#busylearningstuffrn

gotta fuel that great brain of urs

fruit salad - banana goes w every fruit so slice a banana and wash some berries and u got yourself a ~fancy~ fruit salad

banana w peanut butter

apple w peanut butter

dates w peanut butter (i was weirded out at first too but trust me it’s good)

granola w yoghurt (or i like it w almond milk)

be fancy and make your own granola 1 2 3

avocado toast. i put salt pepper lemon juice olive oil and chili flakes

smoothies (keep frozen bananas in your freezer to make your life easier)

banana, peanut butter and almond milk

BUTTERBEER SMOOTHIE I HAVE BLESSED YOUR LIVES

a bunch of great ones

if u put any greens in your smoothies what i’ve found is that if u blend the liquid w the green BEFORE putting anything else in u won’t get any weird spinach chunks or something like that

popcorn. good just plain, w cinnamon-sugar, or w sriracha

blueberries and almonds 

clementines and oranges

oatmeal

fav recipe: in a bowl, mash a large banana(or 2 small) and mix with cinnamon. then heat almond milk in a pan, when warm, put in the oatmeal. after a minute, put in the mashed banana mixture and stir around for a couple more minutes. top with your fruit of choice and some peanut butter

coffee or tea

dark chocolate

smoothie bowls!! 1 2 3

carrot sticks w hummus or guac

roasted chickpeas six diff ways

frozen grapes (for when it starts to get hot out)

nice cream. basically just a really thick smoothie made out of frozen bananas but it’s like you’re eating ice cream. 10/10 recommend

toast w almond butter and bananas

these tips mostly pertain to a french class, but it can work for a lot of others.

PAY ATTENTION

this one is kind of obvious but you have to listen to the teacher when she talks in the target language, it helps immensely.

WATCH YOUTUBE!!

you shouldn’t do this instead of studying, but listening to the language in your free time helps a lot. If you’re learning french, find some french youtubers and watch listen to them speak, if you really can’t understand them, put the youtube video at half speed. To do this, press the gear and the then press speed. 

then press whichever speed you want to watch the video(i recommend 0.5)

For videos actually about learning french, I recommend Comme une Française, she has such great lessons about french culture or grammar (i.e. le passé composé ou l’imparfait).

MUSIC

For pronunciation, I recommend listening to music in your target language, and trying to sing along. This helps a ton w pronunciation.

DICTIONARY

you’re going to need a reliable online dictionary for when you don’t know a word or phrase. Lucky for you, I’ve found the best one for roman languages. It’s called Reverso Dictionary, and the best part about it is you can put phrases and it looks at sources to see how they wrote. Let’s say I want to know how to say “Welcome to my house” in french. 

I enter it in,

Then, when the results pop up, I scroll to the bottom and they have the answer in context.

It’s extremely helpful. For a japanese dictionary, I recommend Jisho.

If you need a dictionary app, i recommend word reference.

VERB CONJUGATIONS

There are so many irregular verbs, and remembering them can get hard. I’ve always used this method and it has always worked for me. 

First you write all the verbs you need to memorize with leaving 6 lines between each row.

then you fill it all in and check which ones you messed up 

you repeat this process until every single conjugation is correct, even if you’ve gotten a verb 100% correct if the next one is incorrect, you’re going to repeat that one also. Practice always helps.

WRITE IT DOWN

If you’re in class and you don’t know a word, ask someone and write it down. If you can’t ask, write it down and make sure to search it up later. 

MEMORIZATION

There are going to be a lot of nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc that you’re going to have to memorize for a test or for an essay. I recommend quizlet but to an extent, memorization will only take you so far. Once you’re able to get 100% on quizlet learn. Try and put each of those words in a sentence; I recommend writing it down, but if you’re short on time, just say it in your head. You need to be able to use the words. 

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When school comes around, I have this mentality that I don’t have time to be healthy, and I completely ditch the good eating habits I’ve been developing over the summer. This year I want to change that, so I made this masterpost to look back to when I start thinking “healthy is too hard”.

p.s. this is my first time making a graphic or using photoshop at all so it’s not that great. lol i tried.

p.p.s. I find that when I don’t eat any animal products, I have so much more energy and I feel so much lighter so none of these recipes contain any.

