Hop On the Weight Loss Train – Yes/No?

Did you make a New Year’s resolution to lose some weight?
How about to work out more this year?
Eat healthier food?

Devour more lettuce? Kale?
Stop drinking soda? Skip dessert now and then?

You didn’t? Really??? Then you are probably enjoying my Cognac-Soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake right now, don’t you? Do you feel drunk?

I haven’t officially decided to start a diet. But I am kinda, wanna, lose some pounds this year. I am slowly digesting this new concept. I think – OK, it’s time. Maybe? At my age (well, I’m not THAT old), after 2 pregnancies, with cooking great food frequently and baking a cake every weekend I earned those extra pounds. Or was it moving to the suburbs, walking much less and driving much more that did the trick?

Who or what can I blame this on?

I used to be a skinny kid because I just didn’t like to eat. Or maybe I didn’t like what I did eat? Whatever. (In the picture above I am actually eating something).

Apparently I was a skinny little newborn baby too. My mom says that my grandma cried when she first saw me. She thought I looked like a quarter of a chicken and that I will not survive. How funny is that?

This is no longer the case.
Yes, I want to lose weight this year. But what am I willing or planning to do? I don’t know yet.

My current thoughts:

1. Should I post about diet and weight loss here at 1f.f.f or in a separate blog? Because I already have a second blog (did you know?), it’s called “Good Food & bad Food” – the things you don’t want to know about your food and it takes a lot of work to keep and promote a blog/s.

2. Are you interested to hear about this at all?

3. Would you like to join me in the journey?

Have you ever swallowed bubble gum?

I’ve been working on some serious stuff for my first 2009 post. I thought it’ll take me a day or two to complete, but plans have changed. My son, 5.5 years old, swallowed a bubble gum. For the first time.
I can hear you laughing.
I did.

His reaction – crying, hysteria, worries, lots of questions, and feeling very upset.
“Is it going to be stuck in my throat?”
“What will happen now?”
“How can we take it out?”
“How will I poop?”

Of course this was an excellent opportunity to have a little fun at his expense. Payback time for all the whining, arguing, and nagging I have to listen to every day, right?!

Well, I didn’t tell him that a bubble gum tree will grow in his tummy – that’s what I was told when it happened to me (you can only imagine how worried I was) – so instead I told him:
I can take big tweezers and try to pull it out of his throat, while I approached him with the big scissors.
He wanted to learn how to make bubbles, so I said that next time air comes out of his rear end, a big bubble will come out of his tuches.

I could go on and on – it was very funny – but he looked somewhat miserable so I quit and comforted him. He did look at me with some disbelief when I said he will be able to poop again. He’s OK now. Watching TV and having a snack. TV & snack does make you forget about your troubles for a while, doesn’t it?

Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.

Now… I’m 100% sure this has happened to you too. What was your reaction when you swallowed a bubble gum for the first time?

What ingredients are in this dish?

Can you guess what is this dish?

The winner who will guess correctly will get the recipe!

UPDATE:
I’m joking, of course. Everyone will see the recipe…
I don’t mean to annoy you with silly questions. Really. There’s a point to all this, I promise.
But before I reveal the answer, tell me, does this look like something you would want to eat?

(When I look at it, it looks to me like little cuts of steak on top of big fries.)


UPDATE: Follow up to this post- Time to Tell You What It Is

With Respect to the Animals

I just watched a horrifying video a few hours ago showing the lives of animals raised on “farms”, from their birth to our table.
I can’t stop thinking about it.

I’d like you to visit my Good Food & Bad Food blog and read the post I wrote about it, “Can We Eat Like That and Be Healthy?”

No, this doesn’t mean that I am becoming a vegetarian now. But I did think what can I do that is doable, practical, and will make a change? Even if it is a small one. Because if millions of people will make a small change, then together, it will make a huge difference, don’t you think?!

I have decided that:
1. At least two nights each week we will have a vegetarian dinner.
2. At least once a week, I will pay more to buy meat/chicken/seafood from sustainable, free-range, organic, preferably local farms.

Tonight it’s going to be an Upgraded Pizza (recipe here) and a Citrus Salad (recipe here) for dinner.

What ideas do you have so more animals can live a respectful healthier life which will make our food healthier and better for us?

Will You Kill a Spider on Halloween?

I was at the grocery store this morning buying ingredients to make pumpkin cupcakes for all kinds of fall festivals.
As I was imagining how I will photograph the cupcakes, looking at all the Halloween stuff around me, a thought came to my mind – what if a real live big spider was crossing by the cupcakes as I was shooting the cupcakes.

And then I thought, and I ask you:

What do you do when you find a real live spider in your home on Halloween day?
1. You kill it
2. You let it live

If you kill it, how do you do it?
1. Smash it with a book
2. Pick it up gently with a fluffy Kleenex and flush it in the toilet
3. Step on it
4. Other, ________________


If you let it live, do you,
1. keep it in the house as a pet
2. keep it in the house as a guest
3. take it outside to live in the wild
4. other, __________________


???

Nurit