Archive for Food
I’ve been busily decorating my walls since we moved in, and had been at sort of a loss as to what to put in the boys’ room. I didn’t want anything too “cute” and don’t care for most of the typical kids room stuff. I finally hit on an idea this weekend and am so excited to have found some awesome vintage artwork in a transportation theme. I could look at vintage posters all day- they’re so beautiful. I already had two Tin Signs
And, this awesome print
and finally, this amazing “Ballooning Over Paris”
How cool is that??? Big J loves “Hot Hair Balloons” as he calls them, so I think he’ll like it.
We’re now into full baby food mode with Little D at 7.5 months, and I can’t stand to spend all that money on baby food when it’s so easy to make my own for the most part. I’m an inherently lazy person, so something needs to be quick and easy or I’m probably not going to be all that motivated to do it. With my first one, I was all gung ho on making almost all his food, and I had the time and it was fun to experiment, but with this one I’m only doing the really easy stuff to save some money. So, I buy cans of fruit in light syrup and no salt vegetables in cans or frozen bags, and then just throw them in this Baby Food Processor
There is a great homemade baby food site called Wholesome Baby Food where you can find everything from how to prepare simple purees to making homemade teething biscuits. It’s the most thorough site I’ve ever run across.
Did you know parents used to give their babies stuff like beef hearts and liver & bacon when they first started selling baby food in jars? Ugh… blech…yuck!
I thought I’d post a little diet update since I mentioned the Idiot Proof Diet about a month ago.
The Idiot Proof Diet is awesome!!
I’ve done Weight Watchers with very good success, and until now hadn’t found anything to surpass it. The reason this diet is so good is that you make all your food choices up front and it then spits out a menu for you. You don’t have to constantly be making choices about what you’re going to eat. That’s always been such a downfall for me as I have very little willpower. I could make pretty good choices when I was single, and didn’t have the regular temptation to finish my kid’s chicken nuggets and fries, or my husband’s every other night requests to go out to eat. But now, I find it almost impossible to stick to a diet.
Another nice thing about the diet is that you get to take several days off every 11 days. That makes it MUCH easier to say no to cookies or cake. I just tell myself, I can have that on my day off. It makes it easier to turn down knowing I can have it in several days if I want it. I’ve found that one day is enough. More than that, and I go a little too crazy with the food choices.
So… the 1 month results: I’ve lost about 12 pounds and that’s with very little exercise, some cheating and not doing as well as I should have, especially on days off. I still have a hard time resisting those chicken nuggets- gotta work on that.
