Sunday Beat; 31 for 21

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1. I need some new dinner ideas. I find it's kind of hard to cook for picky kids and parents who are...not picky, but watching caloric intake. R is NOT a veggie lover. G loves a lot of different veggies, but with her it's a texture issue. I am watching what I eat. And while Alex will eat just about anything so long as it's in front of him, you know, if he had it his way his dinners would be of a different--more experimental and exciting--genre than the kids (and sometimes me). I've gotten some great recipes from Skinny Taste, but I need more. (FYI, ST's pasta fagioli is da' bomba.)

2. We eat a lot of soup. I love soup. Alex loves soup. Georgia LURVES soup. Rainer is, well...he's sort of lukewarm on soup.

3. Any ideas?

4. Rainer would eat carbs and cheese from here to Kingdom Come if we let him.

5. And apples.

6. Speaking of food, I am working on my first batch of cake pops. I plan to send them in to school with Rainer for his birthday.

7. I am also planning a joint birthday party for the kids in November.

8. I can feel the holidays breathing down my neck. I feel SORT of prepared because we got a jump start on the kids' gifts, but you know how it is.

9. We are not going hog-wild this year anyway, so I am honestly just going to try to take it all as it comes. Relax your slacks and all that.

10. This weekend went by WAY too quickly.

11. Oh, Rainer. Rainer, Rainer, Rainer. That boy!

12. I am going to try to write better posts just in general throughout the year.

13. (Too make up for my awful job this month!)

Comments

[Kelley]

slow cooker cooking would seem to work for a lot of those requirements-its what works for me. Skinny Taste even has some slow cook recipes i think. I just posted my happy slow cooker accidental recipe last week ;)

[Kate]

Hi Tricia!

Try Kyle's "real.food.recipe.swap" on Facebook--I think it's great!

Hope all's well,
Katie