When our now-toddler boy started eating in earnest mid-last year and his carnivorous tendencies became apparent, we joked that our food budget would double because he ate so much meat. When our 7-year-old seemed to suddenly have the proverbial “hollow leg” and eat thirds of soup, fifths of pancakes and surpass his dad on pizza [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Story'
Brace Yourselves…the 2012 Food Budget May Shock You! {Eating Well, Spending…Hmmmmm…}
April 16th, 2013 · 157 Comments · My Story
How to Boil a Husband {Eat Well, Spend Less}
January 29th, 2013 · 73 Comments · Big Changes, My Story
This is good advice, I promise. And no, I’m not upset with my husband and taking it out on men everywhere. It was my husband’s idea, in fact. (photo source) As part of the Eat Well, Spend Less series, we’re talking about getting back to basics this month – the basics of eating well – [...]
Do You Perpetuate Faulty Kitchen Thinking? {VLOG}
October 9th, 2012 · 7 Comments · My Story
I’m a smart gal, but I don’t always think smart. For example: No matter how much I want to get up early and how much I have to do, in that cozy bed it seems like a really good idea to "just rest" one more minute. Thirty minutes later, I’m feeling pretty dumb. For example: [...]
What Happens When Mom Tries to Get Organized and Upload a Video About It
October 8th, 2012 · 11 Comments · My Story
Remember that video that I posted earlier today that is making everyone feel better about their kitchen counter clutter? (And some questions and new perspectives that will, I hope, inspire folks to re-organize along with me, too, of course!!!) When I left the kitchen at the end of the video, my darling, adorable, cute little [...]
Tags: kids·Organizing in October
What Does it Take to Cut Triglycerides by 75%?
May 25th, 2012 · 24 Comments · My Story
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I began hinting at his weight loss and lipids numbers back at the first Monday Mission about “Can Real Food Help you Lose Weight?” It’s been a long time since I [...]
Does Being Too Strict on Food Take the Joy out of Family Life?
April 10th, 2012 · 114 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments, My Story
“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then there’s the [...]
Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)
February 9th, 2012 · 99 Comments · Food for Thought, Kids in the Kitchen, My Story
Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept cold. [...]
