Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is
your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,
a new mindset, and another day. If you become the
hawt Girl energy you want to attract. I just want
to start off this episode by saying, I feel like
the weather has been so crazy. I don't know if
anyone else is currently dealing with spring one day and
then you know, summer another day, and then winter the next.
Like it has been like really nice days where it
feels like fifteen degrees out, which is nice for us
here in Ontario, and we'll be outside, you know, no coats, whatever,
and then the next day it will be like pouring rain,
really cold, and it's like, okay, well whatever rains whatever.
And then the following day it will be like snow,
Like it will wake up to a bunch of snow
with it, Like what is going on? Like is it spring?
Is it winter? Like just a weird time of the year,
but obviously it's still winter and spring doesn't officially start
untill later this week. But it's just funny to me
how the weather has been such an interesting day, Like
I feel like you wake up and you never know
what it's going to be. Like, I'm like, do I
wear a coat? Do I not? It's just that time
of the year where it's weird weather and yeah, you
know what, at least the sun is shining today, and
I can take that as a positive going into the day.
I wanted to record an episode about my relationship with
food because I feel like my eating habits have really
evolved since I was in my early twenties to now,
and I feel like I definitely have a very different
relationship with food than I did when I was younger.
And I feel like this might relate to a lot
of girls who are currently going through either a healing
journey or maybe someone that can relate to going through
maybe a difficult time with a relationship with food and then,
you know, finally coming to a realization of a happy
spot with food. And I think food is such an
interesting topic because I think a lot of people, you know,
sometimes don't realize the relationship that they have with food
and how it's impacting themselves on a day to day basis.
And I'm not a nutritionist, you know, sometimes I think
I'm like, should I you know, get some schooling done
and become one, because I am so fascinated by how
food is such an important part to our bodies and
how like literally certain foods that we eat can really
play a huge impact in our mood and how we feel.
I don't know, I just feel like I've always been
very interested in learning about the way that food is
and like the magic behind it and all that. And
then I also thought I would share some recipes that
I've been loving because I've definitely been trying out a
lot of new recipes trying to incorporate new food groups
into my day to day life, and figured it would
be a good opportunity to just to kind of share
things that I'm loving currently. I love hearing recipes and
hearing what people are eating and what they're you know,
trying out. I also love watching YouTube around that. So yeah,
just like love the whole idea of like hearing what
people are eating and what they do for meals. It
just kind of gives you some inspiration. It gives me
some inspiration to try out new things. So yeah, I
thought it would do the episode around that. Before we
get into that, I thought we could do a little
bit of a weekly recap. This past weekend, it was
my sister's twenty sixth birthday, which is so crazy because
I feel like when you're the older sister and you
see your younger sister just like grow up and see
your enter like a new chapter every single year, it's
just truly, I don't know, such a shocking experience. I
still see her as like my young little sister and
not the woman that she is now, and like she
has a career now, and like she just has her
shit together, and I'm so proud of her. But I
just feel like every year, like when we celebrate a
new age for her, it's always just such a crazy
thing to see. I don't know if anyone knows this,
but me and my sister are actually four years apart,
and I feel like I've gotten a few questions asking,
like our relationship and like has it always been the
way that it is, of like us being so close,
and and did you guys ever have like difficult times?
We have definitely had not the most perfect relationship in
the world, I think, obviously, like as you grow up,
it was always difficult, like when I was four and
she was a baby, obviously, like that was never an issue,
like very easy to like kind of you know, adapt
with a toddler, but I think it was really like
hard for both of us. When she was in elementary
school and I was going to high school, I never
had a very good relationship with her. I think I
was very embarrassed of having a younger sister. I know
that sounds crazy right now, but like back in the day,
I just feel like I would be scared that she
would embarrass me, and like I wanted to look cool
in front of my friends, and you know, because she
was so much younger, I just like never really got
along with her, and like we had our differences, and
I think it's always really tough when you guys are
in two different phases in your life, and we fully
were in two different phases, and I think that's when
it was kind of hard to be in a close
relationship with her. Of course, during that time, we were
still sisters and like got along, but I wouldn't say
like we were friends. We were sisters. We're family, Like
we're obviously I love each other no matter what, But
we didn't have a very close relationship. I wouldn't say
we got close really until my sister went to university,
and then I was graduating college or fully had a
corporate job. That's when we started to get really close.
