Daily Archives: July 17, 2011

If for some odd reason you don’t have a DQ (Dairy Queen) near you, I’m sorry. Good thing is, I can help. I don’t think I could live without some form of ice cream once a week. It is a must-have on a Fri, Sat, or Sun, sometimes all three. Yes, I save those days and designate them specifically for ice cream.

If you don’t want to make the DQ run, make this…

yum yum

This is the banana soft serve you might have seen floating around the internet and also maybe you spotted in food magazines. This banana soft serve is better than the average soft serve because it has mini Reese’s Pieces blended into it! Woop, woop!

Ingredients:

• 1 frozen banana
• handful of Reese’s Pieces or candy of your choice
• dash of almond milk

Directions:

• Throw in food processor and blend away!   

Oh the weekend goes by so fast. This morning’s eats was a typical bowl of cereal with lots of fruit. I won’t bore you with the photo!

So, as I was reading another health magazine, this page caught my eye…

My question for you is, “What does REAL FOOD mean to you?” In the past I didn’t always think about what ingredients were in a food/product. I thought, well it’s low in fat and calories so I’ll eat it. As I learn more about food and enjoy doing research on food, I realize my previous thoughts on food didn’t align to a REAL FOOD or WHOLE FOOD mentality.

Real food means to me:

• you don’t have to read a label because there isn’t one.
• if there is a label, all ingredients I am able to pronounce
• the ingredient list is short and sweet
• there are no artificial sweeteners in the product (I gave up Diet Coke, oh so hard!)
• there are no added hormones into a product
• the product could fall into a fruit, vegetable, nut or legume category

Now, do I eat things that aren’t real foods? Yes, I do. I try to limit my consumption, but it is really hard to eat only REAL FOODS all day long. Well, it’s hard for me. Maybe not you! I like crackers, cheese, and I really love ice cream!

So what does REAL FOOD mean to you? Do you strictly eat foods that are REAL or do you linger a bit off the path every once in a while?

One more thing…this is my DIY project:

Two windows that I bought for $2 each at a yard sale! I think I am going to punch out the glass, (yikes) sand them down, paint them with a pickling treatment and then use them as a framework to put other items inside. That sounds confusing, but you will see! Hopefully. This is the before, let’s see what the after looks like!