DAY IN MY LIFE | new iced coffee recipe, natural plant fertilizer, & organizing our fridge! ✨

Hello friends good morning welcome to another day in the life vlog i've just had a cozy morning sipping on my coffee and doing my quiet time and devotions and brandon's working from home today so he's just right over there but we have a lot planned and a lot i want to get done today so i'm excited to spend the day together but first things first my tummy is rumbling so i'm gonna go make some yummy breakfast for breakfast today i made peanut butter toast with banana and then some cacao nibs which have some antioxidants and they taste chocolaty which is just so delicious all right i had a yummy breakfast and then i just sat at my desk to eat it and did some computer work while i wait for my food to digest and i just changed to a little workout outfit my biker shorts and my favorite free people crop top because i'm actually gonna do a quick little workout i did this yesterday um and i've just come to realize that if i'm gonna work out i'd rather do it in the morning and kind of just get it over with because by the time the afternoon hits and then at night time i just do not feel like working out and usually brandon works out after work so sometimes i'll try to wait to do it with him but i've just come to terms that i just would much much rather do it in the morning so you just have to do what works best for you especially when it comes to working out which isn't necessarily the most fun thing for a lot of people so i am just going to do it right now and cross it off my to-do list and get it over with and i'm probably just going to do like a 15-minute workout so it's nothing crazy but it is a really great thing to get done in the morning and then i feel a lot more productive and healthy for the whole rest of the day so lots of pluses for working out in the morning if you ask me so i'm gonna go do that and i always feel bad doing it while brandon's working at home because i don't want to be loud and distracting so i'm just going to put in my air pods and watch a workout um video on my computer and then do it instead of just turning on the tv so i'm not as loud so that's my plan and before i work out i actually want to pack up this whole deal because it's a little messy over here but tomorrow is actually my mom's birthday so really fun i have some plans with her tomorrow we're gonna go to this really cool nature preserve nearby and spend the day just in nature and walking on trails and we're gonna take a yummy breakfast from a local french cafe so it's gonna be really fun but i need to pack up her birthday gift so i thought i would just do that now before i work out and the first couple things i got her i've actually showed you guys already in an ikea haul because i went shopping with her at ikea and she mentioned that she really wanted these things so i picked them up this is a picture for drinks and then also these little food covers which i have some of these myself and i love them and then i also oh i already put it in the jar i wish these would fit in the jar because i'd rather just like put everything in here but i also got her heart-shaped sunglasses because one time i was shopping with her and she saw some that she really liked so i ordered her some it's hard to open with one hand um okay i don't want to take them out but you can barely see them but i'm sure you guys have seen or you can picture heart-shaped sunglasses so got her those and then a couple of my favorite products this tula rose glow and get it cooling and brightening eye balm is my favorite i use it all the time i'll go get mine to show you guys but i love this and i know she will too so i got her that and then my favorite deodorant native it's natural and i don't know she uses a natural deodorant yet so i wanted to get her one of these and then i also have this sweet print from my friend isabella's etsy shop it says even in the darkest places hope can be found and then this cute sticker it says start today with a grateful heart so i think she'll really like this so i'm just gonna pack this up put the tissue paper and the ribbon and make it look all cute and we'll write a card for her later here's my tula eye balm it adds a little shimmer and i just add it underneath my eyes and i love the way it feels it's so cooling oh i don't need to wear my glasses anymore um but i just go like this i already put it on today but oh it feels so nice and kind of just wakes up my under eye area and helps it not to be all puffy and sad looking so really love this product i'll link it below and i also think i have a coupon code so i'll put that in the description in case you guys want to try it too all right it was a great workout it was only 20 minutes so it was perfect not too long but high intensity so it was very efficient and i just got ready cleaned up a bit and put on this really cute yellow sundress because why not we gotta soak up the last few weeks of summer and now it is lunch time so i'm just gonna heat up some leftovers that we have from last night's dinner and then tonight i'm cooking a hellofresh which i'm really excited about it sounds so yummy and also this afternoon i tried this new coffee recipe yesterday and it turned out so delicious so i'm gonna show you how i made it today it's a cocoa cold foam cold brew so it's amazing and i'll do that in a couple hours but first let's go make some lunch after lunch i'm gonna do a little fridge clean out it's really not that bad but especially our drawers they just have like little you know the bags that the oranges and apples come in they just have little remnants of the plastic so i'm gonna wipe all that out and i'm no longer putting the bags in here because they always leave a mess like the little mesh they're not mesh but they kind of look like a net it's like a plastic net so i'm not gonna put them in anymore but like just like little stuff like that so i'm gonna clean this out and then i'm gonna cut a bunch of veggies we don't have any carrots or cucumber or peppers cut up right now so i'm gonna do that and then just kind of organize it a bit i've said this before in my fridge clean out video i think maybe in vlogs as well but we always