guys welcome back to my vlog i'm super excited for today's video because this is the first video that
will kick off my ramadan series i decided i'm gonna post four to five videos in the month of
ramadan varying from different topics from kind of like preparing to ramadan which is this video
rather than meal ideas even a daily vlog i remember that hopefully if i have energy for that
but yeah this is going to kick it all off i am getting everything ready today i have like all
my decor that just arrived i'm going to kind of go through all of that show you guys what i
have planned the theme i have for this year i'm also cooking all of my support meals today so i
have to run to the grocery store and grab all the ingredients also going to sit down and make a list
of all my goals for this month that is coming up because honestly if i don't do that i find myself
slipping a lot but yeah i'm so excited for this video let's go ahead and get started my outfit for
the day i'm wearing this beautiful mint duster it's so perfect for transitional
weather because it's really lightweight yet it's like a layer on top um ignore the background
my room is a mess i'm like trying to clean out everything out of my closet and put together
like an abaya wardrobe for ramadan so i have like easy accessible prayer appropriate clothing so
i'm sifting through that right now but this is my outfit i thought i would share this with you guys
i also get a lot of questions about my white jeans so these are from h m i will link them
down below they have that raw edge um trim which i really love and then these heels are really old
i think they're from nordstrom i'll try to link something similar they're just some taupey nude
points um they're really comfortable to walk on because it's a small heel
and then yeah i just have on my see by chloe bag and my hot hijab model scarf and this is pretty
much it this is what i have so far for my ramadan wardrobe i always try to pull out like my kimonos
that are long and they have long sleeves that i can throw on and pray with and then also keep
on for the rest of the day so i have a few things pulled out honestly all of these are so incredibly
old i asked on instagram for you guys to give me some suggestions and i really didn't like anything
that came through so please send over some more suggestions i'll keep looking for abayas so this
is from boohoo it's this like district kimono this one is pretty sheer honestly and it's like
see-through but it's what i have so far but it's super pretty and then this piece i always get a
ton of questions when i wear this this is from pop look it has these beautiful embellishments on them
um this is really old so i don't even think they have this in stock but this is like an open front
abaya styles i have this duster from boohoo this is like kind of a light chiffon material it's
actually what i have on right now but in a tan color and then i pulled out a white maxi dress
because why not a white maxi dress is perfect for literally any occasion and then i had this
other open front cardigan which i thought would be perfect to throw on it's also in this beautiful
lilac color which i usually don't ever wear so i thought that would be fine and then lastly
i have this dress from monisa and i know it's like totally not my style but i actually really
really like it on it's a beautiful subtle striped print and i don't know why i'm actually into it
you would think i'm not but i think it the fit is what like gets me pretty much all i have and then
i just have my hijabs which honestly don't change um so i just have my usuals out here hanging up so
this is what i'm currently working with i'm on my computer right now just looking for some
breakfast ideas i normally go to printers for a lot of my recipes so i just kind of searched like
make ahead breakfast ideas i feel like that's the most practical for suhor because i don't want to
like cook in the morning i just want to be able to prep it at night on one side i have pinterest open
and the other side on my other monitor i usually just have some sort of like browser pulled up so
right now i'm just looking up some breakfast ideas with macros because i feel like that's
really important i want my meals to be nutrient dense so i'm just gonna scroll through and see
what i can find i did already find a couple things like i've never made um these little
egg muffin things before and i know they're so popular and they've been around for years
i've just never tried it so i might try that the quesadilla also sounded really interesting like
that right there but i don't know i might skip on that i'm definitely doing that i also definitely
want to do like bowls i really like like oatmeal bowls and quinoa bowls i'm trying to look for that
and a lot of these are like carb dense which i'm trying to avoid but we'll see what i can
find i'm just gonna keep scrolling and then once i come up with some ideas i'll share that with
you guys i ended up with six breakfast ideas so that was a successful pinterest browsing
um ignore my handwriting this is really really bad my handwriting is normally not like chicken
scratch but i was just trying to rush through this so i have breakfast egg muffins powered with
quinoa just so there's a lot of protein i have oatmeal and quinoa bowls breakfast casseroles and
then a breakfast box with just like finger foods almost um and then a sweet potato hash with eggs
