Healthy Eating for Working Moms

Hey everyone.......... It has been quite a long long time since I posted anything on the site about nutrition for moms. Well I have officially become more of a working mom so life has been extremely hectic. Plus I am an expecting mom again. This will be our 4th child. We were trying for a girl, but God intends on this one to be a boy as well as the other three are.

From now on, I'm going to be trying to write about quick, easy, and healthy snacks and meals that working moms can fix for their family. Especially a bunch of growing boys.

We also plan on raising a garden this year so we are going to start preserving our food by freezing and canning a lot from our vegetable garden.

I look forward to getting things going again and stay tuned. :)

Boiling Chilli

My husband called me on the phone a few minutes ago to ask if I wanted something from Arby's. I was almost awake when he called, so I said no but get the kids something. So after I woke up, I put on a pot of chilli to have for supper and for left overs.

So what does this have to do with anything? Well, having leftovers will save you a little in terms of budgeting and if your husband likes to grab sandwiches from Arby's on an impulse purchase then you have saved a little bit by making up for the $10.00 he spent at Arby's.

Gotta go check on the chilli it's probably boiling over right now. I hope you have your shopping done for Christmas. :)

Black Friday and left over Turkey

Ok........ we stayed at home and did not go shopping. In fact, we started our shoping early this year just to stay out of the crowds way. When you've got 3 kids and a husband that does not like to shop a lot, you really start to rethink the whole shoping strategy.

Anyway, for those of you who shoped 'til you droped, congratulations on a safe and fun day!
I hope! :)

Now, take those leftovers and make something of them. I found this link to a site that has suggestions for 10 Lowfat ways to use left over turkey.

http://lowfatcooking.about.com/od/thanksgivin1/a/leftoverturkey.htm

Another thing you can do is have friends over for a game night or movie night and get rid of those leftovers.

Remember, "Moderation" is the key!

What did you do with your leftovers?

Thanksgiving and Moderation

Ok everyone. We all know that it is Thanksgiving tomorrow and a lot of us have a lot of traveling to do. Some of us are planning on staying home and just having a small dinner with our family.

Whatever your plans are just remember it is very tempting to over eat. As I indicated in one of my earlier posts about trying foods is to get small portions. If you don't remember that post just scroll on down and take a read.

Also, don't forget I've started another blog about Grocery stores. I will be posting a lot more content to that one.

http://grocerystoremoms.blogspot.com/

So, Have a great holiday and give thanks for all of your blessings.

God Bless.

Sick Children and Family

Well it's that time of year when you have kids that are in school and getting sick with the latest virus that is going around.

Plus, my father and brother are in Nebraska hunting and my brother just come down with strep, the virus, and a temperature. In other words they are not hunting.

Of course the best thing to do if you suspect strep throat is see your doctor, get plenty of rest and liquids.

I hope all is well and I'll talk to you soon.

Florida and a great supper

Friday night we went to my papaw's house for their Thanksgiving, Christmas, and birthday party dinner. One of my cousins is getting ready to move to Australia and her son was celebrating a birthday. He was six years old. My grandparents are going to Florida for the winter. So, we had a great big supper Friday night.

The healthy things on the table were flounder bake, fish chowder, home grown green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, lobster, ham, rolls, vegetable salad, and homemade ice cream for desert.

The kids got to open gifts and we watched trading spouses because they filmed this weekend's episode in Olympia Kentucky. We didn't get to watch all of it, but it was interesting to say the least.

Back to the healthy issue when it comes to having a large amount of food in front of you or different foods to choose from. Here it is.............take a tablespoon of the foods you are interested in trying and find out which ones you like. After you have chosen the two or three that you like the most go back and get a serving of those. This will work for deserts as well.

I would like to hear if anyone out there has family that does the same thing that my grandparents do. Having Thanksgiving and Christmas in October before they to go to Florida.

Some things you have no control

Once again, life has been very hectic and it has been a long time since I last wrote.

First of all I hope that you have found the links and the suggested books as good resources for your children and for yourself.

As always, let me know if you have any resources that you know of that you've found helpful for you and your children.

Today I don't want to talk about nutrition and eating healthy, but about the struggle of working full time, part time, or just staying at home with your children until they are in school or even while they are in school. I have done all of the above so far and let me tell you it's a balancing act. On top of that the things you have no control over like unexpected health issues with yourself or family members, an incident that just happened here in Kentucky at the Bluegrass Airport. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers. http://www.kentucky.com Or even divorce. It not only has it's affect on the husband and wife, but the whole family and relatives. I guess it's part of those things we sometimes don't have any control over personally.

Stay close to your family........... We take to many things for granted and we definitely should treat each other as we want to be treated. It is true that the days go faster as you get older............... I think that has a lot to do with we don't slow down enough to enjoy them.

I hope you slow down when you can and enjoy the blessings you have!