Whole Foods = Empty Purse!

  

Today I received a text message from my good friend Jessica. Her words were, "I laughed so hard, got to love Whole Foods."

So, I clicked on the link and began to read.

I too laughed so hard at this article. How many of us know exactly what this lady Kelly Maclean writes about on a trip to her Huge Whole Foods Store.

Click HERE to read the article.

I too have nearly choked back my words of HOW MUCH!! When I see the total of three items!

 And that's just the bread.

 I must say this though, I do like shopping at Whole Foods even on a student budget :/

 I wish that one day I could do a big shop there, but I know that would probably bomb our checking account to a big fat ZERO!! Lol

But, remember this, watch out for us ladies with toddlers in tow crossing the parking lot, when you are in 'looking for an empty parking spot frenzy! :)

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Wiggle That Jiggle Away

My birthday is not far off and I will be turning 44!! ARGH and these days I tend to frown on getting older. *I STILL WANT GIFTS THOUGH ;) A few more lines mysteriously appear overnight, then there the gray hair appear (which I am blessed not to have one yet!) Phew :)

Also, we get the issue of the unwanted visitor around our midriff! Like who invited them to camp out there?  My lady hormones agreed to it and maybe my sweet affection for all delicious treats has added to it, too!

Ladies and Gents, we all get into that slump mode from time to time and those times can last for minutes, days, even weeks! It mounts up, and then snap.... We've stepped on yet another stray Lego or pointy tiara or stubbed a toe or when our little ones/teenagers have pushed our patience to the limits (hubby's, wives, family members, PMS included) that's when we reach for the salty or sweet comforts we all know and love and afterwards we tend to feel glumpy blumpy!
(The word glumpy comes from a writing buddy of mine, I think it's a great word. Check out his writing HERE)

I know I do! 

Walking Seren to school everyday looking at the beautiful  rusty reds, mustard yellows, rich orange colors of the autumn leaves, the brisk cool breeze and the scurrying squirrels with acorns in their mouths has helped sweep away the cobwebs away. I have also noticed a little decrease of my thighs, but those unwelcome campers settlers around my midriff / booty are rather stubborn.

Now, I'm not wanting to that size 0 or even a US 4, I just want to be healthier and firm up my well past post pregnancy grand canyon sized stretch marked belly.  

I'd found a YouTube video of this full of energy mother, named Jessica Byrge  at home, with her little ones making appearances as Jessica shook her booty to the latest music. So, taking the bulls by its horns - metaphorically speaking and to shake off that glumpy blumpy feeling, I stepped into action. After dropping Seren off at school today, I turned my laptop on and Wiggled that Jiggle away with dance fitness with Jessica. 

Let's say I had a lot of fun doing this dance workout and even my little 2 year old, Carys joined in. What about those nuisance campers around my midriff and booty, you ask? Well, they certainly got wiggled and hopefully plenty more days of jiggles will soon wiggle those unseemly squatters away :)

Check  Jessica and her cute kids shaking  along to, All about that Bass on YOUTUBE. 
(I have not been approached by Jessica to promote her dance dvd. I just think she is an inspiration to us stay at home parents, etc. That we can dance away those blues)  

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Fast Food Or Home Cooking?

We all love the quick and easy, no brainer - 'Let's get, take out for dinner.'

I'm I right? - Of course. I can't even count how many take-out's I've gotten over the years, and how many more we most likely have.

But if there's one thing I do a lot of at home is, Home Cooking. 

There is nothing better or healthier than, cooking from scratch. We decide, what goes into our food and how it tastes. We choose if we want to spend a little extra to buy Organic, or not. We can choose, whether or not we want those extra chemicals and icky additives in our foods we make. It is such a relief knowing that, I / you can make the right choices. But when we go and get those yummy, takeout meals - we really don't know what truly goes into that food, do we?

I've read my fair share of books about additives, colorings, etc. And realized that the FDA are NOT doing us regular Joes any favors as to what they add to the run of the mill processed and fast foods.

I'm not saying, I'm never going to ever eat out or pick up a fast food on my way home from a long day out, but what we / I can do is making better decisions as to what fast foods we choose to pick up.

Take a look at this quick Video about, 

'If you Needed a better reason to start making more meals at home, heres one for you'.

We all can do a little better in how we treat our bodies, as to what we put on it, and what we put in it.

Want to make that yummy soup pictured above, click on this link to see how I made this delicious 

Creamy Carrot & Rutabaga Soup - HERE

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