1 – What I’m Reading –

My good friend Katie who blogs over at Dashing Dish has just published her very first cookbook!!!!!!

Dashing Dish: 100 Simple and Delicious Recipes for Clean Eating

So much deliciousness I don’t know where to begin!!!

♥ Cake batter protein shake!

♥ Cookie dough over night oats!

♥ BBQ Chicken twice baked sweet potatoes!

♥ Southwest quinoa chicken salad!

♥ Caramel apple snack cake!

♥ Single serve, 5 min peanut butter chocolate cake!!!!!!!!

Here is a little peak at what’s inside this incredible cookbook –

 

100 Healthy & Wholesome Recipes- PLUS brand NEW recipes! Staying true to Dashing Dish, every recipe is made with healthy, wholesome ingredients without losing any of the flavor! Included is a pantry staple list with basic ingredients. Let’s face it, who has time to go grocery shopping every single time you want to make a recipe? I know I don’t, which is why all of my recipes can be made with a few basic staples. Plus, tons of brand new recipes and content that has never been featured on Dashing Dish before!

Nutrition Information. At the end of every recipe will list the calorie, carbohydrate, sugar, fat, and protein contents for each serving.

Coloured Photos. Every recipe has a colored photo. This was especially important to me, because I can’t stand when a recipe doesn’t have a picture to go with it! I mean, what’s the fun in that!?!

Simple & Kid Friendly. All of the recipes are uncomplicated, simple, and made with a few basic ingredients, just like the recipes you know and love from Dashing Dish website. They are just about all ‘picky eater’ friendly, and can be made by both experienced and novice chefs alike!

Tips & Tricks. Along with this cookbook I have included healthy baking and cooking techniques, shortcuts, tips, and tricks. There is no greater passion for me than to teach others how fun and simple it can be to live a healthy lifestyle. I hope to share some of the most helpful things I have learned over the years with all of you!

Do you have this beautiful book? What have you made or what are you planning on making?!

2 – Stuff I’m Wanting –

Jen Sinkler’s Lift Weights Faster Training program!

Jen is offering it on mega super sale (50% off!!!!) but it’s on sale only until end of day Jan 16th so hurry, hurry before you miss out!

Not only do you get her super awesome lift weights faster training program which includes –

but . . .

Girlfriend is throwing in some sweet bonuses too –

1. The Lowest Price: Buy Lift Weights Faster 1 this week and you’ll get your own special link to buy Lift Weights Faster 2 at a discounted price in March. The lowest possible price that will be offered to anyone, in fact.

2. A Free, Mini Lift Weights Faster Pocket Guide: Buy Lift Weights Faster during the sale and you’ll receive a FREE bonus copy of “Lift Weights Faster: Challenge Workout Compilation.” This is worth the price of admission, in my opinion. What we did was create a beautiful downloadable document that compiles every single one of the weekly Lift Weights Faster Challenge Workout we published this past year, for a total of 24 bonus workouts. The thing looks just like a mini version of Lift Weights Faster, and neatly organizes all of them so they’re at your fingertips.

3. Prize Giveaways: Any Lift Weights Faster purchase made between January 12th and January 16th automatically gets entered into a giveaway — and you all know how much I love to give away sweet workout gear.

4. It’s Now or Never: As I said, once the sale is over, Lift Weights Faster (the 1st version) is going away. As in you won’t be able to get it again. You want to be in the club? You gotta get in now.

 

THREE lucky lifters will win:

One pair of KettleGuards
A 12-kilogram Dragon Door Kettle bell
A set of Valslides

“The Lift Weights Faster program was developed to help get you stronger in every direction. By this I mean that many programs move only in a sagittal, or forward and backward, plane. In this one, you’re going to get strong in all the ways, and you have 6 different categories of equipment to choose from: bodyweight, minimal equipment (designed for travel), dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells and full gym.”

And because I know you are wondering what’s included in the nutrition guide that you get in the premium gold package –

Jen has enlisted the help of her good friend, two-time New York Times-bestselling author Diane Sanfilippo (author of the super awesome Practical Paleo) to write a nutrition companion piece – Eat Better Faster.

“Diane is a Certified Nutrition Consultant, with a wealth of nutrition know-how. Taking a practical approach (it’s no accident that one of her bestselling books is called Practical Paleo) to nutrition and training, Diane has helped hundreds of thousands of people through her books, website and seminars on how and why to eat real food.”

