Valerie on August 23rd, 2010

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Valerie on June 30th, 2010

A blog…is like a pet. You feed it (with words), you groom it (changing themes), you take it for walks and let people ooh and ahh over it and make smoochie noises (comments). You even have to clean up after it sometimes (filtering spam). Time comes in the life of every pet, and blog, where [...]

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Valerie on June 22nd, 2010

I’ve reached the halfway point. There hasn’t been much to blog about, since my menus are pretty normal and I usually eat the same as the family. Some foods I am supposed to avoid are: milk, cheese, breads, grains, pasta, and potatoes. It will be sad when I discover what of these items are the [...]

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Valerie on June 12th, 2010

Breakfast- fried eggs, blackberries Blackberries are 50 cents at Meijer this week. Yeah, it is a pretty small container, but I like them a lot. Lunch- fried chicken, baked beans, potato salad, fruit, ice cream cone Oh, those aren’t listed in the MD-allowed foods? My mistake. We were at a picnic celebrating my brother-in-law’s graduation, [...]

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Valerie on June 10th, 2010

Breakfast- scrambled eggs, asparagus That two pounds’ worth took forever to eat up! Lunch- leftover hamburger, baked carrots Dinner- roasted chicken, salad I’m looking forward to phase two, and more, phase three, when I can eat more beans and stuff. This first phase is so limited, but I appreciate the results of it that I [...]

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Valerie on June 9th, 2010

Breakfast- fried eggs, asparagus Lunch- leftover spaghetti squash with sauce Dinner- hamburger, salad I had some kids with a fever yesterday, and didn’t get around to blogging. The breakfast was noteworthy- an onion, pepper and goat cheese omelet. The goat cheese I found at Meijer is interesting- it doesn’t melt very well, and has a [...]

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Valerie on June 7th, 2010

Breakfast: fried eggs Lunch: steak with sauteed mushrooms and onions, roasted asparagus Yeah, I was going to take a picture, but didn’t want you drooling on your keyboard.:) Dinner: tomato sauce over spaghetti squash I’m feeling better. This has been an unexpectedly long stomach bug. My best guess as to what I got: Listeria. My [...]

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Valerie on June 5th, 2010

I am really sick. It must not be food-related, because it is lasting so long. I’ll take the weekend off, then if I am feeling up to it, tackle Monday’s MD menus. I don’t feel guilty about taking a break; it isn’t as if I’ll be eating much anyway. See you Monday, hopefully…

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Valerie on June 4th, 2010

Breakfast- fried eggs These were hurriedly fixed and eaten right after Micah had spit up her entire breakfast, so I could give her a bath. She spits up so much lately that she has a rash on her face. Lunch- almond butter & honey sandwich, strawberries I was sick to my stomach after breakfast, just [...]

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Valerie on June 3rd, 2010

After a few days of busy-ness, I am almost always forced to just stop. I’ve been doing that all morning, and have had a luxurious time of it. Sat around, finished a novel…The only productive thing I have done is load the dishwasher, simply so Big S would have a workspace to make her cookies. [...]

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