After indulging over the holidays in all of the scrumptious foods — when January rolls around, I feel like I’m rolling around a bit too!
So it’s back to thinking a little more about what I’m fueling my body with — I’ve got a few healthy recipes for you this week along with a treat that is perfect for the weekend. Because it’s about balance right?
I’m passed the stage where I go all in for the latest fad diet, I mean when you’ve been dieting for 40+ years, you kinda get to a point of being “done” and embracing your muffin top.
My friend Eliza and I were chatting this week (while eating a salad mind you), we laughed about how much harder it is to take any weight off when you are over 50 and how we are embracing stretchy pants, trying to be comfortable in our own skin — finding balance in what we enjoy. Who’s with me?
However; that being said, I have a few delicious and healthy recipes for you, along with a yummy sweet treat, that will save you a few pennies this January.
Instant Pot Egg Bites
These healthy, low-carb egg bites are the perfect get up and go breakfast. Just 3 ingredients and a few minutes in the Instant Pot (you have one right?) and you are all set! They freeze great too!
If you have tried Starbucks egg bites, you are going to love these!
8 Easy, Delicious AND Healthy Recipes
You will love these recipes, tried and true, some of our favorites!
Easy Hatch Green Chile Relleno Casserole Recipe
Best Chile Relleno Casserole is an easy, delicious vegetarian dish made with Monterey Jack cheese stuffed whole roasted chiles, topped with an egg, milk batter, topped with more cheese, then baked to fluffy perfection. Easily adapted to be gluten free, low-carb and high protein!
Easy & Healthy Grilled Chicken Shawarma Bowls
This is one of my favorite meals, year round. Tasty shawarma spice marinated chicken thighs or breasts, grilled (stovetop or grill) with fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, artichoke hearts on a bed of couscous or quinoa. SO GOOD!
Healthy Crack Chicken {Instant Pot or Slow Cooker}
This healthier crack chicken recipe (aka creamy salsa chicken) is easily made in your instant pot or slow cooker! Loaded with better for you ingredients, but still packs a ton of flavor. This recipe is great in tacos, sandwiches, quesadillas, enchiladas, salads or by itself for a low carb meal.
Healthy Cheeseburger Soup | Crockpot or Stovetop
Healthy Cheeseburger soup is filled with your favorite cheeseburger ingredients! Seasoned beef, caramelized onions, carrots, peppers and garlic, rich chopped tomatoes and beef broth, potatoes, pickles all combine to make a flavorful, hearty and simple soup. Make on the stove top or crockpot, plus it's gluten free!
Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Sweetened with maple syrup and ripe bananas, this recipe for Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread cuts the refined sugar and gluten without losing the delicious homemade taste. The recipe makes either bread or healthy banana chocolate chip muffins and is gluten free, dairy free, grain free, and Paleo friendly.
Healthy Mongolian Beef
When you need a fast dinner, don’t do “take-out”, this Mongolian Beef made with shaved steak is sure to hit the spot, and healthier too.
Healthy 3-Ingredient Raspberry Glazed Salmon
A deliciously easy Raspberry Glazed Salmon recipe using 3 simple ingredients for out of this world flavor and a few simple steps to the best baked restaurant style salmon ever!
Healthy Gluten-Free Breakfast Cookies
Healthy gluten free breakfast cookies are so delicious! A 1 bowl recipe loaded with good for you ingredients like banana, pumpkin, oats, almond butter, nuts, cranberries and dark chocolate chips.
Weekend Sweet Treat
Because the weekends call for slowing down, getting the family out of bed with the smell of warm cinnamon baking! You have got to try these amazing Cinnamon Chip Scones. If you love cinnamon, you will love these Cinnamon scones!
And if you have never made scones before, they are so easy, especially with my step-by-step instructions.
Try some of my other popular scone recipes, like these Orange Scones, Pumpkin Scones, Cinnaon Crunch Scones or these great for leftover eggnog, Eggnog Scones.
What’s Trending this Week
I love watching what people gravitate towards each week, it’s not always what you might think!
- Olive Garden Crock Pot Chicken (a seriously easy and tasty recipe!)
- Crock pot London Broil (tender and tasty)
- Easy Cheesesteak Sandwich (30 minute meal, so good!)
And apparently not everyone is thinking of dieting! YAY!
- Best Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
- Best Traditional Shortbread Recipe
- Easy 5-Ingredient Raspberry Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Weekly Inspiration | I Can Only Imagine
A week full of emotions, I just heard an old friend passed away at the end of October, our dear friend Judy is hugging Jesus now after her valiant, though short fight with ALS and my mom just shared that a life-long friend that we grew up with passed away. I am so grateful all three are dancing on streets of gold, no more pain, no more sorrow — an no longer having to imagine what it’s like to be in the arms of Jesus.
So this fantastic song, while an oldie, is so so very good and speaks truth. I Can Only Imagine by Mercy Me.
So grateful for you,
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Joanne
Hi. I don’t often post on sites like yours but it is a new year so I thought I would let you know how much I appreciate your blog and your faith based outlook on life. There is so much negativity and horror in the world right now that reading your posts helps me realize there is still hope in the one who can save us all. I also print off many of your recipes. Now I just have to get organized (and motivated) to make them. I also send my sympathy re: your friends loss. We too lost a friend to ALS this year. She was a wonderful lady, wife, mother to 3 and grandmother to 6 who loved Jesus and is now singing in His heavenly choir. ALS is a terrible disease which robs the victim of everything except their mind so they always know what is happening. Such a sad thing! Blessings to you and your family.
Thank you so much Joanne, hearing from readers like you blessed me so and is such an encouragement!
I’m so sorry about your friend as well. Yes it is so devastating and they can go downhill so fast, but like you said their mind is sharp! We are grateful she’s dancing on streets of gold now! God bless you too!!
chellie
I’m so sorry for your losses. My mom died of ALS, it’s awful awful awful! We played “I can only imagine” at her funeral. I’m amazed at how popular that song STILL is on Christian radio, it was newer when she passed 21 years ago.
Hugs to you!
Thank you Chellie. We played it. I can only imagine at my dad’s service. I am so sorry you had to walk through that with your mom. Xoxo ????