And that kind of like flourished our friendship and we
became even closer and closer, and I would say, like
the last three years, we've been the closest we've ever been,
and it's truly been the best thing ever. Like having
a sister that's your best friend is like literally the
best thing ever. Like if you have two girls right
now or two young boys, and like you're wondering if
your kids will ever be best friends in life, whether
there's a large age gap or not. I personally think
that regardless, eventually they will be friends. Even if it
is tough for a little bit, they will find their
way to each other. And I remember my mom telling
me like years ago when me and my sister were
fighting and I'm like, oh, I wish I never had
a sister, blah blah blah. My Mom's like, one day,
you are going to thank me for having a sister,
Like I just remember her telling me that word for word,
like you are going to thank me one day for
having her, And here I am to this day literally
thanking God and my mother for blessing me with a
sister who is literally my twin the same personality, Like
I couldn't have ass for about our sister. So anyways,
I just kind of wanted to share that because I
feel like a relationship with the sister is also something
that I've never really talked about, but I think it's
such a blessing to have a sibling, and I am
very grateful that we have such a close relationship. And yeah,
so we celebrated her this weekend. We went to the spa,
we had a girl's dinner together, and then I think
she's doing another thing with her friends this weekend that
she also invited me to. So yeah, we're just celebrating her,
which is super nice. We're like twenty five days apart,
so my birthdays in two weeks from now, so I've
been in the full on party planning mode these past
two weeks. I feel like I've been trying to show
up on social media, but also like behind the scenes,
I'm like signing contracts, trying to figure out, you know,
things that I need to hire for this birthday party.
But I went all out, I really did. I was like,
fuck it, I'm just gonna like, go full out. I
posted something on Instagram saying like should I go full
out or should I just be like, you know, do
something chill, And everyone was like, just go full out.
I'm like, you know what, You're right. It's my thirtieth
this might be my last big party that I do.
I went full out. I really did, and I'm so
excited to share with you guys the theme and just
like everything, It's going to be so fun. I did
actually end up hiring a content creator, which is kind
of crazy, but I'm like, you know what, I want
to get as much content out as possible, and sometimes
I feel like I need the help because obviously I
want to be like living in the moment, but also
like getting the stuff on tape. So one of my girlfriends,
who literally does this for a living, she does content
creation for businesses, she was like, I can I can
help you out. I'll help you film stuff throughout the night,
and I'm like, oh my god, you're amazing. So it's
going to be great just to have someone help me
behind the scenes to record some stuff and also keep
you guys in the loop throughout the party, make it
feel like you guys are there with me. And we're
having a fun time together. So I'm very excited about that.
I cannot believe I turn thirty in literally like twenty days,
maybe less than twenty days now actually, and then it's
my husband's thirtieth next week. So me and my husband
were both aries. We're eleven days apart. I don't know
if you guys knew that, but we're both yeah and aries,
and we're very similar, which I kind of love. We're
both like very fire personality and I don't know, we
just like I love that we're both aries. I think
it's really fun and it makes a relationship really enjoyable.
But I'm surprising him with a trip and I'm so excited.
We're going away next weekend. He has no idea that
I booked a trip for him, and I think he's
going to be very excited to have a little trip
to look forward to. So not only have I been
planning my birthday, but I've also been planning my husband's birthday.
