A new day...

     Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! I had family over my house and then had to go to work...boo! Oh well. I had a great time and ate and ate and ate! So today its back to day 1. Ralph and I are excited about the warmer weather that's been rolling in. Hopefully we can keep the rain at bay and get some great walks in!
     The morning started off really good today. We have a TON of fresh fruit in the house from Easter, so I made a great fruit salad and we had fruit and cottage cheese for breakfast. For anyone who's saying "ew" or has never tried it, cottage cheese is really great when you mix it with fruit. Plus its an AWESOME source of protein! For today's breakfast it was 2/3 of a cup of cottage cheese with 1/2 cup of fruit. The fruit salad I made was with sliced strawberries, apple chunks (skin on), and clementine wedges. Here's a neat trick I picked up somewhere along the line for your apples...When you are making a fruit salad or are cutting apples to eat later, add a few drops or so, depending on how much apple you have maybe as much as a tsp, of lemon juice. The lemon juice will keep your apples from turning brown and you can't even taste it!
     Another great idea that I have my sister to thank for is my new egg salad recipe. Egg is a great protein, however egg salad is loaded with mayo so it has a high fat content. So, what are you going to do with all those Easter eggs you colored with the kids? Let them go to waste? Oh heck no! Here's what you do...Peel and mash your boiled eggs. Then add about 1-2tsp of low fat mayo. Now here's the trick...obviously that's not enough mayo to blend your egg salad and make it nice and creamy, rather than dry and crumbly. So add to your mix...Mustard! Yes mustard! You can use whatever kind you like, yellow, spicy brown, Dijon, whatever. Add enough mustard to make your egg salad smooth. It gives it a nice kick and mustard is a spice, so you can eat as much as you want without consequence! YUM!!! I will be whipping some up for this evening as I am having company. Can't wait to nom nom nom on some!
     So enjoy those little tidbits of yumminess and keep the comments coming! Have a great day everyone!!!