It’s that time of year again… Christmas is over and the weather just keeps getting colder. It makes it hard to want to do anything except crawl under a blanket on the couch and eat warm carbs.
This isn’t the first winter I have seen though. Heather and I are, distressingly, starting to establish a pattern to deal with this time of year. The initial plan had been to put our wedding anniversary provide some diversion in the midst of the post-Christmas blues. While that helps, we find ourselves feeling way too lethargic by about January 5th.
So for the third year running, we have embarked on a fitness challenge! I shouldn’t take too much credit, Heather is the driving force behind our decision every year… Something I am incredibly grateful for, considering I still lack the drive to start one of these despite the demonstrable benefits they have provided in my life.
That being said, going to the gym when there is an inch of slush in the parking lot and the air temperature is one degree is no fun at all. Also, it seems we aren’t the only people to have decided now is the perfect time to hit the gym, so it’s five times as crowded now as it was a month ago.
All the same, we are working out once again! I never expect the incredible soreness that comes with these things… I guess that means we are making progress 🙂
On the topic of being more healthy, I saw a recipe for pumpkin sloppy joes (aka Sloppy Jacks)
I won’t re-post it here, as you can head over to Cheap Healthy Good for the recipe
I knew I had to try it though, because as a rule Heather loves anything that involves pumpkin!
We didn’t have ground turkey on hand, so I just used beef. The results were… remarkably sloppy-joe-like. I suppose you would be able to see the difference if you had my filling next to a ‘normal’ batch, but I was surprised how unremarkable it was. It was also shocking to find that we couldn’t really taste the pumpkin in the sandwiches.
In keeping with the aforementioned rule, Heather loved them. I think we may have another quick meal on her list of favorites.
(no picture included, because they looked just like sloppy-joes)
-Jordan
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