And if you have a husband or a boyfriend, you
know that they don't really like their birthday celebrated. Zachly
was like, I don't want anything, like, don't please, don't
surprise me. With anything, and I'm like, okay, well, obviously
I'm going to surprise you with something because I'm a
birthday and I want to celebrate my husband and he
deserves to be celebrated, especially on his thirtieth birthday. So
of course I was like, no, I'm not listening to you,
and I'm going to do something for you. And I
still kept it like what he would want, and I
think that's all that matters. Like he doesn't want the
big party, he doesn't want that type of shit like
I want that he doesn't, so I'm, you know, making
sure that I do something more like private and intimate
for him where it's more so just him and I
versus like a big party. So I think he's gonna
love the trip and I think it will be a
great way to start his thirties. So that's kind of
been a little A life update is really just kind
of birthday party planning, really trying to coordinate all the
things that I need to coordinate before these next few
weeks and they're gonna get real hectic. But make sure
to be following me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Of
course I'm going to be logging the entire experience through
my camera. But let's get into today's episode. Okay, So
let's talk about my relationship with food and kind of
where it started versus where it is now. So the beginning,
I want to say, back in twenty eighteen, maybe twenty seventeen,
around there, I was very like overweight. I would say
I was like pretty heavy. I was eating out literally
every single weekend. I was buying chips, I was buying
gummy bears every single weekend. Me and my husband when
we were dating, we were like going through the phase
of just like you're in a new relationship, you're going
out for dinners constantly. You know, we spend our weekends together.
We'd go you know, binge, eat and watch a movie together.
We'd go to the movie theaters and again eating candy, chips, popcorn, whatever.
Nothing wrong with that obviously, but like all about balance,
you shouldn't be doing that like literally every single week
and every single weekend, in my opinion, And so it
was getting a little extreme. I wasn't working out, I
wasn't having any type of healthy lifestyle whatsoever. And so
in twenty seventeen, that's when I started to realize that
I had to make a change and trying to figure
out like new eating habits. It's a workout schedule for
myself all that. And back in the day, Instagram was around,
but the influencers that I followed were mainly on YouTube
because obviously Instagram reels wasn't a thing, TikTok wasn't a thing.
So I was following a lot of fitness influencers on YouTube,
and those were the girls that really kind of helped
me through my health and wellness journey of like figuring out,
you know, healthy recipes, you know, my eating habits, what
I should be avoiding, what I should be eating, you know,
workout routines, whatever the case may be. Now, I will
say that I don't want to say that these influencers
that I watched forced me to eat the way that
I ate, but I believed that the way these influencers
were eating was the way that I had to also eat.
Non dairy products were becoming a real big thing, so
almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, all that. I feel like.
That's like when things really started to like kick off,
and I, for some reason thought that I had to
jump on the non dairy train, even though I had
had no issues with drinking dairy at all. I felt
like I needed to become a almond milk gurly or
whatever the case. I'd be. Like it was a trend
at that point where I felt like everybody was just
jumping on it for no reason at all, thinking that
dairy was bad for us. And so I feel like
that's kind of like where my toxic relationship kind of
became a thing of like following these influencers of like
how they were eating. And again, you have to understand that,
like I'm not saying what they promoted was toxic. It
was more so like I was doing these things to
myself thinking that it was the right thing, and when
it really wasn't. Like I really should have been like
listening to my own body, not following someone else's eating habits.
And that's where I feel like everything went wrong. You know,
the girls were weightlifting, so I started weightlifting. The girls
were tracking their macros, so I decided to download you know,
an app and use that to track my calories. I
was eating protein bars for lunch instead of actually eating
a lunch. Like it was so bad, guys. I literally
was just like following these girls completely and not doing
anything that my body actually needed. And that's when I
started to get extremely underweight, to the point where like
my mom I remember, was like really concerned. She was like,
you need to be eating more food. I was avoiding
every possible carb that you could imagine. Like I would
never eat pasta, I would never eat potatoes strictly, just
like lettuce, zoodles, you know, anything that didn't involve a carb.
