Abundant Life Blog Hop

Don't you love it when you come across awesome websites or blogs that you have never seen before

and you could possibly (if you had the extra down time) to search the website or blog for hours on end??

I have a dear friend from our ward who sent me some 

great websites to help me deal with my stomach problems.

These websites provide yummy recipes and healthy tips/tricks.

My favorite out the bunch that she emailed me was Weed 'em and Reap

I spent almost an hour on this website going from page to page to page.

Here is one of her recipes that we tried the other night.

It's so easy and tastes fantastic!

Chicken, Rice & Veggie Soup

2 c. brown rice (soak for 12-24 hours before cooking)

3 cans (or 6 cups) organic chicken broth

1-2 lb. organic chicken (depending on how chicken-y you want it)

2 c. diced carrots

1 medium onion, diced

3 clove garlic, minced

4 TBS.  butter, lard or tallow

2 handfuls spinach

salt and pepper to taste

Directions: Saute onion & garlic in oil, then add rice and brown for 2 min.  Pour broth & rice mixture in crock-pot and start on high.  Cook chicken separately, then dice and add to the crock-pot   Cook on high for 3-4 hours.  About midway through, add diced carrots.  When done cooking, add 2 handfuls of spinach and serve!

Wahla (guessed on the spelling) 

Check back every Thursday to link-up with Rubi and I! 

Here are a few ideas of what you can share on your posts:

What is motivating you to be healthier?

What do you do to stay healthy?

Have you tried a new plant-based meal lately? Share the recipe!

Workout tips & tricks

Anything new you've learned about living a healthy lifestyle

Rules:

-Follow your hosts Rubi & Kimberly

-Link-up your post NOT your blog

-Comment and tell us what you think!

-Copy this button to your blog post

so others can join the movement too! 

Abundant Life Blog Hop

Wow! This week is flying by. 

I can't believe it's already Thursday!

That means it's time for the Abundant Life Blog Hop!

Have you guys heard of Kristina from Fully Raw?

She is the founder of the largest raw, organic produce co-operative in the U.S., she has been 100% raw for almost 7 years. An exemplification of all that she wishes to create, she is a leading visionary in the raw movement, especially in Houston, TX. She attended both Vanderbilt University and Rice University, and she graduated from Rice University on the top 5% of her class in 2009 with a triple major in Kinesiology specializing in Health Science, Raw Foods, and Fasting. Since then, she has been involved highly in the movement of Organic Horticulture, Permaculture, and Co-operative Communities.

Kristina's inspiration for being FullyRaw came after she was able to rid herself of Hyperglycemia at the age of 18 eating nothing but a low fat raw vegan diet consisting solely of fresh fruits and vegetables with few nuts and seeds. After being a direct understudy of 20+ year raw fooder John Rose, she interned and worked under Dr. Graham at his health events in Seattle and in Costa Rica. She has lived in the Dominican Republic and in Costa Rica, and she has become an avidly enthusiastic runner who runs at least 6-8 miles a day! 

At the age of 20 before she graduated college, she started the non-profit organization called Rawfully Organic. This organic produce co-operative in Houston, Texas grew from 12 people in her living room to over 6000 families in the greater Houston city limits. Rawfully Organic feeds over 450 families each week and focuses on the benefits of eating diets high in raw fruits and vegetables while making organic affordable for all. The nonprofit grosses more a million each year, and it stays true to its mission to support families in the Texas community to supply an abundance of organic produce to help them achieve their raw, vegetarian, or vegan lifestyle. To this day, the coop is 100% volunteer run, and not even Kristina chooses to write herself a paycheck.


 

Besides being the chief goddess co-operator of Rawfully Organic, Kristina has made a living coaching and inspiring thousands of others to be FullyRaw for the past few years. She also enjoys frequently speaking and lecturing to the Texas community. She even offers raw classes where she prepares food for her audiences! Kristina’s mission is to simply REACH PEOPLE with the message of RAW. She wants to inspire people to find their rawness within so that they can find their own health freedom and zest! You CAN be FullyRaw, and Kristina wants to help you get there!

Check out her recipes and her YouTube channel

 

Abundant Life Blog Hop

Guess what guys?!?!

It's Thursday! It's time for the Abundant Life Blog Hop!

This week has been a crazy one.

I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday!

I'm ready for the weekend...how about you?

Today I am going to be sharing a recipe that is so yummy and healthy.

You will love it! I found this recipe HERE

I think I have tried Couscous once before but totally forgot what it tasted like.

So I decided to give it another go and try this recipe.

I have been having so much fun trying

all these different recipes. I love food!

