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  It was a weekend of good food. We love good food. How about you? Here’s what we ate –

Saturday Dinner –

Ravioli with my tomato sauce and mozeralla cheese

Salad with green leaf lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes and green onion, topped with an Italian salad dressing.

Garlic bread

Ice cream bar

Sunday Brunch –

Scrambled farm fresh eggs with Cheese

Sausage

Toast with butter and honey

Black grapes

Sunday Dinner

Steak

Salad (repeat of the previous salad)

Fresh green beans

All three of those meals were about 20 minutes to the table.

I figure the ravioli dinner ran about $4 per person.

The steak dinner, about $5.50 per person.

The brunch, about $2 per person.

A little more than I usually spend on dinners, but it was Mothers Day afterall!

What foods were not very good for us? Do you know?

The Ravioli was packaged and contained a lot of ingredients that no food loving Italian would have put in their food. Additives, GMO oils, and I don’t even want to think about the quality of the meat. That’s why I usually make mostaciolli.

The sausage is fatty and full of nitrates. The jury is out on this one. One Doctor is saying nitrates actually are good for you. I don’t know about that. But a couple pieces once in a while …

But the worst cultprits?

It was a tie.

The bottled salad dressing is full of GMO oils and corn syrup. So is the ice cream bar. OK, the ice cream bar has more calories, but we don’t care about calories.

And we took a walk both days.

It pains me that I haven’t been able to totally remove prepared foods from our diet, but the truth is – I live in the real world just like you do. There’s only 24 hours in the day.

But, little by little, I’ve been able to remove more of the toxic foods. While I’m well aware that no amount of these foods are safe, I hope that I have minimized the risk.

And lets face it – the older we get, the more important it is to try and maintain our health. Its a choice between good food, or living on drugs.

Of course the added benefit is – When you choose good food, you won’t have to worry about dieting.

Have you started making the change yet?

Remember that little changes add up to big results. Make one little change today.

 

If you have the luxury of staying home this weekend – you can be cooking up a storm with the new recipes inside the members area!

Like the French Style Pot Roast in the Crock pot section… so good. Or the Baked Chicken Bruschetta in the Chicken section.

Let me know what you try! I’ll be over after work

Have fun with the new content this month.

 

You’ve often heard that there’s a difference between ‘old money’ and ‘new money’. There’s a different way of thinking, acting, and living that people with ‘old money’ have. They have wisdom and confidence that the ‘new money’ people don’t have. They’re not out to prove anything like the ‘new money’ people are.

The same thing applies to people who have been thin most of their lives vs people who are newly thin. That doesn’t mean that the ‘old thin’ haven’t ever gained weight. Most of them have. They’ve had babies, and stress, and other problems just like anyone else. But because of their long held habits, they were able to get back to their former thin & healthy selves.

The ‘new thin’ on the other hand will try to sell you on some new fast diet, miracle food, pills, or other such nonsense. They get excited about their new results and they want to tell you about it, and that’s admirable. Unfortunately, the solutions rarely work long term. You’ll never know that because these people just disappear. Unless you’re Kirstie Alley…

The ‘old thin’ are not on the Internet telling you what works. To them, its the lifestyle they’ve always lived.  It never occurs to them that they have the solution to your problem. They think everyone knows this stuff. They shake their heads when they see what people choose to eat. They just think that you’re fat and lazy.

They don’t understand that most people have not been taught how to live a thin & healthy lifestyle.

How many people today know how to cook a great meal from scratch?

Not too many.

One of my friends served Hamburger Helper once. Her husband forbids her to ever make it again. We’re serious about our food –  Don’t give us that nasty garbage!

The problem is, most of the good cooks are getting older. You’d better learn now before we’re all dead!

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I just watched Julia and Julia. I was really looking forward to seeing it. Everything I heard about the movie was good.

The first problem is – I hated Julia Childs. Her voice was totally annoying. I thought she was self absorbed and snooty. I thought her show was terribly boring. I had no interest in making meals that took hours to make. Did this movie capture her essence as I remembered it? Oh yeah. And the way she snubbed the other Julia? Totally what I would have expected from her.

Now the message of persistance, and not giving up on your dreams, and the importance of people supporting you were all great, but I was bored. I thought the movie went on and on…

One good thing I can say about Julia Childs is that she did inspire people to cook good food. Her cookbook continues to sell well. Where I think she missed the mark is making it easier to eat good food everyday. But she wrote from the angle of a rich woman who had nothing else to do.

That’s not us, is it?

She was 91 when she died, so – eating well does work wonders. Her husband was 92 when he died.

So we have the best of both worlds here, healthy food that tastes good AND you can make fast!

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