I would essentially eat besides carbs, Like I truly wanted
to remove carbs out of my diet completely. I had
this massive fear of anything that was high in fat,
so like any type of nut butter, you know, avocados.
Avocados I avoided for like almost a year or two.
I think I literally saw it as such a bad food.
I don't know why. I just thought it was like
something that I was scared of, Like anything that was
really high in calorie or high in fat. I literally
completely avoided from my diet completely. And I think it
was because of like using that app that I could
see the calories and I could see the fat. It
kind of almost like scared me away from those foods
and made me have a really unhealthy relationship with food.
But I want to just say something about those apps. Okay,
I actually do not see those apps in that way
at all anymore. I think the time of my life
that I was using that app, it was a toxic
time for me specifically. But if I were to use
the app now, I actually think it would be very
useful if you're doing it right, It's actually a very
healthy tool to use, especially if you're looking to either
gain weight or lose weight, whatever the case may be,
like tracking your macros and actually understanding the protein you
need for the day today or the calories that you need,
like if you're using it for a specific reason of
like measuring things out so so healthy and so so needed,
if you're like wanting to go that direction. So the
apps now I actually love and I don't think there's
anything wrong with it. I think just at the time,
I didn't really truly understand how to use it and
what foods were actually good for you. So I was
using it strictly just like oh, low calories, low fat,
like eating protein, no carbs, Like I was in a
completely different mindset back then versus what I'm in now.
So I think back then it was toxic for me,
but I think right now it would never be toxic.
It would actually be a benefit for me. I just
wanted to say that because if anyone does use the apps,
I think they're great. I don't think there's anything wrong
with it. I just think with my personal situation that
happened years ago, I don't think it was healthy for
me at that time in my life where I didn't
really understand anything when it came to the health and
wellness journey, right, Like I really didn't know what I
was doing, and so I just remember being really skinny,
and I remember having no energy at all. I was
very tired. I was using caffeine as my source of
energy because I didn't have enough energy because I wasn't
eating enough food or actually properly fueling my body. And
I remember doing like really heavy lifting, like five to
six times a week, and again not eating enough food
to actually see the results that I wanted to see
for my body. Like, yeah, it was skinny, but I
didn't have any muscle on me because I wasn't eating carbs.
I wasn't eating you know, high protein meals. So it
just was like a very interesting time in my life
where I personally think it wasn't healthy at all, Like
I was actually doing the complete opposite. It was not
something that was considered a health and wellness journey in
my opinion at all. It was just like a very
unhealthy relationship with food and not really understanding what was
best for myself. I just wanted the goal of following
these fitness influencers, thinking that I was doing the right
thing when I actually wasn't. And I know I've talked
about this story in the past. When it came to
the realization of my journey, which was when did I
realize that I was under eating or what I was
doing was wrong. And it was in the moment where
my husband said something and my parents said something about
how I should be eating more and that I shouldn't
have to restrict myself and that you know, I was
getting too skinny. And it was the first trip to
Europe with my husband when we were twenty one. So
I can't remember what year that was, but I think
I was like, yeah, probably two years of like eating
really strict and like thinking I had to follow this
like really intense diet. So I think it was probably
two years, which is kind of wild. We went to
Europe and I remember telling my husband to make sure
that I don't restrict myself from eating because Europe is
known for the food, right, Like you want to go
on a trip and you don't want to have to
restrict yourself the entire time, Like you want to be
able to enjoy the foods that you want. You want
to be able to just enjoy the trip in general
and not have to stress about like, oh my god,
did I eat too much? Or you know, should I
have had that gelato last night? Whatever the case me
be like I remember telling my husband, please make sure
that I eat everything that I want and that I
don't restrict myself, and like he would literally like almost
force me. I'd be like, oh, I don't know if
I want the gelato, and he'd be like, no, we're
getting the gelato. If you want it, we're getting it.
