I just finished watching Food, Inc.  Great Movie! The take home message is to buy local, and in season food! If you haven’t seen the movie yet, did you know you can download and “rent” the movie to watch from Amazon for $2.99!  I just realized this!  Right under “Buy”, you click WATCH IT NOW, $2.99 to rent.  

Although I’ve mentioned them before, after watching the movie, I was so glad we buy our meat local (beef and pork at least).  If you live in Utah and are looking for a local meat supplier, you must check out The Christiansens farm for well fed, well treated, organic, and super awesome meat!  Hollie Christiansen is my neighbors- sister.. which is how I found out about their farm. 

Last night, I pulled out our bag of frozen Edamame to snack on while I prepared dinner.  The kids devoured it! I forgot how much they liked this great snack the first time I bought it.  It’s definitely coming out more often this week.

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Don’t forget…. Monday is the last day to enter for Crest Pro-Health supplies,

and FRIDAY is the last day for the V8-V Fusion Visa $100 Gift card!

Sunday afternoons is the our favorite time to make cookies.  My kids love to help out. All three of them sit at the counter on stools taking turns dumping ingredients as I measure it out.  Everytime I throw in something quick like a teaspoon of vanilla, rather than passing it to the kids to get spilled during the hand off, I get “It was my turn to put something in! Why did you put that in the bowl mom, it was supposed to be me!” The order and the level of difficulty has to be completely fair to all three kids to avoid complete disappointment.  And yet for the love of cookies, we continue the ritual every Sunday afternoon.

Zonya inspired me last week with her chocolate chip cookie bars that virutally have no fat!  The only thing I changed was instead of semi-sweet chocolate chips, I added milk chocolate chips. I don’t know why semi-sweet exists. I do not care for them, and never buy them.  They turned out really good.  I had one vote for “love it”, one vote for “like it” and Ketchup boy declared, “I love it, and like it”.  They did keep trying to come back for more.  The kids gave one to my blind father-in-law who said, ” what am I eating here? Is it cake?”  Because it did turn out a bit cakey (as you can tell by the fact they have to eat it with a fork).   He continued to eat it without comment. Which is a red flag for not complete approval, cause he will usually declare he likes something if he does. For the record, I liked it, but I usually love anything with sugar and flour.