This has been a busy week! Yesterday I hit a PDR (personal distance record) with my running. I ran 20 miles! This was the hardest week of my marathon training. Now I am in the tapering stage. I was able to do the 20 miles in 3 hours 14 minutes & 57 seconds. I wasn’t pushing it, I was just running. I ran the first 10 miles with a friend, so that helped pass the time. I feel ready for my race on May 16th. To celebrate & refuel, I headed out to dinner last night with the kids and my in-laws. We went to a restaurant that just rolled out a new gluten-free menu, so I had high hopes. Unfortunately, the kitchen staff over-salted the pasta water & the dishes were not edible. They apologized & gave us a $50 gift card to come give them another try. I went with the intention of writing a review on this restaurant, which I am now waiting to write. I don’t feel it is fair to not give them a chance to fix the problem. They were busy and this was only the first or second week of the gluten-free menu. I will complete my review and share all of my thoughts once we go back again, hopefully later this week. So, what is a girl to do when she has only had a salad, roasted carrots & a glass of red wine for dinner? Cold Stone Creamery! I enjoyed a coffee ice cream with Heath bar mixed in and then came home for more wine. <\/p>\n
In case you missed it, I also wrote True Blogger Confessions<\/a> last night after a couple glasses of wine and apparently the post was a hit. \ud83d\ude09 If you missed it, please check it out and share your secrets. \ud83d\ude42 Andrea wrote me the funniest comment:<\/p>\n Dear Kim, Please drunk-blog more often because the results are awesome. Hugs and kisses, A<\/em><\/p>\n I got a good giggle out of that. <\/p>\n *********************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n Now, the Amazing Grass Winner. Thank you to all who entered the giveaway. The winner is:<\/p>\n kelly Congrats Kelly!! Check your email<\/strong><\/p>\n ***********************************************************************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n Now for the menu plan. <\/p>\n Sunday – Rotisserie chicken, baked sweet potato, roasted okra & tomatoes & salad<\/p>\n Monday – Filet mignon, leftover baked sweet potato (they were huge!), asparagus & salad<\/p>\n Tuesday – Taco night – ground turkey tacos, refried beans & corn off the cob (Jon has braces & Hannah is missing 3 front teeth), salad<\/p>\n Wednesday – Perhaps a revisit to the restaurant with the $50 gift card<\/p>\n Thursday -Grilled BBQ chicken, yucca fries, steamed broccoli & salad<\/p>\n Friday -Spaghetti with roasted veggies & marinutta<\/a> and salad<\/p>\n Saturday-Leftovers or breakfast for dinner<\/p>\n Baked Goods<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Scones<\/p>\n Bread<\/p>\n Pumpkin Bread<\/p>\n *********************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n Weekly Recap:<\/p>\n Jules Gluten Free Flour Cookies e-book FREE<\/a><\/p>\n Holiday Baking Company adds new menu items<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whole Foods Dublin now offering Udi’s Gluten-free goods<\/a>. <\/p>\n Teenagers following the gluten-free diet<\/a><\/p>\n Rusty Bucket locations now offering a gluten-free menu<\/a><\/p>\n Gluten-free Peanut Butter Chip Brownies<\/a><\/p>\n Review: Food for Life English Muffins<\/a><\/p>\n Review: Coconut Aminos & Coconut Vinegar<\/a><\/p>\n Nutritional Yeast Success<\/a><\/p>\n ********************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n Did you guys see the finale of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution? Jamie announced on Twitter today that they reached 500,000 signatures on the petition! WOOHOO!! <\/p>\n “Done it 500.000signatures+ I cant tell u how incredible that is 271.000 started real change inUK there is hope we can do it thank u all jox”<\/em><\/p>\n Do you think that Huntington will stick with the changes? What did you think about the schools bringing the processed
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\nwell any thing chocolate or peanut butter sounds yummy to me!<\/strong><\/p>\ncrap<\/del> food back on Fridays? Can you believe they had an order placed through 2011? Hopefully Jamie got there in time to help rectify that. I love the transformation that Alice has made. I was so skeptical of her in the beginning; I am really glad that she is one of Jamie’s allies now. Here is a link <\/a> with lots of recipes & how-to videos from Jamie’s site. I am sad that the show is over now. <\/p>\n