This salad is ridiculously delicious. Prior to trying out a similar recipe from Sprouted Kitchen, I had never thought of putting sweet potato in a salad. Its fabulous! Now I can’t seem to stop. I like to play with the ingredients, but I thought I’d post this one as it was a total winner. Salad…
We’ve found a new favorite recipe! I’m not the most organized chef in the kitchen (and I’m pretty lazy about following directions), but I do love trying new recipes. Especially when they involve bread, cookies, or any other treats. With the coconut oil, applesauce, and Greek Yogurt I almost feel like this bread is bordering…
I love breakfast. I always have. Mouth watering waffles, pancakes, hot cereal, oatmeal, overnight blueberry french toast – anything but plain ol’ cereal. Making a yummy, healthy (okay, so sometimes its not so healthy) breakfast in the morning just makes me happy. It takes a bit longer than pulling cereal boxes off the pantry shelves,…
Cooking in an Airstream is really not that different from a regular kitchen. Okay, that’s not entirely true as I have less bowls, less utensils, and less specialty appliances. My salad spinner doubles as a salad bowl (minus the colander part), and sometimes also as a bowl to mix up pancakes. Everything seems to have…
Great recipes! Tortilla soup is one of my favorites and I love that nachos recipe! We also eat less meat on the road, probably only 3x per week. Quinoa and black beans are huge parts of our diet and I make a salad similar to the taco recipe with a balsamic dressing in place of the tomato sauce. It’s such an easy, filling and healthy meal.ReplyCancel
Did Sam’s family all read “The China Study”? 😉 I went mostly vegan for a while. It cleared up a number of issues for me. I have found it hard to do full time, but I try to do the meat sparingly thing and we only use certain dairy items. Anyway, good stuff!
Your recipes look so yummy. Thanks for sharing. Since you like the quinoa, black bean and corn tacos, I thought you might like this recipe also: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/black-bean-and-quinoa-enchilada-bake/#_a5y_p=1200737 . It’s one of our new favorites.ReplyCancel
I LOVE the gym. The smell, the machines, the weights, the Zumba & Spin classes. I love dropping my kids off at daycare and then picking them back up an hour and a half later. It is my ME time. The time I get all to myself while also doing something that my body craves….
I’ve never liked gyms. The thought of paying money to lift heavy stuff and get sweaty running on a machine that goes nowhere….we did it one winter and I swore I’d never do that again.
I’ve also never liked running…but last summer started the Couch to 5K program using an app on my phone. It took me like 16 weeks to do the 9 week program but I did run a 5K last fall. I went from hating running to not liking it…;)
But once having done that it’s been tough to know where to go from there. The problem now is that I don’t want to spend an hour running to go longer distances. I’ve not been as consistent at it…but the weather this winter hasn’t been conducive to it either. I don’t have good cold-weather running gear and really don’t want to buy it.
My wife worked with a trainer to develop a travel-friendly workout. It’s stuff that can be done on a exercise mat and using the elastic bands. I’d like to get to a point where I alternate that with running again, just limiting my run time and trying to get faster.ReplyCancel
Hey…I’m new here to your blog. My family and I traveled for 18 months full time and how that we’re back in our house we are set to travel three times a year for 6-8 weeks at a time. Fitness was difficult for me as well. Like you, we have little ones as well and that makes it really difficult, plus all of the other obstacles you mentioned here.
I personally tried to hike as much as possible, and I took my Insanity DVDs with me which I did here and there (mostly the lighter workouts). A couple of times, my wife and I got up super early and did Insanity outside. Felt like a total dork, though.
Anyway, this is a really difficult aspect of traveling full time. When you find the answer, please let me know 🙂
-Chad
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Chad- Thanks for stopping by!! I checked our you blog as well and it is fabulous! I just bought the T25 workout DVD’s and I WILL be doing them outside and yes, feeling like a total dork. Good thing its the off season and a lot of campgrounds are empty anyway. I’m sure I’ll be all bundled up too!!ReplyCancel
Great post! Staying fit is so important. It’s a big part of our airstream life. When we first started on our travels we ran every day. We loved it. But, we quickly realized we didn’t have 1-2 hours every day for a leisurely run because we had to work, drive, etc. So now we do a variety of exercises: body weight exercise circuits, sprints and we also travel with kettle bells, jump ropes and yoga mats. The Tabata Timer app is a helpful tool. We use the extra space in our campsite (the picnic table is a great piece of equipment). We’ve even worked out in a Walmart parking lot! Best of luck with your new program. Keep us posted. I hope it’s a success for you!ReplyCancel
Hey! Found your site through malimish and have been really enjoy in looking around! I would lie to be on the road with my family! I am a hiking addict! If something bothers me I start craving woods. We have been training our boys since they were born to be hikers(my oldest 1st hike was at 6weeks) and now they can often out hike me at 6 an 7! Hope you are able to get a system you like going. I would definitely recommend hiking. 🙂ReplyCancel
Thanks for your comment!! Okay, HOW do you train your kids to hike? Marlene and I joke about how much our kids whine while they hike (her 4 year old, my 3 year old). Any suggestions for that? My husband and I LOVE backpacking and would probably die of happiness if we could incorporate more of that into our life with our families.ReplyCancel
Check out the book “You Are Your Own Gym” by Mark Lauren. He uses work outs that use mainly your own body or things that are readily available to you. You can do the exercises on their own or he has created workouts for you with varying degrees of difficulty, 30 minutes 4 days a week. I love that you can do the workouts basically anywhere and you don’t need lots of equipment or a gym. Ryan and I started and could tell a big difference in how we felt after a couple weeks. We haven’t been super consistent lately but we are trying to get back into it.ReplyCancel
Hey Jess,
I’m still using the Yoga Studio app, though I’ve found that I have to do it before Brian wakes up in the morning, I would think you might have to do the same with the big crew on board.
I’m a big fan of trail running and cycling, but sometimes these simply are not great options. During our travels I’ve found the Virtual Trainer Apps to be awesome (www.virtualtrainerapps.com). On the road, I’m using the resistance bands, TRX straps, and my own body weights as the only equipment needed (and I carry a bike) and it’s been a dream set-up with minimal equipment footprint … I highly recommend.
I just need to configure a place to mount a TRX anchor to the Airstream …ReplyCancel
YUMMM we’ll have to try some of these
yeah!! Do it!
Yum! I, too, have children that expect a hot breakfast and protest when they are offered cold cereal. Thanks for a few recipes I can add to the rotation.
nice!! let me know how it works out? What are your kid’s favorites?
yummmm we’ll have to try some of these
Let me know how it goes!
These all look so good! I make my children do their own breakfast so they usually do cereal but this makes me want to make it 🙂
My 8 year old keeps begging me to teach her to make pancakes. Problem is, I no longer like buying the instant kind but would rather make healthy ones from scratch. That gets a little harder for her to do!
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