I made these Taco bowls for dinner tonight and they were delicious! I even mixed in a can of pinto beans for a different texture and tossed in half a can of fire roasted tomatoes with taco seasoning wow I will be eating this all the time so good!
We purchased this same patio set. You’re right, it was a bit of a challenge to assemble, but we absolutely love it. So comfy. My 11 year old is newly vegetarian and the only one in the family so I’ve enjoyed watching your videos for ideas for her. Thanks so much. ♥️♥️♥️
theres a mexican dish called TInga made with chipotle salsa(normally made with chicken). most grocers sell small cans of it. i saute onions then add the already cooked lentils and mix half or the whole can depending how much you are making and it is so delicious. the best part is, chipotle salsa is smokey and not that spicy at all, SO much flavor and a good mix for a mexican dinner
I love Bob's Red Mill! It's a local to me company and their store sells in bulk as well as packaged. Sometimes it's nice to try out just a small amount of something we haven't tried before
Girl, I’m so glad this just popped up! I’m on my way to Kroger and am hoping our prices are as good as yours. Another great video as always! Now I’m craving guacamole 🥑. Love seeing your videos and thank you for sharing ❤️
Snack boards are so fun! I also love how I feel when I prep all my food for the week. And I love all kinds of those energy bites, gotta make those carrot cake ones for sure!
We process and prep pounds of greens every week for our plant based family of 8 and a good salad spinner is my best friend to get a ton of the water off!
Oh my goodness!!! What a superb video!!! I need to re-watch it. 😮😂 I must say the snazzy jazzy piano music took it over the top for me in the very best way. Totally awesome. I used to make cheese and fruit and other snack boards back in the 80s when I ate all that stuff. I just haven’t thought about doing it for myself with plant-based items but you made it look so fun and so fab!!! Love it!♥️🥰
Oh the snack boards are my FAV for not cooking but having an amazing meal! Perfect for anytime! And leftovers! Skies the limit with options! And thank you I was searching for some new fun music and loved this vibe so so much I’m glad you enjoyed it too!!
I use white vinegar to wash my produce too but I leave it to soak for 15 minutes before rinsing it well. I soak the whole item such as the ends of celery, the carrots before I peel them, that way the celery ends and carrot peels are clean before I freeze them for using to make broth/stock later. The vinegar soak does not make anything smell or taste like vinegar because I rinse it well.
You could have used the juice off the pineapple and mandarin oranges as well. If not in your smoothies with the strawberry tops, it makes a great fruit sauce. Save it in a pan, bring it to a boil, add a splash of vanilla and a little agave, and thicken with a corn starch slurry. We also sometimes add in coconut flakes. Warm it’s great over pancakes and cooled it’s good stirred into your fruit salad.
Hi Miranda! This was a great video. I love sheet pan meals in the fall when all the beautiful roasting veggies are coming in from the garden. All of your food was so beautiful and colourful. I liked the snack board. I will be making that next time my cousin drops by for a visit. Have a great weekend 😘
Aldi in Riverside county area had dry pint blueberries for $1.59 ( approx 16 oz) Did I buy 8? Absolutely! Blueberry compote topping for waffles & French toast & nice cream, added to a summer salad, in a smoothie, in my water, or eaten as is. So excited, especially after seeing a watermelon for$10 at Costco! Crazy prices out there! Great meal ideas. I am decanting because of you. Love looking at it & the glass makes it feel like a proper presentation. I use organic food wash, but once it's gone I'll be using vinegar too. Never heard of strawberry toppings in smoothies. Just threw mine away 3 days ago (got organic berries for $2, stocked up). Love salad keeper, need that!
I loved this video!! Just wish I could get my hubby to go plant based. His lunches alone for work for one week is almost $20. I can’t get him to take leftovers as he doesn’t have to clock out for lunch and he may eat a few bites and help a customer. I’m kicking off plant based eating today and weight loss so I will be using your awesome tips for meals at least for me!!
Another great video and I always call those English cucumbers 🙂 as well. I have been saving my jars because they don’t pick up the glass recycling anymore where I live so I have been enjoying decanting ingredients.
