No football food for you. I have this thing…  this unintentional need to play into clichés.  For example, if my husband and I are watching a game, then I like to eat game food, even if it’s just the two of us at home in our PJs.  It can totally be a low key thing like frozen pizza from the store and a bottle of Octoberfest.  It can even be healthy snacks that I play off as “healthy football food” (but let’s be real, healthy and football food is not really a thing). I must be slipping because this past …

Has the flavor of chicken changed? I had no issues eating chicken when I was a kid.  My dad was (and still is) picky about his chicken, claiming some chicken dishes tasted “too chicken-y.”  My sisters and I used to think that my dad was weird for thinking that. Karma is a kicker.  A few years ago, I was eating some kind of chicken dish and said (to myself or whoever was with me), “Wow, does this chicken taste chicken-y or what?”  (My husband piped up and said it was him that was there to hear that and that he …

Sometimes I have a hard time getting my daily dose of veggies. My mom says that when I was little I used to eat vegetables all the time.  In fact, I preferred a carrot over chocolate.  Whaaat?! That doesn’t sound like me at all.  I guess I’ve changed.  Luckily I still like to eat most vegetables but I admit that it requires effort and sometimes I slack off.  I wonder if pizza and bagels will ever turn a corner and be considered a vegetable.  😉 If so, I’d be golden. Anyway, in an effort to eat more vegetables, I thought …