Recipe Success! Almond Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

  These cookies were delicious!  The whole family loved them and there aren't many foods I can put organic flaxseed in that fools our girls! This first time around I used more unbleached all purpose flour in place of the whole-wheat flour and regular sugar in place of the raw sugar.  (Clean eating is a PROCESS!)  Next time I will follow the recipe completely because they are that delicious, I'm willing to try.

Chocolate Milk Solution

We could not figure out the best way to completely wean Hammie.  We were down to nursing only one time a day, but she did not like cow's milk.  We tried whole milk, 2%, and then we tried adding Nestle's Chocolate syrup (no high fructose corn syrup).  She didn't like anything.  So out of desperation I bought a gallon of chocolate milk. . . with high fructose corn syrup and all.  It worked!  She was completely weaned and she was happy.  We as parents were not happy.

We spent years eliminating high fructose corn syrup from our diets, (We are not of those that think it's fine in moderation. . . good luck with moderation when it's in everything you eat!)  and we were not okay with giving it to our 19 month old every morning.  We could buy organic I thought, but then we run into the problem of ultra-pasteurization.  If you want to read about ultra-pasteurizing This Website has a good article on what exactly it is.  Is ultra-pasteurizing really a problem?  We're not sure, but for US, we don't want to be eating or drinking anything that has gone through a process that can actually change its taste, texture, and proteins.  Our rule is that if it gives it a super long shelf life we probably don't want it in our bodies.

We asked around without much success.  Was there a chocolate milk on this Earth that we could give our daughter without worry?  What should you do when it doubt?  ASK YOUR MOTHER.  I texted my mom and she texted back, Oberweis.  OBERWEIS, DUH!  I'm not sure why it never crossed our minds, maybe because we have to leave our small town to even find it!

Pizza Night!

It's true.  We have a lot of pizza nights.  Lately it's been once or twice a week!  Here are a few reasons why we have been having a lot of pizza nights:

1)  It costs MAYBE $4.10 per pizza.  Depending on which frozen pizza you buy at the store this is either barely more than you spend or possibly LESS than you spend for a frozen pizza!  MINUS all of those nasty chemicals!