Hey what a great way to use the jars being you don’t have recycling anymore! I found the jars for me get the most use over the holidays when I’m gifting it’s a fun way to package things!!
I am so into snack boards, especially as it gets so hot here in Texas. I'd love to see any other unique snack boards you make! I love the idea of throwing some energy bits on there.
You’ll see more SOON! I got a fun idea from a friend today on some meal ideas for a video and we together came up with a whole video it’s going to be so fun!!
Man that fruit salad and regular salad looked amazing 😋. I'm hungry just looking at it. And that party board is just so cool looking. Mine always seem to lack variety might have to spice it up for the summer 😉
Great video! You can sure tell you're loving your new kitchen! I don't know which recipe to try first. I do know I'm putting potatoes and carrots in my oven. Don't want to waste food and that way they'll be done for the week. Thanks so much!
You got the energy on in this video!! Love how you reuse food jars to store things in…my kids ( now adults) have always made fun of me because I wash and de-label all my jars😂.
Awww thank you! I may have too much fun grocery shopping and food prepping 🤣 And oh YEAHHH! I love reusing them!! They’re so functional AND they cost nothing extra to do so! Plus you’re saving a bit on the planet! Win win!
So I've been making sweet potatoes in my IP. Let them cool and peel the outer peel right off. I then chunk up the sweet potato and put them in my air fryer with some sea salt. Omg! Yum! I haven't found a really good chipotle ranch dressing that is super good on them that is vegan or plant based. Love them! Hey aren't you in Las Vegas? My cousin just moved to Henderson, 15 min from the strip. We have an open invitation to visit her. Can't wait to feel the heat out there! I'm in Wisconsin, so this will be a welcome experience.
@@flourishingmiranda They are tasty whatever they are called! Love your videos, really appreciate the time and effort you put into making them as entertaining as they are. Thank you.
Hannah sweet potato. Interesting. Not something I have seen here in southeast Texas. So many great meal ideas. Love the snack board idea. Looked so delicious. I make energy balls similar to the ones you make your husband but now I am liking the idea of adding carrots to it. I cant eat flax seed so I use protein powder instead. Thanks for sharing. Your ourdoor furniture looks so nice.
The Trader Joe’s sweet potato is similar texture / test!! Their Japanese one!! And we like protein in our energy bites too! I throw just about anything in them and call it a day! They’re so flexible and I think everyone can add anything they’d like and enjoy!
@@flourishingmiranda oh okay. I normally have been getting the sugar free kind which is in water and sweetened with Splenda I think. It helps with the calories and sugar because canned pears are one of my SAFE foods for my digestive issues. I had never heard of the tops idea 💡 in smoothies before. How did it taste?
This is the closest lettuce container I could find! amzn.to/3v64yLe Mine is a few years old and I completely forgot I had it! I was using it for storage 🤣 but it’s nice because the water drips to the bottom keeping it nice and fresh! And my tummy / digestion hates avocado-- not sure if it’s the item or the fats I didn’t test positive for an allergy but if I eat it my stomach hates me!
I really liked this video...enjoyed all your food prep ideas! Do you have a link for the over the sink colander? I feel that it would make things easier for me...
I've started using the celery tops in soups. I think it adds some flavor without being too celery-y 😅 I think it would be good in some pasta salad/mayo based salad like chicken or tuna...I know you're vegan but I don't know what else to call what I'm thinking of! 😂 I think you recently made a salad that was a vegan tuna/chicken like salad... or maybe I'm mixing up my channels!
This video was SO FUN to film because I loved sharing my “how I shop”, food prep and so many good meals!
And I can only speak for myself, I LOVE your videos!!!
I made these Taco bowls for dinner tonight and they were delicious! I even mixed in a can of pinto beans for a different texture and tossed in half a can of fire roasted tomatoes with taco seasoning wow I will be eating this all the time so good!
We purchased this same patio set. You’re right, it was a bit of a challenge to assemble, but we absolutely love it. So comfy.
My 11 year old is newly vegetarian and the only one in the family so I’ve enjoyed watching your videos for ideas for her.
