Veggie Burger Recipe

As someone who has tried being a vegetarian and loved it (first week back at it), I know its important to get my protein in! I also know for myself that I do not want to eat tofu or bowls and bowls of spinach salad. I found a recipe online for the ultimate veggie burger and one recipe so far has approximately 50g of protein, so split into a few burgers, not bad. Here is the link to the blog:

http://www.foodiefiasco.com/the-ultimate-veggie-burger-vegangluten-freegrain-freelow-carb/

She has some super great recipes and I look forward to trying more out!

As for the burgers, well so far they are more like pancakes and went green due to my added zucchini, spinach and leek. I also added frozen corn.

Not gonna lie, they were pretty bland so I added some salsa to them as well as a bit of cheese and that made them a lot better. I am going to have to experiment with these a bit more! In the meantime tho, they do the trick!

UPDATE ON WASHER SMELL: The tea tree oil did temporarily fix the problem but I noticed the smell came back SO  I find that if every time I use the washer I wipe out the excess water that sits in the rubber seal and keep the door open it has no small whatsoever. 

Hope everyone has a great week!

anyone else have a stinky washing machine???

who knew that washing machines can stink?!? like of all places, where things are constantly being washed with soap and hot water. yet despite all of this our machine has been seriously stinking for like months and our clothes have been taking in the smell too. i have tried different homemade remedies to solve this problem, doing just water and vinegar cycles for example, but nothing worked. that is until yesterday when i went into all things being eco, which by the way is a super cool store, pricey, but the woman who owns it is very nice. she instructed me that more than likely my front loader was growing mold in the rubber seal. so i went home and low and behold, there was mold. i didnt even know that part could be cleaned. like, why would you make a product that always has water in it to have crevices like this that can grow mold?!? doesn't make sense to me....here's a pic of the nastiness:

and that was allllllll on the inside. so this woman at all things being eco suggested i try tea tree oil. it has disinfectant properties and is organic and won't kill you if you drink some, which i always prefer. this is what it looks like:

so i wiped this all over and cleaned my machine and than ran a hot cycle with some borax and vinegar and caster soap. the tea tree oil is quite a strong smell so my washer smells like it now but hey, that's better than mold!

in the end, i like that i avoided pulling out the bleach or harsh chemicals. i like that it took me five minutes. and i like that there are people in chilliwack who are more intelligent than me on the ways of a washing machine. me and my clothes thank you.

cheers to being green:>

cheers to a new and greener year, in July.

For the last 5 years of my life I have been in university. University, as much as it is rewarding, tends to suck your life away. So whenever I had a break, whether it be Christmas or reading break, I would think about all the things I wished I had time to do and would try to cram them into 2 weeks and think that I could continue to do them even when uni started up again. One of those things was blogging. And low and behold, I did not have time and my green impact got put to the side. Now that I am finished, and currently unemployed (yes, sad day) I have time to think and ponder about how I can better live my life to positively impact my earth. 

I will admit, I have not been the most conscientious person lately. Don't get me wrong, I compost and recycle and have a garden. I try my best to not use chemicals and make my own cleaning products. However, I know I can do better. So here is to my start, July 16 2013.

For my first endeavor, something I have consistently battled with is consumerism. I have a love hate relationship with it. I love it, my budget does not. When I think back on the last few years, some of my happiest moments were those when I decided to try to not spend money, be economical and use what we have, thus forcing me to be creative. I didn't think, woe is me I cant spend money, but saw it as an opportunity to use a part of my brain that a shopping cart and credit card do not permit me to use. 

So here it goes. One month (to start) of not spending frivolously and being creative with the things I do own, enjoying what God has already blessed me with and choosing to not support consumerism. Wish me luck, I am definitely going to go through withdrawl....

PS: I am sure I have posted this video before, but I will do it again. Take the time to watch it, it is very rewarding!

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/