“Country Blue” melamine flatware is what I grew up eating off of. You will excuse my parents for their apparent lack of taste – it was the ’80s so both melamine and country blue were omnipresent and with three little kids they were just being practical. Eventually they moved on and my mother purchased a …
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Nothing says yummy like Tom Selleck’s chest hair! Coffee cake is one of life’s nicest niceties. Not only does it have crunchy brown sugar streusel layered with moist cake and topped with icing but it also evokes images of tea parties and twee hats and gloves and dresses with nipped-in waists and Peter-Pan collars. Fun. …
Normally I don’t advocate supplement use, especially not all the crap marketed to fitness buffs. In addition to a dizzying array of protein powders (soy! whey! pea! rice! hemp! vegan! insane!), you’ve got pre-workout beverages, post-workout beverages, beans, gels, gus, and a bar for every occasion including – and I kid you not – menstruation. …
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Nothing says SPECTACULAR! like a tower of processed pork products! Mine was a product-centered childhood. Not from any failure on my parents’ part but rather because I was one of the first generations to grow up with a television and TV ads specifically aimed at children. Therefore I have many fond memories of various ’80s …
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One of these things is not like the other… Anna Wintour – Vogue magazine’s editrix-in-chief – made headlines earlier this month in an interview where she said, “I’d just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.” In an bit of irony …
One onerous cross-county trip, somewhere around mile Nebraska, my husband invented a fun little car game. Turning to me with a straight face he said, “Plastic: pro or con?” “Excuse me?” I said and threw some rice cakes behind me, hoping they’d land somewhere in the vicinity of the kids. “Plastic. Are you for it …
Confession Number 1: Today I had a candy bar, sugary cereal, skittles, a Little Debbie cake, dried mangoes, jelly beans (thanks Gym Buddy Mike!), and teddy grahams. Oh yeah, and a giant chewy SweeTart. I may as well have main-lined the sugar and saved my teeth the dentistry. In my defense the teddy grahams were …
In a desperate attempt to unbrand themselves as the patron saint of quadruple bypass surgery, Kentucky Fresh (ha, not Fried anymore, get it??) Chicken restaurants in conjunction with Oprah, the patron saint of dieters, is offering a free two-piece grilled chicken meal deal. All you have to do is go to their site, print up …
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I want this outfit. While I’m wishing for things, I’d also like my waist back to wear it with. To know me in real life is to know one thing about me. No, not my spunky gym craziness (which has sadly diminished since becoming preggo) or my bad dance moves that I will willingly showcase …
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Don’t eat sugar. Spread peanut butter on an apple for a protein-carb snack. Always start dinner with a broth soup or undressed salad. Pack a protein bar in your purse. (Just don’t mistakenly pull out a wrapped tampon on accident instead. Not that I’ve done that. You know, in public, or anything.) Chew gum after …
