Did you know April is Stress Awareness Month, Poetry Month, National Volunteer Month, National Humor Month, Eating Disorders Awareness Month, National Car Care Month (I might take advantage of this one!), and National Pecan Month? Those are only just a few that I came up with in just a few short clicks. Among the many [...]
++This Giveaway is now closed++ The winners are: Ellen B. (@elliebunny24) Lainie Painie at Healthy Schmealthy Still Mary! Email your snail mail address to christieo at shrinkingjeans.net! * * * Why did the chicken cross the road? TO ESCAPE FROM MY MICROWAVE OF COURSE! I have become co-dependent on a very, very convenient chicken [...]
Happy Friday!! Be prepared, because I am going to overwhelm you with goodness today! There are so many things going on, and I had to share them with you! First of all, our very own Social Sister Colleen is running in her very first 1/2 marathon this weekend AND she celebrated her ‘One Year Living [...]
I will preface this recipe by saying I’m a fisherman’s daughter. So I’m quite partial to salmon…FRESH, PACIFIC, WILD CAUGHT SALMON. This recipe though? Calls for canned. Every year at Christmas, my parents give everybody canned salmon, and usually I turn it down. Bad memories from childhood,usually involving my mom trying to pass off canned [...]
So, it’s the day of the Big Game! Are you all set and ready for your football party this evening? If you’re still looking for a great last minute dip idea for your party, you’re in luck! I’ve got two of them for you. Not only are they tasty, but they won’t blow your calorie [...]
I do love me a recipe that is quick, easy, and includes the vegetable in the recipe. Tropical Chicken (Packets) definitely fits the bill. Cook this up and serve it over some brown rice and you are good to go. Now, you’ll see below that the original recipe is actually set up for cooking out [...]
I love salad. Pure and simple. If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I think I could live on salad. There are so many different kinds. So many ways to make a basic green salad and then change it up a hundred different ways. I bought the Sandra Lee [...]
For the most part, my family is a raw vegetable bunch. I normally just buy a veggie conducive to eating raw, cut it up, set out some ranch dip or hummus, and we’re good to go. But this Oriental Green Beans is one vegetable recipe that I head back to every now and then. The [...]
We’re wrapping up this month’s project for November where we tried some of the recipes featured in the Taste of the Sisterhood and I got a chance to make a bunch of YOUR recipes too! It was AWESOME! And by the way, I went in for a second round of the crock pot oatmeal I [...]
This is another recipe from my South Beach cookbook. I made this last week and loved it! It even works for the strict Phase 1 weeks! Source: The South Beach Diet Quick & Easy Cookbook. Taste of the Sisterhood is sponsored by Attune Foods!
Winner winners! John, Meredith, and Tracy- you are the lucky winners of this giveaway. Please email your mailing addresses to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net as soon as possible. Thanks and congrats! I am a V8 convert. First with the V8 V-Fusion + teas and now with the V8 Low Sodium Spicy Hot Vegetable Juice. We did a review [...]
I should be sending you off with a recipe today that includes some variation of turkey but the truth is, I sent the carcass home with my mom so she could make some turkey soup so today I am featuring a non-turkey-thanksgiving-related recipe! Besides, maybe you’re tired of turkey by now and you’re in the [...]
The Taste of the Sisterhood has been a blessing to me and my dwindling recipe repertoire if I might say so myself. I hope you’ve been trying some of our wonderful recipes and if you have, please link up here if you’ve posted about them or tell us which ones you’ve tried! That’s what this [...]
Thanksgiving. Christmas. Hannuakah. Kwanza. New Year’s Eve. New’s Year’s Day. A lot of holidays happen during the next six weeks. It’s a love-hate relationship: you love to eat everything but you hate how it makes you feel and look. If you are like me, it does appear that my jeans shrink around the holidays every. [...]
I only have sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving, and usually laden with butter, brown sugar, marshmallows and pecans. Not so good for me, eh? I love the taste of sweet potatoes and while I had heard “they are good for you”, I never really knew why until I started researching for this post. My friend Wikipedia [...]
