Happy Wed! We have one week till Christmas!! Chris and I sharting thinking about what we want to eat for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We always do the same thing on Christmas Day but Christmas Eve tends to vary year over year. I will share our menu plan below...what are you planning to have for Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day meals? I want to make sure I am not missing any good ideas? 😂
Christmas Eve: My favorite meal: Skirt steak, chicken things, and shrimp on the griddle (all like fajitas).
Christmas Day: Fancy Steaks (from Costco 😂) and crab legs/shrimp. We'll also do a little meat/cheese tray appetizer at some point too.
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
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Everywhere you go these days you see protein promotion. Protein this, or protein that. Even saw protein pop tarts. We take the kids to a climbing gym and they had these locally made "protein" cookies on the counter for sale. "22 grams of protein!". I checked the back label...92 grams of carbohydrates! I'm glad people are prioritizing protein, on net, I think that's great, but this sort of manipulation to make people think there's a health benefit is ridiculous.
What kinds of crazy protein promotion have you seen? Do you think normies will figure it out?
Big food Win today… someone in our life who has caused a large amount of trauma and abuse to my family showed up at church this morning and refused to leave. I started to panic, then made sure my daughter was safe and alerted security. Ironically my husband was preaching… about trauma, pain, providence… We didn’t have to interact with said person our elders, friends and security made sure we were safe.
My win was that my instinct wanted to stop for burger and fries on the way home. But I didn’t, I just went home and had leftover ground beef smothered in cheese and sour cream. Now I want to just curl up and cry under my weighted blanket.
I’m so amazing at God’s grace that my husband could stand up there and preach under the circumstances. 💞💞🙏🏻
Also I have a homework assignment due tonight that is about substance abuse and well… this person is an addict so homework is triggering as well. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Happy Saturday!! My mom is leaving after lunch today and I think the whole family is ready to just chill after a very busy free weeks. I've been walking again the last few days but I fell and scraped up the entire top of my foot so that's slowing me down some.
We plan to mostly just relax this weekend but also I need to film some YouTube content. Hopefully thinking of a recipe or 2 I could share. Mostly we just want to catch up on sleep and take things slow.
What are your plans for this weekend? Any temptations you will need to avoid?
