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Easy Dinner: Rosemary Pot Roast and Hasselback Potatoes

There are three reasons why I love this dinner, it’s quick easy and delicious. I put the pot roast in the crock pot around 10 am and let it cook on low for about eight hours. It turned out incredibly flavorful and tender. I love rosemary, so that helps.

Here’s what I did (if you can even call this a recipe), I placed a medium sized chuck roast in the crock pot. Sprinkled liberally with sea salt, pepper and rosemary on both sides. Drizzled with olive oil and add about 1-2 inches of water. Set on low, until the last hour and a half and then I bumped it up to high heat. There’s a little trick to tender pot roast: let it cook until it’s fork tender. If the meat doesn’t break apart easily, it still needs time to cook.

The Hasselback potatoes were easy too: set your oven temp. to 425 degrees. Wash potatoes thoroughly and then cut thin slits careful not to cut in half. Place garlic in the slits in you like. I used Garlic Gold on top (an olive oil and garlic mixture) with some sea salt. Let bake until tender about 40-45 minutes. I had these baking while I worked out, which was a nice reward. I topped with a little butter after they came out of the oven.

The thing I love about these potatoes is that there isn’t any room for over eating. I made enough for us (and another for lunch today) and that’s it. The problem I have with mashed potatoes is that I could eat them until I turn into an actual potato.

Add some raw spinach, almonds and dressing on your plate and you’re set!

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Diet Food vs. Health Food

I’m here! I made it all the way to Wednesday without blogging, yet I’ve had so much to share. I started Insanity again with Josh. We started last year and made it all the way to day four and then I got sick and then we never did it again.

We started Monday evening with the fitness test, which was not easy, but I was a little excited to see that my numbers in some areas were high than others. They provide you with a little 60-day calendar to check off each day that you complete a new session so it’s really satisfying to cross off each completed day.

I’m very sore, but I feel so good to exercise in the morning, it really sets the tone for the day.

So that brings me to my next topic. Food. I’ve been doing really well with tracking my food and making an effort to cook at home and eat vegetables and fruits. I spent a good chunk of the weekend and last week cooking and trying out new recipes that I hope to share this week.

I’ve been thinking a lot about “diet food” and I realized that I hate diet food, but I love health food. To me diet food is anything in a package that has a weight-loss claim (low fat! low calorie! low carb! lose 6 pounds in 2 weeks!). Diet soda, bars, shakes, cookies, crackers, margarine, cereal etc.

Today I had a salad for lunch that I would call health food, not diet food. This is food that sustains and satisfies me. It leaves me feeling emotionally and physically good. It is delicious, and doesn’t have a lot of calories. 400 to be exact.

Okay, yes it looks dressing heavy! Here is the run down of my salad:

organic/local mixed greens, local feta, organic bacon, 2 local hard boiled eggs, 1 T slices almonds, and 2 T yogurt dressing.

But it’s not just about salads, it’s about wholesome food that we make with our own hands. It doesn’t have big claims. The lettuce didn’t promise I’d lose weight on the package. Nor did the eggs, cheese, or bacon. It just is. And it’s good.

That was a lesson a learned today.

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