Summer is winding down for us and we have spent the last month in Portugal! It has been glorious! We spent time with Mike's family, my parents joined us for two weeks, we spent a lot of time relaxing on the beach, we went sightseeing, we ate, we ate, we ate! The weeks leading up to the trip, I tried to be really good about our food choices and drinking fruit smoothies at breakfast time. While we were in Portugal, we really wanted to try all the food and the pastries! I don't think we over did it too much, since we really just tried the pastries in the different areas. The main dishes we ate were mostly grilled with potatoes (sometimes rice) on the side. My favourite dish was lulas grelhadas (which is grilled squid). It is usually done very basic with a drizzle of olive oil, served with boiled potatoes and veggies. So yummy! I think I had at six different restaurants!
We walked a lot! One of my favourite moments was when Mike and I got to walk from our end of the beach in Peniche all the way to another town Baleal, all along the beach. It was about a 6K walk. We also did a lot of walking just in the city centre. It was so hot so drinking a lot of water was easy.
Now that we are back, we are looking forward to routine, routine, routine!
My two goals have been:
1. Move more
2. Eat more veggies
The third thing I am adding is
3. Cutting back on Starbucks & fast food.
With school just around the corner, it would be too easy for me to fall back on Starbucks and Wendy's, which is more about our social routine than the food we are eating. I think I need to find other social things to do with the girls that does not involve eating out at those places. My hips will thank me and so will my wallet! As much as I am loving spending time at home and realxing with my kids, I am also starting to crave routine. So here begins the countdown to our normal routines...
PS: Getting the crockpot ready to make healthy freezable meals for the whole family...see ya later summer, I'm ready to bring on fall!!
