Crock Pot Taco Salad - 21 Day Fix Approved

We are busy busy busy.  Like we have 1 day home together as a family during the week to sit down and enjoy a meal let alone spend a lot of time preparing one!  So I need quick and simple recipes!  This Crock Pot Taco Salad is just that!  And it doesn't skimp on flavor either.  It is delish!

Ingredients

3-4 FROZEN chicken breast
2 cans black beans
1 cup water
Taco Seasoning
Romaine Lettuce, chopped
Tomato, chopped
Steamed Corn
Brown Rice
Greek Yogurt
Cheese

Directions

Place FROZEN chicken, beans, taco seasoning and water in your crock pot.  Cook 6 hours on HIGH.
When there is 15min left shred the chicken and place it back in to finish cooking.
While it finishes cooking make your brown rice and assemble your salad!

SO easy!  Use the Greek Yogurt instead of Sour Cream.  Figure out your containers according to what you need, but this is what I used...

Romaine- 2 Green
Tomato- 1/2 Green
Steamed Corn- 1/2 Green
Chicken- 1 1/2 Red
Greek Yogurt- 1/2 Red
Brown Rice- 1 Yellow (if you only have 1 Yellow left, skip the rice)
Beans- 1 Yellow
Cheese- 1/2 Blue (Or if you have Blue to spare us 1 Blue.  Maybe 1/2 cheese and 1/2 Avocado!)

Egg and Veggie Bowl

I realize this is hardly a recipe, but with our busy schedule/having a 9 month old/eating clean I sometimes don't have time to put together a nice dinner.  Sometimes my meals are made in the microwave and are still yummy!  They just happen to be ready in under 10 minuets!

So by the end of the day I usually have 1-2 green containers (veggies) and 1-2 red containers (protein) to eat.  This is so quick and so yummy and meets both of those needs!

Ingredients

2-4 eggs (you can do whatever you need to meet the requirement of red containers for the day)
1 bag of steamable, mixed veggies (entire bag is about 2 greens)

Directions

1. Throw bag of veggies in to the microwave and cook according to bag.
2.  While veggies are cooking...crack eggs in to a microwave safe bowl.
3.  Beat with a fork
4.  Put in microwave and cook for 2 min.
5.  Add bag of veggies to eggs and eat!
6** You can add cheese too if you haven't used your blue container yet!

I know it may sounds strange, but it is SO good!

A Year And A Half Later...

So it's been a while.  Last time I posted I had just finished running my very first Marathon!  It was such a neat experience and I hope to some day do it again!  What I didn't mention in that post was right after the marathon my husband and I were going to try and start our family.  But when I went to my girly doctor she told me not to get my hopes up.  She said due to the stress I had put my body through in training and the weight I had lost we would not be able to conceive for at least 3 months.  It was disappointing, but we figured we would focus on some shorter races and allow the winter and holidays to fatten me back up!

Little did we know God had other plans in mind.  Just a short month and a half after my race we were pregnant!  We were in shock.  I didn't believe the lines on my test until taking another that actually spelled out "pregnant".

My pregnancy was wonderful.  I didn't have any morning sickness.  I thankfully didn't have many cravings.  I was able to finish out the school year and still have a good 2.5 months of time off to get ready.

Unfortunately I was unable to continue with running because I couldn't keep my heart rate low enough.  I tried a few pregnancy work outs I found on pinterest, but it didn't keep that extra weight off.  I walked a lot toward the end when the weather got nice, but by then the damage to my body was done and I was in the "I'm huge anyways...why not eat 10 cookies" stage.

That's a stage right??

Anyways...after our sweet little guy was born I had a really rough time nursing.  My milk just wasn't coming in.  We tried a few different things to help, including lactation cookies (14 a day!) and different pumping methods, multiple trips to lactation and so on.  It was a tough start and eventually we had to switch to all formula.  I was very disappointed in myself and my body.  I wanted to be able to provide that for him so very badly.

He is now a healthy, strong and happy 8.5 month old.  And I am thankful that we were able to still provide for his needs.