on top and these are the ingredients that i need to go buy i'm going to run to the grocery store
and get all these ingredients and get cooking on second thought i'm going to show you guys what i
got in former ramadan decor before i head out to the grocery store because i'm just way too excited
so the theme that i decided on for this year is going to be spring ramadan i want everything to
be like really playful i want bright colors i want florals i've never done this before so i'm hoping
it turns out cute i haven't even looked up any pinterest for anything so this is like purely me
just thinking of something i want like everything to be pink and white with gold of course the gold
hint will be like my ramadan part i'll show you guys what i have for now so i'm working with west
elm again this year which i'm really excited about because i worked with them last year
and they're so generous they sent over like tons of stuff they focus mainly on like tabletop like
decor so that's what i'm going to continue doing this year so a lot of my decoration is going to
be like out in the dining table um so i'll try to sprinkle things in in my room but mainly the
decor will be out in the living room so so i already opened up three boxes they sent over
five these are like massive so i went through one of them and i pulled out all the stuff this
is a list of all the stuff they gave i still have several boxes that i need to open i'm gonna open
a couple more things before i head out because i'm curious and i also want to show you guys the decor
these are high ball glasses how beautiful
wow i love this okay this would be so cute to have like a little ramadan refresher
they're coasters how pretty are these they are clouded agade or a god i can't even pronounce that
and my camera's not gonna focus coasters they're so pretty i love like the unfinished raw edges how
cute so here is all the decor i have laid out for ramadan like i said a lot of it is like table top
stuff so like utensils and plates and stuff but the main part of the house that i'm decorating is
my dining room area anyway so i'm okay with that so i'm gonna start off with these small decoration
pieces that i have that is like actually ramadan decor so i have these like really cute lanterns
that i got from at home last year and i have five of them actually so i have to find the other two
and inside of them i have some fairy lights that will light up and they look so cute at night so
i have these three things and then for greenery for my like spring look i'm gonna lay this out on
top of my runner on the table and then i'm gonna put in some cherry blossom um stems incorporated
in between which i think is gonna look so so pretty and then um to hang on the stairs
i have these lights that i got off of amazon so they're star-shaped as well as like these
ornament looking shapes that actually really nicely represent ramadan and eve these come in
several colors i think i got them in gold but you can also get them in white lights so i have a pack
of like four of these so i will like string this around somewhere and then moving on to the stuff
that will be laid out on the table i'll start off with these plates because i'm so obsessed with
them they're so stinking cute i love the shape of them i love how flat they are i've never had
anything like this before and then i love the pink bottom it's like a really beautiful little
playful twist and it fits my spring theme so nicely so i have the small plates i have
the larger plates i have bowls and then these are the coasters i shared with you guys these are
so pretty um i feel like my camera is doing a really bad job of focusing
um these are pink napkins that i will put on the table with gold napkin holders these are so
stunning i love this i think this is for like cheese boards so that's that and then i have
gold silverware rose gold actually i have a set of 20 and then i have a bigger like
what are these called i don't even know obviously i'm not a housewife so just more
bowls and then i have these really beautiful place mats and i love that they have like this
um basket weave on them so it fits the spring theme really well and then these little guys are
so stinking cute i don't know if they're called but they're they labeled them as like um dip bowls
but they're made out of stone or marble they're super heavy and like you can smash things in here
so i'll probably make some guac on the side and then we have a large salad bowl there is a few
more stuff but i just i'm out of breath i almost forgot but i pulled out my fancy prayer rugs
these are so so beautiful i'll try to find oh this is the name royal sejada i will link them down
below they gifted this to me last year and oh my god it is so so beautiful it's like this gorgeous
sheen on it it's incredible so i have this laid out i'm going to put this in my room i also have
this one it's a gold and white one i just laid them both out so you guys can see a nice look this
is so so beautiful i think this one is actually from riyadh that my friend gifted this to me when
she came back from hajj but it's so pretty and what i did last year was i layered these two
um in my room and it just gave this beautiful looks this is my decor for ramadan finally on my
way to the grocery store now i feel like i've been saying this all morning but i ended up stopping at
