How to keep cilantro fresh

I love buying cilantro but every time I store it in the fridge it gets bad pretty fast. So I googled my issue and I found that if you cut the stems and put them in water in the fridge it will stay fresh longer. So my experiment is on! Sunday was day 1 and today they still look great, I will be keeping my eye on them, well that is before they get eaten up haha.

Tonight for dinner I had baked chicken wings with sweet potato fries and spinach salad! Yum!
And for dessert I had a chocolate pudding ;)

Oh and how can I forget to mention I have 70 followers! I'm sooo excited! Welcome new followers, I hope you enjoy my blog ;) I love reading all your blogs too!

My husband just told me that I should aim for 100 followers by the new year... hmmm...not sure how I could get 30 more followers in that little time, I'm so grateful already for all my current followers.... So we will leave that at that for now.

This week I have a busy busy week so not sure how much blogging I will fit in ;( I need to finish up my Christmas shopping and have many Christmas parties to attend to tooo. (what to wear will be making me crazy)

Yesterday my husband put up the stocking

And it was not long before Zoe decided she did not like them hung.

Weekly goals

Lots of fruit for the week! Today when I went grocery shopping I made sure to buy lots of fruit to add to my diet this week.

My weekly goals below ;)

1. NO FAST FOOD!
2. Limit Coffee intake by half (Doing really well with eliminating coffee ;)
3. Salads or Wraps for Lunch with fruit as snacks
4.Healthy home cooking 5 days a week or more!. :)
5. 2-3 days of working out in the basement work out room ;)
6. Eliminate any extra carbs at dinner
7. Drink plenty of water.


Tonight I made Shrimp Coconut curry for dinner, I added Green peppers to the recipe and added more water to make it more soup like. My recipe can be found here.

I ate it alone with no rice to eliminate my dinner carb. ;)

MMM Apples!

Should I really be eating apple pies... don't answer ha!. Good news is that I did my weigh in today and I did not gain any weight, but nor did I lose... Hmm and I just bought apple pies from a apple farm up North today ha!

We went to finish some Christmas shopping today and we both wanted to buy apple pie. It's a beautiful sunny day and I didn't feel like buying apple pie at the grocery store, so I googled apple farms in Ontario. Just 20 mins north of where we live we found a apple farm still open for the season.


The place is called Pine Farms Orchard http://www.pinefarmsorchard.com/ located in King City. They sell apple pies frozen and fresh, apple cider and so many other goodies. The pie is delicious!




New Holiday Mug! Yesterday I went to Michael's Craft store to buy some "things" for my sisters Christmas present. I can't mention what it is since my sister is a frequent blog reader ahah! ;) I will post it after Christmas, it's really cute. While there I bought this cute mug ;) with a lid! So Zoe doesn't drink from my cup when I turn away!

Dinner at home tonight:
Making Thai Coconut shrimp tonight for dinner and I had an omelet for brunch today. (I think a piece or two of apple pie won't hurt!) :)

Happy weekend everyone :)

Basement Exercise Room

It's now way too cold for jogging. I know some people don't mind jogging in the cold, but I hate the feeling of freezing then sweating. So that's what I have a basement for! Now we will put use to our basement exercise room!
And of course where I am, Zoe is... hahah!


Today I made sure that no matter how exhausted I was I had to make time for working out. As soon as I got home I prepared dinner, popped it all in the oven for 40mins and went downstairs to work out. When I was done working out dinner was ready! Ahh Chicken, Veggies and a Samosa!

Dinners are late these days, and by the time dinner is done and dishes are cleaned it's 730 and sometimes 8!, I know it may not sound late for some but for the last 4 years I never came home from work passed 5! and dinner and dishes never put me passed 6pm! I just always had more evening time. Miss that! (yes... If you haven't noticed, I kick and scream with change... ;) )

First snow fall!

Today we woke up to snow! Our first snow fall of the season! Surprisingly we had no snow all November which usually is not ever the case. When I woke up and saw the snow I wished I had the day off and be home drinking hot chocolate in my pj's in front of the fire place... ahhh how I wish!

My goals have not been good lately. But, I have been having healthy wraps everyday for lunch and it's been working out well so far.
I've been really really tired and exhausted after work everyday so I haven't been working out at all! ;( So I'm not doing a weigh in this week, just to be safe ha!

Can't wait for the weekend!

Pine needles everywhere...

Are they still called pine needles if the tree is a balsam tree? ahah sorry if I am not correct on that. Today after a long 9 hours non-stop at work we decided to finally go buy a Christmas Tree!

So happy that husband didn't really listen to me when I said I didn't want one...Who doesn't want a Christmas tree! ... me...I know! I've been grouchy! Husband didn't care and drove straight to buy one after work ;) Love it when he doesn't listen (Ha!)

