Project Weight Loss: Week 5

October 26th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Weight Loss - (6 Comments)

I’m back with another update from Project Weight Loss, it’s now the end of Week 5. For a quick recap, I got started on September 21, 2012 at 149 pounds. Week 1: 146.0 Week 2: 144.8 Week 3: 143.8 Week 4: 143.6 Today, at the end of Week 5, I weighed in at 139.6 Oh …
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Since new baby = fewer trips to the grocery store, we’ve been visiting our weekly, neighborhood farmer’s market a bit more regularly this summer than we have in the past. For the last couple of years the CSA has served most of our local, seasonal produce needs. I didn’t sign us up this year because …
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Attack of the Snacks

March 14th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (10 Comments)

Once upon a time I ate one snack a day, usually between lunch and dinner. But now at nearly 7 months pregnant, I’ve stopped counting how many snacks I eat everyday. I need more fingers if I want to keep track. Today I’m in the mood to hand out some awards to a few of …
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Souper Simple Tomato Soup Sunday

January 8th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Lunch - (8 Comments)

It’s possible that we’ve been eating out a bit more than usual these days. It’s also possible that anybody else’s cooking is a lot more appealing to me right now than my own. This is how the girls and I ended up in a bagel shop for lunch one day last week. (and the week …
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Caution: Zombies Ahead

October 23rd, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Fitness - (9 Comments)

We survived! Literally, anyway. Our day started in the car where we enjoyed breakfast in the form of pumpkin oats and lunch in the form of hummus, veggies, pita chips and my favorite portable protein; hard boiled eggs. Five hours later, we finally made it to Zombie Land in time for our 4 o’clock wave …
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Old Man Dolin

October 17th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (2 Comments)

Dinner tonight was about ease and speed.  Mama’s got a 6:30 yoga class she wants to get to, gang!  Chop chop! Or should I say “slice slice!”? With fast cookin’ potatoes on my mind, a couple of orange spuds and I went head to head with the mandolin. A mandolin is a fancy schmancy slicer …
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What Did You Learn Today?

October 13th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Life - (5 Comments)

I don’t know about you, but we learned how to ride the bus. Crazy, no? We’ve only lived here for nearly two years now. Did you know that Google Maps makes it EXTREMELY easy to figure out how to get from Point A to Point B on the bus? Yet another thing I learned today! …
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I can’t seem to eat salad without hummus these days. Normally I try to spare you the daily salad shenanigans unless it’s something new or remarkable – and at first glance this salad is neither new or remarkable. But Wait! Today’s Hummus on Salad story has a moral to it. It starts with the sad …
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Salad Habits

September 29th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Healthy Habits - (5 Comments)

There are plenty of good reasons to eat a salad – but I know that if I don’t make salad eating easy, it’s less likely to happen. I went a stretch of days without eating a salad (gasp!) and it took me a second to realize it was because I’d fallen behind on food prep. …
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Retrace Your Steps

September 14th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Lunch - (5 Comments)

Have you ever found yourself eating a grilled hummus and coleslaw sandwich for lunch and wondered how on earth such a concoction happened to land on your plate? Oh right, I think it started because I was making soup. Soup that began with potatoes. And then some beans were added too. And then Bean and …
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