Rosemary quinoa with tomato and cucumber

Recently my awesome sister in law as a gift bought us a gift card to this local vegan organic food company in Charlotte called Nourished where you can pick out various meal plans for the week.  This definitely helped kickstart our healthy eating even more and gave me some ideas for new recipes that I wouldn't normally tryout.  One of the things we got was this incredible quinoa salad which made me want to test out eating it a little more.  While I did say that we are trying to cut our carbs out, quinoa is a similar to a grain, but not quite in the grass family.  It also contains a good amount of protein and amino acids which many vegetarians substitute for a protein.

I've been trying hard to branch out and create new things and recently bought some boxed quinoa with rosemary which is super easy and fast to cook.  The box made about four servings so we got two meals out of it and also fed our baby girl some as well.  I diced up cucumbers and tomato's as well and mixed those in and it was the perfect light summer lunch.

I am a pretty big eater so this wasn't quite enough for an entire meal for me so I also had a side of cottage cheese :)

All you need is a tomato, cucumber and box of flavored quinoa.

Happy healthy eating!  Enjoy!

Healthy Alternatives- Cucumber sammy'

As some of you know, my husband was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer which many of you can imagine rocked our world over night.  While Adam has been super strong through this entire thing, we have become very pro-active in continuing our healthy lifestyle.  A friend of Adam's had informed him that cancer cells feed on carbs and refined sugar, so we are trying to be extra good about eliminating it as much as we can.  I won't lie, we have our cheat moments when we like to crush a large pizza.

I know a lot of people are trying to cut carbs out of their lives as much as they can too, so I figured I would share some recent things that have been on the menu.

Today's lunch:

Cucumber sammy's!

All you need is a cucumber, tomato, turkey bacon, turkey, cheese.  Basically all your favorite sandwich items, just substitute the bread for cucumbers.  Today I made us two different kinds:

1) Cucumber, bacon, tomato and veganaise

2) Cucumber, turkey, cheese, mustard and veganaise

Balsamic would be a good flavor burst if you don't like mayo or mustard.  Next time I'm going to throw some avocado on there as well!  Happy eating!