Happy Halloween! We had a fun weekend filled with Halloween festivities. Â Meghan, as the cutest bumble bee I've ever seen, wore her costume to various events all week. Â Halloween becomes a week-long event these days! Tim and I had an adult costume party to attend this weekend. As you can ...
Archives for October 2011
My pregnancy: week 32
I checked and double checked my calendar--I am in fact in week 32 of my pregnancy. Â (After last week's mix up, I can never be too sure.) Â October is almost gone. Â In a few more days Halloween will be done, then it's Thanksgiving in a few short weeks, and then....Christmas! Â Christmas means baby ...
Potato cauliflower bake
Sometimes, I have a hard time deciding which recipes I should feature on my blog. Â I never know what is going to strike a chord or, most importantly, which recipes are going to be most useful for my readers. This is not a recipe I planned to blog about. Â This was one of those ...
Halloween stuffed peppers
I loved reading all of your confessions in the comment section of yesterday's post. Â They actually made me think of about 10 more confessions I could have added to my list. For today, I'll stick with two confessions. Â First, there's not a new recipe in today's post. Â I simply used ...
Confessions of a mommy {healthy} food blogger
I need to come clean about a few things. 1. Â I grew up on a diet of largely processed foods. Â The microwave was my friend. Â I ate things like frozen bagel dogs, Pop Tarts, and Little Debbie snack cakes on a daily basis. 2. Â Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were one of my favorite foods ...
My pregnancy: 31 weeks (take 2!)
Welcome to my pregnancy update, Groundhog Day edition. Â Do any of my astute readers notice anything eerily similar this week to last's weeks update? Â Anyone? That's right. Â I'm 31 weeks pregnant this week. Â Last week, I was not 31 weeks pregnant. Â The week before that I was not 30 weeks pregnant. ...
Healthy apple peanut butter cookie bites-49 calories each
I wouldn't classify any kind of baking as easy, per se. Â Baking is a science that's easy to screw up. Â But when it comes to different types of baking, I'd say that unhealthy baking is infinitely easier than healthy baking. Throw a few sticks of butter, a cup of white sugar, half a cup of brown ...
Thai marinated tempeh nuggets
I am well aware that at least 50 percent of my readers saw the title and either a.) deleted their email notification without reading any more or b.) have already clicked away from the page, completely scared of the word "tempeh". The rest of you are either humoring me and reading with eyebrows ...
My pregnancy: 31 weeks
I'm sorry for the late update this week. Â When you're a mom, you never know what the day is going to bring and sometimes the best laid plans don't work out. Â I'll get right to it since I know you are all just hanging on the edge of your seat to see how I'm doing, right? (I hope my light-hearted, ...
My birth plan
When I was pregnant with Meghan, although I'd heard the term "birth plan", it wasn't something I thought I needed. Â The only thing I was really adamant about was breastfeeding as soon as possible after the birth, and that was already the policy at the hospital where I was delivering. I feel more ...
Spinach salad with roasted grapes, feta, and walnuts
I haven't been in the mood for salads as much since fall arrived. Â Comfort foods and soups took their place on the menu as the temperatures started to drop. Then, Mother Nature got confused and summer-like temperatures re-emerged. Â I'm not complaining. Â I'll take as many sunny and 80 degree days ...
Sweet white bean apple dip with baked cinnamon chips
I turn into Snacky McSnackerton at night. Â I can't blame it on pregnancy, because even when I don't have a bun in the oven, my body needs to eat sometime between 8-9pm. Having something healthy (and tasty!) on hand is so important for me. Â If I don't, I end up forcing Tim to go out and buy my ...