Pumpkin!

PUMPKINS!

Am I right?

They are fun to carve, fun to decorate with, and fun to eat.

Here is a quick and easy favorite recipe from our house.  Best part?  You can practically think of it as a health food.

1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1 box vanilla pudding mix
1 3/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, cloves, allspice*

* You could probably use pumpkin pie spice in place of all the individual spices I mention here, but I'm not sure how much of that you would put in in that case, maybe 1 tsp? a little less? Give it a try.

Also, did you know that you can look up what nutrients any food has in it?  For example, when I wanted to know just how healthy pumpkins really are, and I asked Devin, he told me to go look it up.  Like that information is just dangling from tree branches or something.

Nutrient Database    Check it out.


When you search for pumpkin you get the option of canned or not canned, salt or no salt, etc.  so you can really pinpoint what you are looking for, down to a pretty close match.

Pumpkins!

You know I'm right.

Hello World!

Hello Readers of This Blog!!

I am friends with Alison. And I have thoughts.  Thoughts on fitness and body image and all sorts of other things which do occasionally include bacon and that's ok.

I just wanted to introduce myself, so I won't scare you if you see a post from me in the coming days.

So, to introduce myself.

I am Amy.  I live in the middle of nowhere, I have three tiny adorable children, I have a husband who is standing to my right RIGHT NOW building a wall in my basement.

My girls are ages 4, 2, and 8 months.  My husband is a professor at a University, in the Food Science and Technologies department.  He teaches carbohydrate chemistry, sensory analysis, and product development.  So, he knows things about food.

Also, he is a marathon runner.  As in, he runs marathons. Frequently.  For fun.

As for myself, I like the Piano Guys, and bacon, really comfortable jeans, Purdue, Girl Scouts' thin mints, and

I'm excited to be here with Alex and Alison, and I hope I can bring something fun to the discussion.

Sometimes I dream

about those girls all dressed up in magazines and on tv that look...just perfect.  Their hair is perfect.  Their complexion is perfect.  Their outfit has been crafted from sheer genius.

Sometimes I just want to look like them.  I have seen women who can sometimes pull this off.  I also know they put a lot, a lot, of time into making themselves look like that.  Something I am rarely ever willing to do.  But I do still dream sometimes.

That my hair looked like this...

ahhhh...the perfect side braid

 I know she is a cartoon, but I am seriously jealous of her red locks!

 And if I could pull off this look. I would do it EVERY DAY!

I also wish my clothes could come together like this...

 ...or I could be this cute.  (love her boots)

...Or I owned THESE SHOOOOOOOOOOES!!!

But really they are just dreams. :)

Alison