10 Minutes To a Healthier You

Hello friends. Can you believe it's almost Friday? Time sure does fly when you're having fun (or busy with schoolwork). This week I've been dedicated to giving myself an extra ten minutes to make healthier meals. With a busy college schedule, we can always get thrown off of our nutritious eating plan. If you find there just isn't enough time to exercise, take 10 extra minutes out of your day to make a healthier meal. Hope this tip works for you too!

Vanilla Protein Powder Pancake with Smucker's Sugar Free Syrup and fresh strawberries

Stonyfield Farm Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt helps me study. :) Honey is my new favorite flavor!

Every weekday at school, a group known as the Hare Krishnas, serve an amazing lunch in the courtyard. The Krishna lunch is mainly known for its almond salad dressing-- which is the best thing you will EVER taste. Click this link for the recipe.

Tuesday's Krishna lunch: cabbage, potatoes, and broccoli in tomato sauce, brown rice & sesame seeds, salad with almond dressing, and Mounds Bar Halava for dessert.

At the grocery store the other day, this Tasty Bite Punjab Eggplant meal popped out at me. Being the food blogger that I am, I decided to give it a whirl.

The back of the box states that, "Punjab Eggplant is made using all natural, fresh ingredients hand-picked on our farm." It is also vegetarian, vegan, kosher, gluten free, contains no MSG or preservatives. Another bonus is that it only takes 90 seconds to heat up.

To spice up this meal even more, I mixed in some chickpeas, tomatoes, and melted cheese. This Tasty Bite meal was amazing and packed with so many delicious flavors! My only warning: only try this meal if you're a fan of spicy foods. This eggplant dip definitely delivered the heat! If you do like spicy ethnic foods, then go buy this right now. :)

Quaker Rice Cake with Peanut Butter & Co.'s Cinnamon Raisin Swirl and Smucker's Strawberry Jelly

Time to read a few chapters for class. Saturday I'll be going to our first football game of the semester. I can't wait to see our Tebow in action! Go Gators!

<3 HBB

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Ribbit Ribbit

Today was Day 1 of trying to get back on board the healthy train, which was not any fun. I tried to avoid thinking about the ice cream bars in the freezer, eating cereal straight out of the box, and resisted glorious potato chips at the store.

The only fun thing about today was the frog plate I got to use, which was only $2.99 at Target! I have a weird obsession with frogs and I love this little plate! Mister Frog will get his 15 minutes of fame a few picures down. :)

Omelette & banana

Stuffed with cottage cheese and ham slices

"Lets make lunch using everything in the freezer"
Baked eggplant w/ pasta sauce & Parmesan cheese,
balsamic chicken, frozen veggies.

Perfect Foods Bar Lite, Cranberries Flavor

My Review: AMAZING. Peanut Butter was the 2nd main ingredient & it really shone through. The cranberries were the perfect size and overall, the bar had an amazing texture. I can't wait to find more flavors of this bar! :)

Light & Fit vanilla yogurt, lemon water, fruit bowl
ribbit

Grapes and apples

Unsalted rice cake with strawberry preserves

I walked for about 30 minutes along the water tonight. Somehow I ended up at the fishing pier, where manatees supposedly hang around.

Hopefully tomorrow I will find some motivation to go for a run. Enjoy your night! <3 HBB