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It's time for a goals check in. My goals this year were 

To write a first draft of my new story, preferably by April
Stay off social media 
Practice mindfulness everyday 
Try ten new recipes

Our goals as a couple are:
Go on a date once a month
Go to the temple quarterly 
Budget every month 
Go to the gym 2x per week
Complete the Come Follow Me Lessons every week

Our goal as a family are to have family prayer every night. 

I'm going to be honest. The only one of these goals that has been happening is trying new recipes. So instead of beating myself up about how I'm slacking on each of the rest, I'm going to celebrate what I have been doing! 

When I wanted to try new recipes, I really wanted to try ones with vegetables. Aaron isn't eating food yet, so it's really important to me that we start getting more vegetables in our diet so that he can grow up eating healthy food. 

I've been finding so many new recipes from Amber's Kitchen on instagram. All of her recipes have been absolutely delicious. The rest I find digging through Buzzfeed articles, or just going through my pantry and seeing what Sammy bought that I had no idea we had. 

So far this year I've made bacon asparagus pasta. We love this recipe SO much. I've made it so many times now. 
 Homemade tomato soup. It has butternut squash in it as well which stunk while I was cooking it, but the soup tasted delicious.

Homemade chicken noodle soup

Mushroom cream pasta. I didn't like that one. While I like mushrooms, I don't like them that much where they can be the only flavor. I might try and make it again one day with a bunch of veggies thrown in, we'll see. 

Black bean soup. This one has SO many vegetables in it. This is the new meal I make whenever I have company over, especially since it's gluten and dairy free.

Black bean, spinach, green onion, cilantro, corn enchiladas. We absolutely LOVED these. Sammy said every time I make enchiladas I need to make those. I'm changing the quantities though because spinach isn't my favorite and I could still kind of taste it. 

Chicken taquitos. These are SO easy. It's just corn tortillas folded in half with chicken, cream cheese, milk, cumin, and chili powder. 

Sesame chicken sauce with broccoli slaw served on white rice 

Tikki masala chicken with jasmine rice

Baked potatoes with madras lentils inside

Santa Fe salad- lettuce, chicken, corn, black beans, avocado, cilantro ranch dressing 

I've already reached my goal and we're only partway through the year. I can't wait to keep experimenting in the kitchen throughout the year.


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