De-cluttering, Cooking and Baking

The start of the year I still had quite a bit of vacation days left so I decided to take more time off work to get some de-cluttering done. I have come a long way, just 2 more areas to go through and I'm done! One area will take me quite some time, the basement. We don't have a finished basement so we have a lot down there. Including the things/clothes that I have decided to get rid of. This has been a project I have wanted to do for a while and I'm glad I was finally able to tackle it. I did some here and there but over the past weeks, I have tackled it one room at a time.

I must say, I feel so much lighter with less clutter around. I still have more to go, and there's a few more photos I want up on the wall as well. The way I have been tackling this, I will have it done in no time! It's a lot of work but it's worth it!

I had yesterday off, so I decided to do more of a spring cleaning since my in-laws are coming down for a visit. That to felt great to accomplish. They are staying with us for a few days, then I should have some time to tackle the last two areas I have. Including to drop off my things/clothes for donation so they are no longer in our basement.

I of course still take time to be in the kitchen. For snacks for the week I tried Joyous Health's dark chocolate superfood bars

I then added this to the freezer for a few hours, then took it out to cut it in bars and added them back to the freezer. This is very tasty!!

I also tried a recipe from the Pioneer Woman and you can get the recipe here.

Yes these do look a little more like pancakes instead of muffin tops lol However they were still very tasty! I'm pretty sure it's because I used frozen blueberries, the extra water flatten them more out. The only thing I changed was I used coconut sugar instead of white sugar, and I didn't have enough confectioner's sugar, so I added in some coconut flour and it turned out really great. I think next time I'll just use coconut flour, it's sweet tasting and healthier then confectioner's sugar.

And because we loved the sweet potato pad Thai, I had to make it again! I changed one ingredient though, I didn't put cauliflower in but I did add scallops for some protein, and it turned out really good!

This is my new absolute favorite meal! The dressing is so delicious!

We also had a craving for pizza, which I haven't made one in a while, but since I'm avoiding meat as much as possible, I decided to get whole wheat Naan bread to make individual pizzas

This one is mine and I added onion, mushrooms, red pepper, and the base is BBQ sauce, and topped with goat cheese and this feta mozzarella cheese I saw in store and wanted to give it a try. Hubby had the same except instead of shrimp he had shredded BBQ chicken. They turned out really good!
I had enough left overs to make another, but this time I had mine vegetarian. 


My in-laws left early this morning to try to make it in time to watch him play hockey. My dad will be joining us as well. Other then today, I'm not sure what else we will do while they are here, but I'm sure we will have fun. Looking forward to seeing them!