Caprese Salad

I clearly got into the warm weather today. When I think Caprese salad, I think of tomatoes fresh off the vine and basil fresh from the herb garden. I don't have either of those right now, so I had to make do with these:

I did have to Goldilocks the mason jars. I thought one was going to be perfect, but I forgot when you add in the mozzarella, it was going to take up more space...oops. The next one would have been perfect, but the mouth wasn't wide enough to fit the tomato slices. The one I ended up using has a little extra room on the sides, but whatever, it'll do!

So I cored and sliced the tomatoes, bought pre-sliced mozzarella (don't judge - it was on sale), and chopped the basil. I use a glaze from Harris Teeter, which is totally delicious. Then I just layered them in the jar and BOOM! 

Cute right??

And there were no blueberries or raspberries at the store - how crazy is that? So I had to vary my berry parfait. But, please don't worry - I used blackberries and strawberries, so it is still a berry parfait.

Yum!

Prepping my meals for the week saves me so much time, energy, money AND calories. I highly recommend doing it. People ask me if I get sick of eating the same thing every day, and I really don't because every other meal I have varies that week. Give it a try!!

What to do with Leftovers!

So when I was prepping lunches for this past week, I made too much quinoa - or maybe I was secretly getting ready for a leftovers post? Yes, let's go with that. So when I was prepping lunches for this past week, I purposely made extra quinoa so that I could use it later in the week for a dinner, which led to this:

I also had a couple peppers and an onion to use up, and I was inspired by the dinner I had a few weeks ago at my BFFs house. Her fiance made his specialty, and it just so happened that the ingredients for his dinner were what I had in my kitchen, minus a few things. I picked up some sauce and sausage at Harris Teeter on my way home from work. 

If you've never tried this sauce, I highly recommend - its super good!

Okay, so I chopped up my peppers and onion and threw them in a skillet with some garlic.

While the veggies were cooking, I prepped the sausage. Then all I had to do was reheat the quinoa and throw everything on a plate! So quick, so easy, so good :)

Are those not the best looking leftovers you've ever seen?

Only problem was that I used up my extra quinoa and now had extra veggies and sausage. Which brings us to about an hour ago. I took all those leftovers (minus the sauce, because ew with eggs) and roughly chopped them - along with the mushrooms I forgot to use last night, oopsie :-/ and threw them in an omelette!

Tell me that doesn't look delicious...I dare you!