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A long time ago I requested this weekend off work for the Foodbuzz Festival in SF.  The reasons I like going are obvious ones… You get to meet all your favorite blog friends… You get wined beered and dined… [if you have great friends they will help you out when your hands are full] And you get to do it all in the city by the Bay… Nothing beats it. Add to it a trip home to see your family and it seems like the perfect weekend, right? Perhaps it would have been, but I’m… Read more >

Working the PM shift means (a) cycling to work, (b) sleeping at odd hours, and (c) craving dinner foods for breakfast and vice versa. Potatoes are kinda an anytime food.  And based on their shape they have different names, which correspond with breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Pretty random, but interesting (to me at least).  Hash?  Breakfast.  Wedges?  Dinner.  Fries?  Lunch.  Cubes?  Dinner.  Shoetrings?  Lunch.  Which am I missing?    I don’t know what meal this was actually.  There was coffee involved, which also doesn’t help narrow it down much.  😉   Yummy.  I sprinkled nooch… Read more >

There’s no introduction that could do my dad justice.  Both he and my mom have taught me so much that has undoubtedly shaped the person I am today.    [family dinner at Millennium 2010] Having parents raise you with an emphasis on health means that no matter how far you stray from what you were brought up on (I’m looking at you – college years) you always have a solid foundation to fall back on.  My mom made wholesome, well-rounded meals every night that we ate as a family.  Vegetables were always present and dessert… Read more >

Prepare to be insanely jealous because this next birthday post comes from my middle sister Laura.  You know, the one who has been traveling the world for nearly 8 months now. I got to spend time with her on the Euro leg of her fun (in Paris and parts of Spain), but since then she’s been to dozens of other countries spanning multiple continents.  Now you guys can live vicariously through her like I have been…cheers!   A guest blog for the birthday girl!  Happy Birthday Sister!!! Though I have always been open to all… Read more >

They seem to come up with new terms and definitions for anything and everything these days.  Case in point, drunkorexia. Drunkorexia: depriving oneself of food as a way of “saving calories” for booze.  I’m fairly certain this phenomenon is mostly seen in the college age bracket, but you never know.  I lived in a sorority house for two years and there was definitely a mix of healthy and unhealthy dietary habits – as well as drinking habits.  You don’t need to be a registered dietician to know that replacing vital nutrients with alcohol is a… Read more >