The Sensible Mom

Food, DIY, Chicago Mom Blogger

3 Delicious Plant-Based Puddings (Vanilla, Butterscotch and Chocolate Flavors!)

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Thanks to Moms Meet for sponsoring this blog post for WayFare plant-based puddings.

Plant-Based Puddings

This year my family decided that we’re going to go back to eating a more whole-food plant-based diet. We used to eat this way years ago, but we slowly let the meat and dairy products creep back into our diet and our health wasn’t the best because of it.

Since February, though, we’ve been transitioning to eating more plant-based foods and less meat and dairy. The results have been wonderful. πŸ™‚

I’m FINALLY losing weight and was able to get out of the 190s, which I’ve been struggling to do for years. My last recorded weight was 173.8 lbs. and I’m still slowly losing as I continue to eat healthy, delicious, satisfying foods like potatoes, beans, whole grains, vegetables, and fruit.

I’m one happy camper! I love the food I’m eating, and I’m thrilled to finally be shedding pounds. It’s a slow weight loss,  but that’s okay. I’ll take it!

My kids are also enjoying our new way of eating, and they’re fully on board with it. One plant-based treat my kids like eating are WayFare plant-based puddings. My son, Isaac, especially loves these puddings and has been eating one just about every day lately.

The folks from Moms Meet sent us 3 packs of pudding in vanilla, chocolate, and butterscotch flavors, and we went through those rather quickly. In the last few weeks, I’ve purchased at least 9 packs more!

I found these puddings at our local Woodman’s grocery store, but other grocery stores carry them as well.

To find WayFare Pudding in your area, visit WayFare’s website for the full list of locations. Also, WayFare ships their puddings nationwide.

Plant-Based Puddings flavors in Vanilla, Butterscotch and Chocolate

Isaac’s favorite flavors are vanilla and butterscotch. My daughter, Elisabeth, said the vanilla pudding tasted like frosting, and I have to agree. It does! It’s not an overpowering frosting flavor, though. My favorite flavors are butterscotch and chocolate.

Overall, the WayFare puddings have a smooth, creamy texture and, of course, they’re dairy-free and vegan. They’re also free of the top 10 allergens and made of plant-based ingredients, including a base of organic butter beans and organic oats.

I love that even though we’ve changed our diet, we can still enjoy treats like pudding but in a plant-based way. And, actually, all this pudding talk makes me want some right now.

I think I’ll go grab a chocolate one. Mmmm…. πŸ™‚

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Have you tried plant-based pudding? What’s your favorite flavor?


Goals to Finish Out the Month

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10 Goals to Tackle This Week

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, I know.

I had a goal to spend a little bit of time on my blog or YouTube channel each day and I’d been doing a pretty good job of being consistent with that goal for a few months. Then I missed a day and then another and then I fell completely off the wagon and haven’t been able to get started again.

Today is my attempt to get back to it, and I’m going to start with a goals post. πŸ™‚

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Break a piΓ±ata with the kids

2. Work on Spanish with the kids — We use the Whistlefritz Spanish program loosely. It’s a fantastic program that you can adapt to your family’s needs. You can go fast-paced with the program or slow. We’re taking things slow with lots of repetition and that’s helped make it easier for the kids to retain what they’ve learned.

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Bible: Read through James

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe down the baseboards in our bedroom

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Return emails

10. Edit and upload a video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?


Manage Your Family’s Screen Time and Keep Kids Safe Online with the Circle Home Plus

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Thanks to Moms Meet for sponsoring this blog post on how to manage your family’s screen time and keep kids safe online with the Circle Home Plus.

Manage Your Family's Screen Time and Keep Kids Safe Online

Do you want to manage screen time for your family and keep your kids safe online?

Of course, you do. πŸ™‚

I do, too, so I’ve had subscriptions to a few different ‘screen supervision’ companies over the years, but one subscription, in particular, stands out from the others.

