March Meal: Chicken Broccoli and Rice

I've been craving chicken and rice for a while now so I went to trusty ol Pinterest to find me an easy recipe. I pinned this recipe a while ago, but it stood out to me because it's only a 15 minute meal.

I made a few modifications so for the original recipe click here.

I used:

7 chicken tenders
1 14oz box of instant brown rice
1 can reduced fat cream of chicken soup
2 heads of broccoli
1 cup water
1 T veggie oil
1/4 tsp Cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp garlic pepper
Salt and Pepper on the chicken

**I had a really pretty pic of everything I used but I accidentally hit delete...boo**

What I did:

Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper and place in a warm 10 inch skillet with oil. Cook on each side for about 5 mins (I like to make sure my chicken is fully cooked). Take chicken out and add the cream of chicken soup, water, garlic powder and Cayenne pepper. Stir and bring to a boil. Add in rice and broccoli. Stir. Place chicken on top and cover for another 5 minutes. Voila! You're done.

I really enjoyed this recipe, except I would definitely season the chicken more next time...I'm thinking cajun seasoning...and I would use white rice. While I like brown rice just fine, I think the white rice would be fluffier.

Safe Haven - Book and Movie

Book review - I read this book at the beginning of the year right when all the previews for the movie started airing all. the. time. Even though the previews spoiled a few things for me, I still really enjoyed the book. This was actually the first Nicholas Sparks book I've read. I've seen all the movies though. This was a pretty fast read for me and I liked that it was told from different peoples perspectives. I've noticed a lot of authors have been doing that lately. I would definitely recommend reading this if you haven't seen the movie or if you have and want a better story

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Movie review - Well I knew from the previews that they had changed stuff from the book...like the peoples hair color and added a canoing scene (notebook rip-off anyone?!?!), but I wasn't anticipating them changing major events or names!!! So of course I couldn't really enjoy the movie because the whole time I was sitting there I kept thinking back to the book and how things should have been. Even without reading the book first, I don't think I would agree with most other people and say this was the best movie made since the Notebook. While it was a decent movie, it was also pretty cheesy and I don't feel as if the chemistry was really there. But that's just me... However, even if someone had told me everything I just said above, I would still see the movie. Ha ha. I know...I sound wishy-washy.

WWU: 9

Saturday, 3/16 - Rest - Sick Day but feeling much better

Sunday, 3/17 - 3k walk with just a tiny bit of running (201 calories burned)

Monday, 3/18 - Rest - dinner and a movie with a friend!

Tuesday, 3/19 - 40 min elliptical while watching the end of Pitch Perfect from my last elliptical day (no hrm)

Wednesday, 3/20 - Rest

Thursday, 3/21 - 30 minute stride machine (361 calories burned)

Friday, 3/22 - 30 min Circuit workout (459 calories burned)

Made this circuit up on the fly...I feel like I haven't worked on my legs much the past 2 weeks so I concentrated on that area...20 sumo squats, 50 toe taps on bosu ball, 20 plie squats with weights on bosu ball, 50 jumping jacks, 20 around the world lunges (10 sets each leg) and 10 v-ups followed by 10 reverse crunches

St. Patty's Decor

I know this is super late, but since I did put out some green decor I thought I should share :)

Saturday So Far

Since leaving work yesterday, I've been slowly building my addiction to Pretty Little Liars. Man it's addicting...I really didn't need another show to watch, but I'm in too deep now...ha ha. I've also reluctantly signed up for bloglovin since the death of google reader is in the near future...boo. Change is not fun...ha ha.

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WWU: 8

Thursday, 3/7 - Rest...I was so worn out from the rodeo the night before all I wanted to do was lay on the couch in my sweats :)

Friday, 3/8 - Back work plus 20 mins on the treadmill. (489 calories burned) I had another ADD treadmill session where I went from walking to trying to run at a steady pace to 30 seconds sprints then back to walking and one more attempt at running.

Saturday, 3/9 - Rest? I was on my feet all day hosting a baby shower

Sunday, 3/10 - 65 min Elliptical (678 calories burned) Brought my iPad to the gym with me thinking there was WiFi so I could watch netflix and see what all the fuss is about the show Pretty Little Liars. However, when I got there I couldn't find an internet signal...boo. So instead I started watching Pitch Perfect for the 9th time (I still love it!!)

Monday, 3/11 - Sweat it Out Cardio & Abs Circuit plus 17 mins on the lazy man bike to round out 45 mins total (496 calories burned)

Tuesday, 3/12 - Rest - Rodeo Day!!

Wednesday, 3/13 - Rest - sick day

Thursday, 3/14 - Rest - sick day

Friday, 3/15 - Rest - sick day

Well I kind of look lazy this past week. All day Tuesday I had a scratchy throat, but didn't think much of it until we actually got to the rodeo and it had become really painful. I didn't sing, cheer or yell the whole time and yet I still lost my voice. I went from sounding like a normal girl to sounding like a man...talk about scary. Wednesday and Thursday as soon as I got home from work I laid on the couch and took a nice little nap until about 7:45! And I plan on doing that again today... Here's to hoping I'm back on my feet by Monday :)

Rodeo 2013: Kenny Chesney

Ahhhh...Kenny Chesney. I was starting to think I wouldn't see him in concert this year, but wouldn't you know it the boyfriend bought us rodeo tickets for Kenny's performance! (that's right I'm on a first name basis ha ha) His shows are always good and I always feel like going to the beach afterwards...too bad there isn't a nice one close ha ha.

Did anyone else go to a rodeo this year? Who did you see??