A Slow Day In My Life | Grocery Haul, Cooking, Chill Reset Day & Recharging my Battery 🌱
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Today I'm sharing a slowed down day in my life. Like many of you, I've been pretty much glued to the news nonstop and struggling to mindfully find a moment to allow my mind to slow down. Today I'm sharing a slow-ish day in my life (I don't really live that slowly, tbh), and doing some things at my own pace to recharge my battery. I know not everyone in the world has the the privilege to take a slow "self care day", but if you do, I hope you do take some time to take care of yourself so you can take care of others in the future.
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I'm Christina, friendly neighbourhood human on the internet slash pharmacist. You may have previously known me as Style Apotheca. I'm living in Toronto, Canada and on my channel you'll find me on my journey towards minimalism, being content with less, recovery from a shopping addiction, and my journey towards financial freedom from over $120,000 in student loan debt. Thank you SO much for watching and taking the time out of your day to support my channel. A little thumb always helps support me!
Hit me with your fave plant based recipes! I’d love to try them! 🥰
I'm not vegetarian but have also been trying to incorporate more plant-based meals & found that Pickup Limes on YT has some really great recipe ideas (they're vegan but sometimes I use regular milk instead, etc.).
I got a healthy banana split idea from Madeline Olivia's channel. It's a banana sliced down the middle, top with coconut yogurt (but I used almond yogurt instead), raspberries (but I add other fruit), chocolate chips, almond butter and toasted coconut chips, I drizzle on a little maple 🍁 syrup.
Hey Christina! Highly recommend the Roasting Tin receipt book series (specifically the Green Roasting Tin) by Rukmini Iyer. I can’t cook to save my life, have never been into recipe books by these are amazing. Literally through everything into a roasting pan and boom! You have an entire fancy meal!
I second Jessica's comment re: Pick Up Limes! Also try Rainbow Plant Life on YT. Nisha has a series on meal prep that's so actionable and inspiring. Love her "everything sauces"
Julia Ayers here on TH-cam always has great plant based recipes! ☺️
Pick up Limes has some tasty plant based recipes.
They do
There’s nothing like a slow day to just reset and re center yourself. Thanks for another great video 💜
Totally 🥰
Nice sheets! Good choice of color! I like watching Yeung Man Cooking for inspiration. PEACE!
2 great and easy recipes are oven roasted tomatoes, garlic, bell peppers and onions then blend them together to make a sauce and add to pasta. Another is lentils, veggie broth, garlic, peppers, onions, carrots, potatoes with some rice or barley on the side. You can have a side of spinach with both.
I feel like tomato as comfort food is a very Eastern European thing. I have such fond memories of visiting family in Warsaw and having a spread of meats and cheeses for breakfast, alongside a huge plate of fresh tomatoes, sliced and sprinkled with chives.
Yummmmm 🥰🥰
i was just talking about this today that its interesting to me that i usually dont see too many people talk about cutting out meat when they're talking about their financial savings journey and such...
Meat is the most expensive part of our bill every time!
I feel relaxed after watching you relax 😂 such a cozy day 🥰
hahah me too. what do you call that? second-hand relax? hahah
@@daisyrose4123 yes! Chill by proxy 🧘♀️😂
A very, much-needed relaxing vid.
Your complexion is beautiful.
The bit of dryness from using Retin-A, as you know, is normal.
I was drooling as you had the salmon 😋
Wishing you much serenity during these difficult times 💙 🌟
I enjoy your vlogs very much. 10:30 pm, watching and making tahini for the first time. 😋
Love your content Christina, but more than that - love how real you are. Keep doing what you're doing and I wish you even more success and contentment! 😊
🥺thank you so much ❤️
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That salmon recipe sounds amazing!
Your content helps me find my center again. Thanks as always for a wonderful video! Hope you have a beautiful day 💜
You too 🥰🥰
LOVE that thrifted jacket, it looks great! The dinner also looked so yum. This was such a nice, relaxing vlog to watch during my afternoon work break to chill a lil. 🥰
Making a chickpea salad instead of chicken salad is a really easy swap and if you use a plant based mayo you can make it entirely vegan. Also, there’s no cooking involved if you use canned chickpeas.
That salmon looks delish - will be trying that! My current go-to meat free meal is black bean chilli - super quick & leftovers great for lunch the next day 👍
Yummmm gotta try! I always add meat to chili - gonna go for a veggie one instead next
I like this kind of vlog, hope to see more like this 🥰
I know nothing about interior design but I think the color scheme on the sheet set looks great!
