hello welcome to a productive day of
self-care welcome back to my channel or
welcome if you are new here I'm starting
off the day with cleansing my skin I'm
not gonna wear any makeup today so I
just wanted to cleanse and moisturize
and just make my skin feel great for the
day I'm using the Tula skin care cult
classic cleanser that I've been loving
and I'm using a facial cleansing sponge
that I got from Sephora a while back and
then I'm going to be going in with the
fresh sugar lip scrub to exfoliate my
lips because they've been dry for the
winter this is some castor oil this is
the first time I'm trying this I've done
some research and I've also been told by
a makeup artist that a little bit of
castor oil to your eyebrows keep them
thick so I've been using castor oil for
that lately and then I'm going in with a
moisturizer this is the fresh vitamin
nectar moisturizer I really love that
this gives a little bit of a glow and it
just really deeply moisturizes my skin
because I plan on doing a couple errands
today I'll be out and about I wanted to
put an SPF on so this is an SPF 40 from
super goop
I love how lightweight this is I can
wear it with or without makeup and I
don't even feel it on my skin this is
the Tula skincare rose glow and get it
under eye balm I love this stuff it just
helps me look much more awake so I just
roll it under my eyes like so and then I
just kind of tap it in with my finger
really lightly and gently this is my go
to my staple my Holy Grail the Lanai lip
sleeping mask I wear it during the day
and I wear it at night I have two that I
use throughout the days it just keeps by
lips feeling so moisturized and it
smells so good while I was finishing up
in the bathroom Alex was in the kitchen
cooking us up some breakfast he did some
breakfast tacos so he sauteed some
spinach and tomato and onion and he
added a couple eggs in there
and then he warmed up some tortilla and
it was delicious
whenever we are in the kitchen Lanka is
always right by our side just waiting
for anything to drop
honestly though he's always just by our
side we started looking through this a
vegan insta pot recipe book that we have
we don't have an insta pot so we were
sort of just using it for inspiration
for recipes that we could do like just
kind of in our conventional oven or in a
crock pot and we found this lentil
shepherd's pie recipe that looked so
good and I looked it up on my phone and
there's ways to make it without using an
insta pot so we were super into it it
looked so good it was made with lentils
and we also saw a recipe for jackfruit
tacos that looked really good so I was
writing down on this notepad all the
things that I wanted to pick up from the
grocery store we were due for a grocery
store run and I like going to the
grocery store having an idea of some
recipes that we're going to try and so I
made sure to write down all the things
that I needed to pick up for the recipes
who wanted to do anything that Alex
wanted me to pick up anything that I
wanted and just anything that we needed
to have in the house threw on my good
old trusty blonde stones that I wear
every single day and then I grabbed some
totes from our closet we hang up all of
our reusable totes on a little hanger
inside of our closet said bye to Alex
cuz he was going on a bike ride and then
went out to Trader Joe's the good old Oh
G Trader Joe's one of my favorite things
about having a house now is that we have
a garage which is just so crazy to me I
feel like such an adult but it's so nice
to go inside the garage to be able to
shut it and just kind of like be able to
put the groceries away inside of the
garage and just have Lanka around and it
just I don't know it's just nice if any
of you have been following me for a hot
minute
like since my very first video on
YouTube then you remember that my first
video was a Trader Joe's hull so why not
do a little speedy quick one for you
guys right now just for old times sake
and if any of you have been here for
that long you are the oh geez I love you
guys it's awesome that you're still
around so thank you
almond milk double up on our favorite
coffee sourdough toast because I'm
Athene double up on organic free-range
eggs although you're not Sorella style
cheese because I've had this before and
it's delicious
we're Ganic tomato and red pepper soup
plus a New Zealand sharp cheddar because
I'm craving a grilled cheese sandwich
with tomato soup
garlic's stopped green olives because I
love these as a snack medley of veggies
for these shepherd's pie tonight
cornbread for the jackfruit tacos we
want to make these are a little treat
that I sometimes like having in the
morning for breakfast if I'm feeling it
they are Greek yogurt Apple Cinnamon
coffee cake and they're really delicious
little trick and treats for Lanka he
loves these from Trader Joe's and I
always forget to pick them up so I'm
just so happy I remembered today and I
can tell he is too I'm gonna open these
and give him one right now sit good boy
go on green salsa because we always put
green salsa on breakfast doubled up on
lentils because this is going in
tonight's recipe for the shepherd's pie
instead of meat and we also love lentil
and salad and all sorts of things this
big tote and I just put all the veggies
in this tote instead of using a bunch of
different plastic bags for them I have
two gold maybe I got three gold potatoes
for the recipe tonight I got a couple
sweet potatoes because sometimes we make
sweet potato fries with like a beyond
burger or something like that
and then we got two red onions I think I
got two there's another one in there
somewhere who's a yellow onion
more potato I guess I got four tons of
avocado of course I love making an
avocado toast in the morning and putting
avocado on top COEs I lost one I'm sorry
I hope you're okay
Apple garlic which I think we have
garlic but why not have extra garlic we
eat garlic all the time more avocado
well that was an efficient trip to the
grocery store I feel good about that
everything is put away I want to start
working on dinner soon I'm actually
really excited to try the recipe out
it's 3:40 right now we signed up this
morning for a hot yoga class at 5:30
it's like a candlelit hot yoga class so
that will be so nice to kind of wind
down for the evening but I think I'm
gonna start prepping dinner around 4:00
4:15 and I'm gonna take lunk on a quick
walk so I could take him on like a 20
minute walk 20 to 30 minutes and then
I'll start prepping dinner Alex is still
on his bike ride so he'll probably be
back within the hour and then we'll get
ready to go to hot yoga I'm on my
Instagram right now posted a photo
earlier today of Alex and I and our save
the dates so if you guys want to check
them out go over to my Instagram at
