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Well hither I acquire … I’m blogging!   My shout out is Tricia together with this is my real kickoff official post.   I am real excited together with promise that if you read this, you relish it, notice it interesting, helpful, fun together with supportive.   So hither goes … Saving room for dessert is a spider web log dedicated to well for you lot cooking together with eating, losing weight, exercising, together with indulging inwards the occasional dessert.   You volition also notice stories virtually balancing my life subsequently 50 spell working total time, going to schoolhouse business office fourth dimension together with saving room for myself, my children together with my hubby (not inwards that order!)   I get got ii adult children, a wonderful (hardworking traveling) hubby together with also many pets!   I’m tired of counting points, eating prepackaged foods together with desire to alive a healthier life overall.   I dear the outdoors together with go real difficult to sav
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Low Calorie, Depression Fatty … Depression Nutrition?

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Once I really started looking at what I position inwards my mouth, I finally realized how many empty, worthless calories I was consuming on a daily basis.  I was eating depression calorie, depression fat, prepackaged, processed foods amongst minor amounts of fruit in addition to fresh vegetables in addition to virtually no dairy.  (I missed cheese!)  Even in addition to therefore I wasn’t at my feel-good weight.  My snacks were wrapped inwards plastic.  Everything I ate had a long listing of ‘ingredients’ (if y'all desire to telephone phone them that) most of which I couldn’t pronounce in addition to nonetheless accept no persuasion what they actually are.  Low calorie frozen dinners are nutritionally inferior to eating fresh foods, therefore what am I gaining by consuming an imposter?  I was missing out on the essential nutrients while wondering what was actually inwards that frozen box. There are many terrific blogs that address these issues.  Melissa at  A Better Bag of Groceri
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Easy Every Minute Pie

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Should that old saying be easy every bit pie, or simple every bit pie?  I wonder if either i is correct.  Pies are non ever easy or simple to make.  But since I’ve never made a good layer cake, pies are my thing. These picayune happy apples are still smile after 65 years.  They were my mother’s and I think of her whenever I run into them.  They lived inward her kitchen for every bit long every bit I tin remember.  H5N1 happy apple tree for a happy memory. Do you lot honour pies slowly to make?  I practice intend they are to a greater extent than simple than easy  as they ususally accept solely a few ingredients.  One of the most important foundations is the crust.  I all the same utilisation the crust receipe from the Better Homes as well as Gardens New Cookbook but volition presently expand my horizons and try something novel adjacent time. In keeping amongst the topic of this blog, I am going to crusade as well as brand a homemade dessert each weekend to portion amongst my family
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Going Green!

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I’m non certain how this happened merely I ended upwards making a totally light-green dinner.  I took a hateful solar daytime off operate today thence I could pigment the dining room.  After a hateful solar daytime of painting, I stopped to brand dinner together with pulled out asparagus, an onion, about whole wheat pasta together with light-green beans that didn’t convey long to live.  I sauted the onion inwards a petty olive oil, added the asparagus together with and thence threw inwards about frozen pesto.  I made the pesto this summertime when nosotros had a giant bush of basil.  I froze the pesto (without cheese) inwards an H2O ice cube tray together with thence transferred the cubes to a freezer bag.  Now I tin popular ane or 2 inwards a dish to liven it up.  So my dinner is light-green amongst light-green beans on the side.  To become far complete, I spooned it on my light-green plate together with enjoyed!  Not a bad dinner merely it did remove a petty colouring … other than gr
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A Modify Is Inward The Air …

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The weather condition human says there’s a alter on the means for Northern Virginia … Fall is here.   That’s ok, because I’m gear upward for the cool weather.  There’s nix improve than sweaters in addition to brisk morning time walks.  Before the pelting starts in addition to the temperatures drop, I idea I would burn downward upward the grill 1 to a greater extent than fourth dimension and cook chicken breasts for dinner.  While I was waiting on the chicken to cook, I snacked on a few Food Should Taste Good Multigrain Chips.  These are pretty awesome in addition to I like ’em then much, I’ve never position anything on transcend – evidently is good! I grilled 2 marinated chicken breasts in addition to made a salad.  I somehow skipped vegetables today then I loaded up the lettuce in addition to spinach.  I sliced one-half a chicken pectus in addition to saved the residual for luncheon tomorrow.  I added a few crumbles of feta cheese, a tablespoon of soy nuts in addition to a milk trembl
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Wonderful Graffiti

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The advert of this blog was inspired past times a company called Wonderful Graffiti.  I read a brusque article in a 2010 resultant of Better Homes too Gardens magazine.  It described the companionship too how anyone could society custom vinyl stickers for virtually whatsoever infinite inwards your abode or office.  I savage inwards dear amongst the Save Room for Dessert decal too had to possess got it for my kitchen.  I of late establish that Wonderful Graffiti closed their doors, and/or sold the trouble organisation or are on a real long holiday.  How sad, they had to a greater extent than or less wonderfully creative vinyl decorations. Since adding the decal to my kitchen wall (a identify of respect of course), I possess got ofttimes looked at it piece having dinner, folding clothes, washing dishes or speaking to my truthful cat (Captain Cat) who sits on overstep of the refrigerator surveying the globe below.  I came to the decision that this mantra tin locomote applied to all areas
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Two Birthdays – Double Yum!

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Cheesecake alongside Caramel Sauce We had a birthday celebration for my boy who is turning 24 on Oct 21st, as well as my hubby (October 24th turning to a greater extent than than 24) this weekend alongside cheesecake as well as caramel sauce.   I tweaked a recipe from Madison at Espresso as well as Cream .   Thanks Madison – it’s a adept one!   The cheesecake is a criterion New York agency adapted from a recipe on the dorsum of real quondam pocketbook of graham cracker crumbs (no to a greater extent than crumbs – merely saved the bag).   The caramel sauce was awesome as well as my hubby fifty-fifty position some inward his coffee.   Last black nosotros used the leftovers on a wonderful Honey Crisp Apple as well as it was merely delicious.   It was truly ameliorate than anything we’ve always had at a fair or autumn festival.   Yum, yum, yum.   This cheesecake can’t survive musical rhythm out for a basic, easy, no neglect recipe.   We sent the leftovers domicile alongside my boy or I wou
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