So, you know I am all about making your life easy, right? This is, of course, why you often see many of my recipes involve the handy-dandy crockpot.
These yummy chicken shredded tacos are no exception.
You will need:
Here’s what you do:
(You won’t even need to write this down!)
Seriously…it’s great t0 have others that I can look to for cooking advice, recipes, tips, tricks…you get the idea.
This past week, I’ve had the opportunity to cook for an army as our household expanded with the arrival of family for Spring Break. This gave me the chance to try out new recipes.(successfully, I might add. YAY me!)
Don’t starve – when we starve ourselves, our body will save all the calories we eat because it doesn’t know when it will be fed again. Then it causes us to gain weight even more quickly, when we resume eating normally. Eating 3 healthy meals and 2 healthy snacks per day is the sensible way to keep our metabolism even through out the day.
Move more – exercise, walk more, walk the dog, stroll the baby around the block, use stairs, go to the gym, use the Wii fit, swim, how ever we are motivated to get out and move, we need to do those things more.
Weight train – muscle uses more calories to maintain than fat. The more muscle we have, the more calories we naturally burn. It doesn’t have to cost money to build muscle, we can use our own body weight for it. Push ups, crunches, leg lifts, all are excellent ways to use our body weight for weight training.
Drink 64oz of water daily – our body needs to have an abundant supply of water in order to flush toxins out of our system. At first, we may feel like we are going to the bathroom all the time, but our body is flushing the toxins out. Once our body is accustomed to having this amount of water regularly, it will absorb the water better.
Drink green tea – green tea has been proven to help our bodies burn more fat than other drinks.
Eat when hungry – Food is fuel to keep us going. We don’t realize
how often we eat just because we don’t have anything else to do. This is what causes us to gain weight. If we wait till we are hungry to eat again our body can properly digest what we’ve eaten and ask for more fuel once it needs more, by sending us hunger pains.
Finally, a rule that my grandmother taught me – Eat like a king at breakfast, a queen at lunch and a pauper at dinner - or to put it another way, get most of our calories early in the day.
Every time I make this as an appetizer, someone asks for the recipe! It is EASY to make and delicious!
Buffalo Chicken Dip
You will need:
In a skillet, mix the drained chicken and buffalo sauce together. Add the Ranch dressing, followed by the cream cheese.
Once all ingredients are blended, add the shredded cheese.
When the cheese melts, transfer to a crock pot or dish.
(Obviously the crock pot will keep it warm longer!)
I like to use ‘Scoops’ tortilla chips with this dish.
Enjoy!
This week, Cee Tindall and Edie McRae (Two FABULOUS Interns Here at Family Foodies) teamed up to pick Laurie’s brain for tips on eating healthy and balanced meals while juggling it all.
Our featured mom this week is Laurie Ayers, a single WAHM of two. Laurie owns and operates two successful businesses-a professional security services firm and a thriving wickless candle business.
What are your favorite “Quick” meals to prepare?
One pot meals. I love them. I started with a basic rice, broccoli, cheese and cream of mushroom soup recipe and constantly change it up – sometimes adding chicken or some other meat, sometimes adding asparagus instead of broccoli, sometimes adding “crunchies” like celery or water chestnuts… You get the idea. It’s a different meal each time. It takes me less than 10 minutes to whip up, 30 minutes in the over and voila! Much healthier and tastier than KFC’s $2.99 Mashed potato, corn, chicken bowl! LOL [Read more...]
