20-minute Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

As the temperatures begin to cool, and flu season quickly approaches I wanted to share my easy chicken noodle soup recipe!

Ingredients:

2 quarts - Low sodium chicken broth

1 bunch of organic celery

1/2 bag of organic baby carrots

1/2 bag of quinoa & brown rice pasta (or any noodle of your choice)

1 lb. organic ground chicken

Turmeric, salt, papper, and garlic to taste

Directions:

In a frying pan cook ground chicken on low heat until it reaches an internal temp of 165°.

In a large pot add both quarts of low sodium chicken broth and bring to a boil.

Wash, trim, and chop celery and carrots - then add to broth.

Once broth is boiling add in pasta, cook for approx 8 minutes (follow cook times for your specific pasta).

Once chicken is fully cooked, add to pot and stir.

Add spices to taste, and cook on low for approx 10 minutes.

Enjoy!!

How to Make my Blistered Potatoes!

I love potatoes, definitely one of my top 5 favorite foods! I am always experimenting with new ways to enjoy this nutrient dense veggie. I recently made blistered potatoes…which is really just another way to say roasted! lol

Blistered Potatoes

Ingredients:

one bag of gold baby potatoes

pink himalayan sea salt

pepper

avocado oil

Directions:

wash and trim potatoes

pre-heat convection oven to 425°F

add potatoes into oven safe dish, drizzle avocado oil, and sprinkle salt & pepper to taste

bake for 15 minutes then flip them over, bake for an additional 20 minutes

allow to cool and enjoy!

Life Lately: being a boss during the first trimester

Last week I started a new blog series called ‘Life Lately’ and it quickly became my most popular blog series in six years! Thank you all for your support in reading and sharing my blog.

This week I am touching on the first trimester of pregnancy & running a business at the same time…let me tell you it’s not for the faint of heart.

The first 16 weeks of this pregnancy were rough! It was so challenging emotionally because I was so grateful and excited but I felt awful. I couldn’t walk my dog for weeks, I didn’t eat dinner for 6 weeks because I was so sick. Praying I would make it through a client session without throwing up became my norm, and I almost ended up in the hospital twice.

That being said I was still running my business (solo) and trying to hide this blessing.

I wasn’t able to engage on social like I had been, I had to skip two weeks of my blog, and my energy just wasn’t in it. My SEO (search engine optimization) took a tremendous hit, and after working so hard on my engagement and social last year it was crushing… but I had bigger things to focus on. So I let it happen and watched the numbers and engagement drop..

If you are an entrepreneur or small biz owner I know you can relate to how tough this was. SEO and engagement are huge for entrepreneurs and small biz owners.

On top of all that I had to cancel dozens of plans with friends, family and events because I literally was so sick and had nothing left to give.

It was lonely and I wondered if I would be the 2% that stayed sick my whole pregnancy. (My Dr seemed to think so.) I told myself that I had waited years for this miracle babe, I could do whatever it took.

Luckily by 16 weeks I felt like a new person. The nausea subsided, my energy slowly increased (although I’m still no where near pre-pregnancy energy), and I saw the light.

It feels so good to be engaging with all of you again! It feels incredible to be hosting live events and classes…and meeting so many of you IRL thank you for your patience as I navigated that chapter, thank you for being here and waiting for me. I’m beyond grateful.

I’m curious have any of my other Mamas experienced horrible nausea during their pregnancy??

Life Lately: we're having a baby!

I have decided to start a new blog series called “life lately” where I will update you on everything going on here, my favorite products, and so much more!

This will be a way for me to get a bit more personal with all of you, and I can’t wait to connect!

sooo… if you couldn’t tell by the title of this post…we’re having a baby! Baby K is arriving in March!! We could not be more excited for this journey. Thank you all so much for the love & support you have offered, it means so much to us.

So let me catch you up on what I’ve been up to!

Being pregnant (we’re more than half way!!) is such a dream. If you read my previous post on our struggles with infertility you know that this has not been an easy road for us. There were several moments where I wasn’t sure we’d ever get here, which makes this pregnancy even more special.

Even though this pregnancy has been a dream I can not deny how difficult the first four months were.

I was on bed rest, then modified bed rest, then limited activity, and then was finally cleared for gentle activity - and recently just cleared for prenatal safe exercise. It was a long road, especially for someone who has always been so active. I’m a yoga teacher and personal trainer, so to not be able to workout or demo for my clients threw me for a bit of a loop.

And I have to be honest, I’m not great at being lazy. I am so used to being a creator, a doer, a go-getter that these restrictions really made me pause and look inward. I knew that my incredible team of Dr’s was only doing what was best for me and my baby, so I had to learn how to relax and give in. It ended up being such a beautiful lesson in surrendering, and I am a much better human, wife, business owner and all the things because of it.

I was incredibly sick up until 16 weeks, and will be touching on this in a separate post, but being so sick and yet so beyond grateful at the same time put so much into perspective for me. This baby has only been with me for a little over 5 months, but has already taught me so much about myself and life in general.

Photo By Jontel Chere