Much To My Delight

  Have you heard of the Whole 30? It’s not a diet, it’s considered a “nutritional reset” that helps people rethink their food choices in 30 days. I am currently on day 7, and it’s been an interesting journey so far. I hesitated posting about it because I wasn’t sure if anyone would be interested, [...]

At the beginning of April, I gave my husband Vin and myself a mighty challenge. Track every food and drink purchase to get a better idea of what we’re spending in an average month. To say I’ve been blindsided by the results is an understatement. For two people who don’t eat large portions, dine out [...]

Hold onto your bonnets folks, because it’s about to get all Little House on the Prairie up in this piece. This city slicker just made herself a huge batch of homemade laundry detergent out of stuff my great-grandmother probably rinsed her knickers in. Pause for reaction. I’ve had the “recipe” on my Pinterest board for [...]

As we grow closer to the end of the month, I find myself very ready for this food budget challenge to end. Not just because I commonly find myself forgetting to track my purchases on our shared spreadsheet, but because looking at the numbers of what’s being spent each month has been giving me some [...]

Ten years ago, when I was a single girl in Colorado, I distinctly remember spending about $35 a week on groceries. My cart was full of healthy girl food and so consequently was my fridge. My, how times have changed. These days it’s a rare event to spend less than $50 on a grocery trip, even when it’s [...]

One of my favorite things to do on a weekend morning or afternoon is take a looooong walk through the city, the kind where I start on the Upper West Side and end up in the Lower East, where I’ve had the opportunity to pass high-end stores and local bodegas, and every other type of [...]

This food budget challenge has been very eye-opening. Although only 12 days into this habit of tracking the cost of all food and drink purchases, I can already tell that we spend way more than I thought we did on food. It’s a little scary, actually. Two weeks of tracking all of our food costs has [...]

I am single. Have been for a while. Most of my life, come to think of it. Being single wouldn’t be so terrible it it weren’t for dating, which is, of course, abysmal. Not only are unsuccessful dates a drain on my time, patience and energy, I’m now convinced they are what have kept me [...]

Week one almost done! I guess we can’t officially call it a week since I began tallying my food/drink totals on Monday and today’s only Friday, but this is how I’ll be checking in. Every Friday in April, I’ll give an update on what my husband Vin and I spent on food and drink for [...]

There is something very glamorous about a New York City winter. The air is crisp and cool and when it hits your face you can’t help feeling completely and totally awake. Cozy bistros light fires and serve up steaming mugs of hot chocolate and frothy cappuccino. The wind can be brutal at times, but when [...]