Working On Weight Loss: A Few Ideas To Help You Along

As a plus sized girl, I know how important weight loss can be, and how hard it can be to reach your goal weight. For many, the problem isn’t the healthy eating or the exercise - it is continuing with it over a period of time.
Weight loss is hard work.
Everyone has their own route [...]

Fun Snack For Kids: Apples and Peanut Butter

As ketchup is to french fries, peanut butter is that to apples.
Some people believe that peanut butter is bad. It’s got fat in it, the calorie count is high, but… those are the healthy fats and when eaten in moderation it’s actually good for you. Fresh peanut butter without any additives is best.
This [...]

Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain

Thanksgiving has past and now we’ve got to worry about those pesky Christmas pounds. Although Thanksgiving is notorious for weight gain, most of that can be worked off the next day during Black Friday.
Christmas has those great, yummy, fruit cakes with egg nog, gingerbread cookies, etc. They all taste great, they’re all loved, [...]

Simple Barbecue Chicken

This has to be the easiest version of Barbecue chicken, ever. It’s simple and it tastes good.
What You’ll Need:

Chicken
A big pan of water
A baking pan
Barbecue sauce
Tin Foil

Step 1:
If you’re buying the chicken from the store, make sure you buy it in sections. For example, thighs, legs, breasts and wings.
If you’re looking to skim [...]

Trick Or Treating Treats That Are Not So Bad

When it comes time for Halloween, costumes are not the only problem. Finding a treat you won’t feel guilty for is another problem.
All the candy that seems to be given out this time of year is packed full of unhealthy sugars and calories. If you want to give away something that isn’t as [...]

Spooky Treats

With Halloween around the corner it’s time to consider some fun Halloween treats.
I think my favorite would have to be the rice crispy spiders. Mix together everything like you would to make rice crispy treats. In this case, though, add some black food coloring to the mix before adding the rice crispies.
Once you’ve [...]

Fun Treat Friday: Cheerio Bars

Today I wanted to share with you a fun treat that can be enjoyed and is different from the conventional. So I would like to tell you about Cheerio bars. They’re exactly the same as rice krispies bars, but just using cheerios instead.
What will you need?
1/4 cup of margarine
4 cups of mini marshmallows
4 [...]

Making 100% Juice Drinks At Home

Juice can be a very delicious and very good for you. The only problem is, when you buy juice from the store it doesn’t really matter if it’s 100% or not, you really don’t know how long it’s been sitting there or how fresh the fruit was when it was turned into that juice.
The [...]

Healthy Snacks

With the kids now out of school, and playing outside all day long, you’re probably looking for some nice cool treats to keep them happy and are good for them.
The number one healthy treat, no matter what, is fruit and veggies! Nice cold baby carrots with ranch dressing are always a good treat. [...]

Crazy Foods That Are Good

Their are tons and tons of good foods out and about.  Delicious, unhealthy, just yum.  I’m going to tell you about some of my own favorites, that are weird.  Because I am a bit weird.

Cottage Cheese and Chips:  Using the cottage cheese like a dip to dip my chips into and eat.  It tastes the [...]