Food

In the name of health, I wear a FitBit

This post contains affiliate links. It’s 10:57 and I’m considering how I’m going to get my last 255 steps to get my goal for the day. I’m adding in the potential count on the stairs – which doesn’t always count as a  set of stairs because it has a turn int he middle that has […]

Making the holidays special with Dancing Moon Coffee

Disclaimer: I received product to review. No other compensation was given, all opinions are my own. No affiliate links present. I host Christmas breakfast, holding back excited children while family members shovel my husband’s apparently famous bacon in before settling back to watch the whirlwind of paper unwrapping and happy chatter. And throughout breakfast preparation […]

Food Stamps, Transportation and Online Purchasing

Disclaimer: I am participating in an unpaid media campaign to enact change I believe in. My family was on food assistance for a period of time, and all I had to do was drive down to the grocery store and hand over the checks with the groceries I was OK’d for. It was a three-minute […]

One Small Thing – the 80/20 Rule

  I don’t diet. I neither have the willpower nor the stamina. What I DO have, however, is a desire to eat healthfully and a weakness for chocolate and wine. So that’s where the 80/20 comes in. I am an indulgent Libra, and to completely shut off some things would just not work for me. […]

Pizza Night and Curious Chef

Disclaimer: I was sent product to review. No other compensation was given. All opinions are my own. For a few years now pizza night has been a kids-cooking-dinner project. Both of the boys have been helpers in the kitchen since toddlerhood, enough so that they have their own whisk and wooden spoon to help make […]