Baked Egg in Avocado

First off, i'd like to say that i managed to make this without making a mess!!! (it helps to read comments about things before trying them lol)

I'll go first in how i made it then how it tasted.

Scoop out some of the avocado first, this is to make room for the egg.

my halves weren't very even and i ended up scooping out a little more after this picture. Though should of done just a tiny bit more on the bigger half.

Add the egg.

I used a muffin tin to keep them steady because many people complained that when trying to put it in the oven that they would rock and make a mess of the egg.

and then cook.

I didn't exactly follow the recipe. i started off at a too low of temperature and i probably cooked alittle too long because i wanted to make sure the egg was cooked.

So i cooked it and didn't make a mess....That's about the only good thing about this lol.
The egg was rubbery from my funky cooking it. Biggest thing i learned from this is that i don't like baked avocado. I managed to eat the eggs fairly fine, but i just couldn't eat the avocado.

I won't say don't try it, but just cook it right and make sure you scoop some of it out before putting the egg in.

I'd link to what recipe i looked at before trying this, but i can't find it. :(

Sweet Lemonade Peeps and Bubble Gum Peeps

I love peeps. I can't really eat more than just a few at a time before i get sick of them, but i still love them. I loved it when they started to come out with the other seasonal ones so that they weren't just an easter candy. The hearts, the snowmen(with a badly placed cane), the pumpkins, just all of them. They all taste the same, but i'm a sucker for the novelty stuff. When i saw this one, it caught my eye. Well was actually the bubble gum one that did and then i saw this one while waiting in line for something. Either way, i noticed that they weren't just shaped different, they were different flavored. Only other one i remember currently that i've tried of a different flavor was the peppermint one, but that was a christmasy one, these two are like summer based ones.

I don't remember what i paid for them, wasn't like horribly expensive but i'm also cheap lol. I found them at Fred Myers. I do think if you happen upon them then you should try them.

Lemonade Peep:

I was a little disappointed on this one. I like lemony type candies, but wasn't a fan of this one. Was kinda hoping for an over all lemon taste, but just those little yellow spots were the lemon. and wasn't a very good lemon. A little hard to explain what i'm thinking it is. It's just really strong, like the sour crystals strong but the yellow pieces remind me of those old mouthwash strips that melt in your mouth lol. I still say worth trying if you like peeps, but i won't get again.

Bubble Gum Peeps:

I liked this one. I like most things flavored bubble gum(cotton candy is my most loved though). Took the third picture to show that the marshmallow part was pink too. The flavor wasn't over powering, a nice extra flavor to give you something more than just a peep. I'd buy these ones again if i come across them again, though after eating these, i'm kinda peeped out.

Anyone know of other fun new peeps that i might not of seen before?

Fun side bits:
I once kept a pack of peeps for a long time, probably at least over a year. It got so hard. No idea really why i kept them. I finally threw them away after they sat on my electric blanket while it was on and they got soft again lol.

I have this weird thing that i like to try and eat the eyes first then eat the sugar off the bottom of them.

My apple cider vinegar experiment: The befores

Don't remember exactly how i came across the benefits of apple cider vinegar,  but i like what i am seeing about it. Here's just one page i was looking at for things it says it does: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5875/15-Reasons-to-Use-Apple-Cider-Vinegar-Every-Day.html

I took a few pictures so that i can have some before pictures for this testing and also just because i want to lose weight anyways and i've gained weight since my last "before" pictures....haven't been good on the weight loss. at the end of this will be the pictures for my befores

What i was thinking i'd do is that i'll go by each benefit that it says it will help and write how i am on them to see if after a week there's any differences after just one week. I've seen people say that since they started that after a week they lost around 10 pounds or something. Well none of them have said how much of their life style they have changed, whether they started to eat better or exercise or just went as normal. Which my normal is pretty lazy.

There are uses that it can be used for that i'm not going to do, such as for your hair, i might try the toner at some point, but not this week. What i will be doing will be 2 teaspoons of it in a glass of water before each meal. I think some do more at once but i'm expecting the taste to be strong and until i experiment with how to make it, i think multiple times a day with smaller amounts might be easier. I am kind of expecting myself to just push myself through it to really try this without giving up.

I will try to remember to write a daily post about how the drinking it is going.

Here's my currents:

Weight:
current- 185 pounds.
What i hope for- If this really does help with weight loss, really anything lost would be amazing, if it does help, maybe it will get my butt going to keep up with losing weight.

Energy:
Current- Not a lot of energy. I think it's partly from weight too but i also haven't been sleeping well
What i hope for- It says that it helps with energy boosts, so i'm hoping that it actually does and makes it easier for me to get up in the morning. To help test this, i'm going to start waking up earlier than normal so that i'll be tired when i drink the first glass each morning.

Allergies:
Current: i have seasonal allergies that become a pain in spring and summer. I will get hit randomly with feeling extremely drowsy and runny nose and just not feeling up for anything.
What i hope for- i don't really know what to hope for on this. i think just as long as i don't get allergy hits as much or not at all besides the occasional sneezes then i will love that.

