28 days of Living Life with a Purpose

It’s finally July! I feel like this is the best month to do things a little different. It’s summer. Everybody’s happy and the sun is out everyday! I thought I would also change things up on my blog. On Abby’s page “Just a girl and her blog” she did 31 days to an intentional life but I am going to change it up since it is July 3^rd already and I don’t have 31 days. Sooo  I am going to do “28 days of living life with a purpose.

Now, in order to do this I definitely need some credibility (here’s where you come in.) I have set a few goals for myself  that I am going to try my hardest to stick to and write about new things:

-      -  Workout daily

-      -  Come up with a routine and stick to IT

-      -  Write in the calendar how well you did and what messed up. Do you need to change the routine at all?

-      -  Grow your faith.

-       - Get ahead on blog writing

-       - Go to sleep feeling accomplished

-      -  Get at least 8 hours of sleep

I will keep you guys fully updated throughout the month and let you know how this goes but I am excited.

Meal Plan for the Week

As my first official blog post I decided to do my meal plan so you can see my biggest struggle which is definitely cooking. I try so hard to be a good cooker but I burn so many things on a weekly basis that I just have to laugh at myself now. I try to do two complicated meals a week or if not complicated then at least new. Something I have never done before. Before I lived on my own I got so excited about cooking for myself so I created a Pinterest board, like I do with everything else, called Cooking for One. I posted lunch boxes, chimichangas and even some desserts. I have been working on cooking as many things as I can from that board but you should definitely check it out because there are quite a bit of YUMMY things on it (Like these Loaded Chicken Salad Sandwiches) Lets get started on my week:

Saturday: 

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios (You'll see this week that I love cheerios and its seriously the easiest and quickest breakfast ever.)

Lunch: Bean and Cheese burrito- On Saturday, I made 10 of these and stuck them in the freezer for leftovers later on in the week and seriously these are so good. Go check out this recipe!

Dinner: For this night I had work so I brought 2 of the bean and cheese burritos from lunch time and thawed them out at work and cooked it for a minute and it was the perfect quick dinner.

Sunday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios:)

Lunch: Because those Bean and Cheese burritos were so darn good I ate a few again today! 

Dinner: Oven Fajitas- This is one you have to try! I have made these for 2 weeks in a row now because I cant get over how easy and amazing these are. These will definitely be on the meal plan again once I get back from vacation. My roommates even think these smelt pretty amazing! 

Monday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch: Oven Fajitas Leftovers- These heated up are just as amazing as the first day. Add some avocado and make it even better. 

Dinner: I made burgers. I didn't have a recipe but I just bought the patties from Target and cooked them on the stove and put them on these Hawaiian buns with Onion, tomato and a little avocado. These were so good and definitely got rid of my craving for a juicy burger. 

Tuesday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch: Burgers- I bought a pack of 4 patties so I just cooked 4 on Monday night so that I had a couple leftovers for whenever I want an easy lunch/dinner. 

Dinner: Homemade Pizza- I didn't have a recipe for this I just had crust and put pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni. I was to scared to do something any more complicated but this one came out pretty good so maybe next week will call for a more complicated pizza. 

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch: Grilled Cheese with avocado

Dinner: Bean and Cheese burrito from earlier this week

Thursday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch: Grilled Cheese and a quick smoothie. I buy strawberries every week and I have a jar of Mangoes in the pantry so I just make a strawberry, mango smoothie with some mango juice to help it blend.

Dinner: Spaghetti

Friday:

Breakfast: Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch: Grilled Cheese and a smoothie. This is a couple of days before groceries so I just try to get rid of some things that I know are going to start going bad.

Dinner: Whatever leftovers are in the fridge. 

And Saturday is Grocery shopping day!!!! My favorite day of the Week!