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Day 246. This recipe is taken directly from The Pioneer Woman . We had the best weekend, ever, and spent the night with our good friends at their new house. My friend, Nancy, says, "bring your crockpot and make something really good. Im going to invite my sisters, and their boyfriends, too." Nothing like a little pressure.... But you really cant go wrong with a PW recipe, and I had bookmarked her spicy barbecued shrimp eons ago, and was waiting for a good occasion to make it. I know Ive said it before, but the crockpot rocks. It totally and completely rocks. I love bringing food to peoples houses, but it always becomes a bit awkward when you need to prepare and cook the food while you are there. Will the oven be available? How about a stove burner? You just dont come across that problem when visiting with a crockpot dish. There is always, always an available outlet, and you can easily stash the crockpot in the bathroom or garage if your host is low on counter space . The

Day 227. This pudding is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S! sorry. I totally couldnt help myself. We needed a quick dessert for some company and I needed to use the crockpot . And thats pretty much how this dessert was invented. I opened the cabinet, saw some sweetened condensed milk, and we all know HOW GOOD THAT IS when cooked in the crockpot ( except for you shouldnt do it for safety and legal reasons or something like that ) and we had a bunch of bananas. So I mixed the two. The end. The Ingredients. --2 cans of sweetened condensed milk --4 bananas The Directions. I used a 1.5 quart mini crockpot for this dessert. Put the peeled bananas into a zippered freezer bag and let your kids squish the bananas until they get bored or the bag springs a hole and banana goobers fall to the floor. The freshly-mopped-and-ready-for-company floor. The bananas will still have some chunk in them. If this isnt okay with you, youll need to use a food processor. Open the cans of sweetened condensed

Well, my last post was about listening to our bodies and mines been screaming, "Beets, please!" I dont know what possessed me to even buy one recently, but now Im obsessed with these sweet amethyst gems. I do believe in the bodys innate intelligence and capacity to heal itself, and Im just trusting that, for whatever reason, this is what my body needs at the moment. Said to be both blood cleansing and blood building, beets are loaded with nutrients: beta-carotene, B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, sodium and iron. Betaine – an amino acid that gives the beet its gorgeous color – helps increase oxygen intake and lower homocysteine levels, which is especially beneficial in combating premature coronary artery disease and stroke. Beets have long been known for their amazing health benefits in treating anemia. Theyre also very helpful for constipation, irregular menses, acne and gout. Did you know that beets can normalize blood pressure, lowe