Thanks so much. ♥️♥️♥️
It was so challenging but it’s so nice once together!!
theres a mexican dish called TInga made with chipotle salsa(normally made with chicken). most grocers sell small cans of it. i saute onions then add the already cooked lentils and mix half or the whole can depending how much you are making and it is so delicious. the best part is, chipotle salsa is smokey and not that spicy at all, SO much flavor and a good mix for a mexican dinner
I love Bob's Red Mill! It's a local to me company and their store sells in bulk as well as packaged. Sometimes it's nice to try out just a small amount of something we haven't tried before
I used to follow you way back when you were doing WW. Glad to see your thriving. Will definitely be following you again.
I’m so happy you found me 🥰
In Portugal, we call those cucumbers "dutch cucumbers", so they change nationality depending where you are based!
Oh that’s so interesting!
Girl, I’m so glad this just popped up! I’m on my way to Kroger and am hoping our prices are as good as yours. Another great video as always! Now I’m craving guacamole 🥑. Love seeing your videos and thank you for sharing ❤️
This was a few days ago and I’m sure the sales swapped by now!😬
Snack boards are so fun! I also love how I feel when I prep all my food for the week. And I love all kinds of those energy bites, gotta make those carrot cake ones for sure!
The carrot cake bites are my fav!
We process and prep pounds of greens every week for our plant based family of 8 and a good salad spinner is my best friend to get a ton of the water off!
Oh my goodness!!! What a superb video!!! I need to re-watch it. 😮😂
I must say the snazzy jazzy piano music took it over the top for me in the very best way. Totally awesome. I used to make cheese and fruit and other snack boards back in the 80s when I ate all that stuff. I just haven’t thought about doing it for myself with plant-based items but you made it look so fun and so fab!!! Love it!♥️🥰
Oh the snack boards are my FAV for not cooking but having an amazing meal! Perfect for anytime! And leftovers! Skies the limit with options!
And thank you I was searching for some new fun music and loved this vibe so so much I’m glad you enjoyed it too!!
I use white vinegar to wash my produce too but I leave it to soak for 15 minutes before rinsing it well. I soak the whole item such as the ends of celery, the carrots before I peel them, that way the celery ends and carrot peels are clean before I freeze them for using to make broth/stock later. The vinegar soak does not make anything smell or taste like vinegar because I rinse it well.
Yes same! I soak for 15-20 minutes and nothing tastes weird or funky and your veggies stay so fresh for such a long time!
I am so grateful for your videos!!
Thank you so much!
Your videos are so much fun, and informative. Keep up the work, girl!
Aww thank you so much!!
I would love to know your taco seasoning recipe! 🙂
I love your healthy dinner ideas. Thank you for sharing your grocery haul and recipes. Makes this lifestyle attainable, not intimidating!
Thank you so much!!
You could have used the juice off the pineapple and mandarin oranges as well. If not in your smoothies with the strawberry tops, it makes a great fruit sauce. Save it in a pan, bring it to a boil, add a splash of vanilla and a little agave, and thicken with a corn starch slurry. We also sometimes add in coconut flakes. Warm it’s great over pancakes and cooled it’s good stirred into your fruit salad.
Yes if you like it save it! I don’t like the taste of the can juice so I rinse it 🥰
Hi Miranda! This was a great video. I love sheet pan meals in the fall when all the beautiful roasting veggies are coming in from the garden. All of your food was so beautiful and colourful. I liked the snack board. I will be making that next time my cousin drops by for a visit. Have a great weekend 😘
Oh enjoy your next visit with your snack board!!! We have a very fun busy weekend planned ❤️ I hope yours is amazing as well!!
Aldi in Riverside county area had dry pint blueberries for $1.59 ( approx 16 oz) Did I buy 8? Absolutely! Blueberry compote topping for waffles & French toast & nice cream, added to a summer salad, in a smoothie, in my water, or eaten as is. So excited, especially after seeing a watermelon for$10 at Costco! Crazy prices out there!
Great meal ideas. I am decanting because of you. Love looking at it & the glass makes it feel like a proper presentation.
