Interactions

This is what I think about busy people: it is easy to be selfish because you have no time to think about others.

This is what I think about people: many people are just not in their right environment to show their best selves.

The more time you have, the easier it is to care for someone else, to think of others, to be there for another person, to have the energy to reach out first.

It is just harder when your friend group is comprised of entirely ambitious, successful, career-driven, busy people. 

Life Motto

I had a friend tell me this the other day:

Your life motto is: What is the most practical? Then do it.

I thought about it.
It might actually be true.

Recipe Addendum

I've found that I'm more inclined to try recipes when I trust the blog. And so far, budgetbytes has been my absolute favorite blog so far. Relatively simple, a variety of recipes, nothing time intensive, on a grocery budget, fairly healthy, has a quick recipe/instruction list and pictures on the how-to, does not have a ridiculously long backstory for each recipe. It ticks a lot of my boxes.

Blogs like smittenkitchen is beautiful to look at, but way too time intensive/fancy for me to want to try to make the recipes.
Pioneerwomen often is extremely butter heavy and not something I want to make consistently for my meals due to health.

So all the being said, these are the recipes I want to make from budgetbytes:

Creamed spinach

Curried Chickpeas

Turkey Meatloaf

And some sort of frittata.