Poor memory/sugar craving:
Current- well i'm not sure on if this will really help it, but the page i linked above says that ACV helps clear out yeast from your body and that a build up of it can lead to poor memory and sugar craving, few other things but those two stood out for me. I have crap memory and forget little things all the time. And i'm always looking to snack on things which really is probably just searching for sugar.
What i hope for- well really any improvements would be great. not sure if i'll really be able to judge memory on just testing it for a week, but will see.

Number 2:
Current- This one is about the bathroom. since having my daughter, been having problems with going. The doctor said just more fiber would help, which it did seem to help but i don't eat enough all the time to help all the time. I will get bad cramps before needing to find a bathroom fast. it's not all the time, but i feel like dying when it happens.
What i hope for- if it really helps make you regular, then that will be amazing.

Acne:
current- I've been getting a bunch of stress pimples and ones just because of not always getting a chance to wash my face when i need to. Also got a bunch on my arms and back and chest. drinking ACV is suppose to help with getting rid of them, if i did the toner version too says it should help with scars.
What i hope for- just to get back to a fairly clear skin like i had a few months ago, i think it was a few months ago lol.


I think that's all on the befores, if i forgot anything i will write later...it's getting late and i'm tired lol.

Before i forget, here's my pictures and with my measurements, don't really expect any measurements to change in a week, but doing it also for just my knowledge. And if there's actual benefits i see from drinking this, then i will be drinking longer than just a week.

Might need to click the pictures if you really want to see the numbers. and sorry if you can't see them even after clicking lol. Just ask if really curious.

 these side shots are for weight loss but also to show the acne/scars i've gotten from stress pimples

 i look so bleh in these. i did the first one just to see once i get to my goal weight if i can even make a double chin like that lol. the other one is just be normal....i look so tired and droopy.


Those pictures just put me in a state of "i can't believe i let myself get here". Not going to go into my whole weight story, maybe if i reach my goal weight i will.

Anyways, i should be off to bed if i want to get up earlier than normal to start this little experiment :)

Nutella Sauce

This isn't really a recipe, just something i made.

If you want to make some just for a short time then it will work. i tried storing it(though not covered) and it hardened. I just used a little on the little banana cream pies i made that can be seen in the background.

At first i thought that maybe you could just heat it up and it would kinda melt like peanut butter. Well it didn't.  So i just added some milk to mix and got it to be saucy.

Just make sure that the nutella is warmed, or would even work probably if the milk was warmed instead. And don't add too much milk or else you'll just end up with nutella milk.

4th of July

To start off. That picture is of my daughter, being all cute with her pigtails and 4th of July dress. Couldn't help but make that the first picture :)

Anyways, as the years go on, we do less and less. It's sad. Well hopefully with as Kaylee(my daughter) gets older, we can do more and more to keep her kids spirits up. I know i started to lose interest in holidays because my parents hardly did anything. Since having Kaylee, and maybe partly because of pinterest lol, i want to do big holidays. I would love to throw parties with the holiday themes, but i have like hardly anyone who'd care to invite. Though also i don't feel our house is inspirational like the houses you see throwing parties on pinterest.

With that out of the way, back to what this is suppose to be about.

We still did a small dinner though it was just me and my mom eating, daughter is picky on eating. Here's what we had.

Apple chicken sausage, chicken and pepper kabobs, ribs, strawberries and cream and ambrosia, and little fruit kabobs i made to look like a flag.
Here's the fruit.

i ended up running out of bananas so the last one is messed up. But was still fun.

Here's just a few more cute pictures of my daughter.

Not a great picture of this but i love it because i caught her pop it sparking :)

Only thing really left to share is just a few firework pictures.

Regrowing Green Onions

I kept meaning to try this every time we got green onions, but then i'd forget. This year we started a garden and grew a bunch of green onions...well really too much green onions. We don't use them that much so i have a freezer with a lot of them cut up.

This first picture is how i started it. Wasn't sure of how much needed to be cut off so i just went with that. I did this again with it being cup down at the white part, like just a little more than just the roots, didn't work that well. This first way worked well. So was doing this same idea with what was in the garden but leaving the roots in the garden.

Here's a picture of how it looked after 2 days.

I think that was a good bit of growth for 2 days. They did seem to grow faster with the ones still in the garden.

I let these grow for about 10 days before finally just deciding to stop since i already had so much. here's before i cut them up.

Mostly just wanted to see if this really worked and it does. Just don't cut too low and make sure you actually cut them. I saw someone say their try at this was a fail but with their pictures, they never cut them in the first place. Like they bought some and just put it directly in the water without cutting anything.

Watermelon Knife

What first caught my eye about this was it looked so cute. Then was curious about how well it worked for it being a knife for watermelons. My mom said we could get it so there it is lol.

It cut really well, i'd say just from it being sharp and the way the knife is. Though really that's about the only things on how a knife works lol. I thought we'd be getting more watermelons than we have since getting this, so i guess so far it's been a fairly pointless to have. It's still cute though, the coloring is still even on the blade, see...