With the New Year we’re thinking about health and ways to make smart choices to live out our best healthy lifestyle as a family; and it’s not just me, I want it to trickle down to my kids. One way I plan to do this in 2020 is through family snack & meal planning. This entails more than just the menu planning & grocery shopping, but involves prepping foods when we get home from the grocery store & keeping our fridge stocked with ready to eat snacks & meals. I know it makes a difference when I have fruits & veggies washed and cut or when I prepare a bunch of meat to eat throughout the week. When the kids or myself want a snack, it’s ready and it’s not easier to just grab a bagged snack from the pantry, it’s easy to pop open cucumbers that are cut up and ready to eat! I also want to make smarter choices to create less waste. That means less baggies, foil & saran wrap, especially in regards to kids snacks & meals when we are on the go.

Happy Wednesday! For my Wellness Wednesday post this week I wanted to answer a frequently asked question. Question: What are your go-to healthy things you order when eating out? Answer: Here are some examples of what I would order on WEEKDAYS depending on where we are. drink // Water + Veggie Based Juice (lunch) Sauvignon Blanc (dinner) Skinny Margarita (dinner) main course // Seafood or Fish Tuna Tartare Sushi *ask for no rice – or for it to be rolled in cucumber Poke Bowl Salad with Grilled Salmon Fish Tacos *ask to be grilled & naked (no shell or tortilla) […]