Farmer's Market

Today Brent and I ventured to the Mount Pleasant Farmer's Market.

Actually, Mount Pleasant has two Farmer's Markets... a big one on Thursday mornings and a smaller one on Saturday mornings, but since he works almost every Thursday morning we never get a chance to go to that one. Well, we woke up today and decided to go to the Saturday one.

I'm really glad we did! :)

Our goodies included:
-fresh honey crisp apples
-peaches
-4 ears of corn
-3 sweet potatoes
-a zucchini
-a cucumber
-lots of green beans
-an oatmeal cherry cookie :)

As soon as we got home, Brent got ready for work and left. I started thinking of fun ways to use our produce.

First idea: homemade peach tea.
I cut up three of the peaches while brewing regular black tea. Put the peach slices in the jug and filled it with the tea. Extremely simple. Extremely delicious! The peaches gave the tea the perfect sweetness and flavor. Even Brent, who hates sweet tea, loved it! :)

Second idea: green bean mac&cheese.
I have been craving some Velveeta shells and cheese all day, and we just happened to have a box in the pantry. So, I put the noodles in bowling water and chopped up several of our fresh green beans (my attempt at making it healthy) and added them in. The end result was WAY better than I actually expected. The beans stayed crunchy and added the perfect touch to the rich cheese and soft shells. I will definitely be trying this again. :)

Business Venture
I was quite inspired a few weeks ago when it was suggested to me that I try and sell my baked goods at the farmers market. Everytime I go there are at least two or three booths set up with people selling their bread, cookies, cupcakes, etc. AND since I have been so obsessed with baking lately I thought it would be a great idea. Unfortunately, my pessimistic side got the better of me and I decided I would probably never be able to do it. It would probably be super expensive to reserve a spot, I would probably need some sort of business license, or something that would be unattainable for me.

Well, when I saw the baked goods stand today I wondered over and checked out their goods and asked about what they had to do to set up there. She said I just had to go speak with the Parks & Rec department, and that for a Thursday spot it was $20 and a Saturday spot was only $10, obviously this is per week that I set up there. OR I could pay for the whole season in advance and get a discounted price. WHAT? That is seriously ALL I have to do? I am definitely considering doing this next summer... what a great way to make money!

Bake at home. Take Beannette to the park twice a week to sell my baked goods. Make money.

Yes, please.

Brent is all about me getting on this band wagon, and it is definitely under consideration at the moment. :)

change of plans

Yesterday I had big plans to be in the kitchen making glorious new recipes and trying new things. Unfortunately, pregnancy hormones and sickness took over my body and I spent most of the day crashed on my couch.

Lunch was a wonderful plate of leftover pork chop and baked potato, once again done up with butter, sour cream, and cheese. I am in love with potatoes, I swear. So good! I didn't take a picture of this, but it looked similar to my plate last night minus the corn, salad, and fruit (you know, everything that made it healthy). :)


Dinner time eventually rolled around and I had no ambition to whip up something delicious and new so I resorted to my box of Morningstar Farms chik'n patties and some left over mac & cheese from lunch yesterday (not mentioned on blog). I also finished off the remainder of the fruit bowl and killed about three glasses of water!

I only ate about half of the chik'n patty and 3/4 of the mac & cheese, but I just was not feeling good.

I also must confess that around 10, I had to have some ice cream so I ran out and got my favorite Ben & Jerry's. I took about three bites to realize that really wasn't going to cut it either so it is sitting in the freezer waiting for me today!



Here's hoping for better cooking and healthier eating today! I would definitely say that is the hardest obstacle that comes with being pregnant, you just really cannot pick out what you want to eat. :( That's okay... I'm halfway done! :D

Catching Up

My trip up north was great... although, I can't say the same about my diet. :) It wasn't all bad, there were two trips to Subway and lots of fruit!

However, now I'm back in my normal routine and things are almost back to the same.

Lunch yesterday was a twist on a favorite:


Morningstar Farms Chik'n Nuggets
Mac & Cheese - Toy Story style, not the healthiest... but the movie does come out tomorrow so we had to get it.
Watermelon - YUM

For dinner, we had a few friends over and decided a taco bar would be an excellent and easy idea. We served turkey meat, and they also loved it! I don't have any pictures from the night, but it was similar to the tacos we had last week. :)