About Me
Here are the questions to your answers! Please feel free to ask me if there’s something else you’d like to know!…
Why did you start this blog?
Ha, I think I started this blog because I thought I should give my friends a break from getting so many mass emails from me with all my “important thoughts.” I thought this could be a way of sharing my thoughts and parts of my life by giving people the choice whether or not to look at it. From the beginning I realized food and health was something I’m passionate about and never get bored of reading or writing about!
As you’ll see in a following question, my husband and I try to live pretty simply – we don’t have a TV and don’t use Facebook. I don’t have any problems with these things and may use them in the future but I know myself and I would easily spend a lot of time here when my time is limited and those aren’t my priorities right now. So simply taking away things like this frees up a lot of time for cooking!
Also, another HUGE reason why I find ways to do all this cooking is that I plan out all our meals each week. MEAL PLANNING HELPS SO MUCH!!! It keeps the grocery bill down, and each day I just get home and have to decide which meal to choose instead of looking through the kitchen and trying to figure out what I can put together. I usually only plan one meal that might take a bit longer to prepare each week and will do that over the weekend; otherwise most meals can usually be made under 30 minutes. So if I get home by 5:30, we can easily be eating by 6! I figure, we’re going to eat no matter what so I might as well put the extra effort into making our meals healthy and homemade (most of the time)!
On a tangent – Planning our meals also saves a lot of money since we’re not tempted to go out to eat – I actually have a really hard time paying to eat out somewhere when I know there’s perfectly good food at our house that might go bad if we don’t eat it soon!
Where do you get your cooking creativity?
I get most of my meal ideas from magazines that have been given to me as gifts – right now my favorites are Food Network and Real Simple. I also go through our cookbooks and your blogs for new ideas and inspiration!
What is your favorite dish to make?
Oh there are so many! My favorites typically involve anything that has to do with bread/dough (flatbread, tortillas, pita bread) from scratch or baking!
I love a hearty stew, deep dish pizzaor big breakfast on the weekend!
What were your favorite foods when you were little?
Hmm…I do remember my favorite candy bar was Butterfinger, I loved my mom’s cream of potato soup and I can remember eating way more food at the Pizza Hut lunch buffet with my friends than could ever be healthy for anyone. 
Jello. I’ve had issues with the texture since I can remember. I’ve even tried it again as an adult since I know taste buds and preferences change, but still just can’t stand the texture of it!
What other hobbies and activities do you enjoy?
You may have also picked this up from my blog but I love traveling, running, and reading.
So as I mentioned about we have a TV that only works to watch movies. HOWEVER, A LOT of shows are also available online so I’m not too removed from reality
We find that when we’re at other people’s houses we EASILY zone out and can end up watching a lot more T.V. than we’d prefer to spend our time on. So this way, to find a show online definitely takes more of a conscious effort than just flipping through the channels and leaving it on anything that looks semi-decent.To get back to your question though, my favorite shows are definitely Modern Family, Parenthood and The Office.
Do you have any favorite hobbies/routines with your husband?
We have dinner together nearly every night. Even if it’s just pasta on a Tuesday night, we typically have a candle lit on the table and a Pandora station on. We also have a weekly “date night” that may range from playing tennis on the weekend to watching a symphony downtown. It’s time set apart for just the two of us.
How long have you been married?
Four wonderful and happy years!
What is the most life-changing lesson you’ve learned in the last year?
I’m always re-learning that you can’t predict the future and how important it is to be grateful for what I have and to remember what’s truly important in life.
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http://healthifulbalance.blogspot.com/ Healthiful Balance
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Shannon Lim
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http://www.simplylifeblog.com/ Simply Life