Like he was like super supportive in that sense where
he was kind of pushing me out of that comfort
zone of like thinking that I shouldn't be doing it
when it's o and he was kind of telling me,
like it's okay to eat and treat yourself once in
a while, like don't be upset with yourself if you
know you're eating jill or eating a lot of pasta whatever. Right,
So we were gone for four weeks. We were eating
out every single night, we weren't working out. I was
walking every day, but that was basically it like there
was nothing that I really did kind of like maintain
my fitness journey through that. But I think that's really
where the healing journey started, was really being able to
indulge what I wanted, not having to feel forced to
like work out every single day. It kind of like
made me step back and realize that I can still
like maintain a healthy relationship with the workout routine and
foods that I want to enjoy and still feel okay
and good about myself. So I always like think of
that trip and just how healing it was for me,
because when I got back from that trip, I started
working out less. I started working out like four to
five times a week versus five to six. I was
eating a lot more food. I was able to regain
the confidence of eating pasta again and eating avocados again,
and like treating myself to a sweet treat when I
wanted to. Like, it was just kind of like a
year of getting back into foods that I really enjoyed
and really starting to understand the balance and how healthy
it was to you know, indulge that past to when
I wanted to or have that ice cream when I
wanted to write. So that's kind of like where I
kind of realized that I was actually being extremely unhealthy
of you know, avoiding those foods, and I started to
feel less tired, I started to regain more energy. I
wasn't using you know, energy drinks or coffee as my
source of energy anymore. It was really just like eating
enough food throughout the day and you know, realizing that, oh,
I actually feel better eating the right foods and like
feeling good about it. Right, So when I think about
my relationship today with food and how much it's changed,
is just like understanding the meaning behind how important carbs
are and how important protein is, and how important vegetables are.
And now I like, I want all those things on
my plate, if anything, I want literally everything and more.
I want healthy fats, I want carbs, I want proteins,
I want it all. I want want to fill my
body so much where I feel so full that I
can't eat anymore. I think also going into the mindset
of kind of like prepping myself for conception has also
been a huge thing for me. You know, I don't
want to say I was under eating last year, like
I was definitely eating enough food. I just think sometimes
like lunch specifically for me was a big one. I
feel like whenever I was, you know, here at the house,
noon would come around and I would just like, oh,
I'll just have a snack plate, or oh, I'll just
you know, make a yogurt bowl, like I would just
like eat a small lunch, which again nothing wrong with that,
but I felt like in the afternoons I would get
tired and I'd get snacky because I wasn't eating a
big enough lunch. And so I think it was the
end of last year I started to get back into
meal prepping, or last summer, one of the two. I
was talking about it with you guys in the podcast
about how I wanted to get back into meal prepping
because back in the day, I used to be really
into it, but I would not like eating the same
thing every single day. So what I do now is
I don't do a whole meal for the entire I
just cook the protein and then I try different meals
out throughout my lunches. So one day I'll do like
a taco bowl with like salsa, avocado, lettuce, and rice,
and then the next day I'll do like burger bowls,
so I'll do something with the ground beef again, but
just like doing something a little different that doesn't taste
the same as what I had the day before. So
that's kind of how I like to do it now,
is I just meal prep the protein and I'll try
out different lunches throughout the week. That way, am not
eating the same thing. But the point is that now
I'm actually eating lunches that fill me up, and I'm
not constantly snacking throughout the week because I didn't eat
a big enough lunch. So it's all about just kind
of like a learning curve. I think over time you'll
kind of just like realize what works for you, what
doesn't work for you. I think you'll always figure out
what is best for yourself, and you just really need
to kind of like see the signs, like if you're tired,
if you have no energy, like maybe you aren't eating
enough food. So then you need to realize, Okay, what
foods should I be including to eat more of? Should
I be doing a meal prep schedule where I'm you know,
meal prepping line. That way, I have a big enough lunch,
and I have a big breakfast and big dinner that
I have as well. That way my body is fueled
throughout the day. But anyways, the point that I was
trying to make is that prepping for conception, I think
is also just changed my perspective on food and my
body and everything, because it's amazing what you can learn
about food. I was reading the book Real Food for Fertility,
and it was just kind of like explaining the benefits
to everything that we would eat on like a daily basis,
like common foods like eggs, broccoli, proteins like beef, chicken,
all that, and just like understanding the knowledge behind those
proteins and the benefits to eating those things for our
bodies just made me see food in such a different way.
