A Carb Craving and a Exercise Stopper Called the Sun

Happy Forth! Today is not only a day of family, food, and fireworks, but my hubby's birthday! Yesterday I worked in the kitchen to make him a cake to take into work today. The creation was a almond cake with strawberry filling, and vanilla butter cream. I didn't have enough time to cover it in fondant, so I decided to try some piping techniques. By the time the cake was done, the kitchen, the cake, and myself, were covered in red, white, and blue!

Cake making is not the only thing that I've been up too the last few days. Now that I've been on my diet for over a month I'm getting sick of grilled (insert name of any meat you can grill) and grilled (insert name of any vegetable you can grill). So I decided to get creative, there is still few foods I can have but maybe it's all in how I prepare them.

Tuesday night I had a carb craving, spaghetti and meatballs! So here is my recipe, diet approved, for Spaghetti and Meatballs

You will need:

• 1 Spaghetti Squash
• A no sugar added tomato sauce
• 1 pound of the leanest ground beef or turkey
• 1 egg
• Italian seasoning
• Salt and pepper

Start by setting your oven to 375. Then take a knife and pierce the spaghetti squash. Put it in a oven safe dish and let bake for a hour. 

Next you will take your ground meat and mix in you egg, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Now for the fun part, roll as many little meatballs as you can! 

Now take a dash of olive oil and drizzle it in your frying pan. Next drop your meatballs in, and cook until all the sides are browned. Next time I think I'll try baking them. 

Once your spaghetti squash is done cut it in half and let it cool for a few minutes! Then take a fork and "rake" out the squash, it should look somewhat like noodles!

Take about a cup of your spaghetti squash, as many meatballs as you would like, and drizzle about a 1/8 of a cup of tomato sauce. You can pour more if you're not PD like me :) 

Now that I'm home exercise is harder then ever. There is this thing called "the heat" and it's getting in the way of my exercising!! Yesterday it was 111 degrees out and I tried to go exercising... bad idea. So now I'm trying to get my cardio in with virtually no equipment. I think I'm going to pull out those exercise videos from college and attempt those! I'll let you know how it goes..

My Joys for today:

• It's Bryce's Birthday and I love giving presents!
• We are going to have steak tonight for dinner!! My favorite!!
• I have wonderful friends and family :)

Thank you to all those that posted there Joys on my last post! We all have so much to be thankful for! What are your Joys for today? Leave me a comment! 

Hugs!

Ashlyn