Gobble Up Your Dinner Tonight

So I have had this Gobble ad on my blog for a while now and I finally decided to try the food myself. I went to their website and just loved the dinner options they have ready to be stove top cooked, baked or grilled in no time at all. For my first order, I was able to receive $35.85 off my first box, #dinnersolved.

Now, from what I could see, it looks like their menu changes weekly. For this week, I saw dinners ranging from  Mole Rubbed Chicken Breast with Mexican Style Corn on The Cob & Braised Pinto Beans,  Aloha Ahi Poke Bowl with Seaweed Salad to Summer Vegetable Bucatini. All their meals are kid friendly as well.

Once I clicked on the button, Get Cooking, I was taken to the next page where I entered my email address and zip code. After entering my email and zip code, I was taken to another page that showed me an image of how many people would I be feeding, 2 or 4 and what food do I like, beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish, shellfish or vegetarian. From this page, I choose the options I wanted for my weekly dinners and moved on to the next page.

On the next page, it shows you the delivery option dates and asks for you delivery information. Going on to the last page, I am shown 12 meals (3 dinner kits for 4 people), what my delivery date would be and the total cost, minus the $35.85.

The meals I choose were none of these though. The meals I thought would be delicious, and I was right, were the Blackened Prime Sirloin Steak, Brown Sugar Crusted King Salmon and Turkey Burger.

When my box arrived, this is what it looked like:

Okay, so this box does come packed with those plastic ice packets to keep the food cold. This is what the food  looked like when I opened my box. It looked delicious. I took the food out right away and stored the meat in my freezer until I was to cook my first meal the next day. The vegetables in the plastic bags, I placed in my refrigerator.

DAY   1 & 2  COMBINED:

After removing these packages from the box, this is what they looked like and I could not wait to make my dinner the next day. I say next day because I already had my dinner. My husband grilled the two sirloin steak pieces and I cooked two pieces of salmon on the stove top with the vegetables. It was easy to unpack the ingredients and all the ingredients are real, no fake food, artificial colors or flavors whatsoever. This is the type of food we all need to be eating, especially if you are a busy family and just want your meals to already be semi prepared for you, with ingredients you will enjoy, ingredients that will put not only a smile on your face, but fill your stomach with foods that are healthy.

From the images below, you can see I am preparing the King Salmon with the vegetables. I did forget to take photos of my husband grilling the steaks, but I did get photos of the steak with baby carrots and mashed potatoes on his plate. The brown sugar rub was delicious and I just 

DAY 3:

For my day three meal, my family ate this delicious turkey burger with brioche bun and green beans. Just like the sirloin steak, my husband grilled the burgers instead of doing the suggested baking in the over at 475 degrees. I did heat up the green beans on the stove top and I added the bread crumbs to my turkey patty only as my husband and girls did not want that added.

On the bottom of my brioche bun, I spread on the balsamic onion jam which was so delicious and such a treat. Along with the turkey burger and balsamic onion jam, I added a slice of smoked chedder cheese, melted and arugula to the top of my burger.

I took photos, like I did above, but I was not able to open them as I sent them to my email for some reason. So, I had to take photos of the Gobble recipe card they sent me and this is exactly what my burger looked like as the final product.

This is a burger I could eat over and over again. Eating already prepared gourmet meals, with ingredients you can see and not guess what it is, has finally made its way to your front door step. Eating out can be tiring sometimes and now there is a better way to eat healthy meals with real ingredients and not have to worry about driving, waiting for a table and adding a tip to the final check.

For your first purchase, Gobble will give you 50% off! Place your first order today and it will appear at your doorstep in no time at all. Gobble is giving you a code to place your order as well. Your code is: SECRET50 so use it today and have healthy meals, ready to prepare in minutes for you and your family.

It it time to Gobble, Gobble at home either alone or with family and friends.

The Issue With Gluten is this...

Hello again friends!

Before 2012, I had not really heard about gluten, what it was or that it was even in food products. Did you know that gluten is naturally grown in such foods as wheat, barley and rye? If one is not prone to reading food product ingredients, like I was not before 2006, it is highly likely one is not going to know gluten is a main ingredient in many of the foods being sold in grocery stores today.

These are just some of the many foods you might be eating today and would never have known gluten is in them that are causing harm to your gut.

• Wheat Bran
• Cracked Wheat
• Graham Flour
• Matzo
• Spelt
• Soups
• Cold Cuts
•  Processed Cheese
• Salad Dressings
• Wheatgrass
• Wine Coolers
• Syrups

There are many other food products that contain gluten in them that one would never even think gluten was an ingredient. Look friends, our health is all we have. It is time for us to take charge of our own health by going to a health coach, nutritionist or your doctor.

For the most part, people will never hear about gluten or the health issues it causes in the body until a friend brings it up in a conversation and how gluten is causing such health issues as "brain fog". Yes, there is actually a symptom called brain fog and believe me, I have had brain fog when I have eaten gluten in food product I could have sworn was gluten free.

Now, with brain fog, one is sure to feel  such things a memory loss, confusion and attention problems. When such things occur in an individual, usually they will laugh it off and move on to a different topic. Brain fog might also be due to a lack of sleep and even seasonal allergies.

There is an illness that people with gluten intolerance deal with called Celiac disease. Sadly, these individuals feel such symptoms as chronic intolerance, stomach pain, diarrhea, bloating and much more.

When the body hurts, the first thing a person will do is either ignore it, or look for the what is causing them to feel out of sorts. Did you know that gluten intolerance also causes depression? Yes, this is true and can now be dealt with by changing the current diet like removing all carbs, which will include gluten, all the above food products and using essential oils  recommended by Dr. David Hill like Bergamot oil, Lavender oil, Roman Chamomile oil and Ylang Ylang oil.

Now, all the above is great information for those seeking answers to what is ailing them, but I am not going to leave you hanging without some sort of foods you can eat for lunches, dinners or snacks if you work outside the home. This is a very big life changing event, realizing your body is sensitive to gluten products. Being able to find gluten free products has become easier these days with more and more people becoming aware of this health issue in their body.

In fact, many more grocery stores have a Gluten Free section. This is one company I purchase gluten free products from all the time when I am in the grocery store. I will eat them for lunch time at work. There are, of course, other gluten free companies you will find in a grocery store near you. Although, I do not recommend eating these foods all the time.

It is best, again, to take baby steps when changing a diet, like going gluten free. The first thing to do is clean out your food pantry and refrigerator. Then, replace those unkind foods for your body and brain, with organic fruits and vegetables. If at all possible, purchase all your gluten free food products along the walls of the grocery store.

Have a blessed day!

Monica