My 2018 Goals

Originally I wasn’t going to share my goals with anyone (except Leigh and my bullet journal) however I’m quite happy with my goals for this year. They’re also very achievable in the next 12 months so I have no excuse really.

Meal Prep Sunday and Healthy living

After months of saying 'I'm going to start being more healthy' 'I want to lose a little bit of weight' and not doing anything about it, I have finally kicked my butt into action and got some fresh motivation. I've been noticing more and more lately just how much weight I have put on over the last few years and, honestly, I've never actively done anything about it until now. I genuinely love it when I see women who are so comfortable with their body and how they look (no matter what their size) but I'm just not one of those people and it's getting me down more and more as time goes by.

Healthiest Recipe I Own.

So I found a recipe for a soup called the Cabbage Fat-Burning soup and honestly if you are trying to lose weight or just be healthier in general then I recommend this soup. Plus it tastes amazing. I found this recipe last year and gave it ago but I think I over-did eating it (by that I mean I was eating it for lunch 5 days a week, every week) and I slowly became bored of it. I took a few months break from eating this particular soup and last week I made a new batch and its safe to say the boredom with this was not permanent, yay!

Now I have made a few changes to the original recipe here is the actual recipe if you want to check that out.

So I use the below ingredients to make this soup:

• 5 carrots, peeled and chopped
• 3 onions, peeled and chopped
• 2 cans of chopped tomatoes with the liquid
• 1 large cabbage, chopped
• 1 can cut green beans, drained
• 2 red or yellow peppers, diced
• 1 can beef broth (scotch broth works too)
• 2 vegetable stock cubes 

So I basically peel and chop the onions, carrots, peppers and cabbage put it all in a large saucepan, drain the green beans and add those, then empty the contents of the two cans of tomatoes plus the can of scotch broth. Drop in the two stock cubes, fill the saucepan with enough water to cover the contents and stick on a medium heat.

The recipe actually says to cook for 25 minutes but I cook on a medium heat until it is boiling then turn down to low and simmer for about an hour.

Take off the heat, separate everything out into individual containers, this batch I actually only used 1 can of tomatoes and I did over-fill a few of the containers so I only got 6 out of this. Usually I can get 7 or 8 containers from a batch of this soup.

Leave to cool then I pop mine in the freezer. The day before I'm going to have one for lunch I just take one out of the freezer and put it in the fridge so it's defrosted in time for lunch.

The great thing about this is not only is each container only about 80 calories but once they're defrosted they only take 2 to 3 minutes to warm up in the microwave - perfect for a work lunch.

If you have any recipes you love, send me a link in the comments and if I like the sound of it I will try it out and let you know what I think of it :)