[The following post is sponsored by LACTAID® .] Today is National Coffee Day, which really doesn’t mean anything to me since I don’t drink coffee. But from what I can tell, I am way in the minority on this one. Even though I may not drink coffee, I have many coffee lovers (addicts?) in my…
What Is Yummly And Why Should You Be Using It?
I just started using a recipe site called Yummly. You may have noticed that at the bottom of all of my posts, along with the Pinterest and Facebook and Twitter buttons, there’s now a “Yum” button. It looks like this: When my blog was being redesigned last month I gave a lot of thought to…
Martha Stewart’s Banana Cream Pie Recipe
After talking about it for several days, I finally got around to making Banana Cream Pie. It’s one of my favorite desserts, but I’ve never found a recipe for it that I loved. I decided to try this one from Martha Stewart. As I always do for a first time recipe, I made it exactly…
Granola For Non-Health Nuts
I love granola. I could eat it all day. I have eaten it all day, every time I make it. I like it plain, I like it mixed into vanilla yogurt, I like it with milk, I like it sprinkled on peanut butter and banana. But what I don’t like are most granola recipes. For…
Win $20K in cash AND a $50K cafeteria makeover!
My kids are home with me this week. There’s this weird thing in New York City Public Schools that I did not have growing up in Buffalo, called February break. My kids still have Christmas break in December, and then Spring Break in April, so I think this whole February break thing is overkill. Couldn’t…
Hidden Valley and my big salads
[The following post was written as part of my paid ambassadorship with Hidden Valley.] I’ve been on a weight-loss kick lately. I started out by losing ten pounds with Slim Fast, then moved to a diet that I devised myself, and I’ve lost an additional twelve pounds in the last six weeks, for a total…
Week 4 weigh-in: a little stumble, & a great recipe
So this week I only lost half a pound. That’s not bad itself – down is better than up – but this is where my motivation starts to falter. If I don’t see great results I have a hard time justifying the effort. My eating was fine this week, although I did eat 1,800 calories…
Today’s Agenda: More Slim-Fast edition
So I’m pumped. I said last week that this week would be the true test of my Slim-Fast experiment, since I always lose a lot of water the first week on any diet. And I’m happy to say that I weighed in this morning, and have lost a little over two pounds this week! I’m…