I don't know. I think it's really something that you
should look into if you're a person that wants to
get into their prepping for pregnancy journey or whatever the
case may be. This book has made me learn so
much about food in the best way possible. I think
it's been a really healing experience for me. I still
technically haven't finished the book. I think I have like
eighty pages left. It was a five hundred and fifty
page book. Okay, It's been a very long book to read,
and I only read it, I want to say, like
maybe twice a week, and I'll like read it for
like twenty to thirty minutes a day, So I'm not
like reading enough of it where I'm like locked in
and like finishing it in a month. Like I've been
reading it for the past three months and I'm almost
done it. But I've learned a lot. It's been very
educational and yeah, just something that I've really enjoyed learning
about and just learning the benefits around certain foods. And
I think it just has made me appreciate eating so
much more in the best way possible. And I've just
been feeling like my healthiest self lately. And I think
it's just because I feel like I finally have a
really healthy relationship with food and just like understanding the
benefits behind everything, like certain fruits that I eat in
the morning, you know. Now I've been including like chia seeds,
flack seeds, hemp seeds or hemp hearts, whatever they call it.
Like I'm starting to include like more of those things
into my yogurt bowls and all that because I'm realizing
the importance around eating those things. You know, I am
not a big salmon person or a big fish person,
but you know, I've always wanted to increase my omega threes,
So I'm trying to find ways to incorporate fish into
my dinners throughout the week. So Zach and I have
been trying to have salmon once a week. Again, I
don't love salmon, but I'm finding different ways to cook
it to make me enjoy it. So it's all about
just like kind of like learning ways to incorporate things
into your day to day lifestyle. But that's kind of
what my journey has been, Like, I know everyone's journey
is different, but I just kind of wanted to share
my kind of like my path of like how I
kind of found myself again and how I did start
off in a rough situation where I didn't really understand
what healthy eating meant and now I feel like I'm
in a really good stage where I'm able to finally
eat the foods that I used to be afraid of
and like finally found a relationship where I want eat
those foods, and I understand the benefits of eating those
foods now and I think it's so important to follow
influencers like that nowadays as well. I feel like there's
so many amazing people out there that promote such a
healthy balance, you know, eating pattern. Like I know some
people have a love hate relationship for what I eat
in a day's I personally love it because I love
gaining meal inspo and inspiration from people. But if you're
doing it in the right way, Like if you're promoting
what I eat in a day, but you had like
two meals and one snack, like, please don't post that.
That's embarrassing. Like I would like to see proper meals,
proper snacks, like something that someone would actually eat and
feel fueled throughout the day. So that's my journey on that.
But let's talk about some recipes that I've been loving.
I have a few dinner recipes here, some lunch recipes,
some breakfast recipes, along with some desserts that I've recently tried.
So let's start off with dinner. One dinner that I've
recently included into our dinner rotation is oven salmon with
rice and cucumbers and we talk off with a spicy
Mao sauce. I think this is a recipe that was
famous on TikTok a few years ago. I have been
trying to incorporate salmon into my day to day routine,
as I said, and just trying to get my Omega
threes up. So this has kind of been a dinner
that I have liked that includes salmon. I can't really
eat salmon on its own unless there's like some type
of sauce that is kind of like masking the taste,
if that makes sense. If you have any good salmon recipes,
please send them to me because I would love or
comment down below here on the podcast. I would love
to see any recipes. Also, if you recommend anything like
it doesn't have to be salmon specific, any healthy recipe
that you love that I may have not tried, please
send it my way or comments on below. I would
love to hear it, and maybe I'll try and film
some recipes that you guys have sent in. That would
be such a fun series to start on TikTok or Instagram.