try to keep cut veggies just prepped and ready to go in our fridge because it's just so much easier and you're more likely to eat them if you just have them already set and ready to go so i just wash them all at the same time and then cut them all at the same time so i just get it done and we pretty much always have cut carrots cucumber and not every week probably every other week and then bell peppers green bell peppers because we put those in our eggs in the morning and then salads as well and oh onions and that's pretty much it so it's really not too bad lunch is ready here's today's leftover lunch we'll probably just eat at our computers because we're both working but it is just this concoction i made last night it has rice at the bottom so they're just like rice bowls with cut up sweet potatoes black beans sauteed onions and i made a homemade chimichurri sauce which has garlic and parsley and a bunch of other spices so it's really tasty and really great leftovers so i'm excited to dive into this because my tummy is rumbling i've been listening to need to breathe all morning and it's been putting me in such a good mood i love their music so much and i never listened to their newest album yet so i've really been enjoying that okay i cleared out the main part of the fridge i don't know if i'll do the drawer i mean the door today definitely this part down here because it has little pineapple particles because this is where we always put our whole pineapples before brandon cuts them so i'm just gonna wipe this down then do the drawers i'll empty those and what are you doing just looking at everything i know a lot of people probably think your fridge is already like pretty clean but you don't understand we are kind of on the verge of being clean freaks would you consider us clean freaks be i think freak is a strong word it can be very offensive so we just like we just like organization which i'm very thankful we both share that because i think i would go a little crazy if brandon was really messy and honestly i'm the messier one between both of us which is kind of funny which i think he said which i think a lot of you will think is very surprising and funny but it's the truth i'm admitting it but even so would you consider me messy would you ever he would never describe me as messy but technically i am the more messy one relatively so you're clean and organized and i like that thanks so i'm just gonna take an all-purpose spray like i said and we'll just tidy it up and then cut our veggies also i actually meant to do this um in my last clean with me video before we went to the cabin this weekend we went to our family's cabin and it would have been best if i did it during that day because whenever we go out of town i always try to clear our fridge and get rid of as much food as possible and so we don't waste food but i just didn't have time on that day so i'm doing it now but we still we still have a good amount of food and i just went grocery shopping yesterday but thankfully like our hell of freshes are in our little packs and then everything else is kind of in big containers so it's not too overwhelming okay here is the final fridge clean fridge product it looks so nice and symmetrical i always try to make everything as lined up as possible i just really like it that way so there's no little plastic bag debris or anything like that it just looks very nice and clean and i already pulled some of the veggies to chop so we'll do that now so look at this beautifulness so fresh and ready to eat i have some in my mouth right now so i wanted to show you guys these really cute plates i got i ordered them but they actually both arrived broken which is super sad because they're so beautiful so they're from urban outfitters and they're sending me a new one thankfully um of course because they arrived broken but it just seems like such a waste to just throw them away because they're so so beautiful there's there's this ceramic sunshine which i really love and i'm getting a new one of this one and this one just really got cracked so i was thinking about super gluing it but i really don't know if that's a good idea especially because it's a plate that you eat on and it's not really good to ingest any kind of super glue so i don't know about that and then the other one i got is this daisy one and this one didn't get as shattered it's just this corner over here and i think what happened is since they were packaged together they were kind of side by side they had bubble wrap and stuff but i think they just kind of hit against each other and didn't work out so well um but then this one i think is a little more salvageable but i was trying to like match up the cracks and it wasn't perfectly matching up so i feel like there might be some spots missing oh yeah it's kind of chipping still over here so i don't know it's so sad because they're so beautiful and i don't want to waste them i was thinking of like someone could make a mosaic out of it or something like that but i don't know let me know if you guys have any ideas but i'm excited to get another one once that arrives and i also ordered another star one i'm just obsessed with handmade looking ceramics i think they're just so beautiful and i love to have like an eclectic collection of plates because you guys know i love cooking and making fun recipes and a beautiful plate can really make your food look more delicious because it's just complementing it so nicely so i love that and i also have some new plants to show you guys so i just have all my plants bunched up by the window because i like to do that in summer time so they just get the maximum sunlight and they actually help each other stay healthy and grow because healthy plants make other healthy plants healthier something with the air quality and just how they grow it definitely helps to have other healthy plants by other healthy plants which i think is so cute and this is my monstera that i just got it is so beautiful it already has some new leaves growing i still have to take it out of its packaging but i will do that later today and this is a collection of three different kinds of plants i don't really remember their names i have to look at it but i'm