YAY!
I know a lot of you are on this journey with me, so when I found and tried this product (which I bought with my own money, no one is compensating me in any way to write this, except Amazon Associates if you decide to buy it via this link - I think I get 75 cents or something) I knew I had to share it with you.
Behold, the ADJUST-a-BUTTON!
This is one of those products that I look at and think, "Duh! Why didn't I think of that??" It's a button on a lapel pin. If you've lost weight and you need to tighten up your pants (so you're not lookin' like a fool, right?), all you do is stick the pin through the waist of your jeans a couple inches past where the button is sewn, and then you button the button hole through the button on a pin, rather than the button that's already there.
Brilliant.
I'm hoping that with this product I can buy every-other-size of pants, rather than every size, on the way down. Thus saving myself lots of money.
Money that I can spend on cute tops, instead.
Speaking of tops, have you tried VitaTops? HungryGirl swears by them, but I was skeptical (mainly because of the name, who wants to eat something that tastes like vitamins?). I tried them yesterday, and YUM.
They're only 100 calories, and there's a lot of good fiber and vitamins and stuff going on in there. I got mine at the grocery store for about $1 each, but you can buy them from Amazon for a bit more and get them shipped straight to your door. Note that you have to keep them in the freezer, because they don't contain any preservatives, so before you go and buy a case, make sure you have the freezer space to deal with them, ok? I got the "deep chocolate" that I linked to, there, but there are lots and lots of flavors. Try them and let me know which you like. (FYI, Kroger carries the Deep Chocolate and the Corn Muffin flavors).
Speaking of corn meal, I made mush for my kids for breakfast the other day, because Claire is obsessed with Goodnight Moon ("Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush..."). They didn't love it. It was super easy, though. All you do is mix 1/2 cup of corn meal with 2 cups of water, and stir it and stir it on the stove until it thickens. It looks and tastes kind of like cream of wheat. Like I said, my kids didn't love it, but it was kind of fun anyway. I like to "cook the book." When Mary Grace was obsessed with Peter Rabbit (I must have read that book 1000 times) she really got into having chamomile tea for snack.
One last thing, speaking of corn, have you seen Food, Inc.? Oh. My. God. It made me feel really good about our decision to feed our kids organic milk (Horizon, usually) and organic beef (that we get from BJ's uncle, who is a farmer south of here). I'm currently shopping for an organic pork farmer - the farmer's market starts in April, and I'm 85% sure I remember a pork farmer being there. I have a source for "happy chickens" (coincidentally it's the same person I get happy popcorn from, and it's way better than grocery store popcorn. Please don't eat the microwave stuff with any sort of frequency. The yellow dye in the butter will kill you. Besides, it's super easy to make real popcorn on the stove and it tastes a zillion times better). Anyway, jeez, ramble much Amy?
Food Inc. is about the way our food is made in the U.S., and all the things that are wrong with that system. I really think that we all need to think more critically about what we're eating, and why we're eating it, and what we can do to make healthier, more sustainable choices. You know this is something I've been thinking about a lot, lately, because I wrote this not too long ago.
If you have Netflix you can download Food Inc. and watch it for free. It's also available on-demand from Amazon for a couple bucks - click here - Food Inc.
Did you see Oprah talking about this last week? She had Alicia Silverstone on, who is my age and still looks 17 so she must be doing something right, along with Michael Pollan and they talked very carefully about food (because Oprah got sued a few years ago by the beef industry for saying, "I'm not eating hamburger anymore..." Crazy! Isn't this America??). Anyway, it was very thought provoking, and I challenge all of you to see it, and tell me what you think!
That is enough rambling for today. Go forth and shop!! Let me know what you think if you try (or have tried) any of this stuff.
4 comments:
YAY on the "plumber's pants", but BOO on not learning how to sew on a button or add a dart to the back of pants. For $18 I will gladly move your buttons over and add a dart (which doesn't need to be pretty just functional since you are not keeping the pants).
Keep up the good work!!
You're right, of course. I am profoundly impaired when it comes to sewing. :)
Amy,
The cornmeal mush I had growing up was a 2 step process. First you made the cornmeal mush like you did. But have a loaf pan ready, lined with plastic wrap, pour it in, and cover with more plastic wrap and set it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, unmold, slice into 1" slices and fry on the griddle, preferably in the leftover bacon grease you might have. I suppose butter would work too. Top with butter and maple syrup. You get the ying yang thing going with the saltiness of the bacon and sweetness of the syrup. Yummy! Enjoy!
Erin
Erin - that's what my great-grandma used to make, too, but that's Fried Mush, not a "bowl full of mush." As I understand it, you put the leftover mushy mush in the fridge overnight to firm it up, and have fried mush the second day.
I remember it being fairly good, but if I'm going to go to all that trouble (and all those calories!) I'd rather just have pancakes. :)
Grandma also put popcorn in milk. She was from Iowa, and they do all kinds of interesting things with corn.
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