Meal Planning {6.12.23}

It's Sunday - time to grocery shop and plan/prep for the week!

Here are my meals this week. I have them planned for "days," but I don't always do them on those days. Sometimes I don't even make them in that week - I just circle them on my monthly menu so I know I can add them to the next month's menu. You'll find the links for the recipes below.

Sheet Pan Shrimp - another SkinnyTaste recipe. My friend shared this recipe the other day, she had made it and love it. I have yet to find one I didn't like! I'll probably serve this with some asparagus and potatoes.

Chicken Pasta Salad - Pioneer Woman recipes are some of my favorites, and this one feels light and summery to me.

Baked Chicken Parm - I'll probably serve a Caesar salad with it. 

Grilled Chicken and bakes potatoes

Sheet Pan Burrito "Casserole" - This recipe is from a saved reel on instagram, but I turned it into a PDF so you can print it (I print all my recipes and keep them in a biner)

Happy eating!

Meal Planning {6.5.23} and weekend recap

Happy Monday morning! I hope you had a great weekend! We had some fun in the sun...and rain. 

We decided to play tennis Saturday morning, and of course as soon as we got to the courts, it started POURING. So we were just going to wait out the rain. As the saying goes, if you don't like the weather in Florida, just wait 5 minutes. 

Well, apparently, my girls can't wait 5 minutes, lol, so they decided to play in the rain. It did eventually stop, and I joined them for an hour or so. 

Then, later, they walked back to the park (this is the summer of independence for them - they are loving it!) to play some basketball. Notice now how it's sunny??

The rain kept at bay, so I could go for my nightly walk. I love this time. I take 30 minutest to go for a walk and listen to my audiobook. 

I found a new pair of shorts that I LOVE. I will buying these in all the colors, but I'm currently obsessed with these neon yellow ones!

Morning sunrises, still going strong - there's something about starting your mornings like this. 

and trying out new hairstyles on the girls. My girls have the THICKEST and longest hair ever, and they HATE putting their hair up in ponytails. I just don't get it! So, my thought is if I do fun hairstyles, they'll want to put their hair up. 

Sunday, Autumn had a birthday party for a friend at the North County pool, so naturally the other girls and I hung out too - I swam laps in the lanes, and the girls played around in the lanes. 

We're all a little sunkissed and a little blonder :) 

Ok - so since it's Monday, I'll be doing a weekend recap AND a meal planning post. 

I was doing really good with meal planning, until the school year started, even though I STILL meal planned each month (yes, I do a monthly meal plan, so that I only need to do it every few weeks. It's a game changer!)

I have them planned for "days," but I don't always do them on those days. Sometimes I don't even make them in that week - I just circle them on my monthly menu so I know I can add them to the next month's menu. You'll find the links for the recipes below

 1. Grilled Mahi - We've been using our grill A LOT. The girls used to hate grilled food because it looked "burnt" but they're realizing it's not burnt, it's flavor!

2. Loaded Nachos - A SkinnyTaste recipe. I just love some loaded nachos!

3. Tortilla Encrusted Chicken - Another new SkinnyTaste recipe. I usually really like their recipes. If you try this one, let me know what you think. 

4. Sweet & Sour Shrimp Rice Bowls - This is a new one, but it uses already make salad mix, so I'm always game for a quick and easy recipe

5. Crabcakes - this is such an easy recipe using StoveTop Stuffing. Not the healthiest, in terms of whole foods, but it's always good!

And here's what I prepped for my breakfast this morning

Sweet potato

onion

sausage

paprika

tumeric

S & P

Then each day, I'll sauté spinach and cook an egg to put on top. It's SO GOOD

One of my go-to snacks this week - it's like a pina colada yogurt!

vanilla yogurt (your favorite - this one is my new favorite right now!)

dried pineapple

coconut

cinnamon

walnuts

Saturday Round-Up

Oh, my goodness.

Well, I'm back to work and so now I'm back to trying to figure out my new routine. 

So, instead of Friday Favorite or Menu Planning Thursday - I'm just going to do a Saturday Round up, combing it all!  So grab your coffee, and come hang out for a while!

Last weekend (hard to believe), we came home from our trip to North Carolina. 

We were heading home and Ron really wanted to stop off at South of the Border. lol Turns out, that SAME DAY  in 2014, we were heading out for our road trip and had stopped at South of the Border. SO...we had to remake some pictures. 

2014

2022

2014 - pregnant with Caroline

2022 - Caroline (and the girls) are a LITTLE bigger now 😭

If you want to see our trip, here's PART 1 in the mountains, and here's PART 2 at the coast. 

I mentioned I went back to work - well, this week and next week are all new teacher training...new teacher as in "new to Pineapple Cove" training, because they do things A LOT differently than most BPS schools (which is why I switched to BPS)

The biggest difference, so far, that really challenged my brain was the Orthography training. I'm such a phonics nerd, so I LOVE this... but the coding and "script" of what/when/how to say it, that's they mind challenge. But I am excited about it!

What I wasn't excited about? Doing a lesson in front of my peers. lol. I mean, if I was confident in the subject I was teaching, I wouldn't mind, and actually, it wasn't bad once I got up there, because I knew that EVERYONE was nervous and didn't know what they were doing. lol. 

Coming home from work, it's still summer, so I would jump in the pool with the girls to enjoy the outdoors after being inside all day.

/SWEATER TANK/ /SKORT/

This skort is one of my favorites - I have it in a few colors now. 

