food, products, supplements, tools food … Vitamins I have issues taking pills – I have for a long time – but I really like taking daily vitamins. I was determined to find a solution this time. Since I exhausted all of my options at GNC, or at least all of the…
food, recipes food … Crab Soup I made crab soup for the first time ever. I found a recipe and tried to follow what I could and then add replacement items for stuff I didn’t have. I purchased crab meat in the grocery store about a week or…
food, recipes food … Scalloped Potatoes I had never made scalloped potatoes before today. I looked at over 5 recipes and wasn’t happy with any of them. So, I took bits and pieces of different recipes and added an idea of my own. Below is the result of…
food, recipes food … Trail Mix Recipe Mod Recently, we have been making our original Trail Mix recipe on the lighter granola side (maybe a winter thing) and since I make our granola from this blog every time, I thought I would update the recipe. There are only 2 modifications: double all…
food food More Peanut Butter Product Recalls I received an email from Drugstore.com today notifying me that there was an update to the “Peanut Butter and other Peanut Containing Products Recall” that has been in the news for a little while now. The FDA has a new list…
B+S Challenge, food, health B+S Challenge … Body + Soul Challenge Day 4 The Challenge Day 4… Stay on Track Healthy food for all week. Check. I made a crock pot full of rice, quinoa, lentils, split peas, veggies, and spices. I can only wonder if something in this concoction is breaking my face out. I…
food, stores food … Going Out of Business Sale: The Dinner Company As you may have learned from my previous article, The Dinner Company in Salisbury, MD is closing its doors. They are having a raffle and a Going Out of Business Sale. Below is an excerpt from an email I received from them regarding the…
food, recipes food … Chicken with Peppers & Zucchini Ingredients Red Bell Peppers, organic (2 large) Zucchini, organic (2 medium) Chicken tenders, natural (1lb) Canned Tomatoes, organic (28oz) (type depends on preferred liking) Water (optional) (1/2 cup) Directions Place chicken separated in bottom of baking dish. Cut up veggies and place on…
food, recipes food … Egg Salad Ingredients Eggs, large brown natural cage-free (12) Mayonnaise, light canola (1/4 cup) Mustard, yellow organic (1 tsp) Directions Hard Boil eggs using desired method (See Egg Boiling Steps). Cut up hard boiled eggs into a large bowl. Add mayonnaise and mustard to eggs…
food food Dinner Company Closes Its Doors After a long summer struggling to keep their facility open, The Dinner Company in Salisbury, MD is closing its doors. I received an email earlier this week letting me know and I was saddened to hear but understood – people are cutting back everywhere…
food, life food … Third and final cake for class Our last class – Sept 30th. I am so happy with my final cake for the completion of Course 1 of The Wilton Method of Cake Decorating. I challenged myself to new levels for this one. I didn’t use the Crisco icing…
food food The Dinner Company The Dinner Company pictured below is where we prepare our dinner meals each month. I was supposed to join my friend in a scrapbooking challenge where we had to chose something we do routinely or do often and then do a scrapbook page about…
food, recipes food … Trail Mix Recipe We love to be able to take food on our travels and recently, we wanted to add a trail mix but not just out of a box, so I did some research. I found out what goes into a good trail mix, I modified…
food, life food … Clown Cake I tried something new this week – Sept 23rd – for the cake class. The cake consists of the same type of cake as last week, however, I made a chocolate icing rather than the white icing like last week. I wanted to decorate…
food, life food … My 1st Decorated Cake Our 2nd cake class day was September 16th. So, here it is… the cake that I thought was going to be a disaster that actually worked out quite well… Our objectives were: (1) to make any type of cake we wanted, then…
food, friends, life, stores food … Cake Decorating Class Last week Carla, Meghan, and I went to our first class of The Wilton Method of Cake Decorating: Course 1 at Michael’s Craft Store. I was hesitant at first, not knowing how much I would have to spend and how much I…
food food Dinner Company Visit Today we prepared our meals for a month at The Dinner Company. We were the only ones there other than one of the owners. It really is nice when there are not a lot of people to compete with for food stations, however, it…
food, stores food … Dinners Made Easy There is a company in Salisbury, MD where in about 2 hours you can prepare meals. Once prepared all you need to do is take the meals home, put them in the freezer, thaw when needed, cook, and dinner is done. It is a…
food, health food … Know the Cause This afternoon I talked on the phone with one of my aunts from PA. We don’t talk very often, but when we do, we cover lots of topics including herbs, medicines, and natural remedies. My aunt was so happy to talk with…
food, health, organic, stores food … Health Store in Salisbury! For the last 11 years there has been a health store in Salisbury, MD and until last week I never knew about it. I have even been to the shopping center where it is located and never noticed – and I think of myself…
food food Sweetness With the removal of Splenda/sucralose from our home, a void has been created in the sweetener category. The search for a safe sweetener continues… When we switched to Splenda in late 2003, I gave away all of my refined sugar. Now, in…
food food Splenda Begone Continues The continuing saga of the Splenda purge… Lots of research later, some alternative have been uncovered. The fun part has been finding alternatives to some of the foods that we have grown to love that contain sucralose. It has been easier than expected…
food food Splenda Begone To all of those family, friends, and acquaintences that I have raved about Splenda to – I will rave about it no more. I thought I was up-to-date on many of the food related issues out there, but apparently I dropped the ball when…