The Sugar Free Challenge

Does anyone want to join me for the sugar-free challenge taking place over at The Nourishing Gourmet?

Read more about the challenge here and place a comment here if you're in!

I'll be doing the beginner-moderate challenge. Specifically, we'll only make 100% whole wheat bread (probably without any sweetener) and use quinoa as our other grains. I will be using a bit of honey here and there throughout the week - but, in extreme moderation.

I'm hoping that Nourishing Gourmet posts some recipes in advance to help those of us participating in her challenge prepare meals and shop over the weekend. I know I'll definitely need some help coming up with ideas. The sugar-free part isn't what will be hard for me. It's the grain part. Life without grains??? Yikes!

Nourishing Gourmet states that removing sugar from our diets helps boost our immune system. So, that, in itself, may motivate some of us to take the challenge, especially due to this crazy flu season!

Introducing Rainbow

Not the baby rabbit shown above. Olivia. As of today, her name is now Rainbow. She has informed us that she will announce it to her preschool teacher tomorrow and her ballet teacher on Tuesday. We are to teach her how to write it out on paper first thing tomorrow morning.

She decided that she wanted to change her name when she started playing "Princesses Around the World" with a girlfriend at school. It's the name she picked for that game and she has decided to use it in real life.

So, if you call asking for Olivia, please be advised that her name is now Rainbow.

I will be sure to inform you all if anything changes in the near future.