Buy Once Cook Twice

Lately I have been on a roll with recipes and cooking. I have been meal planning and adding new recipes to our family meals. Because of this, I have purchased ingredients for the recipes. And since I have been cutting recipes in half, I have ended up with leftovers of these ingredients.

After I use the ingredient, I search for recipes and ways to use the remainder. I have found some really great recipes! For instance, after one particularly exciting day of reorganizing my pantry. (no really) I realized that I had too many cans of creamed corn. So after searching the internet for recipe ideas that used creamed corn as an ingredient, I found a great recipe for corn/chicken chowder. And the added bonus was that it was easy to make! Now of course, I keep finding recipes for creamed corn and have used it all!

One week at the grocery store, I had a coupon for pesto sauce and it was on sale. So we had a meal with pesto, polenta, and shrimp. This week I will use the remainder to make pesto pizzas. Is it wrong to become excited about these things?

A Pot to Pee In

I think that I should probably be trying the potty training thing with my daughter about now. It seems as though friends of mine have trained their little ones who are my daughter's age but also some who have younger kids are contemplating starting. At my daughter's school, she goes to the potty when the other kids take a visit there. Sometimes, she takes off her diaper and sits on the potty.

I really don't think she has gotten what really happens in the bathroom. Like most kids, she likes to unravel the toilet paper and put it in the toilet and watch it when she flushes. But does not seem to understand that you have to "produce" potty. THIS is why I do not think she is ready for potty training-- ok maybe I am a little lazy too. But I really think that she needs to understand the concept or what you do in the bathroom before we start trying. I mean if she does not understand that potty comes from inside you, then how can she be trained??

She has learned how to pull her pants up and down and take off her diaper. Which is good most of the time, not so good when she is supposed to be napping.

Maybe part of this is me being an older parent. I really don't feel like pressuring her to become potty trained right away. I figure she will do it when she is ready. And when she is ready to do it, it will happen almost overnight! I see too many people say their kid is potty trained and they have "accidents" all the time- to me that is not potty trained.

So I don't really feel pressured to potty train my 32 month old daughter. Like everyone says, she won't get married wearing a diaper, right?

Serving Says...

About a month ago, my husband ate a snack that consisted of 4 pieces of pizza. A day or two later, I talked to him about it and how 4 pieces of pizza is probably not a snack and more like a dinner. At that point, we decided that we needed to change our eating habits and fast!

So we sat down and discussed what changes needed to be made and how we could go about making the changes. The first thing we needed to do was figure out what a real serving looked like!! We had been eating too much for too long! With the two of us on board cheering each other on as well as keeping an eye on the other we set out to change our eating habits and hopefully change our bodies and weight.

We made a few small changes: measure servings of cereal and dressings, eat only the serving size of something and no more, eat more veggies and fruits, have 1 serving of fruit per meal, no seconds, and reduce cheese intake.

My husband began dropping pounds almost instantly, I , however took a little longer to start loosing weight. It has been about 6 weeks and we both can see noticeable changes in each other's midsection. This is not a diet, but a change in diet so hopefully the weight will continue coming off.