garbanzo beans rock!

This is another good recipe with garbanzos. The cukes really do a lot to yum this dish up. I avoid cucumbers like the plague because they don't seem to have much nutritional value, but I'm starting to add them back in because of the clean taste. Now that I'm avoiding sugar and other bad things, I need all the taste I can get.

This recipe called for:

*one can of garbanzos

*one cuke

*a half a bag of prepared green beans

*a few carrots

*olive oil

*juice from a few lemons

*one quarter teaspoon of sea salt

yummy sunday

My friend Kathy and I were scrapbooking on Sunday. I'm making a gift for someone, can't say who until that someone's birthday passes! We were hungry so we made some gaucamole, I got the recipe from FoodNetwork using my iPhone...It called for avacado, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, cayenne, garlic, lime juice. We improvised because we didn't have lime juice so we used lemon juice, but it was still yummy with tortilla chips. We also had this delish green salad, with romaine, cukes, carrots, little bit of brocolli and sesame seeds. Topped it off with olive oil and some fig balsamic vinegar. Yum Yum and so healthy.
Then strawberries for dessert. I was dying all day for chocolate cake, but settled for strawberries. They were really sweet, but this cleanse that I have been doing for the last few months is difficult. Once in a while I just crave a chocolate cake!

healthy meals

I'm fascinated with garbanzos lately!

They fulfill two imperatives of mine - one to eat very clean and healthy, not necessarily vegetarian, but low on animal products; and the second imperative is to cut my grocery bill. I'm struggling like everyone else and I just can't spend crazy money on food like I used to. I'm almost trying to make it a fun challenge to try to figure out ways to eat very inexpensively. Oh, I forgot, there really is a third reason I eat them. They taste yummy.

Here's one recipe I came up with:

*Can of garbanzos (I love saying this word!!!)

*One chopped tomatoe

*A few carrots

*Some paprika

*Squirt of a lemon or two

cool chickie

This is something I saw at the store and loved. But I really don't have a use or place for it. But by taking a photo of it, I can have this cool image with me!

shoes i don't need

It's been about one week since I saw these flippies at T.J. Maxx and was dying to have them. The black and pink Ralph Lauren's are adorable, not to mention my favorite colors. But I already have so many flippies, black ones, pink ones, I don't need anymore. I'm glad I waited, this delay thing, and getting it out of my system by keeping a photo of it on my iPhone really did the trick!

more things i wanted to buy but shot instead

Here are some more items I have seen in stores and wanted to buy!
I'm really into nests (maybe it's the brown and the pretty blue combination that i love) so when I was at the craft store I took this pic of a nest. also took these other photos of beautiful things and made the floral photos my screensaver on my iPhone.

pretty things

I decided that instead of buying the pretty things I see in the stores, I will just take a photo of them so as not to forget their beauty. And if I really want the item after a few weeks, I will go back and get it. But I'm finding that the photo of the beautiful thing is often enough.

living for beauty

It has been quite a while since i have last written, it"s been a few crazy work weeks since i got the new job, haven"t had much time for anything but lots of work, the weekends are really the only time i get to socialize so instead of doing crafty things, i want out of the house! but i miss my creative stuff so much, i have to find a way to fit it in, the beauty of the things i can create is what gets me out of bed some days, at least today an image of a rain photo that i had in my head got me out of bed, it gave me that spark i needed to move.