Back To Basics | My Favorite Everything

05.31.10

Week 1 ~ Battle of the Belly

Sooooo, how is everyone doing?? I gotta say, week 1 really wasn't that bad! I actually lost 5 pounds and we ate REALLY GOOD food. What were some of your favorite things you made? We LOVED the Avocado Orange Salad (p 100 FBFD). The Berry Good Peanut Butter Scones (p 73 FBFD) were a GREAT breakfast staple. Hay even made a try for it. The Penne Pasta Salad (p 95...

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05.24.10

the battle begins…

So sorry not to get this posted for Monday! I realized that I was going to need to give you a breakfast, lunch and dinner meal plan - which takes A LOT of time. Especially when you are running back and forth to the computer and juggling the Littles and helping hubby and doing our basic weekend activities. I thought I would get it finished Sunday night, but after laying...

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05.20.10

Battle of the Belly Bulge

So instead of posting a meal plan today, I wanted to let you all know what plan of attack I plan on taking to fight my 3 years of baby lbs. I saw this segment one morning on the Today Show and it looked interesting to me for a few reasons: It gave me a cookbook with photos and recipes to choose from. There were meals that I could make...

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05.19.10

More fun laundry tips…assuming laundry is fun

OK Seriously, this one I'm going to have to try! Yesterday it was Chalk, and today I've got another wacky tip from my MOUNTAINS of Apartment Therapy catching up... This was a comment shared by an Apartment Therapy reader, on their Spring Cleaning: Green Laundry Products post: "I was a firm lover of (dryer sheets) until I found that I could take aluminum foil, ball it up, and toss it...

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05.18.10

wordless wednesday ~ chalk??

In the major overhaul over at our house, I've also been catching up on reading blogs that I love to follow, but have just gotten so behind! One of the steps I took was to move most of them to an RSS subscription on my Google Reader and have been catching up on them when I give Piper her 4:00AM bottle. Would you believe I had 231 posts from Apartment...

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05.17.10

back to basics ~ the container store

Somehow I don't think this is what The Container Store had in mind when they said we needed to hang our laundry....but hey, my ovens are next to the very small laundry room and it works! In keeping with the theme Back to Basics, I'm going to focus on Laundry and Laundry Rooms this week. I'm a huge fan of organization. I love The Container Store. Don't believe me? Read...

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05.16.10

the need for getting back to basics

Last week was a meet your maker week for me. I had hit a wall and needed to regroup. I love my family, my husband, my Littles. But I was struggling to make it all work for us and for me. My sweet husband and suggested I take some time off, maybe get a massage. The problem with this is that I would still come back to the problem. My...

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