5 Dates to Beat the Winter Blues
Decide on who will make dinner and who is making dessert. Write down three ingredients that the other person has to use, and head to the grocery store to get what you need to cook your portion of the meal and just like Food Network’s Chopped ‘get cookin’ when you get home. Give yourselves thirty minutes to create your dinner and dessert masterpieces.
Divvy up the planning process, one person picks the restaurant and the other chooses the evening’s post dinner activity. It’s a great way to collaborate on a night out instead of everything being one-sided.
Enjoy a five-course dinner… at five different places
Pick a place to grab an appetizer, one to enjoy soup and salad, another for a main course to split, head to another for another main course and round out the evening with dessert.
Head to the store and buy those cheap plastic sleds you used as a kid, head for the hills, when you’re finished wind down with a cup of cocoa.
Have simple fun with a black tie twist
Get dressed in your best, and head to your local bowling alley for a fun filled evening.
Lauren Gleisberg 30 x 30
Now that TIU was out I wondered if I could structure workouts and meals on my own, and the truth was I do better with a base of ideas for food, and even better when I have a workout plan to actually follow. My friend Katie introduced me to Lauren Gleisberg, and let me tell you – I am currently LOVING her meal plans. I’ll be honest I don’t follow them exactly, however they are real food and I love that I am not filling my body with supplements. Her workouts are great too. My life has been super chaotic lately and I have decided that I am restarting the 30×30 so I can actually do the whole thing and see the results. After 30 days I will let you know what I thought of the workouts and plan – and what kind of results I saw. Do you follow a nutrition and workout plan?
Mitten Crate
How Mitten Crate Works:
1. A one-time delivery
2. An ongoing subscription (with free shipping)
3. A three-month subscription (with a discount)
One you sign up, Mitten Crate will send you a box filled with a surprise assortment of Michigan-made food products. Subscription orders ship out on the 15th of each month, while one-time orders ship out daily. Mitten Crate makes a GREAT gift idea for someone who is from the mitten state, but may live elsewhere now. Mitten Crate is also a great way to get people to try out Michigan made products.
Mitten Crate was kind enough to send me their latest box to try out, which perfectly arrived to give me something to snack on while the snow comes down. If you follow me on Instagram you’ve already seen the box, however I am going more in depth about each product now.
*the only company I have ever heard of and tried in this box is the Sanders candy
• Sanders Milk Chocolate + Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels
• Ferris Coffee – Cranberry Crunch Mix
Five Things
February Beauty Favorites
Since February is a blah month I thought I would liven it up a little bit by sharing my current five favorite beauty products. If you have a product you think I definitely need to try, let me know what it is in the comments below.
1. Burt’s Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream
Great way to give your cuticles some TLC, especially this time of the year.
2. It Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Illumination with SPF 50+
Love how it makes my skin feel, and I receive so many compliments on how flawless my face looks.
3. NARS Orgasm Blush
This blush looks gorgeous on nearly any skin tone.
4. COVERGIRL Super Sizer Mascara
Ever since finding out I am allergic to the glue used in fake eyelashes, I have been trying to find a mascara that really makes my lashes pop. The Super Sizer is my current favorite.
5. Juice Beauty STEM CELLULAR Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizer
Absolutely love how much hydration this moisturizer brings to my skin. Be warned it does smell semi like lemon furniture polish – the boy always asks me what I was cleaning when he sees me after I just put it on.
Fashion meets Food 