So hi awesome ones, Heather here and if you recall not to long ago I asked you want kind
of videos you would like to see. Now what would you like to see in this community we
have here that you can comment on and maybe learn a little bit from. One of the...one
of the things that kept popping up was, what do you eat in a week. And although I thought
that was bit of an odd question, I decided to do the video anyway. I went grocery shopping
and took some videos of that and the food that I bought and some of the food that I
cook. So I can't wait to show this to you. I've got basically from breakfast to desserts
and a whole lot in between. Lets go! So I'll be starting off this video with some
of the groceries that I buy. And I'm not a doctor so as I go along in this video I'll
probably say hey and I do this and that. But you know some of the items things that I talk
about like how I stop eating at night at a certain hour. You might want to check with
your doctor because i want everyone here in the community to be really really healthy.
Just before I get into the groceries I just want to say I'm not going to talk about dieting.
The way that I eat is I just...I kind of watch what I eat because I'm 65 now. But I'm not
going to do the whole former model thing where I try to be super slim and fit into a size
zero. That kind of life made me beliemic. And I will never go back to that kind of life
again. Without further adieu lets look at some of the groceries that I bought. Specifically
these are prepared food already. And it really helps me to make my meals in a jiffy and still
get the vitamins and nutrients. Alright this what I call the prepared food that I get from
the grocery store. Lets start off with a rotisery chicken. You're probably thinking to yourself
Heather why are you buying that? But especially the first day of grocery shopping it's a great
thing to get. And what I can do is use the left over chicken for many many items. You
will notice this Greek feta dressing that I have. Bill and I we always date the dressings
and everything in our fridge so we know when we opened them. But we could make a nice wrap
with the tortias wraps. And we could make like a Greek one with the feta cheese in it,
the Greek dressing, the red onion and of course the romaine lettuce. Other things that we
can do with the bbq chicken as a leftover how about a nice butter chicken and this is
from VH. And we'll also have some nann bread with that. I love slices of apple. These are
macintosh apples that I just got. And they are also great with balsamic rice. Again that
is just 90 seconds and you've got that rice made. Now the other thing I like to buy that's
pre done are shrimps. These are frozen shrimps in a roll. But I could also use some....they're
great for snacking of course...but I could also put them on skewers and have them with
chicken. Also what I have here some Atlantic salmon which is great. Atlantic salmon oh
my gosh with balsamic rice, carrots and real maple syrup. That is absolutely delicious.
Again, try and get the healthier kind. This is a lean type of Atlantic salmon if you can
have lean Atlantic salmon. Also notice that I have some pre-made salads. This is sweet
kale salad here. And also I have the supreme ultimate caesar. These last for maybe over
a week in...and everything is in there the dressing and everything. And I find that that's
really handy especially when I have a really busy day. So I'll show you a couple of the
meals I made with those...I'll just call them prepared items in just a little while. But
I just have to tell you right now that I only shop, grocery shop about once every two weeks
these days. So going to talk about vegetables next but vegetables just don't keep that well
in a crisper so what do I buy? So lets take a look at some of the vegetable that I bought.
And I'm shopping every two or three week now. I don't want to go grocery shopping all the
time. So I can't always buy something that's fresh, fresh, fresh because it's just going
to go bad after a week or so. So what I find myself buying, of course I mentioned this
already this is a bit of a repeat. I do buy these salads. The kale is so good for you.
I buy the romaine, this lasts for at least two weeks. And again the ultimate caesar that
lasts for about a week. But I'm also buying the frozen vegetable. And Bill you like these
frozen vegetables right? I love them. And I usually do the frozen beans with a butter
and a dill. And I also found this Green Giant Valley selections. And these are you know
for stir fries. So that's great with a chicken stir fry and some of that balsmic or jasmine
rice I showed you before. Also take a look at this great vegetable medley. And again
I've got a corn and beans and carrots. A lot of good things there. And don't forget use...oops
there we go, use your extra virgin olive oil because that's the best to cook a lot of these
in. Of course potatoes are going to last a long time. I find that the zuccinies last
a long time and I always like to add a lot of garlic to my food. We like to make chicken
wings in the air fryer so I've got some carrots and some celery. And over here I just wanted
to show that I have a salad I can chop up this cucumber, it's an English cucumber with
some tomatoes and pour some balsamic vinegar on it in a bowl and it's absolutely delicious.