Peanut sauce!! Jasmine rice and veggies!
Yummmm omg!
Bowls are a great way to get some plant based meals in your day. Brown rice or quinoa with lentils, beans and kale and whatever other veggies! Or stir fry with tofu!
Caroline Girvan's videos are the best! Been doing them for almost a year now...I feel very proud when I can actually finish one of her videos and not feel like collapsing!
I love how no fuss she is! No fancy fitness combos, just hard work!
Giving my fellow Canadian and content creator support with a like and subscribed! P.S. Inflation grocery shopping today also and the register shock is real. However, we prioritize our food and look to reduce costs elsewhere since our health depends on it. Love from Toronto, Enza
Best thing I ever got was a slow cooker, stick everything in switch on an 6-8 hours later you have a fab meal. I do loads of plant based curries and stews in it and the batch up and freeze. X
quinoa is very cost effective!
burrito bowls with beans, fried "rice", add to salads...
Yessss!
i love ur vlogs :)
I’m new to your channel.. learning a lot from you! Thanks! Try apple and fennel salad with your salmon! 😋
Yummmmm!!!
LOVE the Eddie Bauer jacket.
I think it’s so cool!
I feel like I'm in desperate need of a full-on do nothing day in all honesty.... the weekends are always hard for me. Add daylight savings time into the mix as it's messed up my sleep schedule along with me struggling to get any time in to study for a mid-term, and you get a bunch of sleep-deprived stress. Thanks for the push of inspiration, Christina
Would love love love to see a week vlog from you ❤️
That dinner looked amazing!
It’s a go-to!
Groceries are really expensive in Southern California too 😫
Inflation is hitting 🥺
Beautiful and wonderful, you are creative, keep it up
The more plant based I eat the better I feel, meat and dairy make me heavy and sluggish! Ugh I live in Ontario as well and the inflation is insane. Between gas, rent, insurance and food I’m barely keeping my head above water. Sad to see the state of this country. On a positive though, I love your videos and thank you for sharing! 💕
One of my go-to easy plant-based meals is tofu stir fry. I marinate pressed extra firm tofu in soy sauce, maple syrup and a ton of ginger, then use the leftover marinade as the sauce for the veggies and rice. With leftovers you can heat it up in a pan and throw in an egg for fried rice.
That sounds so good! I'm going to try it this week :D
Omg yummmmm
definitely try the chickpea spinach curry by food with chetna it's amazing with a side of basmati rice and wow.
Just got the Plant You cookbook by Carleigh Bodrug and it’s amazing!
Thank you!
I highly recommend the Plant You cookbook, too. By one of your fellow Canadians.
Also,many great plant based recipe websites. Just a few are: Simply Quinoa, Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures, Plantiful Kiki.
Also, lots of Facebook groups for plant-based, and TH-camrs. Love your content - thanks!
Hi Jeff!
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Love the vlog style!
20? Lucky you central Canada we are -10 not counting windchill! Ugh….go enjoy for us.
It was just for a day then went right back down to -2 and today it’s -17 🥺🥺
Pick up Limes has wonderful plant based recipes on youtube
Yesss! Thank you for reminding me of her!
That dinner looks amazing! Love that you called them stemmed trees. Lol. I am watching Pam &Tommy too! Very entertaining.
Lily James looks just like her in it!
Yes!! That HP sauce! ❤️
The best!
T shirt towels are better than towels
I totally support to move to more plant based meals 🌿 hummus and beans burgers are so easy to make. You should check Cucina Botanica youtube channel, she is Italian and the recipes are very good!
Falafels 😘
Frommybowl also has some really good recipes. Caitlin shoemaker I think is her actual name.
Bianca Zapatka has great plant based recipes. She is German, but her recipes are also available in English. 👍🏼
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing Christina! Do you play the drums?
No Jeff does! He’s a musician!
@@Christinamychas awesome!
Honestly, protein isn’t difficult to get even with a full veggies/grain or potatoes meal. Protein is over hyped/valued and unless you’re not getting enough calories, you will be getting enough protein. The whole ‘complete protein’ thing is also a myth that has been perpetuated for decades. Of course don’t take my word for it.
For sure - I think the emphasis on animal protein for me is PTSD from being hardcore into Crossfit lol
If your prices are like my prices rn, your “mini grocery haul” cost you your week’s food budget 😭😭 prices are just unreal out there these days!!!