I use organic food wash, but once it's gone I'll be using vinegar too.
Never heard of strawberry toppings in smoothies. Just threw mine away 3 days ago (got organic berries for $2, stocked up). Love salad keeper, need that!
I went to Costco a few weeks ago and found some GREAT deals but I will say - produce I always have found to be less in a smaller grocery!
I always forget about sheet pan meals, so thank you for the reminder. I love all your money-saving tips!
I do too to be honest!! I feel like I go in cycles as I’m sure many people do with what to make!
We love that type of no-cook dinner. We call it snacky dinner! Beautiful presentation!
I loved this video!! Just wish I could get my hubby to go plant based. His lunches alone for work for one week is almost $20. I can’t get him to take leftovers as he doesn’t have to clock out for lunch and he may eat a few bites and help a customer.
I’m kicking off plant based eating today and weight loss so I will be using your awesome tips for meals at least for me!!
You might be in luck! Next week I’m posting a “what I pack my husband for lunch” and it might give you some ideas to try!!!
Great video. You’re right, the produce is really starting to look beautiful.
It is!! I’m so excited for it!
Another great video and I always call those English cucumbers 🙂 as well. I have been saving my jars because they don’t pick up the glass recycling anymore where I live so I have been enjoying decanting ingredients.
Hey what a great way to use the jars being you don’t have recycling anymore! I found the jars for me get the most use over the holidays when I’m gifting it’s a fun way to package things!!
I am so into snack boards, especially as it gets so hot here in Texas. I'd love to see any other unique snack boards you make! I love the idea of throwing some energy bits on there.
You’ll see more SOON! I got a fun idea from a friend today on some meal ideas for a video and we together came up with a whole video it’s going to be so fun!!
Why have I never thought to cut 2 cucumbers at once! Thank you 😊
Ohhhh time saver!!!
If the canned fruit is just in water(juice) why not keep it to add to smoothies? Sometimes I replace water with pineappple juice when I make bread.
I don’t like the taste of it🥰 you can definitely keep it and use it- do whatever you like! I rinse it because I don’t like it
Awesome video - all of the recipes looked so yummy and the energy bites looked great! thanks!
Thank you!
Hi. great video. What was the terrific music? Loved it. Thanks!
I never think of sheet pan meals - looks great. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
P.s. I love Hannah yams too💓🍠
I need to be more intentional with sheet pan meals because they always turn out so good!! And they’re so easy!
Man that fruit salad and regular salad looked amazing 😋. I'm hungry just looking at it. And that party board is just so cool looking. Mine always seem to lack variety might have to spice it up for the summer 😉
I plan to do a “no cook” recipe video here really soon!!! Maybe it’ll give you more ideas!
Do you have a separate budget for household items such as toiletries, detergent, etc?
Yes we do!❤️
Great video! You can sure tell you're loving your new kitchen! I don't know which recipe to try first. I do know I'm putting potatoes and carrots in my oven. Don't want to waste food and that way they'll be done for the week. Thanks so much!
I am LOVING it so much!!! It’s just a fun space to be in and it makes me so happy!
I love love your music. Love your ideas!! You are awesome!!
I call them English cucumbers. Ours were.79 here this week.
Okay I’m glad I’m not the only one and 79c is a great price!!
Excellent video as always! Will have to make those energy bites😊
You got the energy on in this video!! Love how you reuse food jars to store things in…my kids ( now adults) have always made fun of me because I wash and de-label all my jars😂.
Awww thank you! I may have too much fun grocery shopping and food prepping 🤣 And oh YEAHHH! I love reusing them!! They’re so functional AND they cost nothing extra to do so! Plus you’re saving a bit on the planet! Win win!
So I've been making sweet potatoes in my IP. Let them cool and peel the outer peel right off. I then chunk up the sweet potato and put them in my air fryer with some sea salt. Omg! Yum! I haven't found a really good chipotle ranch dressing that is super good on them that is vegan or plant based. Love them! Hey aren't you in Las Vegas? My cousin just moved to Henderson, 15 min from the strip. We have an open invitation to visit her. Can't wait to feel the heat out there! I'm in Wisconsin, so this will be a welcome experience.
