You guys KNOW I didn’t leave the East Bay without hitting up WF for my favorite salad right?? It’s packed with sooo many nuts and 9 different whole grains, and lentils and kale and feta, gah.  It’s heavenly. The ratio of everything is hard to nail down on my own.  I just love this version so so much.  Anyway, I bought enough for two lunches this week so of course it was gone by Tuesday. 😛 I still hadn’t made it grocery shopping for reals (I didn’t go til mid week which is so unlike… Read more >

Cheers to 40 years! My parents have been exemplary role models for marriage so it makes perfect sense that my siblings and I would throw them a party to celebrate.  The number of people who RSVP-ed yes blew us away!  Traveling from near and far to show their love and support for our awesome parents.  🙂 My G-ma had a fun time seeing the kids.  It’s been almost 6 months. I spent the morning with my sisters setting up and getting organized so that by 4:30 we were all ready for the fun to begin…. Read more >

I have SO much to catch up on! I’m going to randomly share the last bits and pieces of last week so I can recap the highlight of the weekend…the PARTY that my sisters and I threw for my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary. 🙂 Yes, I made the junky salad again. I had half a bottle of Brianna’s dressing left, so I may as well, right??  It was GOOOOOOD. The co-op didn’t have the Siete chips, but luckily Nugget had one bag left!  Eek!  I grabbed the beanfield “nacho” chips too, just in case I wanted to… Read more >

Originally, I was going to make this Thai roast chicken to add to these leftovers.  But then I ended up giving Kyle some of the noodles in his lunch so there weren’t enough left to feed the fam.  Oops!  It’s all good though, because now I have a small serving’s worth that I may just save for myself! So instead I made an Asian slaw. Kyle was SUCH A FAN of this meal.  And then kids ended up asking for seconds too, but it was already all gone!  Oops! The slaw had one bag of… Read more >