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Simple Two Ingredient Ice Cream

Hannah Lucio

Our family absolutely loves ice cream. If I could eat it all the time and not get fat, I would. But since ice cream is fattening I wanted to try making banana ice cream that I see online a lot. I was skeptical at first but once I tasted it, oh man is it good! I tried strawberry ice cream first and will be testing out different flavors very soon. It is very inexpensive and so darn yummy, you should try it out. It is also toddler and nine month old approved. They absolutely love it! 

Ingredients:

Bananas 

Strawberries

Directions:

Wash, cut the tops off the strawberries and put them in a freezer bag and freeze

Peel the bananas, cut into pieces, put them in a freezer bag and freeze. 

Once frozen, take the bananas and strawberries out. 

Put the bananas in the food processor and blend for about 3 minutes or until it has a smooth/ice cream like texture. 

Out in the frozen strawberries and blend for a minute. It really depends on if you like chunks of strawberries or just smooth. So really gauge the blending on your liking. 

Done

Scoop and serve. It’s hard not to eat a lot at once 😜
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Family favorite meal (lose weight meal) that is budget friendly and healthy

Hannah Lucio

We all have days when we are not feeling our best. We feel bloated, fat and just down right yucky. When I start feeling this way I make my favorite meal and eat it often. Mainly at dinner time. After eating it for dinner the first night I feel so much better the next day. This is also my key way to losing the baby weight this time around also. I lost the baby weight twice as fast this time around. The first time it took me a bit longer. It tastes really really good too! It is approved by my husband and toddler also. So this is our go to meal. It is simple, easy and budget friendly. We are doing Dave Ramsey’s Snowball so this is a great meal on a lower meal budget.

Ingredients:

1.5 lb Organic Ground Turkey (From Costco, or 1 lb package from the store)

2-3 Cans Black beans

3 Bell Peppers

4 Tbsp Taco Seasoning

Organic tortilla chips

Cast Iron pan. You need to add everything together. A dutch oven would work just fine also.

This meal feeds us 3 for about 4 days.

Directions:

  1. Cook ground turkey on stove and set aside. *picture below

2. While turkey is cooking cut up Bell Peppers *picture below

3. Cook the bell peppers for about 10 minutes on medium heat.

4. Drain 1-2 cans of black beans. Depending on how many cans you put in your recipe. If you put in 3 cans, drain 2 cans. If you put in two cans, drain 1 can. Make sure to put in one can of black beans, not drained, into the recipe.

5. Add the cooked turkey, black beans and taco seasoning to the bell peppers. Mix together and cook for about 5-10 minutes.

Done!

 

Enjoy! And enjoy often! I hope this concoction makes you feel better as much as it did for me.


 

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Brown Rice veggie Sushi

Hannah Lucio

Out of trial and error I have truly found the best brown rice sushi rice recipe. Because I absolutely love to share when I find a good thing I couldn’t help but share this one. Sushi rice is not really “healthy” so I wanted to find a recipe I could make at home with brown rice. The first recipe I used was rated 4 stars so I tried it out. Oh my goodness, gross! It was dry, insanely salty and just all around disgusting. I then tried a different recipe and boy is it yummy!! I made vegetarian sushi for my husband and I last night. I surprised him and he loved it! It is super easy and I hope you get the same yummy result that we had.

Brown Rice Ingredients:

1 2/3 Cup Water

1 Cup Brown Rice (I used Della Organic Light Brown Rice from Costco) *picture below

3 Tbsp Rice Vinegar (I used Nakano Organic Rice Vinegar) *picture below

2 Tbsp Sugar (You could get away with 1 Tbsp)

Instructions:

1.In a medium saucepan (I only have a dutch oven size from Pioneer Woman and it worked great) bring water to a boil then add rice. Stir and lower heat to low and cover. Cook for 25 minutes or until tender.

2.In a small saucepan; add vinegar, sugar and salt. Cook on medium heat until sugar dissolved, about 2 minutes. Make sure to stir occasionally. Put pan aside to cool off a bit.

3.  Once the rice is done cooking slowly and carefully stir in the vinegar mixture making sure to coat all of the rice.

4. Set the rice aside to cool down before making the sushi.

 

Ingredients I used for making veggie sushi:

1 Medium size Cucumber

1 avocado

Brown Rice Sushi from above recipe

4 Seaweed papers (the pack I bought had 10 papers)

Sushi mat but not required. It is easy to use plastic wrap to put under the seaweed.

