Health Month

     So, around New Year's my brother sent me a link for a game called Health Month where you're on a team of people wanting to get healthy.  I was busy doing... something... and ignored it.  A few days ago he sent me the link again and was all "plz?" and I was all "fine" so now I am on his team for Health Month.  My rules are something like drinking more water, cooking healthy dinners more often, and eating more fruit.  Keeping it simple.   I cut up a bunch of celery and bell peppers to eat, checked and made sure I had tea bags in the cupboard, and made a mental note to shove a clementine or apple in my backpack.  There are little smokies with cheddar in my fridge but they're fricking good so I choose not to care.  What's the point of life if you can't have little smokies???

     So, I was in my kitchen this weekend thinking about what I wanted to eat all week that would be healthy and tasty.  Put a pot on the stove, opened my fridge/freezer and started grabbing.  Carrots, celery, onion, spinach, green beans, and peas go into the pot along with spices that I glanced at and then grabbed and dumped into the pot.  Went to add chicken broth (low fat!) and realized I didn't have any.  A quick run to the store at 10:30p.m. and I have chicken broth (low fat!) and barley (heart healthy!) in my soup and it is happily boiling away.  A while later also found a can of tomato paste in my cupboard and dumped that in which resulted in scary looking thick soup but the addition of more broth fixed (Mom's idea) it so now I can follow my rule of eating healthy homemade food. Yay.  That was probably more than you needed to know about this soup but if that's the case you probably would have stopped reading by now.  Oh well.

    Anyway, here's a picture of my super healthy vegetable and barley soup.  It's in my bowl that I chipped when I accidentally dropped a jar of nuts on it.  This is why I can't have nice things.

     This is the mess that my happily boiling soup made.  Mr. Clean Magic Eraser knock-off handled the job, however, and my stove is once again all shiny and clean.