Finding Fabulous Food, Photos and Crafts to Share
Books: For fiction, I am reading “Navigating Early” by Clare Vanderpool. It is a Mark Twain nominee and she is the author of a Newberry Award winning novel as well. So far enjoying the plot immensely. It is about a young Kansas boy who has been uprooted and sent to Maine for boarding school. He …
Book: Still reading “When to Rob a Bank” and having to explain each time that I’m not really going to rob a bank! And the one small chapter about robbing banks basically is that there is no good day to rob a bank (duh) and that there is a way to do it. But most …
I hope everyone had a fabulous Fourth of July! What I learned this week: -Aldi has wild caught salmon for $3.99 per bag of 4 filets. Sounded awesome… and WAY cheaper than Costco. Then….. I read that it is a product of China. -Watermelon is a fruit AND a vegetable! These fruit/vegetable debates are about …
Exercise: I like this Upper Body and Cardio workout because you get upper body strength training in while also doing cardio intervals. The upper body strength training usually doesn’t make you sweat, but alternating like this helps gets your heart going. If you are stuck in the middle of nowhere and can’t jump and can’t go …
Exercise: I keep forgetting to add an exercise update! Here is Abs on Fire – a routine that does rounds of abs and rounds of cardio for 30 minutes. Like everything on there, it is totally free and they don’t sell you anything. Just preach real food and good exercise routines 🙂 Food: Kid …
We have a new favorite craft blog. An elementary art teacher has posted many of her art projects that the students do in class. Need an idea for rainy summer day? Check out Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue. The crafts are even tagged by grade level and medium. If you have some basic paint brushes, …
Granola works great: on top of yogurt, on baked fruit as a crisp topping, in a fruit salad, muffins, with milk, making homemade granola bars, or I just consume copious amounts out of it from the pantry. This granola muffin recipe is amazing! It must start out with GOOD granola though. The granola is the star of …
I have spent the past few evenings making cookies for “Amerikids” the musical. It is a play Wentzville Christian Church is performing this Sunday at 6pm. And…. there are cookies afterwards! The musical talent is awesome. Plus, it’s free! I will take some more detailed photos and explain how to do the cookies step by …
Happy Mother’s Day! I was just watching Netflix Ted Talks again. One talk was heralding how great white bread is due to the fact that it represents our industrialization of food. Without that industrialization, we couldn’t live on 2% of farming familites or feed ourselves pasta from Italy. Louise Fresco points not to the American …
“Meet Me in St. Louis” is over! I have my life back! 😉 Our book club book for this month is “Stargirl” by Jerry Spinelli. I finished watching “Fed Up” on Netflix. It has been released for a while now and worth watching. The basic premise is that the American public has been told …
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