🤍 Instant Pot Summer Recipes & Breast Pump Alternatives

Plus: How a Stay at Home Mom in Her 40s Built a Successful Business

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July 22, 2024

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🌈A Promise from God: Perseverance

  Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9 (NIV)

🍗 Use Your Instant Pot This Summer

Last week was all about the slow cooker, this week we’re switching gears to the instant pot. It’s definitely a worthy investment to make large (mostly) one pot meals without heating up your home in the summer days. This recipe is perfect for meal prep, healthy, and features the oh so nutritious and affordable lentils.

📖 Cilantro Lime Chicken and Lentil Rice Bowls

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups dried lentils

  • 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts (or thighs)

  • 3 cups salsa verde (store bought will do!)

  • 3 cups chicken broth (or water)

  • 1/2 small onion, chopped

  • 3 green onions, chopped

  • 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

  • 3 cloves garlic, minced

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste

  • 1–2 limes

  • Optional: 2 jalapenos, diced (ribs and seeds removed)

Instructions: Add everything to the Instant Pot except the lime juice. Cook for 30 minutes on Soup setting. Quick release the steam. Stir it all up and add more salsa verde as desired. Serve with rice and a squeeze of lime!

Toppings: Avocado, more cilantro, Mexican crumbling cheese.

Full recipe here.

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👶 Nursing (or Soon to Be Nursing) Mom Who Hates Using the Electric Pump?

Here are some alternatives for you! 🤍 

This Lansinoh Manual Breast Pump will seriously convert you into a hand pump mom. It’s that good (and currently on sale for 30% off).

Other moms swear by the Haakaa Manual Breast Pump. The good: you don’t have to do much, just wear it on the opposite side you’re nursing on. The (possibly) bad: as your baby grows, she/he may kick it off or try to grab it.

Note: Even though you’re not manually pumping with this, it is indeed a pump and will result in supply increase (as with any pump) if you wear it long enough.

If you don’t need/care to pump but simply want to casually collect milk to build up a small stash: the Haakaah Ladybug Milk Collector is for you! Most moms wear it while nursing to collect let down from the opposite breast their nursing on, or you can also try wearing it on both sides while showering.

Note: This is just a collector, so it won’t increase your supply.

Breastmilk Amazing Fact: Mothers to boys produce milk higher in fat and protein while mothers to girls produce milk higher in calcium.*

Useful & Inspiring Stuff From the Internet

Did you know the founder of Drunk Elephant was a stay at home mom (to 5 kids) in her 40s when she founded the company? Easy? NOT AT ALL (she had ZERO experience in the make up industry and not a lot of money). Possible? Yes. Most successful founders are in their 40s and 50s. You can listen to her complete and incredibly inspiring story here.

A wonderful idea if you have a large extended family and willing grandparents: cousin camp.

Using formula for your baby? Consider buying a European brand like Holle or Hipp (both brands offer goat milk based formula which is far more similar to human milk than cow’s milk or soy milk). The bottom line: The European Commission has far greater standards for formula manufacturers than the FDA. Sad, but true.

We’re in the thick of hurricane season and it never hurts to be prepared. Operation Blessing (an amazing humanitarian non-profit involved in disaster relief) has a free Disaster Preparedness Guide you can access here.

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