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!Being busy is one of the most popular excuses for making poor choices when it comes to diet and exercise. With two boys under 5, my job, blog [...]

I’m a day late posting this, but I wanted to point out that it’s National Eat Together Week.  According to the website, the week is sponsored by “the other white meat” - otherwise known as The Pork Board.  Personally, I’m not a huge fan of pork, but I can get behind the concept.  I think most families [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When we decided to change our lifestyle, one of the biggest challenges was changing the way we eat.  Like most of you, we’re a pretty busy family.  And even though we tried to eat healthy, I had to admit that we ate a lot of fast convenience foods (things out of the pantry).  Which also [...]