Bloggy Love: Eat Live Run

It’s time for another Bloggy Love award.

Bloggy Love

For the month of March 2009, I have chosen Jenna, the very fun, smart, energetic and absolutely beautiful blogger of Eat Live Run.  Jenna has shown me that you don’t have to diet to live a healthy life.  I find Jenna’s blog to be such an inspiration to me because she shows her readers that it’s OK to eat anything in moderation and also have fun with healthy foods.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Jenna in Chicago last November when she was in town for a Quaker Oats sponsored event.  It was a fun time and I’m thankful I was able to meet up with her.  Here is a picture of Jenna and myself

You can see more pictures that Kev (hubby) took of the blogger meet up.

I love Jenna’s blog and read it every day.  I would love for you to get to know Jenna and read about her food philosophy.  She’s amazing!  Jenna’s blog is not a weight loss blog but more of a food blog.  She does however share what she does for fitness too.  Jenna is a yoga lover so you might find that fascinating.  Yoga is not something I have tried or have an interest in right now but she can tell you everything you need to know.

Jenna has shared many great recipes and food ideas that I have found interesting.  She’s another oatmeal lover so between her and Kath, I’m covered on exciting new ways to eat my oatmeal.  And you MUST try her yummy oatmeal pancakes.  Just check out that beauty. Jenna told me how to prepare it and believe it or not when I made it, it turned out wonderful.  Look at my masterpiece (except I forgot the strawberries on top oops).

Here is how Jenna told me to make it:

The night before mix together 1/2 cup old fashioned oats with 3 egg whites. Let sit in fridge overnight.

The morning of, add 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 of a mashed banana and a pinch of salt. Cook for about 2 minutes per side.

I top mine with about a tbsp of almond butter and the other half of the mashed banana.

It tastes great, is filling and has about 21 grams of protein!

Totally awesome breakfast!

The other thing that surprised me is that thanks to Jenna, I now love tofu.  I hemmed and hawed over trying it but finally did and can’t get enough.  I love it!  You can use the search feature at Jenna’s Eat Live Run blog to find a variety of posts that include her tofu masterpieces.

I am sure you’ll find many great things as you browse through Jenna’s blog and of course you’ll then figure out why she was deserving of this Bloggy Love award.  Jenna, thank you for all you do!  You are a true inspiration.

Don’t forget to share the bloggy love too.  Feel free to use this bloggy love award and link back in the comments when you do.  Be sure to come back next month to see who the April 2009 bloggy love award recipient will be!

 

Bloggy Love: Kath Eats Real Food (KERF)

It’s time for me to announce the very first Bloggy Love award

Bloggy Love

The recipient of my first Bloggy Love award is Kath from Kath Eats Real Food (KERF).  I can’t tell you exactly how I came across Kath’s blog but I’m so glad I did.  Kath and her blog have been an inspiration to me in many ways.  Since starting to read her blog back in 2008, I have been more adventurous with food.  She inspired me to make some yummy salads, try Larabar Fruit & Nut Food Bars, Almond Butter, Chobani greek yogurt and the list goes on.  Look at one thing she inspired me to make.  A large salad with grilled veggies.

Kath has me intrigued at the notion of food blogging so maybe one day!

Oh and I should probably tell you that I had the GREAT pleasure of meeting Kath in Chicago last November when she and other bloggers were in town for a Quaker Oats sponsored event (here are some pictures that Kev took of meet-up).  Kath is just as real in person as she is on her wonderful blog.  Here is a picture of us together.

Kath and another blogger (next month’s Bloggy Love recipient) have been instrumental in showing me that it can be fun to eat while being healthy at the same time.  I don’t think I have ever eaten so much oatmeal in my life but the variety of oatmeal toppings that is shared on their blogs is amazing.  I especially enjoy adding Almond/Peanut butter to my oatmeal now.  Yum!

I really enjoy how Kath and her hubby Matt enjoy their time together.  Their relationship stands out to me as one that is so loving and adventurous much like Kev and myself.  I would love to be able to hop on bikes like they do to get around town!

There are so many great things to find at Kath’s blog, you really need to check it out.  There are ton of awesome recipes and you don’t want to miss her famous “chandelier” coffee.  It’s the talk of the Internet on other food blogs.  And Kath even has her own KERF blog logo store. Sometime I want to get the bowl, apron and of course a magnet.  How fun!

Get on over to Kath’s blog, Kath Eats Real Food and you’ll see why she got the Bloggy Love award from me.  I’m sure she will inspire you as much as she has inspired me.

Don’t forget to feel the bloggy love and share the award with some of your favorite bloggers and be sure to come back here to share the link.

Happy Valentine’s Day

 

Feel the Bloggy Love

Since we celebrate Valentine’s Day this month (only two days away) and it’s all about LOVE, I thought what better time to break out my new “Bloggy Love” blog award.  On a monthly basis I will share the love and will feature some of my favorite healthy lifestyle blogs.  Each month I will choose one weight loss, fitness, foodie or health and wellness blog to highlight and these blogs will have the honor of being included in my favorite healthy lifestyle blog roll.  I will share with my readers blogs that I can relate to, one’s that have taught me something and also that have made an impact to my life.

My first Bloggy Love award will be given out this Saturday, February 14th on Valentine’s Day.  How fitting!  Once I post the first award, you’ll find the code to the button that my wonderful hubby made added into this post and may also use it to share the Bloggy Love on your blog (if for some reason the code does not work, please let me now because I have been having some issues with it). And if you use the button please come back to this post and comment to share the link to your Bloggy Love post so we can come and see what blogs make a difference in your life.

Here is the code so you can copy and paste and use it on your own blog.

Bloggy Love

Be sure to bookmark my blog so you can see all the blogs I choose to highlight. Yours might be one of them!