Water

Drinking water is super important!!!

Multiply your weight(in lbs) by 2/3 and that should be around how many ounces you should drink per day. For every 30 minutes that you are active, you add 12 oz to the daily intake. For example, if I weigh 110 lbs and I worked out for 45 minutes today, then I should be drinking 92 ounces.

Tips to drink more water:

Drink one-two cups of water before every meal, especially breakfast.

Treat yourself to a nice bottle!! This is weird, but for some reason it worked for me. I got a s’well as a present and I started drinking so much more because I would take it with me everywhere. Really any bottle will do, but it’s nice to have one that keeps your drink cold and doesn’t leak in your bag. Here are some that I like:

Camelbak

S’well

This one has a fruit infuser!!!

Klean Kanteen

Collapsible bottle

You can always spruce up your water by adding sliced lemon, other fruits, and maybe even spices.

My favorite combination is cucumber, lime, mint, and strawberries.

Use an app as a motivation. There’s this great app called plant nanny that tells you how much water to drink and if you don’t log enough each day, your plant starts to die. It’s really cool.

Breakfast

During the school year I usually have 15 minutes max for breakfast so I used to usually end up just eating an apple, but that definitely did not keep me full until lunchtime. These recipes definitely do:

Banana nice cream. OoOOO u have to try this. I genuinely like this better than ice cream and it’s SOOO easy. Basically all you do is slice then freeze a couple of bananas the night before and the next morning all you have to do is pop them in the food processor and it’s ice cream!! If your food processor sucks at blending like mine, just add a splash of almond milk or any milk to make it faster. The best part about this is it’s completely customizable I love adding ripe mangoes to the food processor and putting cherries and chia seeds on top and it’s HEAVEN.

Avocado toast. love this and it’s super easy. Toast some toast then add avocado on top with whatever spice you like and other veggies if you want. I like putting cherry tomatoes, and cracked red and black pepper.

Muffins. Occasionally I would make a batch on Sunday so I can eat them for a couple of days afterwards for bf, I just put them in the toaster oven. A good recipe.

Smoothies. Super ez and gr8. My go-to formula is a liquid (ex: almond milk, coconut milk, oj, etc), a frozen fruit, a normal fruit, a green (I like spinach), and some chia seeds on top (after blending).

Apples with pb and granola. 

Breakfast bars. Nowadays, most protein or health are more like candy bars so I like to make my own, and it makes the morning soooo much easier.  A very yummy recipe.

Lunch

 Some recipes recipes that you can take to school.

A salad. You might be thinking that making a salad before school is definitely not quick but THIS THING MAKES IT OMG IT’S AMAZING. I bought mine out of the states and it was cheaper but basically all you do is wash some veggies, cut the bigger ones in half and pop them all into this slicer and you just spin a couple of times and you have a salad! 5 minutes tops. I like putting sesame seeds on my salads.

A sandwich. THIS ONE IS SO GOOD. 

Leftovers. If you eat something for dinner the night before that you know will be good the day after, heat it up in the morning and bring it to school!

Wraps. Get a tortilla and put whatever you want inside, supah easy.

You can always add some fruits on the side, some popcorn, or those yummy bars you made before *wink wink*

Study Snacks

Gotta feed the brain!!!!!

Apples, bananas, or celery w pb

Carrots and celery(or pita chips maybe) w hummus. (If you want to get really fancy, you can make your own. here’s how.)

Fruit salad. this doesn’t have to be super crazy or anything, my favorite combo is blackberries and bananas.

Tea. I love tea.

Nuts. Almonds go really well w blueberries

Popcorn. Since I was really little I’ve always liked my popcorn either completely plain or w cayenne pepper and peanuts (idk y but it’s good).

Dinner

There are so many options for dinner, these are my all time favorite recipes.

Spanish rice (good for packing the next day for lunch)

Zoodles. sounds weird, but so delicious

Buddha bowl. Basically you take a grain, some veggies, some beans, and you put it all in a bowl. Real easy and real good.

One pot mushroom rice. I LOVE THIS