TANK/  /JOGGERS/

/SHIRT/ /CARDIGAN/ /JOGGERS/

I've still gotten in my workouts every morning! I think it helps that I woke up early still throughout the summer, because it's not too bad getting up in the morning before work to get it in. 

Granite software n snug hustle shorts...quite possibly my favorites after luxe drawstring hustle shorts...and they're they're sale!!

Gray all star bra Blackberry Twist tank - we don't have this color right now, but we have other colors!

Abstract leggings and all star bra - such a fun set!! So comfy and silky and stretchy... no top seam, but they stay up, especially after you get going and get a little dewy from the sweat.

Maroon seamless hustle shorts. Love these - no seam, but the compression is still there! Comes in a bunch of different colors too. I sized up in the pink ones and they still fit perfectly.

Black luxe muscle tank- one of my favorite tanks for working out and hanging out and daily wearing.

The new hazard tank. I love this tank. It feels just like the kettlemoon

Yellow metallic lnt strappy

Neon tape luxe leggings (on sale!)

Island pine leggings - it's so hard to capture the beauty of these leggings, but take a look at these other beautiful ladies wearing them. Hendrix bomber - this one is on sale! I really like this one, more than I thought I would, actually. Yellow copper charge tank - one of my favorites 😍

Guysssss!! Have you tried the new XB pilates on beachbody on demand yet??? Holy. Cow. It's like barre blend on steroids 😆 I had to DROP my TWO LB WEIGHTS this morning at one point because it was so dang hard - ha! One day, I'm using my 20 lbs for upper body day, and today I was struggling with 2 lb weights, if that tells you anything. I did the sculpt 1workout. I am definitely incorporating this program into my weekly rotation. I haven't even tried any of the new workouts they've added, but xb is part of the open fit programs that they added. I'll have to give the other ones a shot at some point too

I'm starting to get some new things for my classroom! I'm not getting to much because (A) I have a SO MUCH already (B) I don't know what my classroom will look like yet and if there are any "rules" that we have to follow for lack of decorating. 

/BURLAP PINEAPPLE FLAG/ /PINK PINEAPPLE FLAG/

School Girl Style Tropical Set

And since we're back into the swing of working again, time to stock up on my dry shampoo. lol 

and it's time to make that grocery list! So, here's what's on the menu for next week....

Remember, I have them planned for "days," but I don't always do them on those days. Sometimes I don't even make them in that week - I just circle them on my monthly menu so I know I can add them to the next month's menu. You'll find the links for the recipes below

1. 

1.  Garlic Herb Shrimp Scampi - so light and refreshing. It's one of my favorite recipes. 

2. Sheet Pan Jalapeño Pineapple Shrimp Tacos - (I didn't get to this last week, so I just moved it to this week for our Taco Night) I LOVE a yummy shrimp taco. The girls and I can't handle much heat, so I'll put the jalapeños off to the side for Ron. He loves heat. 

3.  Bacon Chicken Sandwiches - just plop on the grill and add some bacon, lettuce and tomato!

4.  Grilled Chicken and Spicy Corn Salad - again, I'll leave off some of the heat for us girls, but add it on for Ron

5.  Creamy Garlic Butter Tuscan Salmon - yummm. We love salmon and it seems like garlic is one of my favorite flavors this week. lol

Allllrighty. I think that's it for today! I think I'm all caught up... perhaps. I mean, there's always WAY more going on than what I can/do share, but those are the "highlights" of the week. (not the best of, just the main parts of...I'm not a highlight reel kind of person. I share the good, bad, and ugly!)

MEAL PLANNING {7.18.22}

Good morning, and happy Thursday! 
It's meal planning time - Time to start to adding to my grocery list of things we run out of and taking a look at our menu for next week.

I'll be back to work next week, so these recipes should be super easy for me to come home and start cooking. Normally, I like to do crockpot meals - but I save those for when we're back into sports - which shall be soon!

This week, I turned in my Walmart pickup order before we left for our trip, that way I didn't have to worry about what I needed when we got back. I just had it scheduled for Sunday morning. To fill that empty fridge. lol

So here's next week's meals. I have them planned for "days," but I don't always do them on those days. Sometimes I don't even make them in that week - I just circle them on my monthly menu so I know I can add them to the next month's menu. So while it looks like I'm organized, scheduled, and regimented, I'm also pretty go-with-the-flow. Maybe that's part of being a teacher? lol

1. Asiago-Crusted Pork Chops -  I've had this one in my binder for YEARS. It's one of my go-to recipes. I'm going to make some air fryer sweet potato fries to go with this...because I have some that have been sitting on my counter for a while now that need to be eaten lol

2. Sheet Pan Jalapeño Pineapple Shrimp Tacos - I LOVE a yummy shrimp taco. The girls and I can't handle much heat, so I'll put the jalapeños off to the side for Ron. He loves heat. 

3. Bourbon Pecan Chicken - I haven't tried this recipe yet, so we'll see how it turns out. The comments on the link are promising, though! I might make some honey glazed carrots to go along with this. 

4. Oven Baked BBQ Chicken with Creamy Corn Rigatoni - For the 4th of July we had some kind of version of this exact meal. I love a corn pasta with BBQ chicken, it kind of goes hand in hand, in my opinion. And you really can't go wrong with Pioneer Woman - I love her recipes!

5.  Chicken and Shrimp Stir Fry - we seem to have a lot of chicken on the menu this week, but we've been having a lot of red meat, so maybe this will be a nice lean meat week. ha! 

So that's the menu for this week! I'd love to know if you make any of them and if you like them!