You cannot forget Soy Sauce, we only use   Kikkoman soy sauce

 

Instructions:

  1. Peel the cucumber skin and cut the cucumber in half. Cut the middle part of the cucumber out, it will look like a boat. Then cut the cucumber, lengthwise, into thin strips. Set Aside *picture below
  2. Cut the avocado in half. Take the seed out and take the skin of the avocado. Put the avocado, cut side down, and slice the avocado into thin slices. Set Aside *picture below
  3. Put a piece of plastic wrap (Or sushi mat) down on a clean and dry counter. Put one Seaweed paper down. Wet hands a bit ( Wetting your hands will prevent rice to stick on your hands) and then hand put the rice onto the seaweed. Put a very thin layer of rice on seaweed. Leave about 1 inch of the seaweed on one of the longest side of seaweed free of rice. *picture below. About 1 inch on the opposite side put about 4-5 thin slices of cucumbers. Put about 4 thin slices of avocado on top. *picture below. Slowly roll up the sushi tightly starting on the side with the veggies. Once you are rolled up to the side of the wrap with no rice at the end, wet your finger and wipe the seaweed end and seal together. Set Aside.
  4. Repeat step 3, I was able to make 4 rolls.
  5. Once finished, take a sharp knife and cut the rolls to your desired size. I like my sushi 1 inch thick.
  6. Plate and Enjoy!

 

I hope I explained it in as much detail as needed. And I hope it is not confusing. If you need clarification on anything just ask! I can try to explain it better.

I hope you enjoy the sushi as much as we did! I love love love this veggie sushi and completely believe it taste like the sushi get from the restaurants. I now do not need to spend a ton of money going out to eat sushi 🙂

*You can use any veggies you want, those two are my absolute favorite! I could eat this daily!

 

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Sneaky little veggies

Hannah Lucio

Finding different ways to add veggies into our diets is kind of fun. I noticed a few veggies I can sneak into our regular foods and it tastes amazing! Inexpensive and healthy.

I know people are going to recommend to me to take veggie pills and whatever else they sell to try to make some money. But me, I do not want them nor will I try them. I am not closed minded, I just don’t want them.  I really am just a mom trying to get us to love veggies. We should be eating our veggies anyway, right? Ok. So I wanted to share the ways I sneak in our greens.

  1. I make smoothies every morning for our family. I add a lot of greens in this because I feel like it is the best way to start your day. Besides black coffee 🙂
  2. I chop up cauliflower, bell peppers and broccoli into small little pieces. I add them to our weekly pizza. Have you watched the movie Inside Out? I can hear Anger saying, congratulations Hannah, you officially ruined pizza. Ha-ha!! Great movie btw. I also add them to my favorite meal. Black beans and ground turkey with taco seasoning. Oh my goodness this really yummy!
  3. When adding onions into a recipe, grate instead of chopping. It hides it well and our 3 year old never says anything. 

Just two simple ways to add veggies. And, the best part…..our 3 year old absolutely loves it! He eats a lot of it and has not complained about eating his veggies. The key to adding them to your foods is by cutting them into smaller pieces.  I hope this can help someone trying to add veggies into yours and your kids diets. Without pills.

 

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Best hard boiled eggs

Hannah Lucio

One of the hardest things in the kitchen for me is getting an easy to peel hard boiled egg. When I was younger we had an egg timer. We also boiled the eggs in water. They were still not the easiest things to peel. I don’t want to buy a timer so I was experimenting with different advices online. I have literally tried everything. I almost gave up until……I found the solution! I have tried these tricks twice and each time they came out perfect.

1. Steam the eggs. This trick is the best! Boil water with the steam basket in it. Once water gets to a boil place the eggs in the basket. Cover and steam for 20 minutes. Take out and spin the egg, if it spins fast then it is cooked. 

2. Take cooked eggs out and place them in a bowl of cold water and ice. Take them out once they have cooled off.

That’s it! Peel and Enjoy 🙂 
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No bake Healthy Bites-Toddler Approved

Hannah Lucio

I have been trying to get our family back on track to eating healthy. Especially our two year old. I have had this recipe for a few years and absolutely love them. I made this recipe not thinking that he would even try them. But, I made them and he absolutely loves them. He even ate 3 in a row! That’s amazing!

 

Recipe:

1 Cup (dry, regular) Oatmeal

2/3 Cup Coconut Flakes

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

1/2 Cup Ground Flaxseed or wheat germ

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips or Cocoa nibs

1/3 Cup Honey

1 Tbsp Chia Seeds

1 tsp Vanilla

Directions:

Mix all ingredients and chill in refrigerator for 30-60 minutes. Take out and roll into balls. And, done. IMG_7093

 

Super easy and fast.

 

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