Archive | April 19, 2010

Nanalan

By on April 19, 2010 in The Couch Potato

I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a love of puppets.

And when most people say “love”, I think they mean, “casual like” and “ehh, I don’t hate it”.  But when I say LOVE OF PUPPETS?  I mean that I can still be easily amused and laugh till I cry over inanimate objects being personified.  And it doesn’t have to be a professional puppeteer .. I could just be Bryan voicing a stuffed animal from across the room.

We finally sat down without children at eight-thirty last night, both of us exhausted and wiped out and not really wanting to start anything that would require any sort of mental acuity, and we turned on the TiVo Now Showing menu.

“What’s that?” I asked, pausing at a PBS recording.

“OH, HOLY HELL, I FORGOT I RECORDED THIS.  Sarah, you are going to LOVE this.”

And we spent the next hour fully engrossed in a children’s show featuring Mona, her Nana, and Nana’s dog Russell (although Mona pronounces his name “Russer”).  I laughed till I cried.  My sides hurt after it.  Mona is done SO perfectly, with child-like movements and vocalizations, and Russell is hysterical.  It’s apparently filmed/created in Canada, but it was so heartwarming and loveable that we immediately set a season pass for whenever it would come on again.

Here’s a little clip from our new favorite show that hopefully Tony will like so we have a reason to watch it:

NANALAN

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Living a Healthy Green Life (Giveaway!)

By on April 19, 2010 in The Unexplainable

So, Food Revolution, eating healthier, finding better fuel for our bodies.. you’ve heard me talk about all of these.

It’s because I firmly believe in them, and I’ve seen a difference in our bodies by doing just that.

It started as a New Year’s Resolution to stop feeding the diet machine and start feeding our bodies.  It slowly evolved into eating REAL food, cooked at home, by our own hands, and teaching our children how to do the same.  Before we knew it, we became some of those people.  The crunchy granola, anti-HFCS, KEEP YOUR CHICKEN NUGGETS AWAY FROM MY CHILD people.

.. um, the people I hated before this revolution began.

And I’m okay with that.  We make good choices where we can, but we are indeed human and we’re out at birthday parties and restaurants and we don’t always have organic, homemade food available to us.  We make good choices when we can, and that’s all that can be expected.

There is a belief out there that eating healthy is more expensive.  I think there’s some truth and some non-truth that that statement.

When Bryan and I decided to start eating better, we made a pact to seriously watch our spending.  It’s a lot easier to blow $200 on junk than on healthy food, no question.  We made a goal of not overspending in this attempt to eat better.

So we just basically said, “Here’s our usual monthly food budget.  Let’s spend the allotted amount on healthy food.”

Dude, it’s TOTALLY doable.  And?  Because you’re eating whole, non-processed foods?  Your body fills up faster and feels full longer.  So you can cut back on the junk that you wouldn’t eat anyway.

I was ECSTATIC to hear that we’ve got an Earth Fare opening here in Huntsville, Alabama in early May.  Because our little town is actually making decent strides to be a healthy city.  We’ve got tons of greenways, most of which have exercise equipment located next to playgrounds, and this will be a welcome addition.

I was even MORE ECSTATIC when Misty from Earth Fare contacted me to giveaway a $50 gift card to one lucky reader!

So from now until May 1st, leave me a contact here with your best tip for healthy eating.  It can be something as simple as switching a healthy product for a junky one, or maybe hiding a veggie in a well-loved dish.  One lucky winner will win a $50 gift card to Earth Fare!

Tell me: How do you and your family do healthy?

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