Last week some friends had a garage sale. I told my husband, Ryan, that I too wanted to sell some stuff. He said I could sell several of his books. After listing his books, I started going through my books and added the ones that worth something that I didn’t want anymore. [...]
Filed under: Household on June 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, if you all would like to know why I have this recent interest in going organic here it is:
I must warn you — it is very hard to watch.
I don’t even know how I found this video. One night I was just surfing around on different blogs and found this. After watching [...]
Filed under: Food, Health on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
In the book To Buy or Not to Buy Organic, Burke provides a list of 15 foods that “are the least likely to contain pesticide residue even if they are not organically grown.” Here they are:
Asparagus
Avocados
Bananas
Blueberries
Broccoli
Cabbage
Garlic
Kiwi
Mango
Onions
Papaya
Pineapple
Shelling peas
Sweet corn
Watermelon (domestically grown)
Filed under: Food, Great Reads, Health on June 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am reading To Buy or Not to Buy Organic by Cindy Burke right now. It is an excellent book. Burke lists 12 items to eat only if they are organic. Here they are:
Strawberries (This one is the most important)
Red and Green Bell Peppers
Spinach
Cherries (hard to find and $$$)
Peaches
Nectarines
Celery (usually about the same price as [...]
Filed under: Food, Great Reads, Health on June 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My friend Sarah told me about a deal going on at Target today. It was buy 5 boxes of Kellogs cereal (which some were already on sale) and get a $5 gift card. Also, I had a coupon for $1 off 3 boxes of General Mills cereal. Note-all of this sugary cereal is for my [...]
Filed under: Food, Good Buy on June 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the weekend, we took Brian to my parent’s farm in KS. He is from CA, so he had quite the experience! I would add more pictures of him, but I forgot my camera in KS.
Here is Brian trying to catch a cow to pet it! He had to have a beer to do [...]
Filed under: Family, Friends on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here is my mom on our new bikes. We love this style of bike. My mom and I rode 20 miles on the Saturday morning she was here. She is coming back down to Tulsa to “see me” but we both know she just wants to ride my bike.
Here is Ryan on his bike. Mine [...]
Filed under: Family, Good Buy, Health, Nature on June 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Ryan and I have been eating at Asahi in Tulsa for two years. This new sushi place, Wasabi, opened across from Asahi on the other side of 71st. I got Ryan to take me there two weekends ago. When we walked in the wait staff looked familiar. Then we sat down and got our menus–wait….. [...]
Filed under: Food on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »