't want to waste the money. When I was done my tub and walls looked like this.... I then took the baggie off of the shower head. (the pin instructions said to leave it on for an hour to over night) it was definitely better but not perfect. I do think I may try it again tonight and let it sit overnight and see if that makes a difference. Overall, it took me about an hour to do all the cleaning err experimenting and then cleaning. In the end I'll just stick with the magic eraser and save some time. So save yourself the trouble of not trying any of those pinterst cleaning techniques...maybe some of them work but really cleaning twice when they don't is no fun! BTW- sorry, when I save the pictures that I took off my phone for this post they appear to have saved small. Oh well you get the idea! xo, Heather

Well, I know that I said I was going to do this post on Saturday but man, Saturdays are a killer. So I made the executive decision to do Sunday Pinspiration instead. Works out better this way :) I had every intention of doing something crafty but decided on cooking something as Buddy requested Ba-sketti for dinner. So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to try one of the yummy looking baked spaghetti's that I've pinned. Of course the one that looked super yummy to me seemed a little fattier than I wanted so I decided to try to make it a little more waistline friendly so I decided to change it up make it a little skinnier and get some veggies hidden in there that Buddy might not notice! The result Uh-MAZE-BALLS! It really is super yummy and Buddy loved it!!!! Here is the pin pic.. of course hers looks awesome Looks yummy I know... And here is mine and step by step preparation and recipe. (Hey I'm not a professional food photographer, but trust me this is really good) and no I didn't cut a slice for you...hee hee First I wanted to get some veggies in there because Buddy does not like anything green and if he see's it then he's done with it. So I grated two full zucchini's. This way he wouldn't "see" them. I also added an entire package of baby bella's (mushrooms in case you couldn't tell from the picture). I browned some Lean ground beef (season with garlic salt and pepper) and drained any fat that was in the pan. Then I added the mushrooms and the grated zucchini to the meat. It smelled really good at this point. After the meat and veggies cook for a few minutes I added a jar of spaghetti sauce. I used Ragu just because its what I use and what I had in the pantry. At this point I HAD to make sure it tasted good so I tasted a spoonful and I was very happy! For the noodles I just used regular old spaghetti noodles. And boiled 'em up! I always add salt to the water, just 'cuz I like it that way. After the noodles were boiled and done I put them in a separate bowl and added an entire container of fat free cottage cheese, 3 heaping spoonfuls of fat free sour cream and a good amount of pepper. I sprayed the glass cake dish with olive oil spray, and then I layered the first layer of noodles into the dish. I followed that by a layer of meat and veggie sauce. Then I added a layer of cheese, 'cuz everything is better with cheese! Then repeat Then I popped it in the oven for 20 minutes at 350. So here is the run down on what I used... 1 lb. extra lean ground beef (but to make it skinnier you could use ground turkey or soy taco meat)Garlic, salt and pepper to taste 1 bottle spaghetti sauce (your choice) 1 package spaghetti noodles 1 16 oz. container Fat Free Cottage Cheese 3 Heaping table spoons Fat Free Sour Cream 1 16 oz. package shredded mozzarella cheese 2 Medium zucchini's grated 1 package sliced baby bella mushrooms That's it! Don't think I missed anything. I loved it! But just to be sure that I wasn't giving you a bias opinion, I asked my neighbor Charlie if he wanted some dinner and asked him to give me a review. He took enough food to feed two people but hey that's Charlie. He gave me a nine out of ten. Said it was a nine because when he took it home to eat it he noticed I didn't give him garlic bread or wine... oh well I'll take a nine! But, the opinion that I valued the most my little buddy gave me two thumbs up...and ate two helpings. Never once did he mention the "green stuff" or the mushrooms, just said "mmmmm this is good!". He just ate it up and asked for more. What more could a mama want. Hope you like it! xoxo!!! I linked this post to the following blogs: