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Baked Fajitas

Yield: 4 fajitas

Fix Portions (per fajita): 1 yellow, ½ red, 1 green, ½ blue (optional)

Ingredients

• 4 whole wheat tortillas
• 2 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded (I poach them in water, so they shred super easy. You could also use leftover rotisserie chicken for this too)
• 1½ green container bell peppers, sliced
• 1½ green container onions, sliced
• 1 green container salsa (I recommend Pace restaurant style or the fresh Chipotle Garlic salsa available in the produce section at Target)
• 2 blue containers shredded mexican or cheddar jack cheese (optional)
• 1 tbsp each ground cumin, garlic powder, and black pepper.

 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400
2. In a skillet, saute onions and bell peppers. Season with garlic powder and black pepper.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine shredded chicken, salsa, and cumin and stir well
4. Fill tortillas one at a time with vegetables and chicken. Sprinkle with ½ blue container cheese (optional).
5. Roll/fold the tortillas so that the ends are tucked in and place them in a 13x9 baking dish
6. Bake for 20 minutes and enjoy!
    

Bonus Ideas

• Try substituting steak or ground turkey instead of the chicken
• Make a seafood version of this dish: use a mild fish (like talipia) or baby shrimp and mix with mango salsa for a fresh twist!

 

Feel free to serve with some extra salsa, avocado/guac, shredded lettuce, and greek yogurt (sour cream substitute) on the side!

Ginger-Citrus Chicken Stir Fry with Sriracha

Yield: 3-4 servings

Fix Portions (Per serving): 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 red

Ingredients

•  1 cup whole grain brown rice
• 2 chicken breasts, diced
• 1 green container broccoli florets (I like them steamed first before adding them to this recipe- so its a good use for leftover cooked broccoli)
• 1 green container zucchini, diced
• ½  green container onions, diced
• ½ green container carrots, finely diced
• 2 tsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp 100% orange juice
• 1 tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
• 1 tbsp rice vinegar

      *1 tbsp sriracha

      *1 tsp honey

       *2 tbsp ground ginger

       *½ tsp red pepper flakes (optional)

       *Garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper to taste

Directions

1. Make chicken marinade: combine orange juice, soy sauce, vinegar, honey, 1 tbsp ginger, 1 tbsp garlic powder, and ½ tbsp sriracha in mixing bowl. Place (raw) diced chicken in a ziploc bag, pour in marinade, and shake to coat. Allow chicken to marinade for at least 1 hour (the longer, the more flavor, so marinating overnight is best)
2. Cook rice according to package directions
3. In a skillet or wok, heat 1 tsp coconut oil until melted.
4. Add diced chicken and cook until cooked through. Remove from skillet and cover with foil to keep warm
5. Add another tsp of coconut oil to the pan or wok. Saute vegetables until tender, seasoning with garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, ginger, and red pepper flake.
6. To portion your plate, use the yellow container to scoop out your serving of rice. Then use the green container for the vegetables, and the red container for the chicken. Once on your plate you can mix it all up as desired.
7. Drizzle with about ½ tbsp sriracha for an added kick

I learned something last night

Its been a crazy week. Tons of snow and cold, things breaking for no reason and just feeling ugghh.
So I went out to  see my friends band, Guilty Pleasure, which always cheers me up. Music is my therapy! Granted I had good things happen too. I made success club for BeachBody for January and earned an invite to test the new OnDemand BeachBody workouts, but I'm human and deserve a moment of not being perfectly chipper. ( beachbodycoach.com/coachamarielpn )

Anyways...I was out and I was talking to someone very special to me. Discussing "being in our own way". That's a big thing! We all do this and we hope to help our loved ones through it when in reality we cant! It affects everyone around you. Sometimes you don't even know you are doing it.
What I learned is that if someone you love is standing in their own way you have to back up and let them stumble through it. Nothing you say or do will make them clear the hurdles. It is their own internal struggles, demons, fears, whatever you choose to call it that they alone must face and conquer. Hard to watch, I know, but in the end it will make them stronger and more confident in the goal they are trying to reach.

So what do you in the meantime? You want to fight for them.  Tell them what to do and how to get there. Shake them even! lol you have to find patience....worst thing ever for me! That's your fight in their battles. That's it! Patience!!! That's such a big word!

As I search for patience I must also learn to get out of my own way. Keep moving forward and going we meet up at the same point. I get in my own way by thinking I can fix things for others, by having a fear of failure which causes me to push to hard and by forgetting myself in the process. I realized I really need to work on these things for my future. While I will never be perfect and I may fail at these things over and over I at least know what they are!!! I acknowledge them.

Today think of what keeps you in your own way of growth. Self discovery, although not always an easy process, is the first step to a happier and healthier you!

What am I looking for you ask? What will it take????

Who am I? What am I looking for??? I know these are seemingly big questions, but in reality its simple....if you know me!

You know the basics. I am 38, single mom, grandmother, nurse and Beachbody coach. But that's not what makes me who I am. Yes its a big part...its the outcome of my attributes, talents, mistakes, accomplishments etc. I am deeper than that. I am my beliefs and values. I am the product of my love and my heartbreaks. I am MY reality.

I come across people everyday that are going through loneliness and wonder why they are single and if they will die alone. (none of die alone...first hand stories for another day) I try to listen and be sympathetic. I explain that anyone can go out and just get a boyfriend/girlfriend but the fact that we don't means we have standards. Of course you can go out and lower them but who the hell wants too. I sure wont!

I am told I am too picky. Guess what??? I have the right to be! I have been abused in every definition of the word for most of my adult life. I have picked myself up with minimal help and support. I survived on my own. I have succeeded in things on my own. I carried my children through snow to walk to work and to buy groceries. I put myself through school without a car as a young single mother. I kept my children fed and with a roof. ME! So yes I can be picky!

What will it take for Amanda to settle down??? Pretty basic. Respect, honesty, appreciation for not only me but for others and the world around us, and self worth in himself. I do not want a needy or jealous man. I will not accept hostility towards the world or ignorance. I am far from perfect but I will not accept someone who has no belief in themselves. Confidence NOT cockiness!!
I want someone with mutual interests but can go out on his own and enjoy HIS life as well. I want strength and courage not showoff! I think you may be understanding now.

See but the thing is Im ok alone! I have myself, children and friends. I have love in my life. I have intimacy on many levels. Of course I get "lonely" who doesn't, even with a partner. Thing is Im ok with it because I will not give up my self worth ever just to obtain a relationship status change.

I have deeply loved. I have learned to let go. I have also carried that forever "what if love" with me for 25 years. I actually love very deep, heart on my sleeve...fierce. That's special and not to be given to just anyone....not anymore! I am giving that love to myself first!!

So if you're still confused...here it is in simple form:
don't expect me to date you if you're NOT READY TO DATE, mean, insensitive, selfish, extremely one sided politically, abusive even in your tone of speech, unfaithful, dishonest, insecure, have pity parties, needy, incapable of HEARING others, extremely religious and less spiritual, unable to accept I have a life outside of you, jobless with no direction and no integrity.

Don't try and sit at my table if you cant bring at least what I have already brought!