Nutritious Food

Ok so I’m sitting on my big comfy bed with a white duvet watching my daughter eat a cupcake. She’s watching a movie while I’m doing this. It’s a Sunday afternoon and I don’t feel like doing much right now……..so we make it a nice quite Sunday afternoon. Should I feel guilty about not doing anything, I mean we go to school and work all week. By the time the weekend comes I’m happy I’m off with my family but I’m also completely exhausted. My daughter did however go to Gramma’s for a sleepover on Saturday. She had a great time too…….treats,pizza,movies and feeding ducks. Boy how lucky am I to have grandparents so involved in her life. It gives my hubby and I big break which we need.

I have to confess I’m totally excited about the Grammy’s being on tonight!!!! I haven’t watched the Grammy’s very much but I’m in the mood to see extremely rich singers dress up like crazy and be big headed. I have chips and dip for that. The chips are the blue corn organic from Tostitos  and the dip is baja ghanouj soooo yummy and healthy.

Is there anything that you need……..that is the question I usually ask before leaving the house. I’m the shopper of the house I buy everything we need. Sometimes my husband does I bet of shopping but that’s usually when I’m sick or I just tell him to go get it.  Anyways the point of this post is to gather up ideas for my daughters lunches and snacks at school.

I like to shop the perimeter of any grocery store, everything we like seems to be in the aisles but I’m trying to keep my family healthy. My daughter’s lunch box usually consist of turkey sandwich, granola bar ( no nuts ), apple, cheese, tomato and crackers of some kind along with water bottle. You might think that’s alot but she is in school for 6-7 hours  twice week. The rest of the week the lunch is still the same. I give her alot of choices because most of the time she doesn’t eat what I give her. It must be a phase because she does eat but not as much as I would like. Getting back to shopping………. bread without nuts because that’s what she likes if she had it her way it would be white bread all day everyday ,yogurt pops I don’t really think they have much nutrition but my daughter loves them so I put those in her lunch. Cheese sticks are great for lunches along with crackers but my daughter doesn’t like cheese sticks. I’ve tried every kind of cheese stick but no luck. Lets be honest convenient food is not that great. I’d rather cut up cheese then give her those cheese animal cut outs from black diamond. Another one is fruit leather that is easy to throw into her lunch box but it doesn’t beat real fruit cut up. I’ve tried fresh fruit with yogurt dip but most of the time it comes back home because it had seeds or something. Well gotta go to the grocery store and get all the good intention foods for my daughter but will come out with all the horrible stuff that she will only eat.

Well it’s been awhile since I last wrote anything…………..lets just say talking about my bowels isn’t that interesting. On to the next best thing. Running!!!!!! My motivation is lacking right now I’m trying to find it. Where is it, please someone tell where I can pick up motivation. Honestly where do you get it. Is it when you lose the first 5-10lbs and motivation just falls into your life.

My girlfriend and I recently joined a clinic for the Times Colonist 10k run. The run leader is fabulous she is so awesome Shannon H., is my running god. We start Tuesday January 19th 630PM – 8PM every Tuesday for 14 weeks. I’ve been eating clean well sorta for the last 2 weeks so I have a kick start.

I will be back later…………going to see Avatar 3D tonight can’t wait!!!!!!!! I promise no butter on the popcorn:)