But that's a recipe that's new to us that we've
been trying to incorporate into our dinner rotation. Another one
we love is taco stuff peppers, where we stuff either
ground beef or ground turkey and we use a taco seasoning.
We add like cornhili pinots. You could also add onion,
sprinkle a little bit of cheese on top, and we
put it into a bell pepper. Literally one of our
favorite dinners. It's so good, it's so filling. You can
also add rice. If you want to add more carbs,
you can also add beans. It's such a fun way
to change up a typical taco, but doing it in
a stuff pepper is yeah, so so fun and it's
so good. So that's probably one of our favorite dinners.
We also love just like plain dinners when it's just
like steak, rice, avocado and that is it strictly just
like a simple bowl. We also like to add like
oven roasted broccoli. Putting broccoli in the oven has changed
my life. I cannot explain how good this is. Guys,
add a bit of avocado oil on top with salt
and pepper. Very simple, but very good. I've done, like
you know, boiled broccoli on the stove top for years. Okay,
I strictly would just eat broccoli because it's good for you,
it's healthy. You know. Putting it on the stovetop is
just easy, but putting it in the oven just tastes
ten times better. And I actually really enjoy broccoli when
it's in the oven, especially Brussels sprouts as well. When
it's cooked in the oven, trust me, if you've never
done it before, it kind of tastes just like a
little bit crispier and it's really really good. So we
love having oven broccoli with steak, rice and avocado. We
also love to make burger bowls. That's another one that
we make pretty often, which is again just ground beef, lettuce,
cherry tomato. We'll make baby potatoes, spicy Mao sauce and
that's it. It's pretty simple. A lot of these recipes too,
I've posted a lot on my TikTok and Instagram, so
if you ever want to see a visual or the
full on recipe details, those are all on my social
media platforms, which I've linked in the podcast description down below.
We also make taco soup or white chicken chili. We
also love beef chili and then marry me chicken as well.
Those are also really popular recipes that we found throughout
Pinterest and TikTok that you could probably search or again
you can find on my Instagram or TikTok page for
lunch ideas. I love doing Chaco bowls again, just doing
like ground beef salsa, avocado rice with corn sprinkle a
little bit of cheese on top. I've been loving this
pabrika sauce that I found from farm Boy. It's so good.
It's like a taheen sauce that you can put on top.
It's one of my favorite lunches that I've been having
on rotation. It's just really really filling and just like
a really easy lunch to make. I also love to
make either turkey meatballs or chicken Greek bowls. I love
just getting some taziki, making a bit of like a
Greek salad with like cucumber, red onion, and cherry tomatoes
again doing like baby potatoes in the side with some
taziki sauce and then the chicken or turkey meatballs. That's
when recipe have been making on rotation. Also can make
a chicken stir fries sometimes with it's just like chicken peppers,
onions and rice. Super simple you could put a little
bit of seasoning on top. I love using like paprika
or chili powder, cayenne pepper. I like to try and
make my seasonings at home as much as I can
without buying like a prepackaged thing. If I do buy
a prepackaged like taco seasoning or some type of seasoning,
I usually get it by the brands Siete, just because
it's like really clean ingredients and I really love the
ingredients that they use in their products. I also love
the Siete chips. That's something I snack on all the time. Again,
just really clean ingredients and just such a good snack.
It's like my favorite healthy chip. Or I think they
have like other things too besides chips, like desserts and
all that. Just a really good brand in general. I
also love to make the hot honey avocado bowls, which
is like avocados, sweet potato, grum, beef, cottage cheese or ricotta.
