Tag: food

Food Budgeting by Meal? Insight from The Biggest Loser

One of my favorite reality shows to watch is The Biggest Loser. You can’t not be motivated after you watch that show. Even if you don’t need to lose weight, watching those people working so hard to make a change in their lives, listening to 

Taste Testing: GOOP’s Chia Seed Breakfast Pudding

Lately, a lot of improvements to our diet seem to come from Costco purchases. I buy a big bag of something healthy-looking at Costco thinking “We should eat that!” Then, of course, we don’t and it just sits there. That was the case for this 

“Recycling”

Yucky brown bananas.
Yucky brown bananas.

One of my goals this year is to try to minimize our food expenses. No, we are not going on a starvation diet and no we probably won’t make many significant changes to what we eat. I just want to see if we can make better use of the food we have, waste less and maybe pick up some savings at the grocery store.

So, this week, I took my yucky brown bananas…..

2013-01-07-mixing

tossed in some ingredients on hand, following this recipe from Metrocurean but substituting Starbucks hot chocolate mix for the cocoa powder and plain Greek yogurt for the sour cream and putting it in the “Texas” muffin pan since my son had hidden the bread pans somewhere and . . . .

Chocolate banana bread muffins.
Chocolate banana bread (made in the Texas muffin pan instead).

Voila! These were devoured instantly. Decluttering through eating!

Holiday Feasting

While I am not a great cook, I have been improving in recent years and I have come to appreciate how wonderful a feeling it is to eat a delicious home-cooked meal for the holidays in your own home. Even though I am the one 

Thanksgiving 2012 Recap

It is the end of November and the holiday season has wreaked havoc on my blogging ambitions.  I wanted to share a few images of our Thanksgiving this year. Last year, I was busy making mini pumpkin pies for the preschool feast and this year