um bodies which is like a mediterranean place to bring up food because i'm really hungry so
i can't function if i don't eat first so i'm gonna just sit in my car and eat actually
is that better okay so i'm gonna just actually sit in my car and eat i do this all the time i
don't know people find this weird but i don't mind it i'm such an introvert
i eat by myself i go shopping by myself i'll watch a movie by myself so while i eat i figured
i'll share with you guys my like goals for ramadan we can have like a mukbang in my car
i've never had one of those but i've always seen them and i've always wanted to do them okay so
i'm gonna show you guys what i got i got a lot of food because i'm hungry first up i have some
chicken and rice obviously i'm gonna eat the rice but chicken looks really good this is amber alert
no thank you ever alert i got that and then i thought that chicken wasn't not going to be enough
i also got beef kebab and rice obviously not gonna eat the rice but beef kebab looks amazing
look at that and then i got a fathous salad lastly i have some hummus i'm going to start with the
chicken alright so let's talk goals for ramadan i normally set like one big goal and then a lot
of small goals that i can hit on a daily basis because i feel like the small continuous deeds
are obviously a lot better so my big goal is finishing the quran in 30 days
so my small daily goals leading up to the big goal is to read like one chapter a day
and that just keeps me accountable like if you set a big goal like oh i want to finish the
quran but you don't make a daily goal that goes parallel with that you end up running out of time
thinking you have more time than you actually do like i've done that in the past everywhere
i think like oh i have 20 more days till ramadan ends i'll be fine and there's like five days left
of the month and i'm like oh no i never finished the crown so my daily goal is to read one chapter
a day and then that will lead me to my big goal of finishing the crime at the end of the month
my other goals and i do this every single year is resetting back to the basics i think it's so
important to like renew intentions like every year as well as remind yourself like why you're
doing certain things so like when i pray a lot of the times i like forget to remind myself like
what i'm reading because arabic isn't my first language so although i like sort of understand it
like when i'm reading it it just doesn't like kind of register in my head so i take out the time to
like reread the meaning of all the surahs i feel like it's really helpful because it gives you that
clarity and like connection in prayer if that makes any sense um what else ah praying on time
it's one of my biggest struggles i don't know why so i'm gonna start
making intentions to pray on a time like right when the them goes off i need to go pray and
honestly you don't have to wait till ramadan to do that you can do that today um which
i've been trying honestly i have been trying a ton but in remember that i want to perfect it
hopefully the other small goals is always like self-improvement i want to make sure i'm being
the most kind and genuine person i can be to like friends and family to myself um stuff like that
i know all of this sounds really simple but like if you don't think about it
and make the intentions to do it then it just doesn't happen well it's for me
i just got back home from the grocery store i got a few staples but not a lot so i'll show you guys
what i got i didn't get too much the things that i really stocked up on are things that
we can eat for sohort in the morning that will keep us full for long so things that are really
high in fiber and complex carbs so i got quick oats in case mornings we wake up really late
and don't have a lot of time but then on mornings where we do have time i have deal cut oats and i
plan to prep these at night and you guys will see in my sohore video that is going up next exactly
the items that i will be eating for support and make ahead breakfast items that you guys can make
so it saves you time in the morning um i also got chickpea flour my dad uses this for his rotis and
then i got a few berries i usually stock up on frozen berries because in the mornings i like um
smoothies in ramadan but i can't have that right now so i just have berries this is the only
thing i can eat and then small quantities and then i got strawberries for my sister
i got a few bell peppers and one sweet potato because i'm going to be making like a casserole
which again will be in my silhouette video so you guys will see that i got some eggs because mine's
from the farmer market are out and this is not a sore necessity but i picked this up so i got
lily's dark chocolate and lily's dark chocolate with caramel and then i got coconut milk which is
essential i got some dry tomatoes some coconut spray and celery juice and just some lettuce
for the the week so this is pretty much it if you guys want to see what i end up cooking with
all of these ingredients then definitely check out my video that will go live next week which
will be my super meal idea video and then after that will be my iftar meal idea video
so i really hope you guys enjoyed this ramadan series if there's anything else you want me to add
let me know in the comments down below and i'll see you guys in my next one bye