Tricotine

Apple Sauce Carrot Cake

It has been snowing all day in my corner of the world, so my kids and I have baked healthier Apple Sauce Carrot Cake.  I found the recipe at Spark People, and it is the first time I was making it. As a matter of fact, it was the first time I was using Apple Sauce in the recipe. I like it!

145.8 Calories and 5.7 g of Fat per slice (recipe makes 16 servings)

Those nutrition facts are not accounting the half cup of chopped walnuts I added to the batter to make the cake more nutritious. It adds 25 calories per slice of cake, but I made 24 servings instead of 16 and that gave me 114 calories per slice and 5.5 g of Fat, walnuts included. It is all good!

I will certainly will make that cake again, because it is DE-LI-CIOUS!
My little picky eaters loved it, and we sure had fun baking together!

♥

NB: For those - like Mister Tricotine - who miss the frosting, topping a slice of cake with Cool Whip does the trick without packing calories and fat.

I HAVE REACHED MY GOAL WEIGHT!!!!!

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!
I MADE IT!!!
And right in time before my up-coming race!

NEW GOALS now: 4 more LBS down, and 22% BODY FAT

 

Also, I have become a Spark People "Motivator"!

Wordless Wednesday #56

More WW...

EARTH HOUR 2008

On March 29 2008 at 8pm, TURN OFF your lights for ONE HOUR!!!

It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change?

The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour.

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for one hour.

With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.

 

.: Add your name to the Earth Hour movement HERE:.

Water and Lemon...

Since I quit drinking Diet Soda, I always order Water & Lemon - to cover restaurants' chlorine tasting water - or Hot Tea and Lemon, but that is just because I like it.  I like to squeeze the wedge, and to drop it into my drink.

No later than last night, at a local Mexican Restaurant, I dropped my lemon in my tea, and my Husband did the same with the orange wedge that came with his Pinacolada...

Well, after watching THIS VIDEO a friend sent me today (Thanks, Arlene!), I am going to have to change my habits...

Take care!

Weekend Snapshot #24

Banana Oatmeal Cookies baking - from scratch - this weekend.
I know, my supposed-to-be-cookies look more like scones,
but they were "cookie-licious" anyway!

And, Running Shoe shopping!

YESTERDAY... TODAY AND TOMORROW

"There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back YESTERDAY. We cannot undo a single act we performed; We cannot erase a single word we said. YESTERDAY is gone. Hopefully we learned something.

The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. TOMORROW is also beyond our immediate control. TOMORROW'S sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds-but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in TOMORROW, for it is as yet unborn. Hopefully we will learn something.

This leaves only one day -TODAY. Any man can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those awful eternities -YESTERDAY and TOMORROW that we break down. It is not the experience of TODAY that drives men mad - it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened YESTERDAY and the dread of what TOMORROW may bring.

Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time."
-- author unknown

Weekend Snapshot #23

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

Look at that. I "killed" my "squeezzy buddy"...
Was I that stressed?

My kind of house

Seen in the "Escapes" section of the New-York Times online, this cabin is the perfect illustration of my dreamy house; a cabin in the Woods on the Nothern West Coast.

Now, I especially LOVE the wood stove, the sleeping area and the sauna, but honestly, I would rather have the toilet inside the house...

Click on the photo, to see inside the cabin.

Teddy Bears Pic-nic

When your little ones are too sick to go to school and they are so desperate to miss Snack Party Day, you have to improvise and show some creativity.

I think everyone enjoyed the goodies and had some fun, especially that "flirty" Mister Grinch who wouldn't let go of little Miss Monkey. Now, that he has a big heart, he cannot help but showing it!

Now, can you tell that I didn't win that card game?
I kept the Old Maid (the Witch) from the beginning to the end! LOL

But I got a HUG and a "bisou" to make me feel better...