Felicia Unveiling Me: Window Into My Fridge & Routine

Hello fellow readers of all kinds! I do apologize for not blogging on a normal basis; I feel it means more in my writing if I write when I feel the inspiration to write. Some people have been interested in what I eat, what foods I buy, and how my day goes on my Facebook.

With this being said, I want to take you guys threw my typical mommy, active, healthy life-style day. I wake up just like many of your guys do only with the added toddler wake up call, but the first thing I do when I wake is make my bed. There is just something about making the bed in the morning; it makes me feel accomplished and for some reason happier.

(obvious this is not me, but what I do ;-))

Then it’s time for breakfast. We don’t have in our cupboard what the typical American family has. We eat Oatmeal (Prefer steel cut not prepackaged or artificial fruit added) or eggs with whole wheat toast and fruit or my personal favorite Nutrimeal shake.

For lunch my son Brayden has been going through a phase on peanut butter sandwiches so that’s what he has most of the time with a side of veggies. I have left over’s from the dinner the night before, make a chicken sandwich, packed veggie salad, or tuna salad. If I’m on the run ill make a protein packed Nutrimeal shake.

We eat all left over’s in our house and all food in our house. We only put food into our home that is organic as much as possible, whole wheat, lots of veggies and fruit. We don’t eat snack food; that means no cookies, processed freezer food, no cokes and no sugar! We don’t even have sweetener in our home either. If something needs to be sweetened like oatmeal we add pure Maple Syrup or natural real honey. Other than water we drink green tea (unsweetened), Pom juice, V8 Fusion juice (for Brayden), Rev3 (energy drink), and non rBST free (Bovine growth hormone) skim milk and of course black coffee. Now, I know what you’re thinking…. “They are depriving that poor child of McDonalds’ and sweet stuff! Omg how could they?” I seriously laugh when people tell us this, because they have NO idea what they are putting into their mouths or their kids mouths for that matter. I always say that self education is so very important! If people only knew what the good old government lets these so called companies do to our food and add to our food. Yes, I said it add and do, the burger your grandparents ate at McDonalds it not the same burger you eat today! That is FACT! The recipe has been changed to prolong the life of the food to make things faster and more efficient.

(2 years old Fast food)

You would make the decisions my family has done as well if you learned what we have learned. It’s easy to educate yourself, buy books, research your ingredients, and watch food documentaries’. Here I’ll give you a few to start watching “Food Matters”, “Food Inc”, “Forks over Knives”. Ok sorry about the tangent I went on, but some people need the wakeup call!

Another BIG change we had in our family recently was no cable! Our contract ended with Direct TV and they didn’t offer internet service. We searched around looking for another service and then Chris and I had a ah ha moment. I was reading Dani Johnson’s book “First Steps to Wealth” I got to the chapter in the book about War on Debt. I then realized we spent money in areas where we could have been saving we were paying for non necessity items and not putting our money into other smarter investments or assets. We also took a look at how Chris and I were staying up to 12am every night glued to the TV watching our favorite shows. We realized in order to get to where we want to be we have to start making sacrifices we should not have the time for TV. We were grooming our son also to watch TV all day and that was NOT okay! He should be playing, learning, and running around outside. These are the overall reasons why my family doesn’t have Cable. Brayden still has his movies and he does watch a few per day, but nothing near what he did watch.

How do I fill my time during the day? I read my personal development books, play with my son, exercise, I even have a weekly house cleaning schedule. Threw rereading this blog post just now I realized I didn’t even talk about dinner! I guess that’s what I get for distracting myself. Ha ha!

(My handsome hubs cooking with me)

Our dinners are cooked mostly from scratch. They are always Low-glycemic as much as possible and as I mentioned before I use what I have. When I get a yawn from our menu I Google new recipes and almost always have to substitute ingredients. It’s always trial and error with me in the kitchen. My family and I also plan to plant a lot of our food this year, that’s going to be a lot of fun! You will eventually find your nitch with learning what foods are good and what foods are not so good. Don’t be afraid of cooking and trying new cooking methods. Here are some pictures of some of my meals I have made in the past if you’re looking for examples. Thanks for reading!