These are a few of my favourite things....

I suppose that most women would feel insulted if their husband presented them with a bathroom scale for their 38th birthday.  Good thing I am not most women. :c)  (I just discovered by accident that the letter c makes a funny nose. Think it'll catch on?) The new digital model (scale, not nose) is (of all things) accurate, much nicer than the old one which left us guessing about how much math to do before finding the actual weight.  But I promised my man, who is undoubtedly tired of hearing about it himself,  that I would not be carrying on to the world indiscriminately about my latest fitness craze, and I'll stick to that promise.  But if you do want to hear about it, I'll make you my friend over at MyFitnessPal.  Just send me your email address, or if you're already a member, let me know your username and we'll link up!


So, what's new here?  Well, let's see.  A few weeks back I came up with the idea to make a list of snacks to post on the fridge so that when the inevitable 'what's for snack?' question comes up, I can tell them to pick something off the list instead of vainly trying to come up with something other than a cookie.  Not sure why I hadn't thought of making a list years ago.  I make lists for everything else.   Anyway, it's working.  We are now choosing better snacks more often.  Not all participants are necessarily happier, but that wasn't the point.  Wanna know what's on the list?  I'll tell you, and if you have any more ideas to add to the list, could you let me know?  Much appreciated!  Nothing grand here, but this is it:

cheese and crackers

celery and peanut butter (my current favourite - the more peanut butter, the better)

fruit

carrot sticks (or just a peeled carrot, if you're like some around here and don't mind a sore jaw)

trail mix

yogourt

applesauce

crackers and hummus (homemade, with peanut butter as one of the main ingredients, of course)

popcorn (cheapest option here, even when made with real butter which is the only way to make it IMHO)

ricecakes and peanut butter

(almost) anything with peanut butter

I remember that as a kid one of my favourite snacks was two saltine crackers with peanut butter sandwiched in between,  squished together until the peanut butter came oozing out the holes. It's high time someone came up with a good GF cracker that will do that.  Really.  I suppose if you're handy with a drill...? Never mind.

All this peanut butter talk is making me hungry, so it's time to change the subject.

Sigh.  Now there's two things I shouldn't talk about.  Two of my current loves.  Now what?

Perhaps I should go and do something.

Eating celery with peanut butter is doing something, isn't it?

P.S. A while back someone kindly sent me an email to say hi and introduce themselves. Somehow that email got deleted and I neglected to respond.  I'm so sorry about that.  Please accept my apologies!  I'd love to hear from you again...