lo-cal

Just a few quick ways to keep your calories on the down-low:

Forget the salad dressings, use redwine vinegar with salsa instead, or just salsa - it gives your salad the wetness your palate is used to, adds a little flavor (or alot depending on the salsa) and it's REALLY low in calories.

Swap your soda for some mineral water. Add some fresh fruit, strawberries, blueberries, apples, kiwis, or just a lemon wedge. The water is refreshing kept really cold in the fridge and the fruit is a treat at the end.

Add mineral water to your wine. This accomplishes two things. 1. It reduces the amount of wine you drink, thus lowering your calorie intake. 2. mineral water has lots of nutritional value. Also, it doesn't affect the flavor of your wine - I promise!

NEVER butter your bread. Really you won't miss it.

Reach for mustard instead of mayo or ketchup - it's lower in calories and you can get some really yummy deli mustard that add lots of flavor to your sammich.

over and out!

sorry!

Sorry to say I have been neglecting my blog. I have had so much going on - and not good stuff either. But as the old song goes, 'I will survive'. (And I love both versions, Gloria Gaynor and Cake) Not only will I survive but I will get back to my blog AND I am going to figure out how to post pics come hell or high water. So....see you soon!

what do you say?

When it comes time to talk well... I talk, and talk. When they have questions, I have answers. When they don't ask, I offer answers anyway. Really I think it's the best way to arm your kids with most everything they need to keep themselves safe and help them make decisions. I do believe there should be 'need to know' guidelines when it comes to certain information - but basically you can go ahead an acuse me of telling too much and that is fine with me. I have never been one to call certain body parts funny little names, a vagina is a vagina and a penis is a penis. As you can imagine this goes over really well with my siblings as they don't neccessarily have the same opinion when it comes to talking to their own. And to that I say, hmmph!