Lazy Sunday Fruit Roll-Up

I had a nice lazy Sunday yesterday! Nicki an awesome lady I work with, showed me how easy it is to make your own tortillas-are you kidding me, I will never buy tortillas again. This breakfast filled me up, but didn't make me feel tired or sluggish, so I still had enough energy for my Sunday Yoga workout.




Lazy Sunday Fruit Roll-Up

1/4 cup sprouted whole wheat flour
Water as necessary
1/4 cup raspberries
1/4 cup sliced strawberries
1 banana
1tbsp organic dry roasted all natural peanut butter

Preheat non-stick iron cast skillet.
Dust surface with flour to prevent tortilla from sticking.
Mix sprouted flour with just enough water so it all sticks together.Roll into a ball until it is nice and round. With your rolling-pin roll ball into a flat round disk. You can make the tortilla as thick or thin as you like.
The trick to getting the tortilla nice and round is to keep it moving and always add enough flour so it won't stick.
Cook tortilla in the skillet for a couple of minutes on each side. They get hard quick so make sure you watch them, otherwise you end up with tortilla chips.
Spread peanut butter on tortilla, add berries and bananas and wrap it up.
Voila-serve with almond milk!

Love and Cookies

Jennifer

Nobody is perfect!

Yeah it is Friday!!!Finally, just gotta love the weekend!
I am writing this post today because of my own sake.
I struggle with my diet! Yes, even I struggle with my diet. Stress really got me lately and it is affecting my mind and my body.
I  know it is all about practicing what you preach, but even I fall of the healthy eating wagon
sometimes.
Do I turn into a meat eating, ice cream scarfing monster-No!
Do I eat way to much sugar and processed foods- Yes! Do I feel bad after-Yes!

There is a very thin line between eating healthy and wanting to be perfect, pure super healthy and never allowing yourself any treats. Most of the time the treats are not as bad, as the guilt and the stress you put on your body because you ate some sugary or fatty food. And the all or nothing thinking after you had the second cookie '' Oh f...it now I already messed up, so I might as well binge and feel depressed the whole day.''

Eating a whole foods vegan diet really helped me to get my binge- emotional eating under control, but I still sometimes turn to food when I don't want to deal with my feelings. What is eating you?

Food is a complicated subject- sometimes we can't live with it but we can't live without it. Every cell in our body depends on food as nourishment, we need food to survive! We can't just cut it out like alcohol or cigarettes.

So what should you do, if you binge and feel like blowing your diet, being depressed and hating yourself? You have to get back up, get back on track, every minute of your life you have the choice to make the decision that you want. Throw the junk in the garbage or better don't even buy it-remember you body is not a garbage disposal, so don't finish the last slice of the pizza, just because you don't want to waste it.
Take a deep breath, go for a walk or take a shower if you have to get away from the situation. Write in your journal, pray or exercise. Deal with what is making you stuff your face! Just remember it is OK to mess us as long as you get back up.

IT IS NOT ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES WE FALL BUT HOW MANY TIMES WE GET BACK UP!!!

I believe that a plant based whole foods diet is the right way to eat, but if a piece of vegan chocolate once a week keeps you sane and prevents you from turning into a crazy 10000 calorie binge eating maniac, please eat it.
There is nothing as bad as feeling like a total failure after you ate some not so perfect food.
You really have to figure out what works for you, don't get hung up on any kind of diet, eat as many vegetables, fruits and whole grains ( quinoa, millet, oats ) as you can and treat yourself once in a while. Don't let food control your life!! Life is to short and there are people out there that have real issues-food should not have the power over you.

The healthier you eat, the more your taste buds will change and the more fresh unprocessed foods you will crave, but if the Cookie-Monster talks to you every once in a while, please feed it. A little sugar does less harm to your body than a depressed soul does!

Have a beautiful weekend.

Love and Cookies

Jennifer

Filled Avocado with Quinoa Salad and Garlic-Cilantro Balsamic Vinegar

I got this amazing, super yummy Balsamic Vinegar for my Birthday. It is from a cute store called ''Twisted Olive'' which has a big selection of Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegars, infused with different herbs. This is one of the recipes, where I used some of my very precious Vinegar. I really have to hold myself back not to finish the whole bottle in a week!Thank you Ladies for the delicious treat!
By the way the quinoa is packed with protein and avocado contains healthy, easy to digest fats.



Ingredients:

1/4 cup quinoa
1 tsp smashed garlic
1/2 cup parsley
1/8 onion
1 avocado
1/4 orange
1/4 grapefruit
1tbsp garlic-cilantro balsamic vinegar
Sea salt to taste


Cook the quinoa over low heat in 1/2-3/4 cup water for about 20-25 min until all the water is absorbed.
Saute garlic in a saucepan for about 4min.
Add quinoa and sea salt and stir together, set aside.
Slice the orange and avocado into slices.
Chop onions, and parsley.
Blend all the ingredients together with the quinoa.
Slice the avocado in two halves, remove the pit.
Place both avocado halves on a plate and fill with the quinoa mixture, drizzle with my amazing cilantro-garlic Balsamic Vinegar and enjoy.

Love and Cookies

Jennifer

Walk Away-Forgive-Move On

Hello to all of you Beautiful People!

How was your Easter-yeah I know it has already been a week, just wanted to make sure you guys didn't eat to many chocolate Easter eggs(-; but I guess, there are always exceptions to the rule.

My exception was my Birthday weekend, I had such a blast with my friends, we had yummy Thai food and a great all night out in Chicago! Girls we need to do that more often(-;



Anyway, I wanted to talk about something that is really important to your health and your overall well being.
Things, people or whatever you want to call it, that are out of your control. Some events in our lives are just not in our hands. Sometimes we can plan, pray, hope and do all the right things, but if the universe has a different plan for us, we can cry, scream and punch as much as we want to, some things will never change. Some people will never change!

There are number of instances in life when people hurt us, either with their actions or with their words. There may be times when they did not really mean it, but it just happened that you perceived them in a different way.However, there are certain people who seem to be out there with a mission to make your life miserable. They will do everything possible to make you feel bad, they will criticize you, humiliate you, abuse you and what not!

It has nothing to do with you, they just don't know any better, and you are not the one that is going to change their behaviour! Don't stick around to see if you are the ONE that can transform a person. Every single person should change for one reason only and that is for themselves! If your husband, friend, mom, brother or whoever else constantly hurts and makes you feel miserable with their actions WALK AWAY!
Now I am not saying that you should just give up on people that you care about, as soon as there is a problem, but if you struggled for years and somebody you love keeps on treating you like garbage-WALK AWAY-FORGIVE AND MOVE ON!




You will only hurt yourself if you stick around- so get out and the most important thing is FORGIVENESS.
The only person being hurt if you don't forgive is YOU. Holding negative feelings against someone and never forgiving them causes you to become negative. This single event leads to a shift in your way of thinking. You might become pessimistic and feel like everyone else is out to get you. You might build a wall so nobody else can get close enough to hurt you again.

The most important reason you should forgive is to allow the healing process to begin. When you are finally able to release what happened in the past and make amends with that person within yourself, you will be able to finally move forward in your own life. You’ll feel as though a huge weight and burden has been lifted from your shoulders.

Being big enough to forgive someone for something bad that has happened isn’t for them. Forgiveness is for you.

Love and Cookies

Jennifer