Growing lettuce from the cut off stem and other randomness

I saw on Facebook that someone was growing lettuce from the bottom stem that they had cut off when they were making salad. Of course I had to try it. And it worked! This picture is about four days worth of growth. No need to spend top dollar for 'microgreens'... just grow them from the stem of your used lettuce for free!

A rare cup of morning coffee. Not much sleeping happened in the Good children's room last night, which also means it did not happen in the parents' room either...

Four eggs for scrambling at breakfast. Two are Wegman's organic and two are from a local farm. Can you guess which are farm eggs? They are so much more beautiful. This is why I only buy store eggs in a pinch.

Breakfast

Pumpkin pancakes made with leftover pumpkin. Saving eggs for later, so we made a vegan version. 

Coffee leftover from last night.

Not pictured: smoothie made with 1/2 carrot, 1 handful spinach, 1/4 cup blueberries, 1 banana, 4 dates and 1 scoop of enriching greens.  

Still have the rest of that pumpkin to bake and cook into something delicious!

Confession: Sugar Binge

I have been on a sugar binge this week. 

It's even been more than a sugar binge, but a white flour, coffee binge also.

It started with Ellie's first birthday, and having three different kinds of dessert.  What's a girl to do but eat a piece of each?  And then nibble (okay, more like, scarf down as much as possible...) the delicious buttercream icing that my sister lovingly used to decorate the cake she made. And have a cup of coffee to go with them.

Then, of course there were leftovers of the cakes, which my husband, in his great strength of will, declined to eat with me... WHAT CHOICE DID I HAVE?  I had to eat them! 

• Monday we went to Whole Foods (I had never been!) on a family field trip and we got white bread from the bakery.  Mmmm...

• Tuesday I had friends over for a birthday party. More coffee, and muffins (at least they were whole wheat and low sugar, but they might have had leftover chocolate avocado icing on them...) Then in the evening, I had some delicious white-sugar-white-flour-white-chocolate-chip cookies at Wegman's.

• Today was especially bad.  I had a huge piece of cake in the afternoon.  Cookie cake.  So. Good. And after dinner, I made myself a cup of Starbucks and had another piece of cookie cake with the kids. And just now I had a bowl of cinnamon crunch cereal with coconut milk.

Like any good sugar-flour-coffee binge, this one MUST to come to an end.  Praying for the strength of will to end it... tomorrow! :-)

ps. i haven't given up coffee altogether, but I have been drinking WAY more than usual!