I'm not a big cottage cheese person. I don't like
the texture. I prefer ricotta's texture, so I usually do
ricotta instead and then I put red chlea flakes and
honey on top. That's something I make all the time,
and you probably would see that in my videos, but yeah,
it's like one of my favorite bowls that I eat
all the time. And then usually in the summer, I
love to make protein pasta salad. I'll buy like protein pasta.
There's a lot of like protein pasta brands out there
that you could buy, and I'll just make like like
a Greek inspired pasta salad usually. And yeah, those are
kind of like my favorite lunches that I would prep
throughout the week. For breakfast, I've been kind of simple.
I feel like I'll do like eggs with sour dough bread,
and then I'll usually do some type of Greek yogurt
bowl with Kiwi blueberries, raspberries, honey, cinnamon, and then I'll
top it off with like chia seeds, black seeds and
all those different kind of seeds on top. I've also
been having my protein oats again. This is something that
I like recently brought back into my routine. I used
to make these all the time, literally one of my
favorite breakfasts and so filling. But that's just like protein
powder oats, milk. Put them on the stove, and then
I'll add like any tip of topping you want. I
love adding like blueberries, bananas, chia seeds, almond butter. I
love almond butter on protein oats. I use a vanilla
protein powder and it almost tastes like cake batter. It's
literally it's crack. I'm obsessed. I don't have it every
single day. I usually like do a rotation of the eggs,
sour dough, and like Greek yogurt, and then I'll do
protein oats the other day. So that's kind of like
my breakfast rotation. I don't really have too much breakfast,
just because I'm a very routine person. I kind of
just like to eat the same thing the odd time.
I would crave like a berry nut smoothie where it's
just kind of like bananas, strawberries, almond butter, protein powder,
almond milk, or oat regular milk. I've been drinking dairy.
I don't drink almond milk or oat milk anymore. I
used to, obviously, as I said, but I converted to
dairy last summer and it was literally the best decision ever.
But I don't know just in terms of like how
I feel like, I feel like it was kind of
bloated with oat milk. Like, again, there's nothing wrong with
you know, the non dairy products out there. There's some
that obviously are not the greatest, but yeah, no, I
was buying a good oat milk back in the day
and then I just was like kind of noticing inflammation
for no reason. So that's kind of why I switched
to dairy. And it's been great since I switched, and
I love the taste of dairy now. And then for dessert,
I've been making a lot of banana chocolate desserts. You've
probably seen that I've been making ban and oat cookies.
I've been making banana chocolate sea salt bark. This is
something that I recently tried that I'm obsessed with. It's
so good, guys, you need to try it out. Super simple.
I actually just posted it on my TikTok this week,
so definitely check that out. I love the banana bread
cookie dough balls, and yeah, that's kind of it. I've
just kind of been like going on rotation for like
making those healthy desserts, eating kind of like those same breakfasts,
shared my lunch ideas that I keep going back to
some of my favorite dinner recipes. But I would say
those are like typical recipes that I have on a
pretty like frequent basis that I usually always go back to,
like just something that I always try and buy at
the grocery store, all the ingredients for. It's just easy,
it's healthy, it's good, and I just love to eat
those recipes. Well, that is our episode for today. I
hope you guys enjoyed this episode. It's Zach's birthday next week,
and I think we're leaving on our trip the day after,
so it just might be a little stressful trying to
get a podcast episode up. But the following week, I
am going to be posting an episode in regards to
just like my twenties in general. It's like what I've
learned throughout my twenties before entering my thirties. I think
that's going to be a huge episode to really really
talk about, and I think that's something that you guys
should all listen to, just things that I've learned throughout
the past ten years of being in my twenties, things
I'm looking forward to going into my thirties, entering a
brand new decade. I think it'd be a really fun
episode just to kind of really lean into just kind
of like other mistakes I've made or lessons I've learned
throughout the past ten years of being in my twenties,
so I thought that'd be a really nice episode to
do before entering my new decade of turning thirty. Anyways,
I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Thank you guys
so much for listening, and I will see you guys
in the next episode. Four