More Vegan Cooking

Tom and I are having so much fun with these new vegan recipes. He helps me in the kitchen with them. I am loving it cuz we both enjoy eating and I use to do all the cooking, now, it's team work.
Since I started the CHIP program, almost two weeks ago, neither one of us have had any sugar or sweets.
I have always been hesitant about the vegan diet because I really enjoy chocolate, not a fan of carob, and I thought I would have to give chocolate up. Thank God for my dear good friend Dore', she turned me on to vegan...yes vegan Ghiraelli chocolate chips..the ones in the gold package sold in most grocery stores.
I decided I was going to make us some kind of snack, so I made some yummy oatmeal cookies...they really are tasty. Just what the Dr. ordered..Dr. Murphy that is.

Cheese is another favorite food of mine. How could I give that up. Well, I was given this recipe at one of the CHIP meetings. Bought everything I needed, gave the recipe to my husband... (Tom is home during the day so he makes our dinners and has them ready to eat when I come home for lunch)and wholla...let me just say that the cheese sauce is even better on our fresh broccoli that is growing in our garden.
The more we learn from a medical scientific, with plenty of facts,approach, the more we are leaning to a vegan lifestyle.
In the 10 days I have been on this program, I feel a big difference with energy, clarity of mind and mobility.
This has to be a good thing!

Kids Say the Darndest Things....still.

My precious grand daughter, who is now 3 years old, really has her thinking cap on all of the time. She was being naughty while her mother was busy on the computer doing some work for their business. Her mommy politely asked her to stop but she wouldn't so she was sentenced to her room for a short time out.
Now, we have all said this at one time or another to our children when they do something wrong, after the wrong doing has been done we say " now are you sorry you did that"? Of course we expect their reply to be "yes".
When my daughter went into the bedroom to relieve Lawren of her sentenced, Lawren replies to her mommy...."mommy are you sorry you put me in time out"?
What can a mother do?

Tropical Cheesecake (Vegan)

Alright, so, my good friend,Cecelia, who lives clear across the US, has asked me to blog again. So here I go.
I have decided to take charge of my health again, so I have joined a program called CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Program). Total plant based diet for 30 days. Now after 30 days I don't plan on giving up.
An important part of my thinking with all the change is "what about dessert?" So I have been experimenting with some of the recipes I have found. This is one of them, Tropical Cheesecake, and oh it is yummy!

If any of you are interested in the recipe just let me know, via my blog, and I will email it to you or just post it here.
These 30 days are really going to be quite an adventure.
I have to say that my husband and I have been on this new lifestyle for one week now and I already notice a difference. I'm waking up around 5:30 in the morning, on a weekend, for crying out loud.