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...of mice and men often go astray - adapted from Robert Burns, To a Mouse , November 1785 Hola amigos (I should just say amigas since there are more girlies reading this than boys I’m sure…)! Hope you all had a fine weekend. Me? Well, you can guess based on the title and opening line things didn’t quite go as planned. Before I begin, I’d like to say to whoever is charge of making weekends a 2-day thing to please consider 5 days. That would be really nice. K, thanks. Saturday started out as planned: busy. To get me going, I made my usual smoothie with banana, spinach, peanut butter, cacao, and other tasty things. YS2 likes this too so we shared. To spare you the play-by-play, we ran our errands and did our things. We did stop at an Asian market that just opened a little closer to us. And we did our part to support them by sampling a few veggie eats (we ignored for the moment the possible bad things in it [animal products were avoided, however]) and picking up a cute miso bowl fo...

I recently received a few things from my friends over at CSN Stores. You know the ones who’ve got everything under the sun from kids backpacks to couches to blenders for you to choose from? Time for some holiday shopping! Personally, I don’t start until after Thanksgiving but that’s just me… I assigned myself the task of choosing something for our home and it was hard narrowing it down since there are so many things I would love. But I finally was able to decide on three things, which I will review here today. First up, a kitchen magnet. Not for the fridge but for our knives. Currently, we have a knife block but since we don’t have much counter space to begin with this just takes away more space plus it looks like bulky ugly clutter when crowded between a juicer and a food processor. So out it went and up goes the magnet bar by Mundial . It’s so great freeing up a little extra counter space and I love how handy it is. It’s strong both in the wall and for the knives; the magnets ...

Today's the day! The day I announce the winner of the Deni Automatic Ice Cream Maker courtesy of CSN Stores . The winner is.... Lisa is Raw on $10 a Day ! Congrats Lisa! Please email me your address and phone number (email address is in my profile) and I will forward to CSN. I wish I could've given everyone an ice cream maker but thank you all for participating! I have a couple more giveaways coming up so check back for those in the near future.

Happy Monday! Let's start this week off right and have a contest! Woot! Woot! As I mentioned in a previous post , CSN Stores ( cookware.com and allbarstools.com ) has generously offered to sponsor this giveaway so for one of you this could be your lucky week ! When Lauren over at Ginger is the New Pink was giving away a Deni Ice Cream Maker, I was all over that. Sign me up! But alas, I didn't win (sniff). However, I do know it made its way to a good home with my pal Bitt , who loves making desserts, including ice cream. Well, apparently it was my lucky day shortly after when I was given the opportunity to give one away too. Yes! I am giving away a Deni Automatic Ice Cream Maker ! It's nearly spring after all and that means it time for lots'o d-lish frozen treats! Also, the reason for its happy green color - I couldn't resist. ;) How to enter : -Must live in the US or Canada to enter . Sorry everyone else! -required entry : go to cookware.com and/or allbarstool...

You asked now I answer. An indepth review of those green bags I had previously mentioned . What are those green bags? How do they work? How long do they work? Where to get them? Green bags are great for storing all of your fresh produce to make them last longer. I had heard about them but first tried them when I was a customer of an organic delivery service and since it was the first place I knew of that had them I gave them a whirl. One of the great things about these bags is they are reusable . I forgot to explain that to hubby in the beginning so some were mistakenly thrown away after one use. Whoopsie. Using these bags you'll be saving your produce while saving money on disposable ziploc bags (if you use them), although, we're starting to reuse some of those too. No sense in wasting them each time if you can help it. Saving = yay! But the produce bags really work at keeping the various fruits and veggies fresh longer. How? Well, according to legend they are made with Oya,...

…it’s what’s for dinner. Remember those old beef commercials? Yeah, replace beef with whatever is fitting instead. In this case, it was zukes. Now, I’m sure a lot of you have had zucchini pasta in some fo rm or another. It is good isn’t it? When making “pasta” I used my trusty vegetable peeler for fettuccine type noodles but really wanted a veggie spiralizer; just unsure which one to buy. We recently bought the Lurch Spiralo , which is super. Of course, I’ve never had a spiralizer before so I can’t compare it to anything else but from what I understand about the others out there this one is better, possibly best. I dunno - I just know it works for us. It makes beautiful looong ribbons of noodles out of anything you can spiral. Oodles of noodles! Yay! The entrée we served up….ta da! Zucchini spaghetti with marinara sauce top with a nut "parmesan cheese." Next time I'd like to try topping my pasta with Carmella's alfredo sauce . This sounds like the real deal. Now go e...