A Good Balance

This weekend was a very good balance of relaxation and productivity - it was just what I needed.

Saturday was all snow, which meant we had to hole up and do what we do best.

Later in the day, we did stir.  We made a valiant attempt to rescue the treadmill from downstairs storage but it is not meant to be.  It is stuck down there until someone much more motivated than us can get it out.  So we won't be turning the apartment into a gym any time soon.

Yesterday we summoned the strength to go grocery shopping.  For the record, I just do not have the patience for all the people.  This was the shortest line we could find.  We have been known to wait longer in line than the time it took us to get all the groceries in the first place.

Which made our reward system all the more necessary:

We are trying to be more disciplined about taking our lunch to work most days of the week (our goal is 4 days).  This is important because we are both surrounded with yummy options that have turned out to be expensive and calorie-saturated.  So I was productive yesterday afternoon, unpacking the groceries and putting them directly into the oven to make several meals for myself this week.

Cream Cheese Chicken Chili

Roasted veggies

Not pictured: marinated chicken, green bean casserole & soft taco left-overs from dinner last night.  Now I have no excuse not to eat healthy (and more cheaply, and conveniently) the rest of the week.

I'll close with an exciting find of late:

Have you tried this?  It's like an answer to prayer - all the taste of Juicy Fruit gum (all five seconds of it, ha) without the sugar!  Yummo.