confessions – Carpool, Kale & Caviar http://www.carpoolkaleandcaviar.com My Life as a Modern American Mom Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:28:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.6 Mommy snacks http://www.carpoolkaleandcaviar.com/mommy-snacks/ Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:50:37 +0000 http://www.carpoolkaleandcaviar.com/?p=173 Continue reading "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 http://www.carpoolkaleandcaviar.com/confession-101/ Fri, 03 May 2013 19:42:40 +0000 http://www.carpoolkaleandcaviar.com/?p=126 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…”

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