Southwest Couscous Salad with Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette
1 1/2 c water
1/2 tsp salt
1 c uncooked couscous
1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
1/2 c red onion
2 plum tomatoes, seeded and diced
1/4 c fresh cilantro, minced

Chipolte Lime Vinaigrette

4 1/2 tbsp olive oil
4 1/2 tbsp lime juice
2 tsp adobo sauce (from canned chipotle chilies)
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 tsp toasted cumin seed, crushed
3/4 tsp dried basil
3/4 tsp sugar

Bring water and salt to a boil. Add couscous, cover, and remove from heat. Allow to stand 5 to 10 minutes, until all moisture is absorbed. Fluff with a fork, and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Cool. Add beans, jalapeno, red onion, and tomato. In food processor, combine all vinaigrette ingredients. Process until well combined. Add to mixing bowl, and stir well. Stir in fresh cilantro. Serve and enjoy!

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Check back every Thursday to link-up with Rubi and I! 

Here are a few ideas of what you can share on your posts:

What is motivating you to be healthier?

What do you do to stay healthy?

Have you tried a new plant-based meal lately? Share the recipe!

Workout tips & tricks

Anything new you've learned about living a healthy lifestyle

Rules:

-Follow your hosts Rubi & Kimberly

-Link-up your post NOT your blog

-Comment and tell us what you think!
-Copy this button to your blog post 
so others can join the movement too! 



Some Thoughts For Thursday.

My heart is so full with joy this morning and would love to share my thoughts with you.

On my way to work this morning, I was thinking about life.

My life then and my life now. Wow! What a change!
Seriously...like a complete 360!

For a long time, before I came to know God, there was so much turmoil in my life.

Looking back, it really saddens me to think about all the years I wasted living that way.

I spent most of my time partying with friends on the weekends and even sometimes during the week.

My friends and I would drink, laugh, dance, play games and joke around. At the time I thought "Wow...life is good!" But what it? Was I really loving my life?

No...I wasn't. I was just going through the motions day after day after day. 

My daily life ended up feeling like it was on repeat

and as each day passed there was nothing to look foward to. I felt so lost.

 Looking back I was using the alcohol to cover up all of my struggles and problems I was facing.

 Of course the nights when I was drinking, I forgot about my trials for the night.

But you know what??

The next morning when I would open my eyes

with an upset stomach and a headache....

my problems and the heartache was still there.

That's no way to live. I wasn't truly happy.

I never had peace or even knew what it felt like to have peace.

God has brought me through so much and I know that everything that

happens in my life is for a purpose and has a reasoning. It's all apart of His perfect plan.

I am grateful for the trials, struggles and heartache that I faced then, because it brought me

to come to know God and my Savior and has shaped and formed me into the

daughter of God that I am today.

What have you overcome?
What has God brought you through?



Thankful Thursdays & a GIVEAWAY

Today I am thankful for.....

Talents & Abilities

To be completely honest...this has been on my heart a lot lately.

Normally when I do Thankful Thursdays I just write a few things I am thankful for with a short sentence to go along with it.

When I started writing why I was thankful for talents and abilities, all these thoughts flowed through my mind. I just continued typing until I realized it wasn't just a short sentence...more like an english assignment I was getting ready to turn in.

So I have decided to share my thoughts with you on talents and abilities in another post.

I feel a lot of you will get a lot out of it and for some it will be just what they needed to hear.

So how about that GIVEAWAY?!?!

One lucky winner will receive these Pink Heart Shaped Earrings from Charming Charlie.

How to enter (leave a separate comment for each entry):

1. Follow Diary of a Brown Eyed Girl via GFC

2. Visit my SHOP and Tweet, Pin, or Like one of my products

3. Tweet, Blog or Facebook about this Giveaway

**Leave a comment with your email address so I can contact you if you win**

Giveaway ends Thursday 9/20/12 at midnight!

Good luck you lovely bloggers!

Hope you have a blessed day!

 

Need a new blog design??

Enter this GIVEAWAY HERE

Thankful Thursdays

What I'm Thankful For Today...

Inner peace

Friends that won't shake

For this blog and the readers who won't quit reading

A healing body

For the chance to start all over again, given to me everyday by loving God.

 An abundance of Kleenex in my house

The Lord placing me in the right place at the right time. 



****SHOP will be up and running soon****

Thankful Thursdays

What I'm thankful for today....

Love.

 It's completely magical and amazing, isn't it?

Choice. 

 I love that every day I can choose to be happy. Fabulous! 

Acceptance. 

I'm so thankful to those who accept me for who I am and what I believe.

Books.  

There's never a time when I'm not thankful for the words of another.

Change. 

It can be scary at times....but it can be a wonderful thing.