That subscription is our Circle Home Plus subscription, which also includes a fabulous Circle Home Plus device that connects to our home router and pairs with our home Wi-Fi network and allows us to control ALL of the internet-connected devices in our home.

It’s pretty great! I’ve never had this level of control over every internet-connected device in our home. From computers to gaming consoles to Smart TVs, the Circle gives you the power to filter what type of content is allowed and what’s not allowed.

Protect Your Family Online with the Circle Home Plus and app

Basically, after you’ve connected the Circle Home Plus device to your home router and installed the Circle Parental Controls app on your phone, you can get started by creating a profile for each family member. This is actually fun.

You’ll set filters for various categories of content and limits based on the age and interests of your child as well as your preferences as a parent. You’ll also assign each device in your home to the person that uses it so that you can get the most accurate information about how and when a device is used.

I personally love the Internet Bedtime feature and use it to completely shut the internet off of all my kids’ devices from a certain time of night until morning. This helps to keep my kids accountable and helps them to get a better night’s rest.

Set an Internet Bedtime for Each Member of Your Family

For devices like Ring cameras and Smart TVs that aren’t used solely by one person, they can be assigned to ‘Home’ in the Circle app. You can keep track of their usage that way without assigning them to one specific family member.

Filter Content on all internet-connected devices in your home including gaming consoles

The other feature I love is being able to start and stop the internet for each individual device in seconds through the Circle app. It’s fantastic! You can literally pause the internet for your entire home in one quick click or you can pause the internet on a single device with one click. Talk about power.

Overall, I love the Circle Home Plus and I know it’s working to keep my kids safe from millions of inappropriate sites and even content I, as a parent, just don’t feel they need to have access to.

Once our current 1-year subscription is up, I can definitely see my family getting a Lifetime subscription to Circle because it’ll save us money in the long run. And even the 1-year subscription actually costs LESS than what we used to pay for a 1-year subscription to another popular ‘screen supervision’ service called Covenant Eyes. While we liked Covenant Eyes and used it for years, when we compare it to everything the Circle Home Plus offers, it falls far short.

Circle Home Plus is the clear winner when it comes to keeping my family safe online and giving me power as a parent to decide what they see and when they can see it. πŸ™‚

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How do you manage screen time for your family? Would you use the Circle Home Plus and app?


10 Goals for the Week

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Thanks to Zenni Optical for partnering with me on this blog post.

10 Goals to Tackle This Week

It’s been about a month since I’ve shared a goals post and I want to get back to it.

The reason I stopped sharing was partly that I’ve been focused on getting our family to a better place with our food choices and eating habits. We’ve decided as a family to move back to a whole food plant-based diet for the most part.

So we’ve been watching a lot of videos on nutrition and I’ve been checking out lots of books from the library to get ideas for foods my family can enjoy eating. My kids are all on board, and I think we’re all doing pretty great. We’re not eating plant-based 100% of the time since we still have lots of meats and foods in our freezer and pantry that are not whole food plant-based, but we are eating that way much of the time.

We’re seeing results, too. πŸ™‚

I’m finally losing weight and we’re getting healthier as a family. I’m thinking about blogging more about weight loss. Maybe I could do an update once a month…we’ll see.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Make healthy “ice cream” with the kids

2. Work on Spanish with the kids — We use the Whistlefritz Spanish program loosely. It’s a fantastic program that you can adapt to your family’s needs. You can go fast-paced with the program or slow. We’re taking things slow with lots of repetition and that’s helped make it easier for the kids to retain what they’ve learned.

Personal Goals:

3. Start wearing my new Zenni Optical prescription glasses so that my eyes get used to them — This is my second pair of Zenni Optical glasses, and I love the color and style of them. I bought my first pair online many years ago and was impressed with the quality. Those glasses lasted me a LONG time. I think the new pair Zenni sent me is going to be even better.

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Bible: Finish reading through Mark

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe down the baseboards going up the stairway

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Film a new video for YouTube

10. Upload a new “What I bought in a week” video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?