Anyway, enough with the reading material...on with the cuteness!
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Pasta Night
Nicolette had her first taste of pasta the other night and boy did she love it! We had Trader Joe's Organic Brown Rice Pasta with Trader Joe's Organic Spaghetti Sauce with Mushrooms. (The TJ Brown Rice Pasta is a steal at $1.99 per lb, WAY less than you'd pay for the brown rice pasta at Whole Foods, Earth Fare or even Harris Teeter. Wheat is a genetically modified crop so the wheat we eat today is NOTHING like the wheat of our ancestors so I try to limit as much of it as possible from our family's diet...you can read more here. And the Organic Spaghetti Sauce is the only marinara sauce at Trader Joe's that I was able to find that does not include ANY soybean oil. I think it's creepy how soy is incorporated into SO many different foods and despite popular beliefs soy is NOT a health food...anything but and almost ALL soy is genetically modified so I want to keep as much of it out of Nicolette's body as possible. You can read more here).
Anyway, enough with the reading material...on with the cuteness!
Anyway, enough with the reading material...on with the cuteness!
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She is absolutely adorable. I am with you on eliminating the GMOs from our diets. Have you tried making your own pasta sauce? It us much easier than I ever imagined, and the stuff you can make on your own has much better nutritional stats than even the organic jarred pasta sauce. If you google "Biggest Loser Marinara Sauce", that recipe turns out really well, and after you sweat the onions and garlic, the whole recipe (or double it!) can be thrown in a crock pot, cook on low all day, and you'll even have some to freeze for another day!
ReplyDeleteI'll check out the recipe. I've occasionally made my own sauce but have a hard time finding jarred tomatoes and sauce. I'm trying to avoid the BPA lining in canned food products. If you have recommendations on sources for those items I'd greatly appreciate it!!! (and yes, I'm a little neurotic...ok, more than a little...)
DeleteOMG! She is adorable! I can't believe that she is one. I have been reading your blog since you were pregnant with her. The time has flown by. I totally agree with you on deleting soy and other GMO's out of our diets. Have you read the ingredients in Goldfish? Ugh! I make my own and my kids love them. Great pictures of your little princess!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid to even read the ingredients. When I started eliminating soy and dairy from my diet I could NOT believe how many different foods contained soy! I went to the Olive Garden and looked at their allergen listing online first and literally almost every...single...item contained SOY! Everything at the Olive Garden is made with Soybean Oil instead of Olive Oil...how screwed up is that????
DeleteNicolette is just such a beautiful little girl. Precious pictures too! Deb Lewis (Friend of your parents)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! She's definitely stolen our hearts! :-)
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