Anthem Health & Wellness Club March Meeting with Dr. Chen

If you live in the Anthem area and are interested in health and wellness topics, the next Anthem Health & Wellness Club meeting is coming up soon. 📅 Monday, March 16 The featured speaker is Dr. Chen, presenting: “Your Organs and Your Emotions.” According to Deb, here’s what we’ll cover: • The basics of the […]

Tuesday Check-In

Grab your cup ‘o joe or tea and let’s sit a spell and chat, shall we? Time for a Tuesday check in. Today I’m sharing a quick Trader Joe’s haul, a small but useful Amazon order, and an update on what’s happening with our local Buc-ee’s, because yes… it’s still a whole thing around here. […]

Homemade Detox Pineapple Ginger Juice

Happy New Year!  Yes, it’s that time of year when everyone is on the healthy eating, gym attending, dry January bandwagon. And while that’s not my schtick, I did mention last week that I’m in the process of shedding a few pounds.  Oh, and exercise is a bit challenging these days for my old knees. […]

Starting a Diet with AI

Have you jumped on the AI bandwagon yet? I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it has been a useful and powerful tool for me lately. And now? I’m using it as a nutrition coach. Here’s how I got here and why. First of all, let me say hub and I have used […]

May 2025 Potpourri

It’s been a while since we talked about this and that. So let’s chat and call this my May 2025 potpourri post. Thank you for joining me, listening to my chatter, giving me advice and taking a peek at my recommendations. May Flowers While many of you are enjoying springtime flowers, I am just sitting […]

Grating and Storing Cheddar Cheese

Purchasing pre-shredded packages of cheese is expense, contains added chemicals and is not very tasty.  But, I do it. Because it’s convenient. Please.  It’s not that hard to shred some cheese. And then I had the great (no pun intended) idea to get the gargantuan block of cheddar from Costco and grate up the whole […]

Homemade Snack Boxes

Things in my kitchen work out so much better when I prep before just shoving stuff in the fridge.  This week, I’m elevating prep to include homemade snack boxes. There are a number of great divided containers online for food storage, but I opted for plastic so we can use them when we travel.  The […]

Goodbye, January

You knew this would happen.  You knew I would again be amazed at how fast time is flying.  Can you believe we are saying, “Goodbye, January”?  And are you saying “Good riddance”?  January has been a really good and fun month for me, but I am DONE with the cold. By the way, are you […]