Kerry rad I have like a little
time-lapse video of us putting these
save-the-dates together and they turned
out so cute we officially sent them out
there are a couple that need to be still
sent out there were some that got sent
back because the address had like an
issue with it so we still have a little
bit to do for the save the dates but
it's nice that like the majority of them
are all out and then now I'm already
looking okay Lanka wants to come inside
from going to the bathroom and now he
wants to go in a walk so I'm gonna take
him on a walk but yeah I'm excited that
the majority of the save the dates are
done and now I'm already looking at the
actual invitations because I want those
to go out by the end of this month so
yeah just like crossing things off of
the list to do on all departments of
life I feel good though I feel
productive today I don't feel
overwhelmed
I'm just getting stuff done I feel good
about the week ahead I'm
decided that there's just a lot of space
for me to get tasks done next week I
don't really need to be anywhere
necessarily which is so nice I can just
kind of like sit on my computer for a
good amount of the days and get stuff
done and then also spend a lot of time
in the house getting stuff done that
needs to get done so I feel really good
about this next week that's a clear week
so he ready looks should we go
should we go to walk okay come on
I have this package mil when I got back
from the walk okay yes is exactly what I
thought it was I'm not gonna lie I have
a lot of reusable water bottles but I do
not have one that has a straw and I have
a tendency to drink much more water when
I'm drinking it from a straw I don't
know why but when I'm home I always put
one of our reusable straws in my cups
and I can just down water like that so I
decided to pick up this one from Amazon
I'll put the link in the description box
for you guys if you want one like this I
just think that this is really gonna
help me drink more water I like the cap
I like that you can kind of push it up
like this and you suck through and I
just feel like it's gonna be helpful in
me drinking more water so I'm gonna wash
this right now actually and bring it to
hot yoga we wanted to start prepping the
shepherd's pie before going to hot yoga
just so we didn't have to do as much
when we got back so we diced one yellow
onion and then we took three gold
potatoes and we have them and we put
them in the pot on a low boil with the
water just barely over them and left
them in there for about 25 minutes
before we needed to head out the door
this is what I'm going to be bringing in
my hot yoga bag I have my yoga mat here
I am bringing a towel to lay over my mat
because I sweat so much I like bringing
this lavender mix it's a natural yoga
mat cleaning spray cuz I spray down my
mat afterwards because I sweat so much
and it's just nice because it smells
really nice to the lavender is really
calming I got this on Amazon a while
back so I'll try to find it for you guys
as well and I'll link it below they
should definitely have more
because I this is the second one I
purchased because I love this mist and
then I'm also doing in my Cadillac water
bottle
I just got as well I threw a little bit
of ice in there because hot yoga is so
hot so it'll be refreshing to have
ice-cold water and we are ready to go
this is my little California tote that i
got from visit California I love the
people at visit California so thanks
guys I am going to turn off the potatoes
obviously because we're leaving the
house they will be able to just kind of
still warm up while we're gone and by
the time we get back from yoga they'll
be ready to be smashed and turned into a
mashed potato for the shepherd's pie
when we got home from hot yoga we went
straight in to dinner
we minced two garlic cloves and then I
grabbed some thyme from the garden
because the recipe called for fresh
thyme it also said that you could use
some dried thyme if you wanted to it was
two teaspoons of it and then I went in
and smashed the potato it calls for
mashed potatoes so that's what I needed
to do so I mash them as well as I could
with all of my muscles and then we used
some vegan butter so you can kind of use
however much big and butter you wanted
to use we used two spoonfuls of it and
then we grilled the red onion and added
a little tiny bit of red wine the recipe
didn't call for that but we just added
that ourselves because it's a nice touch
to it and then we did four cups of
vegetable stock and we added the frozen
bag of veggies to the skillet and then
the lentil so all of those combined in
to the pan and we left those to kind of
mix in together to defrost the veggie
and then we went in and added the mashed
potato to the top and I used a spoon
after this shot I didn't get it recorded
but I used a spoon to just kind of like
smooth it all out on top and then I used
some fresh ground pepper on top of the
mashed potato with a little bit of salt
and then I threw it into the oven I put
a piece of tinfoil below the pot to just
protect the oven in case there was any
spillage and then we set it act 425 and
we left it in there for about 15 minutes
or so I will look for the exact recipe
link that I followed and will try to
link that for you guys in the
description box
it has officially been 10 minutes where
the shepherd's pie I took a shower thank
goodness because that was a very sweaty
lady so now I'm clean then it is time to
eat well not just yet it's probably
really hot so I'm gonna pull it out I
should probably grab some better
protection for my hummus
we love that dressing room Trader Joe's
by the way and I think I showed you guys
that earlier notice a very colorful side
salad by Alexander I'm not even
recording is it he's recording
dinner was so delicious that was such a
cozy meal healthy and hearty and filled
us up send me a picture on Instagram or
something if you guys try that recipe
let me know in the comments below if you
guys have any great healthy delicious
dinner recipes because I'm gonna be
cooking from home a lot over the next
couple of weeks because I feel like
we've just been eating out a lot
recently over the holidays and so it's
nice to just be cooking at home I'm now
going to unplug I'm gonna get into this
book this is called the nature fix Alex
got me this for Christmas you guys can
probably hear the dishwasher behind me
so we're just doing a load right now but
um this is all about why nature makes us
happier healthier and more creative and
so far I love it I just started and I'm
really excited to continue reading this
so that is what I'm going to do now hope
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all right I'm gonna go
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