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Chocolate Cream Frosty a la Atkins

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feedUpdated at the end!  2/28/10 I can do this!  Chocolate Cream Frosty while on a diet?  Count me in! I love Love LOVE Atkins.com!  Have you checked out some of the recipes they have there?    You can search by Phase or by [...]

Menu Plan Monday 2-8-10

Yikes!  It’s getting painfully close to Sweet Sally Mae’s birthday.  This is her first time to really be interested in a daily count-down.  It’s been a very real-life demo of why we have to learn subtraction.  Cute! Her birthday is this Friday and we still don’t have a menu for that yet.  But here’s the [...]

Three Reasons and Three Recipes to make Homemade Salad Dressings

The reasons are: It’s frugal. It tastes better, by far! It’s wholesome. The recipes to get you started: Thousand Island Dressing (not Atkins friendly) ½ cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp ketchup 1 Tbsp vinegar 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp sweet pickle relish 1 tsp onion flakes (or minced, fresh onion) pinch each- salt and pepper All [...]

Fit as a Farmhand 2-2-10

This post is linked to Works for me Wednesday and Things I Love Thursday because this diet works! I have never been so excited to get on the scale as I am these days.  Now I can’t wait for Monday mornings to roll around. Atkins diet is kinda difficult since I am only supposed to [...]

Menu Plan Monday 2-1-10

As you may have surmised from my rant last week, it’s a bit of a bummer cooking for folks who are free to eat whatever they fancy while I’m on a diet (even though I love my diet). I’ll post the menu plan for the family, and then explain what I’m eating and it’ll be [...]

OK, Guess what stinks!

I know you don’t really wanna guess , so I’ll tell ya. What stinks is meal planning when I’m on a totally different diet than the rest of the family!  AND I’M A BIT GRUMPY ABOUT IT!  Can you tell? I just planned the next seven days of meals for the family and myself and [...]

Fit as a Farmhand – 1/26/10

This post is linked to Works for Me Wednesdays and Thing I Love Thursdays because I finally did something that worked! I am so excited I hardly know where to begin! Last Thursday I had a tiny bump on my arm, so I went into the bathroom to see if it was a tiny pimple [...]