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Top Five/Bottom Five: Ice Cream Flavours

I know people will have some Thoughts on this subject. Let’s remember we’re all friends here and that there are no right or wrong answers. (Okay, there are some wrong answers; liquorice or bubble…

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  • Food, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • May, 27, 2024
  • 43 Comments

Two Lunches I’m Loving + Weed Killer + Giveaway Winners

How’s that title for setting up a blogging smorgasbord?

LUNCHES I’M LOVING

First up is a filling, quick meal I can prep ahead of time. It requires three ingredients (well, a few more if you consider…

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  • Food, Giveaway!, Random
  • Mar, 06, 2024
  • 26 Comments

A Current Pebble In My Shoe – School Lunchboxes

I am over school lunchboxes.

In fact, I am here:

I don’t even have the energy to discuss what I’ve been packing and how, slowly, both kids have mostly lost all will to eat those packed…

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  • Food, Parenting
  • Feb, 15, 2024
  • 37 Comments

Life Lately: A Roundup of What I’ve Been Eating, Watching, and Reading + Recipe Recommendations?

Time to talk food, television, and books. Who’s ready?

FOOD

I recently took part in a church-wide fast. For the first time – in my life! – I abstained from food for a spiritual reason, and…

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  • Food, Life, Reading
  • Feb, 08, 2024
  • 48 Comments

I Thought I Was Ready To Use A Scale Again. I Wasn’t.

In May of 2022 I started eating “intuitively.” For the better part of twenty years I had cycled between different eating regimens looking for the Elusive Golden Key of Nutritional Truth that would unlock…

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  • Food, Mental Health, Personality Insights
  • Jan, 10, 2024
  • 43 Comments

Top Five/Bottom Five: The Cookie Edition

This one is for Engie. A few weeks ago she suggested I post about the best and worst cookies (apparently she has – and I quote – “STRONG feelings”). I didn’t get around to…

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  • Food, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • Jan, 09, 2024
  • 35 Comments

Following Up, 2023 Blog Top Fives, and More Randomness

I finally feel like Christmas break is over. There are so many layers involved in preparing for the holiday, and just as many layers involved with dismantling things. I was behind on laundry and…

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  • Blogging, Food, Random, Sabbath
  • Jan, 04, 2024
  • 47 Comments
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