Gladdest Hours

Breakfast

I have a 2-year-plan to eliminate white flour from our diet and adopt a more whole-foods approach to my cooking.  It's been about a year, and I'm pretty satisfied with the progress made so far.  A year ago, I received the set of Sue Gregg Cookbooks from my mother as a birthday present. 

The first step was getting a breakfast rotation going.  It looked like this:

Sunday - Oatmeal, with various fixings

Monday - Muffins (made in the blender w/whole grain the night before) & Fruit

Tuesday - Eggs and Toast (whole grain, made the night before in bread machine)

Wednesday - Yogurt and Toast or leftover Muffins

Thursday - Kids eat bagels at store while we grocery shop. If no shopping, then Smoothie

Friday - Hot Cereal, other than oatmeal

Saturday - Blender Batter Waffles and Pancakes or cold cereal if I'm out for the morning and Pete's in charge.

The Breakfasts cookbook, by Sue Gregg has been great.  I use it A LOT, and I'm actually thinking about making it my new  bridal shower/wedding/baby shower gift.  All the whole-grain muffins, hot cereals, smoothie and pancake/waffle recipes in this book are delicious and easy.

If I spend just 10-15 minutes the night before getting ready for breakfast, it makes such a difference nutritionally, as well as makes the morning run more smoothly. 

It's January, so time to Re-orient and Re-commit to this once again.   

Edited to include recipe for Blender Wheat Germ Muffins: Download blender_wheat_germ_muffins.doc

Mommies can play dress-up too

I did it.  I got into my wedding dress.  There is this thing called gravity....but, I'm not going for perfection here.    After gaining 160 pounds in less than 5 years (40 pounds per pregnancy) and 4 babies later!  Thank you, Light Weigh. 

Now I just need to have a staircase upon which to descend just like Alice does.   Or maybe I could "imagine myself flowing from room to room in a froofy dress turning down the bed covers and tidying up my children's rooms." like Cheryl writes about. 

Or, maybe I'll just take it off, put on my denim skirt and fleece top and get back to making turkey-surprise with baby-Caroline on my hip.  I don't think there will be any descending or flowing around here any time soon in this dress.

But, it's fun to think about.