Well, it is a good thing I made energy bites for last night because we needed them to fuel our beer and chatting marathon on the couch!
Last night = Sitting on the couch > Kinect
I am a strong believer in listening to your body and last night our bodies wanted beer, energy bites, blankets, and a comfy couch. The technical term is Pre-Winter hibernation I believe.
Lots of wedding talk occurred! Steve and Joanne are trying to decide what kind of wedding they want to have (destination vs home). It is a difficult decision!
Today, I am in the kitchen testing my pumpkin recipe should I advance to challenge #8 in Project Food Blog. Yesterday, I tested a pumpkin recipe that I had been planning all week and it was a huge and utter flop. I was left with a kitchen that looked like a bomb went off. Sometimes creating vegan recipes is not easy!
Now I start from scratch.
I threw around some ideas with Eric last night and I came up with a new idea that I hope will be great!
Because I am busy in the kitchen today, I thought I would do a health news round up for you today. :)
Health News Round Up
- Fitness trends for 2011– Fitsugar
- Does walking help you avoid the common cold? – Yahoo News
- 9 common ingredients on food labels and what they are– Huffington Post
- 12 healthy soup recipes for Fall and Winter– Daily Spark
- Want to become a runner? Sign up for a race – Thatsfit.ca
- Cooking Light’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving – NY Times
- The ‘Twinkie Diet’ raises some interesting questions about how we define health – CNN
- Spice up indoor cardio with a virtual trip this Winter – ThatsFit.ca
- 5 fun ways to prepare carrots – NY Times
- Celebrities who ran the NYC Marathon – Fit Sugar
- Two great running bras with lots of support – Thats Fit
- Pilates or Boot Camps?- FitSugar
Random question of the day- If you are married, did you opt for a destination wedding or one in your area? If you are planning on getting married some day, have you thought about what you would do for your wedding?
Aw, I agree sometimes curling up on the couch is the recipe for a perfect evening.
I’m currently in the process of planning a wedding and I’m opting to have it at home because I know it will make the process easier for me. The challenge we’re facing is that home is new to us. My fiancee just got a job in Seattle so he is moving there now and I am moving when I graduate in May. This is challenging as far as wedding planning goes because neither of us know the area at all, luckily we’re not getting married till summer 2012 so we have time to figure things out.
Good luck with your pumpkin recipe!
Thank you! I was very interested to read the article on Pilates vs. bootcamp…
We were married in Vegas and had the most beautiful sunset ceremony in the gardens at Caesars. We took 15 of our closest friends/fan and it was honestly the most perfect day!!
I love your Healthy news roundups! You’ve always got something I seem to miss in the news!
I have no idea what I would want to do for my wedding. It is not even on my radar! :)
I’m not even in a serious relationship right now, so who knows how this will change… but right now I want a simple, simple wedding. Either just going to the courthouse with a few family members or possibly even eloping. I don’t even think I want a diamond ring. I’ll be curious to see how these ideas change once I’m actually faced with the possibility of a big wedding and a diamond. ;-)
This was about to be my answer, except sort of…I used to want the big traditional wedding, the diamond etc, but as I get “older” my priorities seem to be redefining themselves. I think my transition to veganism a year ago is related to this as well. The idea of marriage, the relationship, is more important to me than the wedding. I’d love a party with all my friends and family, but for a ceremony, just us and our parents and perhaps best friends, no hoopla. I don’t want to be stressed!
I always love your health round ups!
I saw the Twinkie peice earlier this week and it is ridiculous that he is in the Health industry, He is a silly silly man. Sending a wrong message.
Anyways, I got married in Steamboat Springs, CO and yes it was a detination wedding and a dream come true. We got married on top of a mountain. :)
No regrets and all our guests made it too.
Have fun today!
Ha, I mean- no regrets meaning that we chose a destanation wedding, NOT that I got married! hehe.
You know I loved my wedding day, but sometimes I think about how amazing a destination wedding would have been. I went to one in Mexico 4 years ago and it was just gorgeous. I don’t really think they can go wrong. They could always throw a party when they get back for guests who couldn’t make it!
I’m getting married in less than a year and we have decided to have the ceremony close to home. Being surrounded by our friends and family is so important to us, and having the wedding overseas would be a serious obstacle for a lot of people to attend.
It’s already a bit tricky — I’m from Saskatoon and my fiance is from Toronto, so one of our families has to travel! Maybe we should do a destination wedding to Winnipeg, meet them halfway :P
Thanks for being so attentive to your readers. It is so much easier to navigate posts now that they are separate from your added daily photos! Cannot wait for food buzz post!!!!!!!!!!!
No prob!!
You should have seen me, I was so proud of myself for figuring out this plug in..haha. Took me a while, but I got it!
I love the round ups! I had no idea Bobby Flay was a marathon runner… impressive!
It was a tough decision for us, but we stayed in town after realizing that we really wanted all of our friends and family to be there. The fact that our grandparents couldn’t travel easily was a huge deciding factor. That, and the fact that it’s easy to send more on a smaller destination wedding after all of the travel expenses are considered.
