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Smart Spaghetti
Hey Everybody!
Today’s meal is a healthy version of spaghetti. It is one of my easiest meals that I make and it is also Shane’s favorite, so it’s a go to for us. We eat this at least once a week.
Ingredients
½ Box of Ronzoni 100% Whole Grain Spaghetti Noodles
1 Jar of Kroger Parmesan & Romano Pasta Sauce
2 Italian Sausages (I like Mild)
Recipe
1. Heat up a frying pan on medium heat and another medium saucepan halfway filled with water on high.
2. While these are heating, decase your Italian sausages and make them into small patties.
3. When you are finished, put them into the frying pan, so they are all laying flat next to each other.
4. The water should be boiling in the saucepan by now so add half of your package of noodles, by breaking them in half. Dash a small amount of salt into the water (to prevent sticky noodles).
5. Start the timer for 10 minutes. Stir your noodles occasionally throughout this time.
6. Your sausages should be about ready to flip over, flip one over with a fork to make sure it has cooked to your liking, then flip the rest.
7. Once all of your sausages are cooked on both sides, I put mine into a small bowl and set it aside.
8. Drain your grease from the frying pan and bring the pan back to the heat lowering it to medium-low.
9. Add your pasta sauce to the frying pan and stir occasionally.
10. Drain your noodles when the timer goes off.
11. Add your sausage back to the frying pan into the sauce.
12. Once your sauce has heated to your liking you are ready to eat.
I absolutely love that this recipe only has three ingredients. It makes it very easy to prepare and to shop for. We also almost always have all of the ingredients on hand. I like to buy in bulk so that we have a little bit of a storage just in case. I also buy multiple packages of Italian sausage at the same time. When I get home I decase all of them and put them in freezer bags with two in each one. I just thaw them in the fridge each day we have this for dinner. It makes this meal very convenient.
Let me know what you think about this meal in the comments below. If you love this please subscribe as well!
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7 Benefits of Practicing Meditation
Hi Everyone!
Today’s blog is about meditation. Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. Healthline states that there are several benefits from meditation, they include: reducing stress, controlling anxiety, promoting emotional health, enhancing self-awareness, lengthening attention span, improving sleep, and decreasing blood pressure. I didn’t even list them all out and look how beneficial it can be for you!
I learned about meditation in high school but really began to use it in my daily life in my junior year of college. I was taking a stress management and yoga course at the same time. Being reminded of this practice couldn’t have come at a better time. I was extremely overwhelmed with everything that was going on in my life. I was working a ton of hours, going to school full time, and had recently went through a terrible breakup. I was having a really hard time turning my brain off at night. Which was really making my energy levels almost nonexistent from lack of sleep.
I learned by doing something as simple as focusing on your breath while you are laying in bed, can be considered meditating. I began doing this and whenever a terrible thought would creep into my mind, I would go back to focusing on my breath. I won’t say that it was easy but eventually I was back to sleeping through the nights.
You can start with something simple like using the breath app on your apple watch. If you don’t have an apple watch you can set a timer for 60 seconds and take deep breaths in and out for that time. It is amazing what a simple minute of meditating can do for you!
I have attached a YouTube video below of a guided meditation that is for beginners so you can learn how to meditate if it is foreign to you!
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Shoulder Giant Set
Hey Everybody!
Today’s workout is a shoulder giant set! So let’s go through a couple definitions to get started, they can be very confusing. A superset just means that you are going straight from exercise to exercise without rest, generally two different exercises back to back! A giant set is just like a superset, except it includes three or more exercises. You will complete all three moves without taking a break! Benefits of supersets and giant sets are: building muscles and endurance, burning fat, and boosting performance.
I use these in my workouts occasionally as I see fit. I do not recommend doing this with all your workouts as it can mess with your metabolism. Today’s workout is all about building your shoulders. I like to use 5-10 pound dumbbells depending on the day.
4 sets of 10 reps
10 Incline Bench Front Raises
10 Seated Lateral Raises
10 Seated Bent-Over Later Raises
Here is a video on how to do each of these exercises.
As always, listen to your body. If something hurts don’t do it. You can get a good workout without using weights, if using weights is too much for you. I do this whenever my shoulder is bothering me and I still can feel it.
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Volumizing Hair Spray
Hey Everybody!
Today I am going to introduce to you one of my absolute favorite hair products. It is R&Co Trophy. It is a shine and texture spray. I must use some kind of volumizing product every day or else it looks like my hair is completely flat. I was introduced to it by my hairdresser and I’ve been addicted ever since.
Another plus, it smells so good. A lot of the time when you get a hair product it either works OR it smells good. I can hardly ever find one that does both! I was so excited when I found this product and I think you will really enjoy it too.
I have attached the link below if you would like to try it! Thank you for reading today’s blog. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, leave a comment below!
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