I need to start digging through the blog archives more often. I don’t know why I complain about not being able to come up with dinner ideas in advance. It’s like owning a closet full of perfectly fine clothes and then stomping around and saying “I don’t have A THING to wear!” Except I’ve got … Read more
Once upon a time I always ate processed, snacky type foods like Kashi crackers, pretzels or frozen, baked french fries as my “side” at lunch. While those are certainly better than some foods and are of course OK once in a while – one of the best habits I ever created for myself was learning … Read more
Me: Good morning everybody! Condiments: Hi Alison! Me: Who wants to be turned into dinner tonight?! Condiments: [cheers] Crock Pot enters stage left Me: What about you, Crock Pot? You wanna play too? Crock Pot: Yeah, sure. I guess so. Me: [ignoring Crock Pot's unenthusiastic response] OK, then – listen up. Today is a full … Read more
On the weekends, I’m apt to be a bit less motivated to cook and a bit more motivated to goof around. Instead of attempting to go out to eat and playing the Kids in a Restaurant game (wheeeeee!) – sometimes it’s a lot easier (and arguably more enjoyable) to hit up the grocery store and … Read more
When it comes to what to eat after workout or run, I don’t think much beyond “eat real food” unless that workout has been particularly long and hard. (I am purposefully ignoring the obvious joke here. This post just started!) The neighborhood running group I occasionally run with sent an email yesterday saying they were … Read more
The First Line of Your Weight Loss Success Story
August 26th, 2011 | Posted by in Weight Loss - (4 Comments)“what gets measured gets managed.” That’s a quote from a guy named Peter Drucker. It’s most typically applied in the world of business and marketing, but it can easily be applied to any aspect of your life that you would like to improve. For our purposes today, let’s apply it to weight loss. In short, … Read more
I’ve been waiting and waiting for eggplant to show up in the CSA share this summer so I could make Ratatouille. Finally, the good word arrived in my inbox yesterday. (more peaches. did ya catch that?) Well what do you know – this week I’ll be picking up just about everything I need to make … Read more
A great way beat the leftover blues is to create something new and different with your uneaten foodstuffs from a previous meal. Thanks to a big scoop of rolled oats, lentil tacos from Sunday were turned into lentil burgers last night. With oats stirred in to the last of the lentil taco filling and then … Read more
Sarah’s comment the other day about having five pounds of cucumbers made me realize that I too have plenty of cucumbers right now. So what the heck can you do with a lot of cucumbers? Am I crazy or do people make cucumber soup? Cold cucumber soup? Haven’t I heard of that before? Doesn’t that … Read more
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