Mommy snacks

I’m kind of a creature of habit. And the hardest habit to break is the one where I sit down after I get the kids in bed and enjoy a little snack. When I was breastfeeding that snack could easily be coconut ice cream or rice chips or some other “junk food”. But now that I’m not burning all those extra calories I have to choose my snacks more judiciously.

So my latest Paleo-friendly, low-cal snack is this:
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Turned into this:

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I take a beautiful, crisp fuji apple and slice it really thinly then squeeze 1/2 a lemon all over it. Then I liberally sprinkle cinnamon on the top and add a dash of coarse sea salt.

Try it! It’s addicting….

Confession #101

Sometimes…instead of a beadtime story, I’ll read my daughter the new Bloomingdales or Neimans catalogue that came in that day. But it always starts with, “Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful, and very thin, and VERY rich woman…”