We spent the evening listening to Christmas music and putting up the ornaments.

Now the house is complete with all the Christmas Decor!

Now it's time to sweep up the million pine needles all over the house(I think this will be husbands job for not listening to me ha!)... (crossing my fingers that Zoe doesn't decide that this tree is her new huge play toy while we are sleeping.)

Hope you all had a great Monday :)

Relaxing Weekend

Thank you so much bloggy friends, you always make me feel better with your comments and advice ;)

I got all caught up on the house work, husband helped organize some rooms that were making me crazy too. A clean organized house always helps in relieving stress.

We also went out for a delicious Italian dinner yesterday night, we haven't had Italian in so long. So I ordered a big bowl of pasta! (

This afternoon we did some Christmas shopping and I stopped at Home Sense and I found these cute pieces all 4 for $12.99. I pictured the perfect place for them and they worked out perfectly!

These ones say "Work like you don't need the money" and "Dance like no one is watching"

These ones say " Love like you've never been hurt" and "Sing like no one is listening"

Love them!

Hope you all had a good weekend too! ;)

It's grocery shopping time. My new meal plans and goals will begin tomorrow.

Ahh Finally Friday!

It's Friday night and I'm already in bed. I skipped out on a night out with the moms of suburbia tonight. I was looking forward to finally meeting them all, since we have been here at our new home for almost 6 months. However I bailed, I have not been in a social mood at all.

*In bed at 8pm, beats my falling asleep at 6pm twice this week.

*My job is extremely hard and sooo much work it's draining everything I've got.

* I only cooked at home once this week, but did eat wraps everyday for lunch.

*My appetite has not really been around this week, I've been sluggish and all I want to do is stay in bed after work.

*I have horrible tension headaches EVERYDAY! Omg why GOD WHY!!

* I haven't caught up on any of my books...really I read documents all day I can't possibly pick up anything else to read my eyes are tired! I'm so behind on my fav blogs too ;(

*My house is a mess, bills are being neglected and poor Zoe has not been getting my attention

*My weight loss goals have totally been scrapped this week and not sure if I should do my weigh in Saturday. hmm

*I'm really hoping my bad mood passes, I miss smiling and laughing and my life! ( I know dramatic, but that's how I'm feeling. I've never been good under stress...It's obvious, I crumble)

But... It's the weekend and I'm grateful for that!

Have a good weekend ;)

New weekly goals

Ahh Monday! I'm sooo sleepy! I'm at work right now but just can't turn the brain to on, so I'm giving it a warm up by blogging first, shhh! (good thing I have high walls to my cubical ha!)
I had a good and sucky weekend, so I will share the good! ;)

My sister is selling cookies in our city as her side hobby and donates 10% of her sales to charity. Her Christmas sales are going towards buying gifts for the people at the Centre for Addiction and Metal health. So this weekend I helped my sister put together lots of Christmas tins to sell!

Look above, it's a avocado salad wrap I made for lunch today ;) I'm glad to say that I'm 1lbs away from being back to my weight from a couple weeks ago ;).

Since I am extremely tired this morning and feel lazy, I also feel lazy to care about what I will eat this week, weird I know. So I'm keeping it simple this week.

1. NO FAST FOOD! (I had a big mac on Saturday not good for my diet I know,something about a big mac that always makes me feel good LOL)
2. Limit Coffee intake by half
3. Salads or Wraps for Lunch
4.Healthy home cooking 5 days a week or more!. :)
5. 2 days a week Jogging

New diet not so good for my belly ;(

Went to Starbucks today for a yummy latte and they had these cute polar bear cookies, so cute. I was good and did not buy one, I was tempted...but took a picture of it instead so I can obsess over it now ha!

Tomorrow completes 4 weeks at my new job, and 4 weeks of new food in my diet. Last weeks measurements showed that my belly grew a bit, and this whole week I have been having a upset tummy and very bloated (TMI sorry lol)

Ugh a little annoyed with food these days, as soon as I think I got it right, I realize I don't!

So although I have cut 500 calories or more some days from my daily intake, the new diet is not so good for my belly.

BUT since I have so many new things I added to my diet (whole wheat English muffins/rye bread/ham & Turkey coldcuts/lite provolone cheese/Tim Hortons coffee every morn) I can't figure out what it could be that is causing this. So with some research I did online I have come up with a new plan for next week.

Next week I will cut my coffee intake by half (or more if I'm brave)
Switch to white English muffins instead of whole wheat (even tho the calories are a bit more)
Switching from sandwiches for lunch to Salads or wraps for lunch ;)

Add more fruit and veggies as snacks for my day.

Now lets hope this works!!

Yippy for Friday!