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I’m going to go ahead and congratulate myself again for prepping vegetables last night. It was late, I was tried and so ready for bed, but I convinced myself to cut up all the vegetables anyway. Thank you self. I was able to throw this salad together in about five minutes. Spinach, cherry tomatoes, red cabbage, green onions, cauliflower, monterey jack, cucumber, one egg and couple of pan-fried slices of polenta.

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And then the dressing, oh the dressing. Let me just come clean once and for all: I’m a creamy dressing person. Blame it on my West Virginia upbringing if you will, but I love ranch dressing. That love runs deep. And while I do like the occasional homemade vingrette, my heart and soul truly wants creamy dressing. And because I don’t always have ranch on hand, this is a good thing, I decided to make something up.

Creamy Salsa Dressing

1 T sour cream, 1/2 T mayonnaise, and 2-3 T homemade salsa. Mix it up, toss it with your fixings and behold, a better alternative to ranch. I love it so much that I could dedicate myself to a salad every single day.

I also had a serving of trail mix for a snack. Trail mix is hilarious. Have you seen what a serving looks like?

This was my first time cooking with pre-made polenta and I really enjoyed the added texture and flavor in my salad. I have a whole polenta log left, any idea as to what I should make with it?

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Weekend Success

I’m up today and full of energy to get stuff done and prepare for a new week! Thank you so, so much again for your comments- there are some truly wonderful (intelligent, kind, thoughtful) people reading this blog and I’m so grateful for that. Truly thankful.

It’s Saturday morning and I don’t have a big post planned, but I have so much I want to do and want to share for a little bit of accountability.

Today I’m going to a seminar about local bee’s with a friend and then going to her house after. This will include a little bit of bridal shower planning that I’ve got going on.

But before that, I want to really get a lot done in the kitchen. My goal is to create an environment for weight loss success. This will involve cabinet organizing, and food prep. I dream of being able to reach in the refrigerator and have lots of fixings for a salad at my finger tips.

Todays exercise will involve a visit with Billy Blanks and tomorrow we’re headed to the gym for strength and the treadmill.

I want to do some menu planning for the week, some bread baking. I want a meal plan for the week and I want to make it as easy as possible for myself.

I want to start organizing the bedroom and start garden planning. Yes folks, this year (like the past two years) I’m going to have a successful garden. I will have a garden. I’m saying this over and over. I have NO idea how to garden and this is always so scary for me. I want to top this off by saying that I live in a town and I don’t have a lot of yard space for such adventures. BUT, we do have small spaces that can be turned into a garden. Urban gardening in a small town. I want to do this for the food, but also for the exercise and the feeling of making it happen. Eating food that we grew, there is some sort of satisfaction in that. So planning is happening. Planning and learning.

What else? I have some freelance work to finish, and some jewelry orders to get out. Other than that I want to catch up my reading, and relax a little too.

Here’s to a very good weekend! See you tomorrow…

Feel free to share your big weekend plans in the comments, I’d love to hear them.

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