But, the week of our wedding, Andrew and I were both so stressed about silly details that we swore we would take off and elope if we could have without losing several thousand dollars!
I say, it’s a toss up! If you’re leaning towards a destination – go for it!
Kaneil
My husband and I were married 7 months ago. Both of us strongly dislike being in the spotlight and get nervous being the center of attention, so we knew when we first mentioned getting married that a big wedding was NOT in the future. Each of us having two huge families made it even harder. I was living in Canada before we were married and he was in California, where we both are now. We both love the ocean so we knew we wanted to do it on the beach. Because of technicalities with the fiance visa I was moving to the USA on, we legally had to get married on US soil. That made us not having a “real” wedding a little easier as we had a good excuse for not getting married in Canada with our families.
We call what we did a “pre-planned elopement” because it wasn’t a secret, but it was just us two. Our best friend here is a photographer so her and her husband were there as witnesses and did our photos. It was short and sweet, and once we were married we had a blast doing a lot of cool photos in different locations along the coast.
Then a few months later when we were home visiting our families we had a big family weekend get together, which was laid back and not formal at all – just our style. In the end everyone had a great time and we did get to celebrate our marriage together. But we did get a lot of pressure to do our wedding the way other people thought we “should” do it. We did it the way we wanted to and we wouldn’t change a thing!
My husband and I are always planning opposite roles in our relationship. I had practically zero interest in our wedding (poor guy), but fortunately he had tons of interest and is a good organizer, and pretty much we went with his preferences, because it meant so much to him. We kept in close to home (in Washington, DC — which is where I’ve lived since 2000) — church where we attended at the time. The building was striking, so we skipped all decorations, and were just glad to have family and friends there.
It’s intriguing to me that so many people are going with destination weddings these days. I sometimes wonder if it’s because there is such pressure through the wedding industry (talk about a case study in created demand), to have a certain type of wedding. I mean, we didn’t bother coordinating colors, flowers, anything. It was great: friends, family, food. . . I mean, it didn’t even matter that the groomsman (we just had one attendant each) forgot the rings.
I’ve never really put *too* much thought into a wedding, but me and my boyfriend have talked a little about what we would want. As of right now, the plan’s for a destination wedding to where most of our family is so they don’t have to travel. It’s easier to move two people than 20 people.
My husband and I have friends and families all over the U.S. and Mexico, so most people would have had to travel to our wedding no matter where it was. We decided to have it in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, partially because it was easier for his elderly grandparents to travel domestically. Everything was just beautiful. We ended up with 80 guests, which was a great number, and even though our wedding was very nice (open top-shelf bar, surf-and-turf dinner, etc.), nobody knew it was a third of the cost it would have been in the U.S. As we had a fairly limited budget, this also played a role in having a destination wedding. Some of the logistics, like getting married in a Catholic church, had us jumping through hoops, but we had over a year to plan so it was very do-able. Here are a couple pictures for anyone interested: (http://thenicholsblog.com/2008/06/21/katie-drew-puerto-vallarta/)
And for the people who want a small wedding, my husband and I went to city hall in Manhattan (where we were living at the time) three weeks before our “big” wedding since it was much easier to get married in the U.S. It was just the two of us on a rainy Friday, with a friend as our witness, followed by brunch at one of our favorite restaurants. We spent the weekend celebrating with Broadway shows and a couple nice dinners wearing our wedding bands, then took them off Monday until our Mexican wedding. Nobody but our families and the one friend knew we were married before, so it was really romantic and fun to have that secret. I would totally recommend it :)
My husband and I were married in Sarasota, FL. It was extremely difficult to plan because we were living in Sweden at the time. We had family coming to our wedding from Sweden and Oklahoma. My mom was a lot of help since she was at least in the country at the time, so she could call to make the arrangements for me. I wouldn’t have changed my wedding for the world though :) Although it was stressful to plan a destination wedding, everything worked out in the end.
We were married almost 2 years (in January) and we had a destination wedding in Punta Cana. We were fortunate enough to have 55 guests join us, and we also had a party 2 months later in our hometown for about 100 people so we could celebrate with all of those who couldn’t join us down south. It was magical and I wouldn’t do it any other way. Highly recommended if you don’t have a vision of a traditional wedding.
We had a semi-destination wedding. We went to Vegas. The reasoning was that our families were so spread out (washington, montana, arizona, utah, texas, ohio, missouri) so doing something sort of in the middle of the US where everyone would have to travel seemed fair. We also did it over a 3-day weekend so people could have a fun get-away weekend as well.
http://leftoversforlunch.com/wedding/
I would like to elope. Or not marry. But, since I’m sure my parents don’t want me to live alone or in sin forever, I’m planning on an outdoor Bay Area coastal wedding.
Which is where I live! So…home wedding!
I’m 20 years old with no boyfriend (or any potential ones for that matter), but I have already planned my wedding! :) I know the city, location, size, etc for what I want! I know that I probably will have to make some compromises when the time comes but it’s fun to dream right?