Wow, thanks to everyone who donated for our Altzheimer’s charity walk on Sunday! My goal was to raise $100, and I raised $175 $185 $200 $225 $230 so far! Thanks to these wonderful people – if you haven’t checked out their blogs yet, you need to!
- Helen of Doing a 180 (love her honesty in her posts)
- Pubsgal (another diabetic foodie friend!)
- Helen – Dog Nut Mom
- Dawn – Fixing Myself Thinner (she’s lost 200 pounds!!)
- Rachel – Losing It (and recently engaged!)
- Nicole – Prevention RD (she’s my diabetic RD cheerleader!)
- John – 2010 Challenges (he’s going to be doing 40 races before he turns 40!)
- Amanda – Getting To Goal (new blog friend – another Chicagoan!)
- Shelley – My Journey to Fit (my best friend I’ve never met!)
- Eliana – A Chica Bakes (seriously, best baker out there!)
- Christina – Dinner at Christina’s (another Chicago foodie who I’ve actually met!)
- Jamie – Weight Watching Foodie (long time reader and friend!)
- Linzi – Destination 26.2 (Linzi is training for her first marathon!)
- Lori – Finding Radiance (another big loser – of 100 pounds and avid bike rider!)
- Sophia – Burp & Slurp (someone I never would have known if it wasn’t for the blog world – she’s a college student, awesome writer, recovering anorexic – we have nothing in common but are friends – so happy to know her!)
- My Mom – thanks Mom! (she’s just about to have a big birthday – 70!)
- Maggie at Say Yes To Salad (my very first giveaway winner two years ago and beautiful newlywed!)
- Veronica of Going Down and Recipe Rhapsody (I’ve made her crockpot refried beans that are to die for!)
- Katie J is On Her Way! (love her – she recently connected with siblings she’s never met – and her latest post has a delicious enchilada recipe!)
- Susan – Journey to Fit (a fellow 101 days of summer challenger!)
I hope I didn’t miss anyone! Breakfast and lunch were repeats from earlier in the week – my beloved egg sammie with apple slices:
And the last of my tortilla soup!
I planned on going to the gym, but it was so nice outside, I took a 50 minute walk. It’s been so long since I’ve walked by my office – I actually missed it!
Since I walked farther than I normally do, I came across a farm that had horses. I walked over to the fence and said “Hi Horsies!” and they came running over to me! Sadly I didn’t have anything to feed them!
I thought this was a cool picture – it kinda looks like a horse has two heads!
I ended up making lasagna for dinner – but I did it in two parts. The night before last, I mixed together my cottage cheese mixture – 3 cups cottage cheese, 3 eggs, parsley and pepper and just kept that in the fridge.
Then I browned 1/2 pound of Italian sausage and mixed that with my homemade marinara.
I normally would have put the whole thing together that night, except I was out of lasagna noodles! But putting it together last night was pretty quick.
Stats for Thursday
- 1625 calories, 221 carbs, 88 protein, 51 fat, a whopping 52 grams of fiber!
- 50 minute power walk
Gotta love short work weeks – hooray for Friday! Maybe I can talk Tony into party pizza Friday? 😀
Love lasagna but those nutritional stats are high for me cause if it’s good I can NEVER stop at one serving! And I’m betting yours is good 🙂
Did I miss it? Is it too late to donate?
What a peaceful looking place to walk.
I have to admit, I lust over your food pictures most every day, but now I have to ask, are you trying to do me in? 🙂
Lasagna is like kryptonite to me! I could eat a whole pan of that stuff! All kidding aside, it looks great!
I made my donation this morning on 9/11/10 under my formal name Barbara S. Calderon just so you know its me:) My aunt recently just died of this dreadful disease…so sad she suffered for over 10 years before dying.
Beautiful pictures as always and great looking food:) Now I am inspired to make lasgana too was thinking of it the other day…Do I still get the ebook?
Good luck on your walk…I’m sure you;ll do great..
Thank you so much Susan! I’ll get your eCookbook out to you shortly! 😀
Wow, that’s a lot of supporters, Biz! Look how loved you are! Thank goodness for the blog world…I’m so happy to have “met” you too!
Ooh cheesy lasagna…totally worth every damn calories!
That lasagna looks AWESOME.
YES!!! congrats on the money raised!!!
alzheimers took my grandpa away from me as well as almost all of my aunts and uncles! its a terrible disease!! theres a few charities in my city that support the research and care of people affected with dementia and altzheimers which my family supports- its great that people have been contributing to you to help raise more funds!! <3
of course, i must add how NUMMY your food is as always. this time its ur egg sammie calling out my name hehe, well clearly i enjoyed the lasagna food porn too 🙂
xoxo
That two horse photo is great! I have a nice walk near my work which looks quite similar to where you are. It’s great to get out of the office when it’s a nice day.
The pictures by your office are beautiful! haha And I love that you walked over and said “Hi horsies!” that’s totally something I would have done! I loooove petting horses in the soft spot between their nostrils. One of my all time favorite things in LIFE to do!
Beautiful outdoor pics – love the ones of the horses!!
The lasagna looks great – as do those green pepper quesodillas – YUM!
I just love all your photos – the food ones make my mouth water!
Is there still time to donate?
Yep! The race isn’t until Sunday! 😀
I must have missed the alzheimers post, sorry!
My daughter loves horses and LOVED the 2 headed horse picture! Thanks!
You are welcome. Glad I could help! I need to check out some of those other blogs!
I love that you have that walking area near your work! So beautiful! And your lasagna looks so good! I made lasagna once…needs work! lol
Blogland is such a great place – I’m glad that you were well supported!
Now, that lasagna – YUM. I make an excellent lasagna – I use the recipe from the old Betty Crocker cookbook. LOVE IT. Haven’t had it in a couple of years…hmmm, I wonder why? I’ll have to make it over Thanksgiving when my kids are home – otherwise, seriously, I would eat it for dinner, and then cold for breakfast, and lunch…it’s my favorite food!
Awww – you’re welcome. It was my pleasure 🙂
I’m laughing at you talking Tony into PPF because Mr. Helen loves pizza. It’s one of his basic 5 food groups. Last week as I was making him pizza, I was telling him about your PPF and his response was, “She would NEVER have to talk me into it, I’d be disappointed if she didn’t make it!”
Like a true woman and as your brother Charlie so aptly described it., what I heard was “I wish I was married to Biz. Why don’t YOU make pizza every Friday?” I promptly got huffy and told him if he wanted pizza that bad every single Friday he could just go buy it.
He stood there looking all shocked and a little puzzled and then I realized that wasn’t what he meant – lol!
Thanks for the links to the other blogs… one of my very favorite ways to find new ones!
Helen, that made ME laugh out loud!
Congrats on beating your goal! Our budget is very tight right now but I’m going to work it and see if I can help get you to $200. The area around your office is so nice–and the horses! You must bring sugar cubes or apple slices next time! Awww! Love your lasagna–haven’t had it in months. YUM..
Love the horses! You are so lucky to have a great path to walk!
I remember that giveaway!! I can’t believe it was 2 years ago. Time flies 🙂