Someone is ready for his first college football season!

This morning we got up and did a 5K race!  It was a lot of fun even if it did start to rain at the end.  Since I had only jogged once since Thursday, we ended up walking most of it.  I was totally fine with that, because we had a blast taking Samuel in his jogger and Stitch!  We decided to make it a family event.

After the race we came home, and Samuel and I took a brief nap.  Lunch was corndogs {and they were awesome}.

Anyway, I need your help.

See this mess?

That would be my cookbook shelf in the pantry.

A mess, no?

The thing is I don’t even own many cookbooks…maybe 12-13?  Most of those are magazines.  Mostly Martha Stewart.

Anyway, how do you organize your cookbooks and magazines?  I know a lot of people rip out recipes & crafting tips that they want for the future, but I used to do that and never opened the binder.  I find that if I keep the actual magazines I use them regularly.  Do you use those magazine holders you can buy at IKEA?  Do you just toss ‘em?

So suggestions?

Two-ish weeks ago I got full size boxes of Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Antioxidants Cereal to try.  One box of Berry Yogurt Crunch & another box of Cinnamon Oat Crunch.

I was pretty excited to get these.  Just a few weeks before I was contacted to give them a try, I saw them in Publix.  We don’t buy much cereal, but I made a mental note to get these in the future.  Luckily, I ended up with them for free

This was a great product for me to get.  You see I LOVE healthy cereals: Crispix, Cheerios, Special K.  Nathan loves cereals made for kids 6 and under: Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  So I thought I’d get two very different opinions.  I’d like them & he’d hate them.

WRONG.

We both absolutely loved them.  The Berry Yogurt Crunch was my favorite, and I usually hate berry cereals.  {Confession: I am pretty much morally opposed to the existence of cereal that changes the color of my milk.  Weird I know.}  This was so filling, and it was just the right amount of everything.  The berry flavor wasn’t overwhelming, and I loved the little yogurt bites.

The Cinnamon Oat Crunch reminded me of Honey Nut Cheerios for some reason.  It was good, and it definitely wasn’t too sweet at all.  If we had bananas, I think they would have been a great addition to the cereal.

The nice things about both of these is that they would make great family cereals.  You could easily get kids to eat either of these, and they are great for grown ups too!  No more buying some sugary cereal for the kids and something more simple for the grown ups.

I didn’t write down the nutrition info, but I believe each cereal had about 190 calories in a serving and 10ish grams of fiber.  Definitely very healthy.

We’ll be buying these again for sure.  Especially the berry one.  I just couldn’t get enough of it!

I was provided these two items for free through the Foodbuzz Tastemakers program.  My opinions are my own and are honest.

As I said last week, the blog has been getting a makeover these past few days.

My dear friend Krystyn is a blog design whiz, and she kindly put this new look together for me.

I just LOVE it.  It is so much cleaner looking, and I love that my header isn’t something I threw together in Powerpoint.  I am finally self-hosting and off of WordPress.org. 

Things will be back to normal around here starting tomorrow {I hope}.  There won’t be a menu for this week, because I am in “clean out the kitchen before the baby gets here” mode.  We’ll be winging it with what we have.  My aunt & uncle are also in Georgia visiting my other uncle who lives in the mountains, so we’ll be meeting them & my cousin for dinner this week. 

I hope everyone is having a great first day of summer.  I am hoping to get out of work a little early to enjoy some lemonade and a final pre-Samuel Target trip.

If you need any blog work done definitely get in touch with Krystyn!  She is a great friend.  You can find her at Really, Are You Serious?

Over the next few days, The Brunette Foodie is going to be undergoing a facelift as well as a move to self-hosting.

Please excuse any mess around here!  My dear friend, Serious Krystyn {she’s not actually very serious in real life…she’s hilarious}, who is a genius at blog design {and life & margarita consumption} has taken on the task of making this place look less industrial.

So, I promise things will get back to normal soon.  In the meantime, please feel free to check out Krystyn’s blog.  She hosts some awesome giveaways!

Hi! I swear I haven’t forgotten about this blog. I can’t find my iPhone charger, so I am stuck only using the one in the car.

Plus I haven’t been doing much cooking. It is finals for school, and Nathan has been mostly out of town the past 3 weeks. I hope to get back to normal next week.

In the meantime you can follow me on twitter at @brunettefoodie!!

Hey!

Sorry for the lack of posts! We are in the midst of a move to our new home. Plus I have been sick.

We will have Internet next week so I will be back. In the meantime this WordPress app for my iPhone is pretty sweet!

I do have a great recipe to post for fondue potatoes! So check back on Tuesday

Making homemade pizza is one of our favorite things to do together when it comes to cooking.  It is so fun to pick the ingredients and come up with fun new pizzas.  We have been making our own dough for about a year now, and that is always a blast too.  It is so much cheaper than buying crust at the grocery, and it tastes way better than anything I’ve bought in the store.

Homemade Pizza Dough {from AllRecipes.com}

Ingredients:

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• 1 package {.25 oz} active dry yeast
• 2 tbs vegetable oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1 cup warm water

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Mix in oil and warm water. Spread out on a large pizza pan.
3. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes.

We topped our dough with pasta sauce, 1 tomato chopped, 1 orange bell pepper chopped, minced garlic, 1/2 chopped onion, 1 tbs tarragon, 1 tsp sage, 1/2 cup bacon bits, 1 cup cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup feta cheese, and 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese.

It was DELICIOUS!

Grade: A

Comments: The dough is fabulous.  It is the right amount of doughy without being too much.  Of course, we loved our toppings selection too.  I love a veggie heavy pizza, and I love combining lots of cheeses to make the perfect flavor.

I swear I am going to catch back up on recipes.  I know I am running a few days behind right now.

This weekend was a blast, but that kept me from being in front of my laptop for more than about an hour total.

Check back tomorrow for some fabulous meals!

Also…how am I now officially past the 20 week mark?!?  We find out the baby’s sex on THURSDAY!  So expect a huge post about that this week too!

I’ll be back tomorrow with a blueberry buttermilk flapjack recipe that will make your taste buds melt!

Today Nathan and I are putting the technology away, and trying to do some reading and other things.

See you tomorrow!

{I did update my 150 Books in 2010 page!}