Fun Lunches for school

I have mentioned for school that I have some sort of food craze in my life where I like to try new recipes. Lately I have pinned a bunch of recipes on my Pinterest and I loved everyone that I've tried. These are some of them with the recipes linked.

1. Cauliflower, Potato, Pea Curry

With this recipe I put the curry with a little bit of rice and made it a kind of dinner bowl by adding 1/2 and avocado and some hot sauce. I also added some more spices I had in my cupboard because I like the heat.

2. Cilantro Lemon Quinoa Salad

I made this recipe in about 15 minutes on a weekday and it was so good. I'm not the biggest fan of chickpeas in salad so I omit it and added cucumbers and bell peppers instead. My parents and grandparents all loved this recipe and felt like it was so "healthy".

3. Shrimp in Thai Coconut Sauce

So I made this on Monday and it took like 45 minutes to make and it was delicious. I didn't add the peanut butter but it was still really good. My family was like fighting for the leftovers.

4. Zucchini Noodles with Avocado Pesto

Another thing that I am just dying to try is this. I'm allergic to nuts so the Avocado pesto is a great alternative and for the pine nuts since it's a smaller amount I'll just use sunflower seeds.

5. For super non-original lunches:
My go to lunch is probably a sunbutter and jelly sandwich cut with a cup so there is no crust. It's kind of like an uncrutable but with sunbutter. Another one is some kale chips that taste like tortilla chips or some pita chips with hummus. Orrrr it's some yogurt with granola and sunbutter.

*BONUS SNACKS*

For snack I like to eat:
1) Cut up fruit
2) An apple
3) strawberry and yogurt cereal bars

After School:
1) Acai Bowl; just frozen fruit, 1/2 a banana, little milk, blend. topped with granola and more fruit
2) Watermelon slushi; fresh watermelon cut up, blended till liquid, frozen in a dish, scrape with fork when frozen and enjoy.

I hope you like all these recipes and check them out for yourself. If you try any, comment what you thought.

Top 10 Tips for School

As the first week of school rolls to a nice end, it's nice to see how things have changed. All of a sudden I see myself being asked about big questions like college and job choices and it's cool to see how far iv'e come. Whether you are just starting middle or high school, these are some things that helped me through the way:

1) You have to make sure that you don't stress out, it is as simple as that and don't be worried because everything always works out.

2) Have a hobby that you can go to when you are done with your work, in middle school it was baking classes, in high school it was blogging and youtube.

3) I don't know how much I can emphasize this but get a planner. Sometimes you think you have everything under the control then the teacher asks to turn in your home work and you are sitting there like ?!?

4) I guess you could say I'm what you call a "diligent student" meaning all I really did was get your work done it is really as simple as that.

5) I am a real sucker for having a full schedule so when if it is an option and you have time, do extra credit, you never know if there is gonna be a test or quiz that takes your grade down and extra credit is always a good choice.

6) Don't work yourself too hard and be sure to take breaks. I'm not saying to do 5 minutes of work and take a 2 hour break but make sure you treat yourself with a break.

7) Usually when you get back from school you are hungry so have a healthy snack, I usually just eat my dinner early so like around 5 then I am set for the rest of the day.

8) Something really important is to have someone to talk too, I usually just talk to my mom and I get to vent so that I don't do crazy in the middle of school and flip over the smallest thing.

9) This is more of a study tip and it is to Take notes, I know that people are like "I take notes and don't look at them" but in my case I sleep, eat, breathe my notes so that I literally memorize it.

10) My last and Final tip is to just take it easy, this is just the beginning and you should't worry, I'm a pretty easy going person and don't care about the minor details.

*Bonus*make sure not to get all caught up in the latest rumors or drama because they roll over and you should just save yourself the trouble.

I hope that you really liked this blog post and take learned something from this, if you have any tips I missed here be sure to comment them down below to share them with everyone else.

First Day Of School

So, if you couldn't tell from my last blog post, I'm going back to school. I'm going to the same school that I always have gone too so there were no first day jitters really. But, you should have seen me in the morning. I was in such a giggely mood and I was laughing at everything. Nothing funny was even happening we were literally going over the credits we've taken and I was laughing. Any who, this was my first day of school.

5:45am: I woke up so that I could get ready for school and take a shower so we would be super early.

7:30am: I got to school with my mom and brother and I went to my mom's class because she is also my homeroom so that's super fun. I wrote a daily quote which I put on my snapchat (add me; 👻nedooda_2001) then I tried to do flvs

8:30am: By this time, everyone in 10th, 11th, and 112th (about 30 people) had shown up and we started the normal high school talk. The get your credits done and you can leave kinda one. Super exciting stuff.

10:10am: by now we were done with all the high school talk and we had snack and mingled with the new kids which is always exciting. Also I'd like to point out I have a kind of love/hate relationship with the new kids because you wanna talk to them because they might be cool, but at the same time they could be super boring. But, you just gotta face your fears and talk to find out.

10:30am: so when recess ended we sat down in the same class for what was supposed to be U.S History, but since it was the first day we were just introducing ourselves. I was the first girl to go because I volunteered and was volunteered by my friends too because I have an exciting life. So then we just kinda hung out until 12:10 when we went to our next class

12:10pm: So we had Quran class in the Mosque and we had a kind of orientation where we just talked about what we were gonna do in the class and what we were gonna learn and accomplish then the class was over.

1:00pm: In my entire life at the school, I have never had an issue finding a seat. I guess the new kids just didn't know that I run the school and rule all of high school and I ate lunch standing with my other friends <- totally sarcastic if you were wondering. lol, but for real it was fine and I didn't mind it that much. lunch was good it was more time to mingle then we went back to the Mosque to pray then...

1:45ish pm: So, the rest of the kids had math class but because a majority of my classes are on FLVS by my choice I went back to my mom's class which is also my homeroom and tried to do my work until 3:15

3:15pm: It was dismissal time and I couldn't believe the day was over. It all happened so quick and It was actually surreal and in the middle of the day I thought to myself "this is the first day of school Neda get used to this because this is how it's gonna be". But, ya it was a great first day and I hope the rest of the year is gonna be like this because it was just splendid.

T O P F I V E S C H O O L S U P P L I E S

It's that time of year again and next week on Wednesday is my first day of school. Surprisingly I do not have as much school supplies that I usually have. I guess I'm that stereotypical high schooler who only needs a paper and pencil for class. But, I do have my essentials and these are them:

1) A high quality notebook is number one on my list because if there is one thing I invest in it's gonna be a nice notebook. Greenroom is my favorite brand because a)they use recycled paper♻️ and b)they have a nice look to them that makes it look kind of vintage and I really like that

2) The next best thing in my backpack is my planner which is a kate spade planner i've had for a little while and I really love it

3) I know I said that I'm that simple girl who only needs a pen and paper but one thing I love is highlighters, maybe it's the colors or the organization factor I'm not sure but😍

4) So, this is very similar to the previous essential thing but it's different because pens are beautiful. I actually rely more on my pens to color coordinate then my highlighters because with pens I get it done and I'm done. 

5) I need a pair of headphones at all time just incase I'm doing my FLVS and a I have to watch a video or if I'm done with my work and decide to watch youtube sometimes maybe. 

These are my kind of "essentials" that I love for school but, like I said I don't have a lot of school supplies and I'm only taking a few classes that I really need to worry about and the rest are gonna just kinda fall into place. But, I hope you guys enjoyed this week's blog post and stick around for the next couple of weeks because I have some super fun ideas I think you'll enjoy.😘