Happy Monday!  Hope you had a great weekend!  Ours was great.  Sun was out, kids birthday party on Saturday (Sienna loves parties), trip to the mall, walk with the dogs, and Super Bowl!  Brent took some time to explain the game of football to me (I don’t get it).  He’s tried to explain it before, but for some reason, how he explained it yesterday, it ‘clicked’ with me, so I actually enjoyed watching the game!

I didn’t go all out for Super Bowl food.  It was just the 2 (well 3) of us, so I just did healthy pizza’s on tortillas for dinner.  Brent’s was sausage, mushroom.  Mine was turkey, pineapple, mushroom, sun-dried tomato.  I also did a third for us to share (but I ate most of it!) of pesto, sun-dried tomato and mushroom. Forgot to snap pics.

As for shopping finds, I’m pleased to have gotten my first pair of TOMS…

I love their One-for-One philosophy.  For every pair sold, they give a pair to a child in need.  I wanted to get a couple pairs for Sienna, but the store didn’t have her size.

So I’ve come across some food annoyances/pet peeves in the past week related to food, so I just had to share…

Have you ever had a ‘bad batch’ of hard boiled eggs that just wouldn’t peel properly?

That was me last week…

Is it just a myth that eggs that aren’t fresh, peel easier?  I thought that was true.  But it certainly wasn’t the case with these eggs.  They had been in the fridge for just over a week, yet they still wouldn’t peel properly.  I wonder what makes some eggs easy to peel, and others not?  Can anyone answer that?

This next pet peeve is about food labeling.  I’m sure we’ve all come across deceptive food labels.

I’m always confused about the difference between Sweet Potatoes and Yams, as they are supposidly different.  In Canada, a lot of the time, Sweet Potatoes white inside?  Yams are always orange, unless they are purple yams or something.

But how’s this for being confused….what are they?!

I posted about this a bit ago on the Facebook page, but another annoyance of mine…

Don’t you hate when this happens to your oatmeal?

In other news, I’m pretty excited about a new gig I’ve been offered.

I was contacted by someone at the Huffington Post Canada about being one of their contributing bloggers…

I’m still kinda in shock!  I mean, I’m not a brilliant writer or anything, just a regular blogger!  I read so many blogs that are so well written as every post is like a story.  Gosh, that is so not my blog!

I hope to submit at least 1 article per month…either health related or a recipe.  Its an un-paid gig, but its great exposure to my blog and site. So I’ll be digging to find the extra time to write even more!

I do notice that a lot of the articles posted on Huff Post are highly opinion based (but also backed up with facts), so I’m a little excited to get my opinion out there.  I’ve always been a bit afraid of ruffling feathers and offending others.  I tend to keep opinions to myself.  But I’m excited to come out of my shell a bit more and talk about some topics I’m passionate about.

Question of the Day: I’d love to know what one of your food pet peeves are!