Let’s check in on week six of refined sugar & me in 2017! This week I'm down another pound, making it six pounds total in six weeks. Slow and steady wins... well, I guess it wins you slightly looser pants, if nothing else. I'll take it. 😉 I'm also really liking apple slices with a couple of …

There's a certain irony in writing about Michael Moss' Salt Sugar Fat on the very day I come home from the store with a shopping cart full of dairy, but here goes anyway...! In all honesty, this book took me weeks to finish. It's a fascinating topic and Salt Sugar Fat is very well written, but there's a lot …

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/5/17 -- A day earlier than usual this week, because I got out to the store a day earlier than usual this week. 🙂 Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful. *** Subscribe to …

So the other day I walked by Mrs. Cubbison's baked cheese crisps in the store and saw that they were on sale at $2.49 for a 1.5 oz box -- and that the only ingredient in them is: Cheese. $2.49 for a 1.5 oz box of cheese crisps works out to a whopping $26.56 a …

Let’s check in on week five of refined sugar & me in 2017. This week I'm holding steady: Still a total of five pounds down from where I started, and still feeling better overall -- so after a tumultuous week, let's choose to call this a win. Investing in my health in the new year I'm not one …

Welcome to the January 29, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable. Up this week: Easy Cheesy Chicken and Rice! This recipe was inspired by cheesy salsa verde chicken and rice from Iowa Girl Eats, which I first made pretty much as written earlier …