Yesterday,the whole family went shopping. Of course,the twins managed to run us around and drive us crazy. Crazy to the point that I started looking around for some draft beer,even that I committed to have a cleansing,alcohol free week! Well,I still managed to stay away from it,and calm my nerves down with some great Aloe juice drink from Thailand. At some point,the only thing a mother of twins can do is depend on great family support and ship her kids with them to another store. I managed to sneak in some 10 minutes of alone shopping and strayed into a girls store. All the glitter and the pink didn’t overwhelm me. I am morally prepared for it as is. However,something strange overcame me for the first time. As I was looking around,tears came to my eyes. As I saw my girls shopping in this store in 3 years:with their opinions,their fashions,maybe even their friends. All of the sudden,their tantrums,and their enjoyment of torture no longer mattered. This is the moment,just once,just this time. Whatever it brings,I enjoy it. Because in 5 minutes I will miss it.
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Hey guys,here I am again,raising funds for Leukemia and lymphoma Society. Last time,we raised over $3,500 in donations and I competed in my first Olympic Triathlon. This year,my commitment is to run a Disney Princess half marathon in February in Orlando.  Nothing really bad,Wholefoods,just a quick note to your packaging design department. Whoever thought of putting tiny middle Ziplock closure on your 365 brand rice,was an idiot who doesn’t cook at home. Do you really think that we use tiny spoons to measure out our rice? Have you tried squeezing in a cup measure to get the rice out? Or maybe you tried to let it freely pour from the middle of the bag while trying to squeeze it together so it went drop by drop into the cup? Most of us like to measure rice so we get the water proportions correctly. I suggest,you check out your competition for something more logical to put your rice in.
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angry and frustrated Twins Mommy Today,I sat down to enjoy my meal. I used a chair and a table,and there was no Hulu,no TV,no papers and no computer. I was so excited to taste my food,I couldn’t even wait to let it marinate. A little food deprivation and extremely limited choices allow us to become creative and,finally,to enjoy our meal. Perhaps,we all eat too much and have too many choices. Try it,the recipe is below. It’s low calorie and delicious. Recipe:Sweet &spicy shrimp saladIngredients
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Recipe by on. Today marked my 5th day on a strict weight loss diet. I have tried many ways to loose weight:diets,exercise,no alcohol,detox…I am an online diet subscription junky. I have tried probably almost all of them,as soon as they come out. Sometimes,times become tough. In all matters of speaking:kids are challenging our every step,parents running tallies of our debts,businesses failing,fridges going empty. It’s so much easier to take it on when you are alone,or with a partner. It’s much harder,when you are hugging a teddy bear while watching your kids sleeping peacefully. If anyone is wondering where I disappeared to,well…I brough my passion and my dream to realisation and now I am lost in it. Yes,I opened my cafe. Finally. Now,I spend my mornings,my days and my nights working on it. Plus weekends and holidays. I am coming up with the nicest recipes though,that I will share on my blog. It’s the B***hit show,they have it on Youtube. My hubby watched it. I love how they pick extremes in situations:people,companies and tastings. They were making people blind taste organic vs/ non-organic banana. And then were laughing at all the hard core organics extremists picking the non-organic banana. I buy organic for many reasons. There are fruits and veggies that will not be affected in the taste region but I still buy them organic because of ethical issues. Yes,I know banana’s will come from Third World countries,but is that a reason they should be living with pesticides around them? You know,a lot of these farmers are actually getting paid more per pound of organic produce. I buy diary only organic and grass-fed because here,nutrients do differ. But they didn’t show that on the B***hit show. I order all our milk and cheese supply from a small grass farmer. Same with eggs –no corn feed. All our meats now come from small farms with only grass-fed and milk fed animals. So we buy less,a lot less meat in order to afford it. But my hubby agrees with me and started eating smaller portions. He lost weight and feels great. The show brought a good point that organic in a mass market is completely different that what organic is considered in our minds and by small farmers. Now,you have to be an organic locavore and support small and ethical farmers. Nice description,but this is how our government allowed big farms to change the laws around.  Last weeks of healthy Vegetarian Twin Pregnancy I spy on my own blog. Yes I do. It is so interesting to see what people are searching for. Lately I noticed a lot of searches for vegetarian twin pregnancy. Let me tell you –I searched the web,books,magazines,etc. I don’t have any friends that are vegetarians,so support couldn’t come from there. I did get a lot of heat for not consuming dead animal carcasses while pregnant with my twins. And the stories of horror that I heard. I am a very strong person,but when everyone jumps on you with dark tales of sick children and dieing mothers,anyone could buckle under that pressure. My suggestion:retreat into your peaceful place and keep reading. First of all,just like any pregnancy,twin pregnancy needs a lot of protein,especially in the second and third trimesters. Have you noticed how many women refuse to eat meat during the early pregnancy? Is anyone calling them vegetarian? No,they are special,they are nauseous,so it’s ok. But,if you make a strong stand –then you are sick in your head. Anyways,back to the diet and nutrition. My biggest issue was tofu. I couldn’t look at it,smell it or eat it. Forget about drinking it during the 9 months (sorry,8.) Minus tofu and meat,get’s harder to get all that protein. When you research books you will find that twin pregnancies need to get almost double of protein of the regular pregnancy. I calculated the norm of 120-140 grams per day. It’s crazy numbers! My eyes were jumping out:what a girl to do? Meet protein shakes. Yes,the body builders best friend now is your meal 4 times per day. You heard me. F-O-U-R. Oh well,don’t listen to me. The best number of protein I got was 110 grams,and that day I was ready to barf shakes. Here is how I did it: Breakfast 2 eggs with whole wheat toast,butter or margarine spread,salsa,whatever else you want to take with your eggs. Oh and cheese,yum. 1st Snack 1 scoop of protein powder,1 cup soy milk (I masked it with fruits!),1 cup of frozen fruit 2nd Snack (yeah yeah yeah) Fruit and nuts Lunch 1 Cup of steamed brown rice 2 veggie burgers 2 cups of steamed veggies like broccoli,cauliflower or any frozen veggie mixes 3rd snack 1 scoop of protein powder,1 cup soy milk,1 cup frozen fruit and agave syrup to sweeten Dinner I love Annie’s Burritos,so a lot of times I will have a burrito with 2 Tbsp. sour cream,half a cup of salsa,and freshly mashed avocado 4th snack –if needed! Another protein shale with fruit  Weekly share from Annie's Apparently it is now an official word –Locavore (Merriam Webster added it this year.) Myself –I don’t really think I am a True Locavore. Yes,I belong to a local organics buying club and source all my fruits and veggies only through there. But living in Florida,summers would be really boring trying to survive off Florida bounty. Anyone living in South Florida can tell,trying to find a CSA is impossible. Maybe for people that live down there in Redlands and Kendal is fine,but for us folks more up north –there isn’t anything. The movement itself is bringing the light to this issue. Maybe that’s why Annie’s Buying Club started:to help people like us that want to do the right thing but can’t. In order to be a locavore there have to be farms. Around me,farms used to be here 10,20,30 years ago everywhere and plenty. Now,we are laying down in front of bulldozers in order to stop housing development in Everglades. I am glad that someone like Annie cam around and started this club:putting in her knowledge,her time and her money to bring us all together for such a noble and healthy cause. My urge to everyone living in South Florida and the Keys,go to www.anniesbuyingclub.com,read up and sign up. The shares are beautiful,the price is way cheaper than in leading organic supermarkets,and you can be a part of civic movement that is sweeping USA. |    
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