Oh you’re going to love all the sunshine when you visit!
@@flourishingmiranda it's an open invite so maybe I'll wait till it's winter, cold and snowy, and minus 30 degrees outside here.
Omg. Where did you get that beautiful cook pan you did you sweet potato in.
It’s from homegoods but I got it like 8 years ago!
I didn’t know you could eat the green strawberry tops 🍓
I had always thought they were poisonous 🤣
Great video! Thanks for some great ideas!! I love Kim too and those energy balls are amazing!!
Kim is amazing! I love her energy!
This video made me smile from ear to ear! Also, as an English person, we just call the cucumbers... cucumbers! 🤣 Are there other kinds????
I dunno 🤣 I don’t do the naming of produce at our groceries! But these are long and skinny and that’s what they’re labeled as!
@@flourishingmiranda They are tasty whatever they are called! Love your videos, really appreciate the time and effort you put into making them as entertaining as they are. Thank you.
Wow what a GREAT video! Definitely making the bites for My husband
They’re so good!!
Hannah sweet potato. Interesting. Not something I have seen here in southeast Texas.
So many great meal ideas. Love the snack board idea. Looked so delicious.
I make energy balls similar to the ones you make your husband but now I am liking the idea of adding carrots to it. I cant eat flax seed so I use protein powder instead.
Thanks for sharing. Your ourdoor furniture looks so nice.
I haven’t seen them in northeast Texas, either at the few stores I mostly shop at.🤔
The Trader Joe’s sweet potato is similar texture / test!! Their Japanese one!!
And we like protein in our energy bites too! I throw just about anything in them and call it a day! They’re so flexible and I think everyone can add anything they’d like and enjoy!
Next time consider saving the canned fruit juice for your smoothie as well 🥰
I don’t like the taste of the juice in the can, it’s why I rinse it!
@@flourishingmiranda oh okay. I normally have been getting the sugar free kind which is in water and sweetened with Splenda I think. It helps with the calories and sugar because canned pears are one of my SAFE foods for my digestive issues. I had never heard of the tops idea 💡 in smoothies before. How did it taste?
Do you have a link for your lettuce container? And I’m sorry..just curious, are you allergic to avocados or just don’t eat them?
This is the closest lettuce container I could find! amzn.to/3v64yLe
Mine is a few years old and I completely forgot I had it! I was using it for storage 🤣 but it’s nice because the water drips to the bottom keeping it nice and fresh!
And my tummy / digestion hates avocado-- not sure if it’s the item or the fats I didn’t test positive for an allergy but if I eat it my stomach hates me!
Oh my gosh the music you used !!! Where can I find that???
Its from a music store I use for youtube!
I really liked this video...enjoyed all your food prep ideas! Do you have a link for the over the sink colander? I feel that it would make things easier for me...
This is like the one I have! amzn.to/3EFVRKJ
I can’t find the exact one but it’s one of my FAV kitchen tools!
@@flourishingmiranda Thank you!💖
Our limes was 99 cents a piece.
I have never heard of those kind of sweet potatoes
They’re so good!!
Where can I find the carrot energy bite recipe?
It’s in the description box🥰
@@flourishingmiranda it says substitute, but substitute what/which ingredients?
Miranda, is Tajín spicy? I’m a wimp with 🥵 spicy. Thanks.
A bit! It’s lime infused chili flavor!
I've started using the celery tops in soups. I think it adds some flavor without being too celery-y 😅 I think it would be good in some pasta salad/mayo based salad like chicken or tuna...I know you're vegan but I don't know what else to call what I'm thinking of! 😂 I think you recently made a salad that was a vegan tuna/chicken like salad... or maybe I'm mixing up my channels!
Yes I make a chickpea salad ALL THE TIME! I save my celery tops in a freezer bag to add to my other odds and ends to make veggie broth!
Still waiting for cheaper produce! Very excited for all the fruit. :)
It’s starting here but I know it gets even cheaper and I can’t wait!!!
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