October 19, 2014

It seems lately like my life has been like the movie Groundhogs Day – wake up, blog, go to work, come home, cook food, watch t.v., go to bed.  Rinse and repeat.  So when Hannah discovered that she had asked for this past Saturday off a couple months ago, she asked if I wanted to meet her for lunch.  Um, yes please!  While I feel...

All week we had rainy, overcast weather.  FINALLY yesterday the sun came out, although it didn’t last long.  I drive past this tree on my way to and from work – I always tell Tony it’s my favorite tree.  He just thinks I am crazy to even declare that I have a favorite tree!  In a few days all the leaves will be gone.  It’s...

Back when my sister and I did Weight Watchers in 1999-2000, the program was based on points, but you had to take into consideration the calories,fat AND fiber.  The higher the fiber content, meant the lower the point number which in turn let you eat more stuff.  My sister and I were totally all about getting the most food for the point value.  Enter in...

Lentil Bolognese You will want to add this lentil bolognese to your meal plan – perfect for meatless Monday! I can’t remember the last time I made an English muffin sammie for breakfast!  My store had English muffins on sale for .89 cents a package, so I couldn’t pass that up.  Mine had egg white, baby spinach, a slice of deli roast beef and Cabot...

My Bizzy Kitchen | From the kitchen of the Biggest Diabetic Loser: a healthy balance of food and exercise. . . while keeping blood sugars normal! I ended up doing 15 minutes of Classical Stretch before work in anticipation of me doing my first leg strength workout in a long time. I’ve talked about Classical Stretch over the years, but whenever my body starts to...

I was going to walk a bit before work yesterday, but it was raining.  Although this morning I thought to myself “why didn’t you just put a jacket on with a hood on and suck it up?!”  Ha! Breakfast was two blueberry lemon pancakes and two pieces of sausage – so quick and delish.  I love that you can make a whole batch of pancakes...

I love this time of year.  The changing of all the colors of the trees.  It’s not too hot, it’s not too cold.  I went on a long walk on Saturday morning and it was so refreshing! It was a pretty low key weekend.  When I was meal planning I realized I had some frozen blueberries in the freezer.  On Friday when I was walking...

I am happy to say that I have used up a good part of the sirloin tip roast I made over the weekend.  We had it Sunday night, Thursday night I made myself a beef, red pepper and spinach quesadilla, and I decided Thursday night to use beef in all three of my meals yesterday! First up?  Roast beef hash.  I’ve talked about canned diced...

It was one of those perfect crisp fall mornings yesterday.  Sun was shining, white clouds and a chilly 44 degrees.  One of my favorite things to do is ride with the windows down, but have the heat on in the car – it’s the perfect combination!  All that crisp air blowing my hair around made me feel so alive! I took the back roads to...

I opened one of the Cabot Cheese’s I was sent over a week ago, and it was the star in both breakfast and lunch.  Alpine Cheddar! After I published yesterday’s post, I went to take pictures of the honey roasted almond bars I made, only to realize I left the camera on all night, so the battery was dead.  I brought my charger to work...