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New Year’s Resolutions

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We all make the same resolutions to ourselves every year, sleep more, eat less, less caffeine blah, blah , blah.  Usually takes me about a month to settle on an actual resolution.  This year it’s setting a bed time and eating more greens.  What about you?

Below are some links you may find helpful in keeping this year’s promise to yourself.

  • Meatless Mondays
  • Packing a lunch? Recipe planning? Recipe planning can make your week SO much smoother. When I fall off track, a tool like this Moleskin planner can really help.  If Moleskin is not your jam, these are pretty, as well as these.
  • Make breakfast ahead of time; it’s one less thing to worry about in the morning. Overnight oats. Here too.
  • Less caffeine: Best chai ever.

More Greens Salad

Easy make-ahead salad. Perfect for a work day lunch. 
 
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups baby kale
1/2 cup edamame (cooked and shelled)
1/4 cup carrots shredded
1/4 cup water chestnut
1/4 cup sliced radishes
 
Dressing:
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/8 cup canola oil (can also use sesame)
2 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
Sriracha sauce to taste 
 
Directions:
1. Whisk canola oil slowly into rice vinegar. Next add cilantro continue to whisk.  And add sriracha sauce. 
2. Dress the kale.  Pack in portable container. Add remaining ingredients to separate portable container. 
3. At lunch combine all ingredients into kale container. Cover and shake it. 
 
Options: Ginger Carrot dressing
 

And if you find yourself veering off course, check out Daily Dishonesty. Offers comfort in the little lies we tell ourselves. 

 

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