trying a meal kit from Natures Fare

 When Natures Fare moved to their new location they expanded their bakery, deli and prepared sections and one thing they added were meal kits.

I always look at them every time I'm there, and I finally decided to bite the bullet and get one; if my children didn't want to eat it, that was fine, choose a leftover.

I chose the black bean tacos meal.  It was $21.99 I believe.

It came with everything you  need to make 6 vegan tacos with coleslaw on the side.

I'd planned to take a bunch of photos of what was in the bag, etc, but when I came home from work that day, The Mister had already started chopping and cooking and who am I to interrupt someone in the cooking zone.

 

The meal came together very quickly, fed 3 of us with leftovers (the girl had leftover mac and cheese) and the most importantly, was freaking delicious. 

The Boy wants to go back to pick out the next meal we try, asap.  :)

I tried....... the internet breakfast sandwich

Like nearly everyone else I've been glued to my phone/internet more than usual, but for all the gross bad stuff on there, you can occasionally find some good, like when you discover new food people, or recipes, like the one pan breakfast sandwich.

It's pretty straightforward, eggs and bread in one pan, we added some cheese and ham to be super fancy.  I couldn't quite perfect the dunking the bread and turning it over and getting egg on both sides, as you can see from my photo, but it's a small problem that didn't affect the delicious taste of the sandwich.

Here's a little writeup that shares a video too, so you can make your own delicious sandwich.

I tried.....to be more positive

I always love a project, although to be honest most of the time time they fall apart or get abandoned part way through but hey, at least I'm optimistic?
My latest project, decided at 4 in the morning one weekend while avoiding existing projects screaming for my attention like laundry and organizing - try things.
I know!  I'm a trendsetter.

There are things I want to try, things I want to get back to doing regularly, things I know I should be doing.....so maybe if I document some of them here, it might work.  Unlikely, but there is always hope.

Here is my first one - sourced from a tweet from Yoko Ono 9 years ago - Say nothing negative about anyone for 3 days.

Her full tweet is  Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

And I get that!  It is totally easy to get caught up in negative thoughts and let then wash over you.   And man, it just seems like the media and world is wired to all things negative right now.  We don't need to add to that shit.  Really, why would you want to?

So I said nothing negative about anyone for 3 days - out loud.  And in my head, when my thoughts went that way, instead of going with it like I usually would have, I stopped myself, took a pause and reassessed the way I felt.  Instead of getting annoyed with a coworker who was ignoring my email EVEN THOUGH I COULD SEE SHE WAS RIGHT THERE I took a breath and thought huh, she must be busy.  If I don't hear from her my tomorrow I'll have to remind her I'm waiting for those papers.  And moved on instead of stewing about it.  When someone threw a wrench in my carefully laid plans and I had to reorganize my busy day I changed my thoughts to - it's nice to be able to be there for someone and to help out.
Boom!
It doesn't always work and it isn't always easy but I'm making progress and that is amazing.
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