Aug

12

But I Bet the Pie Photographs Beautifully and Other Excuses I’m Already Coming Up With

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Well, what do you know? All day long before I even thought about putting anything toward my piehole, I thought about whether or not I would want a picture of it on this blog. This might *actually* help in the diet department. So here goes for yesterday.Breakfast was a smoothie for both me and the boy. The boy LOVES his fruit, so I've been trying to whip up some fun concoctions because he's not that keen on *trying* new things before he has tasted them. This smoothie had 2 bananas, 2 pear halves (from Trader Joe's jarred pears in grape juice), about 1/2 cup frozen organic cherries, a splash of milk, and about 1/2 cup of water. Normally I would have added the vanilla protein powder to my part of the smoothie, but, sadly, I cannot find it since we moved. And, I mean, find it in. my. house. If I don't find it soon I will have to break down and buy another one.Breakfast 8-11-10Lunch was super on the run so I didn't get a photo, but it consisted of a bag of In the Raw trail mix from Trader Joe's and a Stonyfield Organic Strawberry Smoothie - the 10 oz. size.Dinner looks super sad, but I love it. It's 6 Morningstar Farms Veggie Chicken Nuggets with 1/4 cup of fat free cottage cheese with a few chives. I also had some boiled carrots with the toddler. He LOVES boiled carrots. I've been cooking two bags of them in vegetable broth in the crockpot each weekend. Then he eats them through the week. Anyway, here is the photo, notice again on the small plate.Dinner 8-11-2010

Aug

10

Pimp My Annie’s Homegrown Organic Beef Stroganoff Skillet Meal

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That's a great title for the next hit reality show, don't you think? Tonight's Dinner consisted a little something I whipped up starting with the Annie's Homegrown Organic Beef Stroganoff Skillet Meal. I'm not a super fan of the box kits, but 1)this one is organic and 2) it's yummy and 3) it's fast! It's hard to find in grocery stores in the Boston area, and if you do find it, it's over $4, so I buy mine here. The directions say to add a pound of ground beef. I don't know that I've ever made it that way. I've used the Morningstar Farms crumbles with good luck though. Tonight I added a can of Trader Joe's premium white chicken, drained. (Don't say ick. It's awesome in soups and stews.) About a cup of frozen peas. About 1/2 cup of baby carrots that I had boiled up for the toddler. (Much like the pizza phase. The carrot phase has involved adding his loved carrots to lots of dishes where that you wouldn't normally think a carrot should go.) And about 1 cup of sliced organic portabella mushrooms that I sauteed in a smidge of olive oil.Yum. And it took about 10 minutes. And looked like this:

Dinner 8/10/2010

That's on a salad plate. Last week I read The Skinnygirl Rules: For Getting and Staying Naturally Thin by Bethanny Frankel. Don't judge. I love her on Bravo, and since I've gotten the Kindle App for my Blackberry, I've read more books in one week than I have the entire 2 years since I had the toddler. Anyhoo, one of her rules is to serve your meals up on smaller plates. Seems easy enough and it does seem to help trick your mind into thinking you've gotten a bigger portion .

Then we finished off with a little dessert. I love summer.

Dessert 8/10/2010

So what's with the food photos, kim from kimworld, you ask? Well, I got lost in a wonderful blog today called Carrots 'N' Cake. Tina, the blog author started her blog by photographing everything she ate to keep her on track on her goal to lose weight before her wedding. Something just struck me when I read that, and, well, I can use any help I can get to keep me on the eating healthy/exercising/losing weight trend. I'm going to borrow the idea for awhile and see if it sticks.

Does banana creme pie photograph well? Hope so. Just kidding. I think.

Aug

10

63 Books from BlogHer 2010 Bookstore

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BlogHer 2010 BookstoreThe Bookstore at this year's BlogHer at the New York Hilton in NYC was great. There were a lot of books that I had heard of and also alot that I haven't. I love books, so I knew I wouldn't have enough time to shop through all of the ones that were there.


I jotted some notes down so that I could shop at home. I've collected them all into a page on amazon. Hopefully this can help others who weren't there or didn't have time to discover some great books! Here's the link:

63 Books from BlogHer 2010 Bookstore

What's your favorite of the bunch?

Jul

14

Looking for Moms Who Have Lost 50 or More Pounds

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I'm looking to interview a few moms that have been able to accomplish a weight loss of at least 50 pounds while raising kids. The first interviews will be via email and the moms can remain anonymous. All moms that participate will receive a copy of the final article.

Mar

15

Don’t You Forget About Me

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No, I have not been swept away by these Biblical rains plaguing my little corner of the world. Instead, courtesy of Mabel’s Labels BlogHer ‘10 Contest, I am contemplating what I might say to you, o' blogosphere, if this were the last day that we were connected through these interwebz.

First, please calm down. Breathe slowly  into the brown-bag-o-panic with me. Life is so good with the internet, but it is important to remember that, in fact, the internet is so good because of life. Your life. My life. Our lives. And life will go on.

Our passions really make up who we are, and the internet is the tool we use to communicate about those passions. So the day after tomorrow, I might not blogging about my latest find that makes me feel like a supermom (tm), or living vicariously through a favorite blogger who has moved. to. Paris. for three months (the nerve!), or reading tweets with pride that the peeps over at Baby Bargains have discovered my favorite baby gear and toy store in all the land, but I will still be sharing my passion with you wherever we meet.

I love ink pens and paper; fancy hotels; and trashy reality series. I love my baby's blue eyes and his daddy's great smile. I love products that make life easier and also ones that are beautifully useless. And, please, do not step in between me and a banana creme pie. And, one thing that I really love is hearing about the passions that fuel you - the running, the knitting, politics, and more.

So, please oh blogosphere, don't you forget about me because I certainly won't be forgetting you.

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