Hey! Where's My Feet?

Would you looky there!  We're 10 days into a new year and I have yet to post my prepetual blog about how this is going to be the year... this is the year that I'm really gonna do it!  I'm gonna start eating healthy, exercising and getting back into shape.  Hmmmm... maybe because every time I post that blog, I fail.  So guess what... not doin it this year. Not posting about how this is the year, blah blah blah... nope, instead I'm just gonna do it!  As a matter of fact I've already started... been eating healthy (caveman style), exercising etc and guess what... I've got the first week done and I've lost 9 pounds!!!!!  Can you say Saaaweeeet!?  I know right!?  Granted it's no Biggest Loser result but I'll take it any week! The biggest changes I've made, other than exercising and eating healthy, is that I've cut out ALL fast foods, ALL processed foods, no grains/breads and a few other little things... surprisingly I feel great!  I'm not ...

It's review time kiddies... if you know me, you know two of my most favorite things are bacon and vodka.  You top them with a hefty helping of carbs and we're good to go... now I'm really not so sure how I feel about vodka being in my sghetti sauce, I'm just a little skeered about my food tasting like alcohol.  Bacon on the other hand... let me at it! So there I was cruising the aisle's at Meijer when what do my wandering eyes see... BACON & PROVOLONE Sauce!!!!!!!!!  I give it a woot woot and jumped across the aisle to grab a couple jars - best part, they were on SALE!!!  We put it to the test last night... Bacon & Provolone Spaghetti night was a hit.  The kids loved it, mom ate it but didn't divulge feelings either way.  I however, always have a feeling and an opinion about stuff so here's the low down... It's good.  Different, but good.  It didn't (or at least I didn't tase any) really have much of a bacon flavor per say to i...

That little four letter word that will drive you insane... DIET! Yeah yeah yeah, I know... you've heard it all before.  There's a fad diet around every corner you turn and I've likely tried every single stinkin one of them!  The grapefruit diet, cabbage soup diet, Atkins, HCG, Apple Cider Vinegar, Dukan etc... Well a month or so back I was reading the Reader's Digest and there was a wonderful article about this diet that the Editor had devised and wrote a book about.  How she'd spent years and years compiling and researching what works... yeah, right - skinny thing that she is knows all about trying to lose weight.  And of course there were success stories involved to insprie the uninspired - like me. What the heck, none of the others have worked, we'll give this one a whirl.  Of course in the Reader's Digest they didn't give details - you have to get the book.  To the library I went... they didn't have it, all the interlibrary resources ...

Well now it appears as though I haven't posted anything here in an extremely long time!  Holy cow, how does that happen?  I know it had been a while but APRIL!!??  Certainly I've tried new recipes & gadgets since then... geez, what a slacker I am!  But in my defense, I moved in August and now my internet time is VERY limited so that's part of the lack of posting but what about the 4 months prior... ?? So let me just sound off about a little sumpin to get this blog restarted... are you ready to rumble!? At the end of August I took Baby Girl school shoppin for some new clothes... she was starting in a new school, one that doesn't require uniforms like her last school, so she pretty much needed a whole new wardrobe - yeah, that's not happening in one shopping trip! Can I just say, I was a little disgruntled with the attire I found available for her age group of 5-6 yr olds.  I thought I had traveled back in time to the 80s!!  Don't get...

... SNAP Fitness that is! Joining a gym is something I've been wanting to do for the longest time but always had a reason, or excuse if you will... probably more reason than excuse though.  Well with our recent move to Northern MI, I am closer to family thus I have someone (many someone's if need be) that will watch the kids while I get my sweat on!  My wonderful cousin Krista has been working out and eating all healthy like for probably a year or so and is rockin it out on weight loss - you go girl!  I know she's always had good things to say about SNAP Fitness so I thought now was the time to step it up, they're open 24/7, no contracts and reasonably priced - one of the several reasons I had yet joined before.  Then there's Kasey, she's been rocking it out too this year with getting all healthy... she has equipment at home which would be my ideal set up but I think we all know I have no will power and I need to have my ass drug to the gym or it ain't ha...

It’s review time!   I was at the store a week ago and saw these “Energy Blasts” by PowerBar® on clearance!   Of course at first I thought they couldn’t be to good if they’re on clearance – right?   Right… kinda.   I bought ‘em anyway cause I figured it’d be a good “healthy” work snack for when the munchies creeped up on me. The box describes them as gel filled chews… really?   They’re bland gummy drops with a pea size goop of red stuff that tastes nothing like raspberry.   While still edible, not exactly a gummy bear… though I will finish off the box, so I guess they aren’t completely horrendous.   The thing that get’s me though is their “claim” of being “energy blasts”…. I think they forgot to add the energy.   Granted I’ve only had one serving/pouch but still… oh wait… it says they are for use before or DURING moderate & high intensity exercise.   Oops… I know I’ve been slacking on the work out stuff lately but has it been so long...

Just over a week ago I was at Rudy's BBQ in Leon Springs TX feasting on beef brisket and the best tasting cream corn I've ever had!  I knew I wasn't going to be able to get any safely back to MI with me so I took it as a challenge to figure it out and make my own version.  I'd tried making cream corn once before like some character did on one of those cooking shows but I didn't have the patience... and being that today was a lazy day - it was cream corn by crock pot! Now I don't know if this tastes like Rudy's because I don't have any Rudy's immediately available for comparison but I will tell you... this turned out to be some damn good cream corn if I do say so myself!  The secret ingredient (thank you Danette for the tip) is cream cheese.  I knew I was gonna have to "cream" it up but wasn't sure what to use and I'll be darned if the cream cheese wasn't it!  The hard part came in getting the ratio right, which I didn't b...