This morning I read a post at Tales From The Nursery – Foods Of My Childhood. It's surprising how giddy I became. Maybe that means I enjoy food too much, or that I enjoyed it too much as a child….or possibly both. Either way, it was a nice walk down memory lane thinking about my favorite childhood foods.
When I think about my childhood, I remember a few distinct foods:
Cheerios with milk and strawberries or bananas Bananas with peanut butter and crushed graham crackers on top Lucky Charms (I never could figure out why [...]
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This grapeseed oil post is brought to you by Pompeian. All opinions are 100% mine.
As I was shopping in the oil aisle recently, I spotted a bottle of Grapeseed Oil. I had heard very little about this oil, but decided to give it a try. You can use grapeseed oil in any recipe that calls for vegetable oil or butter, did you know that? I have used it in muffins and pan frying foods. It cooks very [...]
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I talk a lot about eating healthy, choosing wiser, the importance of reading labels, but today, I'm coming clean. We are not "there" yet. It seems we take one step forward and two steps back, sometimes. For a while, we were doing extremely good. I would cook every night and we would have wholesome, healthy meals. But it seems that we get in major ruts and we are in one right now that I'm desperately trying to pull us out of, but it is hard. What's our downfall, you ask? Well, it's eating out.
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Do you know one of my worst enemies? The ice cream truck that comes chugging along through our neighborhood at the most random times. You can hear it from a mile away…that enticing little song that lures kids in to pay high prices for frozen JUNK! We avoid the ice cream truck and it was hard, for awhile, to teach the boys that we just didn't buy from the ice cream man, but now they realize that it is expensive and we just don't eat what he is selling because the treats are not healthy for us. [...]
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This natural ham post was written by me on behalf of Petit Jean Meats.
Happy Earth Day! I love this holiday because it's a way for the world to gather together and realize that we need to be making smarter choices about what we are doing to the earth, our carbon footprint, and what we are putting into our bodies, too! We are always in search of cutting out the junk in our foods and getting back to the basics. I've been a little discouraged in finding pork products that are free of chemicals, but [...]
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When I first started buying organic, researching foods, and reading labels, I had a really hard time venturing from my couponing, cheapskate ways, trying to find the best deal on "food," but what I realized quickly was that what we had been buying wasn't really food at all. Sure I could find cheap junk food, cereals with food dye and dangerous additives, and get great deals on fruit straight from other countries, but when I started examing where our food came from and what was in it, I realized that sometimes paying a higher price now is [...]
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Easter is a very special time for our family. We enjoy spending time together, going to church, and yes, even hunting eggs! After church on Easter, we love to sit down with a delicious Easter meal, which usually includes a ham, vegetables, and bread. I am always on the lookout for simple, easy to prepare foods that aren't full of unhealthy stuff. Last year, I read about Ecce Panis on one of my favorite blogs and we have been enjoying their products throughout the [...]
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We are a hamburger loving family, no doubt. The boys love homemade hamburgers and we do, too! We tried something different yesterday, though. It was a little healthier and a change to the plain ol' burger, it was the Guacamole Jalapeño Jack Turkey Burger and it was delicious!
Ingredients:
one package (of six) Jennie-O Turkey Store Jalapeño Jack burger patties 6 whole [...]
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Captain Fussybuckets takes after his mommy and has a big sweet tooth. Luckily, he LOVES fruit and most of the time his sweet tooth can be satisfied with a bowl of strawberries or grapes. Sometimes, however, it is nice to be able to let him enjoy something sweet and special. It's even better when he can eat something that has fruit in it and no high fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, or ingredients that I cannot pronounce.
We have enjoyed Whole Fruit Smoothies in the past, so I knew the boys would love the [...]
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The other day I was really hungry and grabbed something I had never tried before. As I was scarfing down this food in my hungry state, I turned the package over to read the ingredients. It appeared okay…no high fructose corn syrup, whole grains, but….what about "hydrogenated oil." Hmmm….I hadn't seen that on a food label in a while and I wasn't sure what it was. I had read labels that said "contains no hydrogenated oils" but still, I wasn't exactly sure what [...]
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