I am a salad lover and I love to make awesome salads – but when I’m going to make a salad, any “plan” I have usually consists of:
Step 1: rummage through the fridge for vegetables
Step 2: throw it all together
Step 3: eat
Some plan, eh? Salads (and smoothies) are just not something I think to use a recipe for – but this also means I often make the same thing over and over again.
I’ve had a number of conversations with some friends and family about breakfast recently, and so I decided to put together a collection of morning food photos from the past few months. Once upon a time I ate overnight oats for breakfast every day! As I’ve mentioned more than once lately, I’m going the grain free route most of the time and don’t even miss my beloved oats, cold cereal or cinnamon raisin Ezekiel toast with almond butter and banana.
(This [sorta scary] blog post is a good but lengthy explanation of why I’ve chosen to follow a mostly grain free lifestyle. The Paleo Solution, Wheat Belly and The Primal Blueprint are loaded with convincing info and studies too.)
It was another egg and everything bagel kind of weekend here.
(That means it was a good weekend.)
But now it’s Monday, and we’re moving on to better and bluer breakfasts.
These little wild blueberries from Woodstock Farms are my current favorite small blue thing.
I pop about a half cup of them into a dish and let them thaw in the fridge over night.
Or, if you forgot about them last night like I did, an hour on the counter at room temperature works too.
Under normal circumstances, I try to avoid cereal like the bubonic plague.
(I don’t know what the bubonic plague is exactly, but I do know that I like that word “bubonic”.)
I had a coupon for a box of this stuff and it looked good, so I went for it.
Except “normal circumstances” no longer applies, at least not for a while here. You see, I am in the first trimester of pregnancy with our third child.
(Surprised? Yeah, me too!)
(Surprised, but ultimately delighted!)
Homeschooling comes with plenty of challenges, but it’s also got a handful of perks.
One of my favorite perks? We quite often get to enjoy leisurely mornings at home – by design, really. I’m a morning person, but that doesn’t mean I’m uber-excited to run out the door first thing in the morning on any given day of the week.
More accurately, I’m not uber-excited to get kids out the door first thing. I’ll happily head out in the wee morning hours in my running sneaks, but a) I’ve only got to get myself ready and b) I don’t need to be reminded to brush my hair before I leave and c) I don’t have say CAN YOU PLEASE GET YOUR SHOES ON ALREADY three times before I finally do it.
So it’s the first week in October, and that means this is marathon week over here.
I’ve had a couple of training trial and errors through the month of September, and there’s a couple things I’ve learned over these past 4 weeks. This little ditty is for you long distance runners out there who might find yourself signing up for a marathon at the last minute because you were thinking “hey, that sounds like fun!!”
My kids love frozen blueberries.
Both of them. Even the little one.
They snack on them straight from the freezer and then force me to look at their blue stained lips for about three hours until the color wears off, or until I can’t take it anymore and pin them to the ground for a spit bath with my saliva wetted thumb.
I haven’t bought frozen blueberries for a few months now because of the overabundance of summer fruit we were getting from the CSA share. They asked me to buy frozen blueberries, but I just couldn’t bring myself to buy FROZEN fruit with three pounds of fresh peaches in the fridge.
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