November 30, 2009

Yep, tomorrow is back to reality.  I’ll actually have to set an alarm tomorrow! :(  But I’ve had a great week, and got everything accomplished that I set out to. 😀 For breakfast I had 1 cup of diced potatoes, Pam fried with 1/2 ounce of cheese, 1 egg and 1 sausage patty (which I cut in half to give myself the illusion on having...

Holly over at The Balanced Broad chose Flax as this weeks ingredient.  I almost forgot because of Thanksgiving, but I read Emily’s blog today, and she reminded me – thanks Em! 😀 I actually bought flax seeds a couple weeks ago and they’ve been in my cupboard ever since, unopened!  The obvious thing to do would be to make some sort of muffin, or maybe...

Hannah’s high school took the state championship in football today for the first time in school history!  Not only that, but their girls volleyball took state two weeks ago, making it the first sport in school history to win state – two champs in two weeks!  It was very exciting.  While the volleyball games were not televised, the football game was – Tony has been...

Yep, the day after Thanksgiving and it’s officially snowman time!  I switch purses: And I brought out my first snowman!  He’s skating, but I just love his face!  😀 After a leisurely morning, I finally made breakfast around 10.  1.5 ounces of my homemade bread, 1.5 ounces sliced ham, 1 Pam fried egg and 1 ounce of mozzarella with half an apple.  Even though you...

Every year it surprises me how after hours and hours of preparing for a meal like today, the food is usually consumed in under an hour!  But I am so happy with how everything turned out!  The best decision we made was to brine our turkey this year.  I was making two pies, one apple and one pecan, but only had one pie plate.  So...

Holy cow, was yesterday busy – but in a great way!  First of all, I started with a simple breakfast, 1 scrambled egg, 1 whole wheat toast, cantaloupe and breakfast sausage.  But this was no ordinary breakfast sausage, it was homemade sausage made my my friend Christina’s Dad! It was SO GOOD!  Not only extremely flavorful, but hardly any fat rendered out as I was...

Without further ado, drum roll please. . . -1.2 this week!  Not too shabby considering all the good eats I had!  I have to credit getting the 60 minutes of exercise in most days and my running a 5k at lunch so that I can splurge on a couple of meals this past week. What?  Don’t remember?  I had Chinese take out one night.  For...

I have a long list of things to do while I am off this next week.  One of them is to organize my deep freeze.  The problem is that its a) huge and b) there are only two shelves otherwise its just a bottomless pit.  While I was contemplating what to do, I realized that we had snow crabs that hadn’t been cooked.  There wasn’t...

Best way to start Day 1 of Staycation?  Sleep in until 9:00 a.m.!  Love it, although Hannah already left for work before I even got up! :(  I decided to do a Mama Rini’s Diner breakfast at home.  My plate: 1 whole wheat mini bagel with pat of real butter, 1/4 cup corned beef hash, 4 ounces of potatoes, 1 egg and handful of blackberries....

A staycation is where you are off of work, but you stay at home.  Love it!  I have a ton of stuff I want to do while I am off.  I have lots of new recipes to try, one day I am going out to lunch with my Mom and going to a movie, then the day after Thanksgiving, Hannah and I are going to...