actually prepping for a plant collection haul and indoor plant care video that i'm going to be posting in september so i'm trying to put all my plant care tips together and just prep for that so i can give you guys lots of tips and advice and just give you ways to keep your plants healthy and today i actually am going to be trying some natural plant fertilizer i have an indoor pump like a miracle grow indoor fertilizer that i add to the watering can sometimes but i really would like to try some natural alternatives and i found this account it's underscore for the home on tick tock and i think her instagram is that same username if you want to check her out and she posted three natural plant food ideas and one of them is using raw um not raw well i guess it's raw technically just old banana peels it's kind of like compost in a way so i want to try that out later and another way is coffee and then the other one is eggshells so i want to try them all and just test them out for you guys so that when i make my video next month i'll just have like some experience i can just report on what happened with my plants when i did that so i'm excited to try that out i've been collecting banana peels i'll show you guys i don't remember what you do with the banana peels i think you just oh it's so dark hi i'm here still so this is my little compost banana peel um but i think you just put it over the soil and then just let it hang out i don't know i need to go research a little bit more and then i will report back but i'm excited to give that a try okay so here's the deal you take your banana peels i have i think two or one and a half right here um and then you add it to water again i'll let you guys know how it works but i'm willing to try it and especially since it's a natural thing and i already have banana peels and i'd love to find a better use than just throwing these away so it's just a win-win-win it's finally time to treat ourselves to some iced coffee and i'm just so excited to make my new coffee recipe again i don't think i'll make this every day but it's really yummy and cacao powder which i don't know if it's cocoa or cacao i think it's cacao i need a double check but cacao powder actually has health benefits as well so that's amazing and just makes it even better more enjoyable so of course i have my leftover morning coffee cafe and i have some cold brew so i just have this stock cold brew coffee i like to make my own cold brew too but sometimes i just like to buy it at the store as like a little break probably once a month not that it's that hard to make cold brew but i also like to try the name brand ones as well so we do that and this is my favorite creamer the best it's the califia i don't know if i'm saying that right either califia califia farms no sugar added better half and half and it's half coconut cream and almond milk actually i don't know if it's half and half coconut cream and almond milk i'm not sure of the ratio but it's non-dairy so for my vegan and non-dairy friends this is a great option and this is thick this is the best non-dairy creamer that i found that actually froths really well and stays really thick so if you want to make a non-dairy cold foam this is perfection and it is flavored vanilla so i don't know if they have an unflavored because that would be a good option but i personally love the vanilla flavor and i think it's the perfect amount of sweetness so this is perfect and then all i do is i take some of this and i take my cacao powder and i just froth it that's it as easy as that so i'll show you exactly how i do that right now okay so i'm making coffee for both brandon and i so i'm gonna do a little extra ooh i forgot to shake this it says to shake it so i want to make sure it's nice and blended and we get that coconut cream because that's probably thicker and goes to the bottom so that's probably why it's so important to shake it and this is my cacao powder i ordered mine from amazon so i'll link it below but i'm sure you can get it at a few other places as well and like the bag says it's organic and nutrient dense so that's what we like to hear okay that's how much cream i put for two portions we might need to add more we'll see how it is i don't like to make it too sweet so i don't like to go overboard and again we're frothing it so it's gonna pretty much double in size then i'll just take a nice generous scoop of my cacao powder oh i don't wanna make a mess and then we just dump that in i think i'm going to add a little bit more i like to add a generous amount because again it's nutrient dense and the more nutrients the better in my book and now we just froth it i'm using my little handheld frother okay so i moved closer to the window so you can see this frothy magic in the best light i brought my spoon over to obviously it got a lot bigger i probably didn't even need to use that much cream look at that layer of foam oh my goodness delicious you guys have to try this if you're chocolate lovers like we are i have a little extra but i'll just pop it in the fridge and save it for tomorrow cheers perfection chocolaty goodness with a little nutrient-dense cacao all right friends i came to our bedroom and cozied up with my coffee and i wanted to share something with you guys so if you didn't know july 30th which was a little less than a week ago was actually world day against trafficking in persons and basically what that means is it was just a day to raise awareness for human trafficking and just get the word out that this is still such a severe and pure evil problem in our world and it is a very real and sick thing that is happening and we just really need to raise awareness and save these people who are held captive against these abusive and just awful people so i know that's really heavy and we just went from making iced coffee to talking about this but i just wanted to bring awareness and i have something kind of happy that we can do together to just help and it doesn't require any money whatsoever so i found this organization it's called hope for justice international and on july 30th they provided this way to write a letter to a child who is now free from trafficking and i just thought this was such a beautiful