Welcome back! If you haven’t already, please drop me a note at calie at broccolicupcake dot com. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I haven’t mentioned it here until now, but I’m participating in the SITS Girls ProBlogger Challenge.  Today’s task was to spend time analyzing a top blog in my niche, [...]

Here it is.  The guest post I promised.  It addresses the issue of the expense of healthy living.  I admit, I’m not very good at couponing or bargain hunting so I called in help from an expert.  With Sami’s tips on jumpstarting healthy couponing we can begin to overcome one of the most common obstacles to healthy [...]

Can you eat healthy if you’re on a budget?  This is a question people ask me all the time and the answer is yes.  Some of the ideas I’ve blogged about in the past are a good start.  For example, planting your own garden or purchasing a share in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program.  That’s [...]

I have garden envy, but I recently gave up my dream of a backyard garden for a few pots of veggies and a share in the Delvin Farms Community Supported Agriculture program. We’re pretty busy and the task of preparing the backyard plot, figuring out what to plant, what supplies to buy and making time to shop and dig [...]

Having worked in Public Relations and Marketing for almost a decade, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I got duped by marketing.  How you ask?  Because I trusted the marketing on the label instead of reading the ingredients for myself.  Sometimes I just want to grab my groceries and go.  Reading labels takes time [...]

So if I’m being honest, life has been really busy and we still haven’t planted our garden.  My husband has a big to do list in the backyard before he feels it’s ready and May is quickly coming to a close.  So I started to wonder if it was going to happen this year.  Insert Big [...]

Why is it that we are so choosy about what we feed our children, but we don’t hold ourselves to the same dietary standards?  When it comes to our kids we say no soda, limit their sweets and work hard to make sure they get fruits and vegetables at every meal.  But we always have an [...]