Here’s a quick list of what Diane covers in the Eat Better Faster manual:
Complete Ease in the Kitchen: Nearly 60 of her fastest, easiest, most delicious recipes from her bestselling cookbooks, Practical Paleo and The 21-Day Sugar Detox that you can make in minutes, and that will keep you excited about cooking and eating real food — 76 full pages of gorgeous, easy-to-navigate recipes.
Nutrition That Fits Your Needs: How to eat for performance versus eating for fat loss, and how you can swing both — organized by both gender and goals. Whether you’re looking to slim down or get stronger — or both! — choose the path that fits your lifestyle and goals.
Example Menus: Separated by goals – fat loss and performance – complete, done-for-you, weeklong meal plans with recipes for both sit-down and “on-the-go” situations to fast-track your progress and fit your schedule.
Meal Plans, Simplified: On top of the weeklong example menus, a step-by-step guide to help you plug-and-play nutrition according to your schedule and plan weeks of meals, all in one shot.

The Easy Guide to Proteins, Carbs, and Fats: Diane breaks each macro down so you can make sure you’re getting the right amounts of each type of fuel for your body and goals. Complete with easy explanations to get the right portion sizes with the included recipes, she’s made it easier than you think it would be possible to get this right!
Eat Better Faster For Athletic Performance: Making mistakes in the kitchen can kill your performance and results in the gym – Diane breaks down when and what to eat surrounding your workouts for those who want to optimize their nutrition for better results in and out of the gym.
Make The Right Choices: For both men and women, Diane has tells you when and how to eat to reach your goals based on your training, waking, eating and working schedule. In other words, she helps you fit your nutrition plan to your life, not the other way around.
Easier Shopping: Handy guides to fats and oils, sweeteners, and food quality information to make shopping and selecting Better foods FASTER!
Kitchen Hacks: The tricks Diane uses in her own kitchen (and fridge, and pantry…) to keep healthy foods on hand, including how to keep protein on hand without cooking all the time. And, easy crockpot recipes, how to shop well, batch cooking, making gourmet leftovers, and how to chop anything.
The Insider’s Top 10 List: Diane’s top 10 fastest, easiest, healthiest go-to meals for when you’re in a hurry.
Tool Tips: Diane breaks down for you the few (but vital) kitchen gadgets and tools you absolutely need to keep the speed up when you’re prepping healthy meals.
Your Soon-To-Be Favorites: The best, homemade, sweetener-FREE ketchup recipe, ever — and it’s SO EASY to make!

Spice blends that keep kitchen time down, but the flavor UP!

Treats, yes… treats! These sweet thangs will satisfy your sweet-tooth but keep you on-track and progressing towards your fitness goals. Real food for the win!
Cook Meals Faster (A Bonus Guide!): To help you save time and to make you a better cook, Diane has broken down how to become much more efficient in the kitchen. Learn her secret tips and tricks to food preparation and make-ahead meals.

Let me know if/when you grab yourself a copy, maybe we can work through it together?!

3 – Recipes I’m pinning –

These insanely delicious looking Chipotle Chicken Lettuce Wraps from Whats Gaby Cooking

Light, fresh and so much flavour! Talk about taste the rainbow!!!

Want. Need. Must have!!!!!!!

Are you on Pinterest? If so, what recipes are you pinning? And if not, what are you waiting for?! Get on it already 😉

4 – What I’m eating –

You guys I am so in love with these Dark Chocolate Coated Mini Rice Cakes by the good people of Table of Plenty!

15 CALORIES ONLY – PER CAKE
ALL NATURAL
TOTALLY YUMMY
NO PRESERVATIVES
NO COLOURS
NO FLAVOURS
NO PALM OR VEGETABLE OIL
GLUTEN FREE
LACTOSE AND FRUCTOSE FRIENDLY, VEGAN

These babies are so good as a quick and easy grab and go snack. Crisp and crunchy with a cheeky lick of chocolate. Lemme just say they go down very nicely with a cup of tea or coffee ♥♥♥

They also come in strawberry and milk chocolate!

Have you had them? Do you love them? What are you snackin’ on?

5 – E-cards I’m lovin’ –

MMmmMMMM Coffee ♥ 🙂 ♥

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Question of the day –

In the spirit of fit friday fun, what are you eating, drinking, planning, loving, diggin’,