This is going to keep me going for a couple of weeks or maybe three. So those are the
vegetables but what about the fruits. Fruits are another one that just don't last a long
time. So here are some of the fruits and how I buy them. Now I know this looks kind of
sad for what I bought in fruit today. But when I look at the fruit it wasn't even all
that great. This was the best pickings. They didn't even have any clemintines. I wanted
to buy some clemintines. So I'm buying the frozen fruit. You might be thinking to yourself,
now is that any good? Well it's flash frozen so it keeps a lot of its nutrients. With the
bananas of course I can make a lot of smoothies and that's delicious. Of course always the
lemon zest is so good to add onto pasta or whatever. And the lime and those fajitas that
lime would be great for that. This is what I'm doing a lot of frozen fruits and vegetables
and they work just fine. I actually use the vitamix blender for making my smoothies and
we actually had one today, didn't we Bill? Delicious. Bill makes them with what bananas...and
what else...bananas, strawberries, blueberries oh my. And he sometimes mixes them up with
mangos and all kinds of different things. But a lot of times you have to have the right
kind of blender and I actually did a video on some of my favourite small appliances that
I use you know for cooking and also for making smoothies. What I'm going to do on the end
screen of this video, I'm going to put a link to that video for you. But some of you are
asking about our other channel where we have that video. It's called...It's youtube.com/awesomeover50inspiration
And there we have...I don't know...entertaining and travel and fun and outings. But the world
is kind of in lock-down these days and so we kind of put the videos on hold for a while.
But as soon as we're free again to go out and go for fancy travelling and meals, we'll
be right back at it and doing more videos for you. Back to the grocery video and the
next items are the snacks. Lets take a look. So I have some ideas for snacking here. Sometimes
Bill and I in the lunch hour will have some biscuits and we'll have some spreadable brie
that I found that's lovely. Also there's an artichoke and spinach cream cheese kind of
mix that we have here. I don't know if you can see that very well. But that's lovely
spread on crackers as well. Today I bought the cranberry pecan roll so I've got that.
And a lot of times what we like to do is...oh by the way Bill...Bill you love these right?
These are...they're excellent... they're a garlic pepper pita chip. They are delicious
with a little bit of brie on them. And of course Bill has decided that he just loves
these garlic and red pepper olives on the side. And a lot of times we spread the hot
red pepper jelly on top of the cheese. Usually this isn't a week day kind of thing. This
is a weekend and we'll have a glass of red wine with that as well. But during the week
when I'm sitting at my desk I don't want to be eating potato chips all day so I'm usually
going for something like this a cranberry nut crunch. And that has all kinds...almonds
and cashews and cranberries. Also sometimes you can just spread some almond butter on
a cracker or two. And then put a little slice of apple on top. Honey is another good thing
to have on a cracker. When I want to make my own kind of mixture and not buy it pre-made
there's some dried cranberries that I can buy and also I love these pistachios because
they are already pitted or...no they're shelled. So you can just eat them. And this is Bill's...feeding
his adventure it's a cliff bar. What is it Bill. It's an energy bar 70% organic. And
that's what Bill likes to have. There you go. That's kind of what we do with our snacking.
So I'd like to add that there are no bags of chips or junk food at my desk when I'm
working. Usually I have those shelled pistachios or a mixture of almonds and cranberries and
they're actually just as delicious. I was just wondering how many of you get really
a craving for having a snack in the afternoon? My time is around three o'clock and I was
wondering if it happens to you and what you snack on. Just let us know in the comments.
I was also talking about in those snacks about cheese spreads and crackers...I'm getting
hungry just talking about all these. Lets take a look at usually we don't have the cheese
spreads until the weekend, but lets take a look at how we like to dine on those types
of items. So for kind of a decadent snack I really like to have these this kind of a
lunch with Bill usually on the weekend. And we have some pita toast here some liver pate
cream cheese with cranberry and pecan. A hot pepper jelly to put on top. Also some olives,
stuffed olives and crackers. Usually have a glass of wine each. And it is delicious.
So our weekday meals aren't really boring but boy do we enjoy the weekend eh Bill? Love
the weekend. And one of the things we like to do one day on the weekend I especially
make a nice brunch and lets take a look at kind of one of our favorite brunches. So I
wanted to share with you a kind of a brunch Bill and I would usually have on the weekend.
