Once Upon Blue Willow

07/24/2026

I highly recommend doing breakfast meal prep for the week to make life easier. I get up early to make my husband's lunch and breakfast before he leaves for work. I tend to prep breakfast items on Sundays. This week I made sausage patties, bacon and egg patties to make my version of Whataburger's Breakfast on a Bun. While I am making his lunch I toast buttered the inexpensive HEB hamburger buns with butter. Then I am ready to build his breakfast burger, wrap it up and he eats it while driving into work. I try to change things up every week and make things that give him options.

07/23/2026

Want a carpet/ rug refresher?

Mix baking soda with your favorite essential oils and then put it in your sifter and crank it over your carpet our rug. Let it sit for a bit, then vacuum. Do not over do it.

07/22/2026

https://youtu.be/A0vQOhJ2-uM?is=HDZJ7r1l9ce7ITex

This upbeat pop song expresses the lightness we feel when we trust ...

07/22/2026

Very reshing combo. Mix 6 to 8 oz of water with Pure Kick Arctic Ice Hydrate packet, then (if you have it) 2 ounces of aloe juice and a Bloom Rocket Pop prebiotic soda. Yum!!

07/20/2026

Yesterday I did most of the breakfast meal prep and roasted my sweet potatoes and butternut squash.

I love making these super simple sweet potato taco bowls!

Roast cubed up sweet potatoes (skin on or skin off is your choice). Make some taco meat (you choose your meat - I use some kind of venison - fallow this time). Make some black beans with seasonings in your Instant Pot, so easy and so much better than canned. Cut up some fresh spinach, 1/2 avocado, green onions, roma tomato and then sprinkle in some grated Oaxaca cheese. No dressing is needed, just mix it up and you have so much incredible flavor in each bite. Another good add-in is cottage cheese or a dollup of greek yogurt.

This bowl was 592 calories and 55g of protein, plus almost a full day's worth of fiber and satiated for hours.

Healthy and tasty! Make it!

Also, easy homemade Cherry Limeade:
Lime Sparkling Water
Tart Cherry Juice

07/20/2026

Homemade black beans is cheaper and has more flavored than the canned beans. If you have an Instant Pot/ Pressure cooker, they can be done in such a short time, other wise stovetop in a pot or a crockpot works too.

Roast those sweet potatoes in your oven, with or without the skin, drizzled with a little olive oil and whatever seasonings you like. Make a batch to eat throughout the week.

A sweet kale salad is so simple - cut up your freshly washed kale into small pieces and cut out the stems. Add in dried cranberries, flaxseeds, sunflower kernels and pumpkin seeds. Dress with a light poppy seed dressing. Terrificly refreshing summer salad.

Raw organic sauerkraut... why? Because we are improving our gut health.

07/19/2026

So tasty and refreshing. The sparkling water gives you the fizzy bubbles like soda.

07/18/2026

Who needs Taco Bell?!?

I've got my Doritos Locos Taco Salad! Delish.

07/18/2026

https://youtu.be/7SJ97-_v5U4?is=PL9864auRaT55Wri

Official Lyric Video for “Let Go, Let God” by Jack Cassidy. Listen ...