Archive | April, 2012

In Another Life…

Click on links for recipes… I could have been a farmer’s wife. Easily. If the cards had been dealt differently, if my heart had swayed in another direction, I would not have said, “No“, to a life, knee-deep in mud, wearing Wellies and a barn coat, yanking kids from their mother’s wombs at 2 am. [...]

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Sweeties

If you’ve been following the wheat-free posts I’ve been doing for the last 2 weeks, you might be climbing the walls about this time and are probably ready for something sweet that you can crunch! The truth is, most of us have the option to go wheat-free if we choose. But for many people, being [...]

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Jelly Bean Dreams

I am that person…that sneaky, naughty person, that picks out all the black jelly beans from the mix…one at a time, and leaves you with the orange, lemon and whatever the white flavor is. Do you know how hard it is to find black jelly beans any more? Even the Jelly Bean Holiday of the [...]

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Food For Thought

Continuing the no wheat theme, here’s another wheat free and vegetarian meal. Combining a legume (beans) and rice makes a complete protein. Eating one or the other alone, does not. Cooking beans from scratch, especially if you do it in the crockpot, is also super economical. A small can of beans runs around $1, a [...]

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If Money Were No Object…

…I wouldn’t be driving my safe and predictable mommy van. But I wouldn’t be driving something new either. It would be an old and sleek, sporty and fast convertible, with an impossibly long front and lots of curvy bits. It would have polished chrome and a thin, made-from-real-wood steering wheel, and buttery soft, leather bucket [...]

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The Skinny On Fat – The Five Day Challenge

  I will start this post with the legal disclaimer, the opinions expressed in this column are OPINION. I am NOT a registered nutritionist. In today’s litigious society, I wouldn’t want anyone to sue me because they had to buy a new wardrobe in a SMALLER size! Next, I’m going to challenge you to go [...]

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