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A quickie breakfast idea

15. January 2010

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A quickie breakfast idea

Mornings in our house are a bit of a zoo, what with two surgeons having to be in the O.R. before 8am and two elementary school students who suddenly decide that their chosen outfit is no longer good enough – three minutes before they need to head out the door (ahh, the drama of girls).  So [...]

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Amy’s Quick and Dirty Dinner Tricks

11. November 2009

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Amy’s Quick and Dirty Dinner Tricks

If your house is like mine – first thing you hear when you get home, “What’s for dinner????” Even as a dietitian and with probably over 100 cookbooks, I sometimes still struggle to find something for dinner that is healthy and quick. Here are a couple of ideas – I have added comments for you [...]

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Lap Band Eating Outside the House

19. May 2009

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Lap Band Eating Outside the House

In my last post I talked about food choices that were really bad and not so bad at Sonic.  But when I got to talking to Betty May about it she brought up a really good point.  Why should you have to eat out unexpectedly at all?  Unless you’ve been called out emergently because a [...]

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Lap Band Smoothie Recipes

3. May 2009

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Lap Band Smoothie Recipes

One of my favorite kitchen discoveries has been the imersion blender.  I’ve always loved smoothies and in the last few years have become addicted to protein shakes.  But it’s kind of a ginormous pain in the you-know-what to have to clean a blender every day.  Protein powder and fruit tend to gum up in the [...]

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Recipe – Healthy burger

19. April 2009

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Recipe – Healthy burger

Dr. Keilin and I find that we don’t eat that much meat. Instead we use a lot of soy products. We do this I know it sounds gross but a lot of the soy stuff tastes great. And it is much healthier. Less fat and a good amount of protein. [...]

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Foods I Like

16. April 2009

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Foods I Like

So by now most of you know that I have a personal vendetta against bacon, sausage and sweet tea. But what, you may (or may not – I could just be talking to myself here) ask, do I approve? Is my life all about rice-cakes and celery? As the French would say (and a shout-out [...]

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