Hi everyone! I'm so sorry that I am just now getting a chance to update. 🙁 Today was another heck of a busy day. It was Bible reading, Sunday school class planning, tutor lesson preparing, and baby M playing. I also found time to sneak in some personal reading time, too. Both blogs and book. 🙂  So, I guess I was more into catching up with you all instead of posting here. 😉 AND I wanted to wait until I had a picture of our dinner to post since I knew it was going to be a good one.  Note to self: I soooooo need want a new camera!!!

oat chicken tenders and roasted brussels

Hubs cooked up some homemade chicken tenders and I roasted some brussels. Mmm mmm mmm. Even M loved them! She devoured the brussels sprouts. Gotta start 'em early, right?

Well here is the 'recipe'. I put it in quotations because we pretty much eyeballed it.

Ingredients

• 2 large chicken breasts
• 1/2c rolled oats
• 2 egg whites
• seasonings of choice

It's so simple. Grind the oats in a food processor to a flour-like consistency. Add in seasonings of choice. We used a Kickin' Chicken seasoning and some garlic powder. Cut the chicken breasts into thin strips. Put egg whites in large bowl and place all chicken tenders in the bowl. Mix around to coat. Put oats/seasonings mix into a big plastic ziploc bag. Throw the egg-white coated tenders into the bag of oat flour and give it a shake to coat. Grill tenders up in skillet or indoor grill pan. Enjoy!

And I'm pretty sure many of us know how to roast veggies. But in case you don't - simply chop the veggies into even pieces (chopped the sprouts in half). Then toss in olive oil, salt, pepper, and any other seasonings you like. Roast in oven on 425 for 15-20 minutes. 🙂

Well, there is my Short and Sweet post. And please check out these two cool blogs and their awesome giveaways!

Lexi at Ramblings of a Health Student

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And the answer to yesterday's Fun Fact Friday is.....#1!!!!! Most of you picked #2. Ha. Fooled ya! I cannot still do a backhandspring thanks to the injuries I got the summer before my senior year of highschool when I was hit by a car. So, I have in fact traveled to more foreign countries than states in the US. I have been to 14 countries (Canada, England, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Jamaica, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Barbados, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica) and only to 6 states not including my homestate of GA and if you include DC (Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, and DC). I will be adding one more state in a couple of months when I travel to Indiana to visit my pal Mandy. 🙂 I would love to go to New York, Hawaii, Alaska, and California. But more so I want to go back to Europe!!!

Now onto the benefits of blogging 😀

One: You can learn about great bargains! I heard that Publix was having a BOGO sale on Morningstar products from Melinda at Fit and Fabulous, so I was able to stock up for a good price. Thanks lady!

Two: You can hear about different products or varieties of products that you haven't tried yet and get to enjoy them. Example - one of my Morningstar Farms products. Gracie from Girl Meets Health mentioned the Asian burger from Morningstar Farms in a recent post and it sounded good, so I got a pack. I decided to try it for my lunch today.

Morningstar Asian Veggie Patties

On a sandwich thin with Newman's Own Light Sesame Ginger Dressing, topped with greens/onions/cucumbers

All Set Up

Bite It!

Review: This little patty had lots of flavor and I enjoyed it. I do think it would be better in more of an Asian inspired dish than as a sandwich, like I ate it. Maybe atop a stir fry, as a base for lettuce wraps, or crumbled and wrapped up with some veggies in a rice wrapper?

Three: You can pick up all sorts of fabulous recipes and meal creations! One of my favorite recipe creators is Jessica from How Sweet It Is. Her recipes always look so delicious and utterly amazing. Normally they are things that I don't trust myself to make because I screw up often in the kitchen am not as good a cook as she is. But, yesterday she posted a recipe for PBJ muffins that looked simple enough that even I could handle it. I emailed the recipe to the hubs and he was all over the idea of trying them out. So, we did 🙂 Follow along on the visual journey of our baking Jessica's fabulous adaptation of a recipe.

Muffin Man pours the batter

homemade fresh jam from my SIL

spooning jam into center of muffins

Finished Product

I had one for a pre-workout snack this morning. It was very yummy! I didn't taste the peanut butter as strongly as the jelly, though. So, I did as Jessica recommended and added a light smear to it. Perfection! And it gave me nice energy for my workout - 15 min on the crosstrainer along with a 45 min spin class.  Once again, the recipe can be found HERE.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!!! Mine is nothing special, but I sure am enjoying it. Hubby is going to a bachelor party tonight (it's a tame one...so I'm not worried about boobies and asses being all up in his face or anything), so I will be home alone with the baby girl just relaxing away. It will be nice. Talk to you all soon!!!

And is anyone else having issues with their Google Reader? Mine is not displaying any of the blogs. Poo! I want to do some visiting!