4/18/14 - Wrapping up a busy week - getting ready for Easter!

Busy week this week! Lots of running around, doc appts, and plenty of work. I'm about a week out since having eye surgery to correct my lazy eye so staring at the computer all week at work has not been fun!

I did pretty well on my eating this week, except today. They had a cookout at work and hotdog and hamburger buns are not my friend, or chocolate chip cookies. But I didn't stuff myself or go nuts, so it'll be fine. Dinner tonight was a kale & strawberry smoothie with a little Greek yogurt and hemp seeds. Sounds hideous, but was delicious, filling, and had the perfect combo of carbs and proteins.

Now I'm off to hunt for some good diabetic style recipes to cook this weekend that will last through the week for lunch and dinners. I need to dig into my cookbook collection first. So many cookbooks, so little time. It's a good thing sites like http://www.allrecipes.com exist though, because I spend a lot of time there reading reviews on how people change perfectly good recipes to make entirely new ones :).

This weekend will be pretty full after doing an egg hunt and then grocery shopping ad of course Easter Sunday's church service and then family dinner.

Easter is not going to be an easy holiday to get past while being good about eating. Peeps and bunnies and jelly beans. ugh. Jelly beans are a weakness every year, especially the old school kind with the black ones that taste like licorice! So I just didn't buy any of those for the munchkins. Hubby gets to be the candy police during the week for the kiddos and I just have to avoid the baskets.

I'm thinking of doing corned beef and cabbage for Easter dinner....never made it before, can't be all that complicated. I watched my mom make it a billion times in her old 1970's olive green cast iron stew pot. I don't have one of those but I've got a crock-pot. Close enough :)

OK, I'm off to the exciting adventure called cleaning out the fridge to prepare for grocery shopping day!