and tangible way that we can support these children because unfortunately this affects many adults as well but trafficking children is actually very very common in this awful situation and you know they're so innocent and they're so helpless and lots of them don't even know a life before trafficking and it's just the most heartbreaking thing again i don't want to get too heavy right now because i always want my channel to be a source of light and just remind you of all the joys in the world but this is just really important and it's really on my heart and again this is such a beautiful way that we can support and of course if you feel called to support financially that's amazing as well there's so many wonderful organizations so i'll link a few below so i actually have these cute little letters that i have from valentine's day that i just have left over so i wrote some for my girlfriends but i would love to write a letter to a child as well and they're so sweet but if you don't have stationery and stamps you can actually write a digital letter as well which is so great it doesn't cost you anything all it costs is a few minutes and you can just empower and uplift these children and they even provide example prompts and just talking points and just kind of guide you because i know it is such a heavy topic and it's hard to even know what words are helpful and what you can even say so i just wanted to share that and that's what i'm going to be doing now again i'll link everything in the description but this is really important guys and i know it's so easy to feel helpless like you like it's hopeless like you can you can write a letter but what is that really gonna do but i really really do believe that just a bunch of people doing small acts can make such a huge difference so let's do this let's write our letters and i really hope you guys will do this with me close your eyes get some rest i'm by your side lay your head on my chest i know you've had a really bad day it's already time for dinner this day is flying by but i'm ready for it i'm in the mood to cook and i'm starting to get hungry so it's perfect and i'm so thankful and excited to be partnering with hellofresh for this portion of today's video you guys know i absolutely love love love hello fresh and i've been sharing them for years now they are the best and their meals are so delicious if you're unfamiliar with hellofresh they are america's number one meal kit and they make home cooking so easy and delicious brandon and i always well usually i think yeah i think we've always done the veggie plan and i just love how they offer meals and recipes for everyone they have low calorie vegetarian and family-friendly recipes every single week and like i said i've been ordering hellofresh for years now and i still have had so many different recipes so i just love how they have such a wide variety because if you do mainly eat vegetarian or plant-based you know it can kind of get monotonous to eat the same stuff all the time so i love how they equip us to get creative in the kitchen and try new things tonight we are making the roasted pepper cavatappi milano and i've never made this one before so i'm really excited it looks so delicious the other night we had the quesadillas and they were so so delicious we got home pretty late from our trip to the cabin we had a long road trip that day so it was so nice to come home to a hello fresh box at the door and i didn't have to go grocery shopping or anything like that i could just make us a yummy healthful meal so that was wonderful and i know this one will be just as delicious and hello fresh also helps you save time obviously you don't have to do as much grocery shopping and they also just cut out the meal planning and prepping so you can just simply enjoy cooking and enjoy your dinner and also the recipes take about 30 minutes to make so that's really awesome too if you are a busy bee and have a tight packed schedule hellofresh can also help you eat more sustainably their pre-portioned ingredients mean there's less prep for you and less food wasted which you guys know i've been talking about all day i do not like wasting food so i'm really thankful that hellofresh helps me in that aspect and they are flexible to fit your lifestyle so you can easily change your delivery days or food preferences and you can even skip a week if you need to if you're going out of town or you just don't need home-cooked meals that week whatever it is they are very accommodating and best of all they are committed to giving back hellofresh has donated over 2.5 million meals to charity in 2019 and this year they are stepping up their food donations amid the coronavirus crisis so they are just wonderful and if you would like to try hellofresh for yourself you can use my code allisonb to get a total of eighty dollars off including free shipping on your first box with purchase go to hellofresh.com to redeem and for more details all right i'm gonna pour myself a nice glass of kombucha in a wine glass of course and get cooking tada here is the final product it looks absolutely delicious oh my goodness my mouth is just watering looking at it again if you guys want to try hello fresh for yourself you can use my code allisonb b80 to get a total of 80 off including free shipping on your first box with purchase go to hellofresh.com to redeem and for more details dinner was delicious chef's kiss it was so so good and then b and i just went on a little short brisk walk to the mailbox and i mailed my letters and we picked up our mail and just got some fresh air which is which was nice and it's about to storm i'm looking out the window and it is like dark dark gray clouds i mean granted the sun is setting now too but it's about to go down so it's going to be a cozy rest of the night i'm just going to take a shower relax probably work on a video that i'm editing and just maybe read and chill but thank you guys so much for spending the day with me and just for always being so kind and sweet i hope you all are well and i cannot wait to see you super soon bye you

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Length: 31min 10sec (1870 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020