Operation Fatty: Presentation Matters When Cutting Calories

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I’m determined to lose weight so when my trainer told me I needed to keep my calorie range within 1300-1500, I knew I’d be counting calories and reading labels. She told me to start out by eating what I normally do but smaller portions and when I can, swap out something. We started with soda. [...]

Wordless Wednesday: When’s the Last Time You Visited My Food Blog?

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No Longer a Starbucks Virgin

Yep, I went and did it, got de-virginized in NYC by drinking my first Starbucks Coffee that is. I went with Pumpkin Spice that came highly recommended from Tara, who also said it’s a seasonal coffee. I have to say, I LOVED it. For those of you who don’t know, not only had I not [...]

Mixin’ It Up with My Wooden Spoon

So if you don’t already know, I have my own Blog Talk Radio show called Mixin’ it up with My Wooden Spoon, on the Eleven Moms channel. No, I haven’t done a show yet because frankly, I’m a little skeered!  I’ll be scheduling one soon enough though and hope that you guys all listen in [...]

My Little Cookie Monster

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Remember these Honey Sweet Cookies I made a while back?? Well this little man does and thought they were the best cookies in the world.  I thought it would be the perfect picture to enter into 5 Minutes 4 Mom’s contest about fun, family food.  Well, there’s more to it but you can go read [...]

Cut the Cheese with A Cowboy’s Wife

Because of my awesome opportunity with Kraft Velveeta, I wanted to do something so that everyone else can be involved as well.  I created two groups; a youtube group and a flickr group.  Depending on whether you want to upload a video or picture, you will choose which group is best for you. For the [...]

Weekly Photo Pickins’

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I think all these photos represent Summer fun!  You’ve got steak from barbecuing, the beautiful scenery and sunset, and a cutie patootie swimmer.  What else could you ask for?  BUT, since I can only enter ONE photo into the 5M4M contest, I’m entering the third picture of my little man swimming:) Could this be part [...]