I love food...Monday Made It....

YAY!  

It's time again to link up with my sweet friend, Tara,

 from 4th Grade Frolics

for Monday Made It.

This Monday Made It is about my love affair with food.

I adore food.

I love the way food smells and tastes.

I love the way it makes me feel...full.

What I don't love is the way it makes me look.

Let's face it...muffin tops are not attractive and

I've been rockin' a muffin top this year...gross!

Enough is enough.

I made a decision to make some changes.

As much as it pained me to do it...I hit the grocery store.

Monday Made It #1: Nutribullet Smoothies/Juices

If you follow me on Instagram, you have seen

that I purchased a NutriBullet.

Thank you Veronica from Teaching With Giggles 

for the suggestion.

I went on Amazon and cracked up at one of

the reviews.  

After readin' it...I HAD to buy one!

I went to Walmart and forked over $89.

Not bad since it was advertised for $99.

You can pick them up at Target or on Amazon also.

I just didn't want to wait two days.

I'm impatient.

So far...I'm diggin' the Nutri Bullet.

Each time I use it I get to be creative.

It's fast, it's easy and the clean up can't be beat.

This is my version of "green" that I made all by myself.

Spinach, lemon, kiwi, banana.

It was yummy!

I even made hummus in the NutriBullet!

I didn't take a picture because I didn't know 

at the time that I would be usin' the Nutribullet as my MMI.

I have even been gettin' up earlier in the mornin' to 

make somethin' healthy instead of just stuffin' my face

with whatever I can scrounge up at school.

Monday Made It #2: No-Bake Energy Bites

I first heard about these from 

my friend A, at The Babbling Box.

She likes to make these, so I decided I would test it out too.

No Bake?  Sign me up!

I tried to embed the pin from Pinterest, but 

it's bein' wonky and I couldn't figure it out.

Did Pinterest change somethin'?

You can go to Gimme Some Oven

and find the recipe there.

These are SO good. 

I realized after the fact that you were supposed to 

grind the flax seeds.

Next time...

Monday Made It #3: Panfried Kale

My amazin' friend Courtney from Polka Dot Lesson Plans

introduced me to a lot of new food blogs.

Thanks, Court!

Although I have watched The Pioneer Woman's show,

I had never visited her website.

Hey...

remember I love food...

that means watchin' food shows...

even if I don't love cookin'.

Now I follow The Pioneer Woman on Bloglovin' and 

keep up to date on her 

newest creations.

I made myself go in that kitchen

and make this!

(Make sure you read this recipe's write-up...funny!)

The more I eat kale, the more I like it.

This took less than 5 minutes, and was yumm-o!

I didn't start any fires in the kitchen...so I'd say

I was successful in there.

I'm worn out though.

I think maybe it's not cookin' that I don't like...

it's definitely the clean up.

I don't think I'll aspire to be a gourmet chef any time soon.

Monday Made It #4: Testin' treats

One more week until we have two weeks of state testin'.

I can do this...I can do this.

If I keep sayin' it long enough...maybe I will believe this.

I have seen some cute ideas on Pinterest

to get the students pumped for this.

I was standin' in Dollar Tree yesterday without the 

help of Pinterest and came up with two of

my own ideas for "Dots", "Duds, & "Rings".

I actually impressed myself.

Anyways...

everyone makes cute lil' print-outs

and individual bags for each child, but

I didn't want to be pickin' that stuff up

off the floor each mornin'....I already know that's

where my cute printouts with colored ink would end up.

5th graders see only one thing...candy.

So...no need for me to go fancy schmancy.

I bought a clear bowl at the Dollar Tree to fill

with a different candy for each day of testin'.

I used foam stars from there too to write on.

I know it's not as cute as all the wonderful

things out there, but I think they will 

like the concept.

Day 1: Dots

Day 2: Pop Rocks

 Day 3: Smarties

 Day 4: Milk Duds

 Day 5: Blow Pops

 Day 6: Ring Pops

Check out last month's Monday Made It to see how 

I kept my kids on track before the big "test".

Don't forget to check out the rest of the awesome 

Monday Made Its on Tara's blog.

Happy Monday, friends!