Comments on: Small steps

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:17:39 +0000

I served brown rice last night. John devoured it but the 17 year old son looked at me strangely and said, “What did you put in this stuff?”
The eight year old boy doesn’t like the meatloaf that I also served so he used the rice to diguise the meat!
I’ve been taking baby steps for a few years. I’m working on erasing refined sugar now.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:14:51 +0000

Leslie…You’re not going crazy. Here’s the smoothie reference.

Holly, I think that is a leftover shirt from a Looney Tunes outfit…

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:28:36 +0000

That is a really smart way to do it…to change slowly. I tend to want to make quick changes and that does not work so well.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:23:19 +0000

Just stumbled upon your blog, congrats on your award! We’ve taken steps to eat better as well. I think I read on your blog about smoothies (we do the same thing). I also freeze those as popsicles. Works great.

By: DeputyHeadmistress

DeputyHeadmistress — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:07:49 +0000

What a fun post. Years ago I tried to slowly switch my family over to vegetarian. I did it in small baby steps over a period of months. The night I thought I had achieved success my husband looked at me over his dinner with a twinkle in his eye and said, “I know what you’ve been up to, and I will have meat on this plate tomorrow night, right?” Heh, heh.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:43:15 +0000

She’s wearing a Raggedy Ann shirt! How cute!!!!

(At least it looks like the shirt that MY Raggedy Ann wore when I was a child!)

By: Jo in Orlando

Jo in Orlando — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:48:27 +0000

LOL! …Haircut courtesy of the three-year-old….

And just in time for Christmas pictures! Gotta love that. How did she get her to sit still? And did baby energizer have a Samson-like reaction to her hair being cut? Perhaps a weakening of her batteries?

By: gwen

gwen — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:16:08 +0000

Small steps! It is what we all must take… thanks for the encouragement.

Just one word of advice on the brown rice - my husband used to gag at the mere mention of the word, but now I saute the rice (1 cup) in butter, then add garlic powder or crushed garlic (whatever is on hand), then once the flavors have intensified, I add my 2 cups of stock. The stock is key for two reasons - the first is that real (ie. homemade) meat stock gives you the added protein for your meal, the second taste. The other thing I frequently do is add some seasoning to the rice to complement the other things we serve - rice and beans? I add cumin and a tiny smidge of chili powder, for example.

I got the greatest compliment the other day when my husband said that he never knew I could make brown rice tatse so good.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:55:45 +0000

who cut her bangs?

Haircut courtesy of the three-year-old.

By: Jo in Orlando

Jo in Orlando — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:50:48 +0000

I just want to grab those little cheeks and squeeze them! What a cutie. ummm….who cut her bangs?