These are multi-grain bread I made into French toast. Also those frozen strawberries and
blueberries which they taste like fresh. Also you'll see the French press coffee there,
the real blueberries and of course many times we'll have memosas with this. And you're probably
asking what's with the cranberry almond cereal? And I just thought that I'd point that out
that I'm a creature of habit and Monday to Friday that's what I have. I have multi-grain
flakes with cranberries and almonds for breakfast every day. So when we are not going out to
a restaurant and it's a Friday night usually I try to make kind of a pub style dinner.
One of my favourites are chicken wings. Here I have my cuisinart air fryer. What I love
about this cuisinart is it takes a lot of chicken wings on its tray enough for two people.
And I absolutely love it. Here's a video of what the chicken wings look like afterwards.
So we just took the chicken wings out of the air fryer and they're nice and crispy. I just
sort of roll them around with a little bit of flower and garlic sauce. And also I have
the vegetables, fresh cut vegetables. We'll probably have either a ranch or blue cheese
dressing with that. And check out the red hot sauce. I just think you have to have the
Frank's Red Hot sauce on top of them. And it's a great kind of Saturday night kind of
pub style feast for us. One of the things I'm going to do for you is I'm going to put
links below for some of the appliances that I love to use around my kitchen. And also
at the end screen of this video I actually did a video on my cuisinart air fryer. And
if you want to take a look at that it's on the end screen for you the link is there.
So at the beginning of this video I showed you some of the prepared foods I like to buy,
and lets take a look at a meal where I'm using a few of them. So here's a meal that I made
and this could be a meal instead of ordering a pizza or a burger because it's made in no
time. Basically what I do is I cook up four chicken breasts so I have two for tomorrow
which I'm probably going to make a stir fry or something with. And also if you notice
the Grace jerk sauce that's there, it's a nice compliment to the ultimate caesar. I
showed that to you in the groceries. And take a look at a close up of the ultimate caesar
there are actual bits of parmesian cheese on it. Of course the romaine lettuce comes
in the package, crutons and it's absolutely delicious and kind of healthy for you as well.
So remember I cook up four breasts of chicken and I only use two for the first day and the
second day after they're refrigerated over night, I have another ideas for another meal
and here's just one of them. This is the second day for the chicken breasts that we had yesterday
with remember we had the jerk sauce and the caesar salad. And all I did was I used a little
bit of this VH pineapple sauce also VH sweet and spicy Sechwan with the chopped up chicken.
I add a little bit of garlic and a red onion as well. And I just...what I like to is grill
this first the Japanese mix from Green Giant and also the pineapples. Make sure they're
grilled first. Then I just put a little bit of balsamic rice, 90 seconds for that. I've
got a meal made in no time. And also this is what they call nann bread and it's absolutely
delicious with a meal like this. And what would grocery shopping be without buying a
few desserts. Well we only eat desserts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And truth be
told sometimes eating an oatmeal cookie or two during the week. This is what we have
for desserts. Bill and I we don't deny ourselves of desserts, but these kind of desserts these
are chocolate croissants which we heat up for usually 20 seconds in the microwave, make
that about 10 seconds in the microwave. And look at this. I got this from the bakery area
in the grocery store. These are red velvet cupcakes and we only eat this kind of food
on the weekends right Bill. Friday Saturday and Sunday...that's it we are not allowed
to eat these during the week as a dessert. And also once in a while I can have a dark
chocolate cookie during the week because they say dark chocolate is good for you. And then
hey there's oatmeal in Dad's cookies. Once in a while you'll see me sneaking one or two
of those during the week as well. Now if you're thinking to yourself no I've got to deprive
myself I can't eat any desserts, well this little idea of mine for eating desserts just
on Friday Saturday and Sunday, Oprah magazine thought it was pretty good idea and here it
is in their magazine. So hey who says you can't eat desserts. So here he is our little
Yorkie Hurricane. One thing about Hurricane he actually eats, he doesn't really eat after
8 o'clock does he? He eats when he's hungry only and he also takes a lot of he gets a
lot of sleep obviously I just woke him up. And also he takes a lot of walks as well.
I love doing the fashion videos and the beauty videos and the makeup but I'm going to do
a few more of these self-care and healthy videos for you. I'm even going to do some
more food videos because I think we all need it especially when we reach a certain age
a certain chapter of our lives. We have to take care of ourselves a little better. Whether
that's emotionally with self-care or what we're eating. So I'm going to be doing a few
more of those for you. Thanks for joining me on this journey and also thanks for subscribing
and being here and commenting and as most of you know I really try to get back to most
of your comments but we are a community aren't we. We are a place where you can share your
wins you can share your challenges and we're all kind of sisters here and just hanging
out and keeping it awesome.