Our family loves Star Wars! Tonight, to go along with The Return of the Jedi, we made homemade pizza and turned some of our dough into Leia’s side buns. The kids rolled and stretched out some dough into about an 8″ strip, topped it with sauce and cheese, and rolled it up like a cinnamon roll. We baked them at 400 for about 20 minutes and served them with extra pizza sauce for dipping. As Yoda would say, “Enjoy the pizza, you will.”
Posted by M. Terry on March 8, 2013
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Posted by M. Terry on March 5, 2013
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Saturday, during my trip to Whole Foods, I bought their New York-style Cornbread (surprise, surprise). We ate it with our Chex Mix Chicken after church yesterday, and then with leftover soup and chicken with last night’s dinner. As we finished up last night, Aleyah decided that we should make a strawberry shortcake with the leftover cornbread. What a fabulous idea! So tonight, after ballet for the girls and basketball for Joel, we had Black Beans and Brown Rice with Organic Chicken Thighs and Al Fresco Chicken Sausage. (Oh was it yummy!) Then we ended it all on a sweet note – our new Florida Shortcake. Pairing two of Florida’s favorite crops- strawberries and corn- was a match made in “Cracker” heaven 🙂 We topped the shortcake with a scoop of Stonyfield’s Vanilla Greek Frozen Yogurt and created a table of smiles.Posted by M. Terry on March 4, 2013
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I love going to the drive thru teller at the bank! Little do they know that when they send back my cash, license, and include a Dum Dum lollipop (or 4 if my kids are with me) that they are actually fueling my mission to promote healthy eating. Yep, that’s right. I take those lollipops and toss them out. Today I saved the world from the Dum Dums picture above! We are now that much closer to winning the war against sugar!
Posted by M. Terry on March 1, 2013
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Yesterday, after a well-child appointment and before pick up of my first born, I stopped at Tropical Smoothie since I had a BOGO coupon for smoothies. I thought it would be a nice treat for the kids, and it had been a few hours since I had eaten lunch so I needed a snack too. I ordered 2 Peanut Paradise smoothies (yogurt, bananas, and peanut butter) without the whey protein (you never know what kind of cheap stuff you may get) and without the 180 calories of added sugar. My kids “drank” some, and left the rest untouched (they split one since they are HUGE!). I like my smoothies thick like a traditional milkshake, but these were so thick and grainy that we could barley get them to come up through the straw.Posted by M. Terry on February 26, 2013
https://wholetothecore.com/2013/02/26/tropical-smoothie-trumped/
Posted by M. Terry on February 22, 2013
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On Thursday, I had the pleasure of being at my daughter’s school to celebrate her birthday and help with her class’s Valentine’s activities. For her birthday treat, she chose to bring in sugar cookies and fresh fruit salad. The cookies were simply the “pull apart and bake” kind from Immaculate Baking Co. with some sprinkles of her choice. The fruit salad consisted of grapes, Plant City strawberries, and fresh cut pineapple. I could not believe that there were about a half dozen of kids that would NOT eat the fruit! What kid doesn’t like fruit??? I passed out the fruit salad first with the intent that they would eat it up and then enjoy the small cookie. I truly was amazed by those who turned their noses up at the cup of fruit.
And then I was saddened as we closed the day, and I realized that I just watched one child decline the fruit, gobble up the cookie, eat fries and chicken nuggets for lunch (mom was there and purchased that for her child), and then have a generous slice of a Valentine’s cake that was brought in by another mom. So from 9:30-1:30, this student’s body and mind were “equipped to work” with
I know that if I ate those things in the course of 4 hours, I would feel sluggish and sick. And I know that this is a very standard and normal diet for a large percentage of American children. Next month, when it is Anna’s turn to bring in snack, I will go in armed with only fresh and nutritious food and a creative plan to get as close to 100% of the class eating these “foreign” foods as possible!
Posted by M. Terry on February 18, 2013
https://wholetothecore.com/2013/02/18/a-cookie-fries-nuggets-and-cake/
Posted by M. Terry on February 15, 2013
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Posted by M. Terry on February 2, 2013
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Tuesday morning, my 50-something year-old uncle suffered a massive heart attack. He was blessed to have been at school when it happened where CPR was administered and a defibrillator was used. He is still in critical condition and, even if he pulls through, there will be a long road to recovery.Posted by M. Terry on February 1, 2013
https://wholetothecore.com/2013/02/01/heart-attack-stat-hits-close-to-home/
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