Healthy Eating

How to Make Weight Loss Mashed Potatoes

November 1, 2022 by Sandra Leave a Comment

Today, I’m showing you how to make my Rapid Weight Loss Mashed Potatoes. 🙂

You’ll be shocked at how simple and easy it is to lose weight with this delicious and nutritious recipe. You’ve never seen mashed potatoes like this before. These are new and different and I’m going to show you exactly how I make them and how you can change them up to make endless flavor combinations that will allow you to lose weight and feel satisfied.

These mashed potatoes are one of the secrets to my weight loss success, and they’ve helped me get to my current weight of 142 pounds (and I’m not finished losing weight just yet).

If you’re looking for a delicious and nutritious way to lose weight, then you should try this recipe for Rapid Weight Loss Mashed Potatoes as these potatoes will help you lose weight rapidly and without much effort. Give this recipe a try and see how much weight you can lose in just a few weeks! If you do try them, please share in the comments below and let me know how you changed them up or what spices you used so that I can possibly try them in the future.

These mashed potatoes would also be great to help keep the extra pounds from creeping on during the holiday season as they don’t include any dairy and only include ingredients that will promote your weight loss.

I hope you enjoy the video, and, as always, thanks for watching!

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Are you working on losing weight in 2022? Have you ever thought about including tomatoes in your mashed potatoes?

Weight Loss Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine!

August 29, 2021 by Sandra Leave a Comment

Thanks to Moms Meet for sponsoring this blog post for the Vitapod machine.

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

Do you want to filter tap water at home into a drink that tastes clean and refreshing? What about actually transforming your tap water? Would you like to do that?

If the answer to those questions is “yes!” then I think I can help you. 🙂

Enter the Vitapod machine…

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

How to Use the Vitapod Machine

My family and I have been using the Vitapod to not only filter water but also transform it into various flavored water drinks that we can enjoy. The Vitapod machine makes it easy to do this and I’ll quickly explain how so that you can understand how to use the Vitapod in case you’d like to try it for yourself.

First, you fill the Vitapod’s water tank with water from your tap and the Vitapod’s multipass filtration system purifies the water better than other market leaders. The water we filtered through the Vitapod actually tastes GOOD and my family is picky about our water (lol!).

But we like Vitapod’s water and you could literally just drink the filtered water plain without adding in any flavor at all and be completely satisfied if that’s how you like to drink your water.

But this post is about transforming your water so the next step is to place a pod into the chamber on top of the machine.

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

All eleven pod flavors are made of 100% natural ingredients and while I haven’t been able to try ALL of them, pictured below are 5 of them. These are the ones we currently have at home.

As you can see, we have a nice variety. My favorite so far is pineapple coconut but my daughter, Elisabeth, likes cotton candy. By the way, these pods contain vitamins, minerals, and plant-based antioxidants which makes you feel good about drinking them.

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

Next, Vitapod’s mixing chamber blends the pod with water at 690 RPMs, which in case you didn’t know is faster than the blades of a helicopter! 😮

It’s actually fun to watch but don’t look away because it’ll be done mixing before you know it. It’s quite fast!

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

And that’s it. Your drink is done and I want to mention that the Vitapod machine cools the water to the optimal temperature for hydration, allowing the body to absorb water quicker than water that’s too hot or cold. Who knew?

However, if you like very cold water (like we do), you can add ice cubes to the water tank or simply add them to the cup ahead of time.

Personally, I think it’s easier just to add ice to the cup so that’s what I do.

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

And finally, you can choose from 3 different drink sizes depending upon your preference.

For example, I like to drink the more diluted “large” size while my daughter likes the “medium” size. We haven’t tried the smallest size in any flavor yet but we’ll probably experiment and try that size in the near future.

Transform and Filter Tap Water at Home with a Vitapod Machine

Oh, and the magnetic tray is insanely easy to adjust for the different drink sizes. You simply slide it up or down and you’re good to go.

Final Thoughts

So, overall, I recommend the Vitapod machine if you like tasty filtered or flavored water and I almost forgot to mention that clean-up is a breeze! That’s super important, right?

It only takes minutes to wash and wipe down a few pieces and then it’s ready for another spin. 🙂

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Would you try the Vitapod? What’s your favorite way to drink water?

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

June 28, 2021 by Sandra 4 Comments

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. 🙂

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…. 🙂

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

Juicer Recipe: Carrot, Celery, and Apple Juice

July 10, 2020 by Sandra 8 Comments

A few years ago, I watched the film Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

After watching the documentary and learning about the amazing health benefits associated with juicing, I knew we needed to give it a try. Ruben and I had already started making changes to our family’s diet, and juicing sounded like another great way to improve our overall health.

Plus, juicing helps you lose weight.

Juicer Recipes

Now after we researched juicers and chose the one we thought would be right for us, the next thing to do after it was delivered was to search out juice recipes to try. I found several that I printed out and had on hand during my very first juicing experience.

You know… because I was terrified of throwing ingredients into the juicer and ending up with a crazy-weird-gross concoction that nobody would drink except for me.

Thankfully, I quickly learned that it’s hard to mess up juice, and it’s actually very easy to come up with simple recipes that you can remember as you go.

Today, I’m sharing one such recipe.

It’s for a deliciously healthy carrot, celery, and apple juice.

All you need to make this juice is six carrots, two stalks of celery, and two apples. If you want to give it a little punch in flavor, you could add one-fourth of a lemon or even a small piece of ginger.

I’m personally not a fan of ginger in my juice, but lemon, I love.

Here’s the simple recipe:

Carrot, Celery, and Apple Juice

Ingredients

6 carrots
2 celery stalks
2 apples

Instructions

Wash and trim produce. (I like to peel the carrots. My husband likes to leave the skin on. Either way is fine.)
Turn on juicer and add ingredients one by one. Transfer juice to a glass and enjoy!

https://thesensiblemom.com/2020/07/juicer-recipes-carrot-celery-apple-juice/

Kid-Friendly Juice

Now, my two-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, loves this juice! She actually drinks just about anything that comes out of the juicer, and that makes me a very happy mama.

While she normally drinks her juice straight from a mug or mason jar, sometimes we get a little fancy and use our special tea cups.

Her expression says it all. 🙂

Now, if I could only get my other four kids to adore carrot juice as much as she does!

They prefer juicer lemonade. 😉

What are some of your favorite juice/drink recipes?

Where to purchase a juicer: If you don’t currently own a juicer, I recommend checking out the juicers and reading the reviews on the Williams-Sonoma website. You can compare the different juicers on their site here. And, of course, there’s also Amazon.

With so many great fall fruits and vegetables around, it’s the perfect time to start juicing!

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Healthy Eating

How to Use the Vitapod Machine

Final Thoughts

Juicer Recipes

Here’s the simple recipe:

Kid-Friendly Juice

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