Chicken Cheese Avocado Quesadilla

My daily life revolves around food. Often, before I'm even out of bed I have a meal plan. Might sound excessive but remember that I eat the same thing for breakfast every day (banana, mixed berries, flax and almond milk protein smoothie) and I plan my lunches and a general dinner theme on Sunday. I know most people can't/won't eat the same thing for five days straight, but lucky for me I thrive on consistency. Also, I try to be conscious about not over shopping and buying more food than I need, then having to throw it away., so I don't usually have too many options!

Quesadillas are something I make all the time. Fact: quesadillas are delicious. Even when I have no groceries I still have the fixings for a dilla. All you need is cheese and tortilla- never let yourself run out of those! Sometimes I make them as simple as pesto and cheese. Often I'll use leftover fajita filling. I love a pesto cranberry chicken and Parmesan dilla. My most favourite, by far, is chicken with cheese and avocado!

Chicken Cheese Avocado Quesadilla

Ingredients
Whole wheat tortilla
Chicken
Cheese
Avocado
Salsa

Directions

1. Place wrap in a frying pan and turn stove to medium-high.
2. Chop chicken into bite sized pieces (I used teriyaki chicken -yum)
3. Sprinkle one half of tortilla with cheese, then top with chicken.
4. Cut up avocado and distribute half on top of chicken, top with more cheese.
5. Mash the remainder of the avocado and spread on empty side of tortilla.
6. Fold the tortilla over on itself and cook until edges harden, then flip to other side. This only takes a few minutes. 
7. Get your salsa out and a plate, cut the dilla into 4 pieces and enjoy!

Banana Coconut Oatmeal Flax Muffins

I am working on cleaning up my pantry, which means lots of interesting baking adventures! I'm also working on getting back in shape and that means I'm hungry all the time and need more snacks. This recipe was inspired by those two things - a healthy snack with a whole bunch of stuff in it!

Who can argue with deliciously sweet banana mixed with chewy coconut and yummy oats?  Nobody that I'd like to know, that's for sure!

Banana Coconut Oatmeal Flax Muffins (original recipe here)

Ingredients

3 Tbsp flax seed
6 Tbsp water
4 Ripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup coconut oil (melted)
2 Tsp vanilla
2 Tsp baking soda
1/2 Tsp kosher salt (or table or sea)
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 Tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup unsweetened shaved coconut

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375. Grease one muffin tin (this will make 12 good sized muffins).
2. In your magic bullet, blend ground flax with water. This mixture acts as an egg substitute!
3. Add the flax to your mashed bananas.
4. In another bowl mix your melted coconut oil with brown sugar, then add vanilla and flax And egg mixture.
5. Add your dry ingredients to the wet and mix untrustworthy combined. Don't over mix or you will ruin everything.
6. Scoop into muffin tin then sprinkle with coconut or oats or both. Cinnamon sugar would be delicious too!
7. Bake for 22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean!

Bootcamp aka death camp pt2

Bootcamp day 2. I spent most of my day trying not to move too much. Nearly every muscle in my body is sore.... Read all about Bootcamp day 1 here! I have been trying not to think too much about how much worse tonight's session is going to be.

Just put on my workout clothes. These ones also have shrunk since I last wore them. I think I need some laundry lessons.

I'm hoping tonight is a whole new set of exercises. I might cry if I have to do another burpee.

Leaving for class now. If I don't die of muscle failure, I will finish this post later tonight.

Survived class 2. Lots of running probably saved me, since it meant less burpies and push-ups. Worked with weights but Manda was kind enough to let me use her five lb weights and she used my 8s!

Once again I realized (slash Manda pointed out) how uncoordinated I am! So many of the stretches and sets were multi-movement exercises that my brain and body parts just don't know how to deal with. Luckily everyone is too busy to notice that my super lunge jump looks more like a mix between a seizure and a dance move!

No fainting spells this time around, however acid reflux kicked in about half way through. Still suffering from it now. Will have to google the cause and figure out how to prevent it.

Tomorrow is our break day so I have some time to recuperate my traumatized muscles. Stay tuned for more!

Xo Shelly.

Michelle's Bootcamp Adventure Part 1

Big news! I'm getting back on the workout train. I, of course, started with a shopping spree where I bought a new yoga mat, foam roller and set of 8lb weights. I had to carry the weights around the store for a while so I consider that my first workout.

I went through my workout clothes drawer and reminisced about all the fun sweaty times I've had with my various outfits. Eventually I manned up and picked something to wear. Really strange but they seem a bit too small, I must've shrunk them in the wash or something!

So my chosen activity (and by chosen, I mean the one that Manda forced me into) is a women's only boot camp through NewBodyFitness.

My first session is tonight. Not gonna lie, I'm kind of nervous. I haven't done any strenuous activity in a while. Oh well, wish me luck!

Wait, first lets do a before picture...

Ok. Time lapse to after my first boot camp session. It didn't even start off easy. It was a series of painful awful excessively hard activity followed by two more rounds of the same. I managed to not swear too much and I didn't hit anyone but I don't know how much longer I can keep that up.

About half way through I thought I might puke up some of the delicious salad I had for dinner. Thankfully that subsided quickly enough, but shortly after I could feel Pale Face coming on. You know, the one where all the blood drains from your face which is pretty much the last step before fainting? Well luckily by that time we were nearing the end of the class. I managed to finish without embarrassing myself too badly.

Luckily Manda drove me home, because I'm pretty sure my leg would've rebelled against driving standard🙀! When I got home I Crawled up the stairs which was super funnn. When I finally made it  to the top I accidentally dropped my water bottle (I think my arms were seizing up) so I had to go down a flight and retrieve it. I almost kept going down just so that I could take the elevator back up.

Tomorrow's class is day two and we are required to bring a set of eight pound weights. I am trying not to think too much about it. I'm sure I'll have nightmares regardless.

I'm about to get in the bath. If you don't hear from me again I probably am still in my bathtub, too exhausted to pull myself out.

Sincerely,
The sorest (and whiniest) girl in Langley.