50 Healthy Food and Exercise Comment Luv Blogs

I love reading comments from my readers.

When you leave a comment, you tell me if I'm writing about something you want to know. You also share your experiences, your thoughts, and a bit about yourself with me and other readers. 

CommentLuv enabled blogs take it a step further. When you comment in a CommentLuv form, you tell us about your blog, too.

A regular comment leaves my link, but nothing special to lead readers to my blog.

CommentLuv blogs give you free advertising by telling readers the title of your last post.

Learn more about CommentLuv and how you can add it to your blog here.

To get you started, here are 50 healthy food and exercise blogs which use CommentLuv. 

 
1. Alex Tries It Out
2. Avocado Athlete
3. Chelcie's Food Files
4. Coffee Cake and Cardio
5. The Concrete Runner
6. Day with KT
7. Eat Learn Discover
8. Family Fitness Food 
9. Fit 'N' Cookies
10. Fit Possible
11. Fit Running Mama
12. Food, Fitness, and Family
13. Food Wine Thyme 
14. For the Sake of Cake
15. Frolic Through Life
16. Happy Fit Mama
17. Happy Wife Healthy Life 
18. Healthy Running Mom 
19. A Healthy Slice of Life 
20. Hungry Healthy Girl  
21. Journey of a Dreamer
22. Keeping Healthy Getting Stylish
23. Killer Bunnies Inc.
24. Kiwi Fit Blog
25. Koko Likes
26. The Lean Green Bean
27. Learning Patience 
28. Life+Running
29. Life After Swimming
30. To Live and Diet in L.A.  
31. Live and Love to Eat 
32. Live from La Quinta
33. Mangos and Miles  
34. My Freckled Life
35. My Life Sans Gluten
36. Not Plain So Jane 
37. Nutty About Health 
38. Oatmeal in my Bowl
39. Oatmeal with a Fork 
40. Picky Runner
41. Protein and Pumps
42. Powerhouse Fit Foodie
43. Remake My Plate
44. Running for Cupcakes 
45. Running with Spoons
46. Run Pretty
47. Sarah Learns
48. Savor Life's Flavors
49. Slim Sanity
50. The Way  (Me, of course!)

If you are a healthy food and exercise blogger who uses CommentLuv, let me know in a comment below. I will add your name and link when I update the list!

What I Ate and the Ugliest Cupcakes You Will Ever See

Sunday was my father's 80th birthday.


I don't ever remember my dad being happy about his birthday. He doesn't like people spending money on him or making a fuss. In years past, I have given him a framed poem I wrote about him (it's about him watching the moon landing on the eve of his birthday) and a handwritten book of 100 reasons why he is a great dad.

My dad and my boys last fall

Another thing I do for my dad on Father's Day, his birthday, and Christmas is to make his favorite food Kroppkakor or palt, as they are known in Sweden. They take HOURS to make!

This year, my mom said she was going to make the Kroppkakor for him. This left me completely out of ideas about what to make for my dad.

This is where the ugliest cupcakes come in.

Kroppkakor are probably one of the world's least appetizing-looking foods. They look like rocks. If you cut one in half, they kind of look like geodes because of the chopped bacon in the center. Did I mention we eat every bite with a little bit of butter?

Instead of making my dad a birthday cake, I made him "Kropp-cakes," cupcakes made to look like Kroppkakor. Here is the result.

 

I made them by wrapping homemade fondant around frosted white cupcakes. 

The result was wonderful! They may not have been pretty, but they tasted like a Little Debbie or Hostess cake. I am so making these again for myself! I may have found my new favorite dessert!

After the feasting on Kroppkakor, pizza (my dad's least favorite food in the world), and these cupcakes, I was ready to go back to healthier fare.

Here is what I ate.

BREAKFAST:

I'm still being a good girl and getting my breakfast at 9:00am every day.

Since I don't think I've been eating enough protein, 

I had a few egg whites and one whole egg

and fresh chopped spinach

with black beans and smoked paprika.

The paprika really gave it a "bacony" taste!

LUNCH:

For lunch, I had green eggs and black beans again.

I also threw in half a bag of Bird's Eye Recipe Starts Grilling Blend.

I've been using a lot of these lately. 

This bag had zucchini, yellow squash, red pepper, and red onion.

I topped it with Frank's Hot Sauce.

SNACK:

At 3:00pm, I had a Green Tea Energy Shake. 

I'm posting the recipe for it next week on the blog.

SUPPER:

Again, I'm trying to get more protein, 

so for supper, I had a four Morningstar sausage links,

mashed northern beans with garlic, butter, and parsley,

a Power Greens salad with Caesar dressing and olives,

and green beans.

Here are a few of the other cakes I've made this year.

My six year-old's birthday cake.

 

My husband paints life size light towers that look like this one I made.

You can see more of my cakes here.
 

1. What is the best gift you ever made for someone?
2. What is the best gift someone made for you?
3. Do you like making cake or just eating it?

RECIPE: Flaxseed Breaded Fish (GF, Low Carb)

Every Friday evening, we eat fish. 

Having the same meal every Friday night is easy to plan for. We also have chosen foods that we can use to teach our kids something about God.

It started about six months ago, when we decided to again Remember the Sabbath, or Shabbat, as it is known in Hebrew. We clean the house on Friday or Preparation Day. I bake Challah bread and brownies (my husband's favorite). In the minutes before sundown, we get out the special tablecloth, napkins, dishes, and silver. We use stemware for wine and grape juice. We light the Sabbath candle and sing a song, inviting God to be with us.  

Although we don't tire of the Challah bread or the brownies each week, having fish prepared the same way does get old. 

Due to the popularity of my Flaxseed Breaded Chicken Strips recipe, I decided to try it with pollock, adjusting the cooking time and using Old Bay Seasoning instead of oregano and garlic powder.

Flaxseed Breaded Fish (GF, Low-Carb)

by Elle@thewaybyelle.blogspot.com

Prep Time: 15 min.

Cook Time: 20 min.

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Ingredients (4 fillets)

• 4 Pollock Fillets, thawed, rinsed and patted dry
• 1 Egg
• 1 Tb. Water
• 1 c. Ground Flaxseed (Flaxseed Meal)
• 2 Tb. Grated Parmesan
• 1 tsp. Old Bay Seasoning

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 F degrees.

2. Beat eggs with water. Pour into pie plate.

3. In another pie plate, combine flaxseed meal, Parmesan, and Old Bay Seasoning.

4. Dip each fillet in the egg mixture, coating both sides.

5. Press fillet into the flaxseed mixture, turning over to bread each side.

6. Place fillets on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes.

7. Serve immediately.

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Do you have any weekly traditions?

How did you like the fish? 

What do you think of the new recipe format that I'm trying out? 

This recipe was featured on Make Your Own Mondays!