Cookie Willpower

Tonight I decided to bake Snickerdoodles to welcome my husband home from a business trip, and also so I can send a few to my grandma in the mail. 

I have a really hard time with baking and eating way too many cookies and dough in the process.  But tonight, I only had one bite of the first cookie I gave to my husband, and I didn't touch them again.

Yea for me!

I did put the remaining cookies in a tupperware container and told him to put them somewhere in the house where I don't have to look at them.   I know if they are sitting around in plain view I will end up eating way too many of them.   At least I know my limitations, right? 

After the cookies where done I treated myself to an orange that I bought it the grocery today.  It was actually so good that I am glad I didn't fill up on cookies, or else I would have missed out on the orange! 

The Great Recipe Binder

Remember a few days ago when I said my fridge was empty? Well, it's still empty!

I have started my grocery list and I have a lot of cooking planned for the next few days. I needed some ideas for new meals, so I consulted my recipe binder:

I subscribe to a lot of magazines, and instead of keeping the magazines so I can refer back to them, I tear out the pages that I want to keep, and get rid of the magazine.  I keep the recipes in this binder, and I have another folder for any exercise or home decorating items that I want to keep. 
I started the binder with empty page protectors, and I can slide in any recipe that I tear out from a magazine or print from a website.  If I try a recipe from a website without printing it, I try to hand write or print it and add it to my binder so I have everything in one place.   I am normally not a "paper person" and I like to keep everything electronically, but I make an exception for my recipes. 


My binder is currently organized into the following categories:

Salads
Appetizers
Chicken
Entrees ( everything with the exception of chicken)
Bread
Breakfast
Side Dishes
Dessert
Drinks
Tips (includes recipe substitutions, cooking times, grains 101)

Eventually I would like to further separate the Entree section into Pork, Beef, Non-Meat, etc, but I just haven't ever done it. 

I decided to try two new recipes from my binder:

Dry-Rubbed Baby Back Ribs ( I have had this in my binder since July 2008!)
Crustless Spinach Quiche (this will be for my husband, too many eggs for me)

I will post reviews of the recipes in the next few days once we actually get to eat them.

How do you organize your recipes? 

First Triathlon Club Meeting

Tonight I attended my first meeting of the Palm Harbor Tri-Warriors Triathlon Club. 

I have been on their email list for over a year, and there is so much knowledge amongst their members, I was excited to finally make it to a meeting!

The meeting was very informal, as there was no speaker for the meeting this month, but it was so much fun to interact with a group of people with similiar interests to mine. 

I did a few sprint triathlons last summer, but my decision to sign up for St. Anthony's Olympic Triathlon on April 25th has me a little scared.  I felt much better after tonight's meeting because: 

• Their knowledge about the sport of triathlons is priceless to someone like me who is relatively new to the sport.   They answered so many of my questions and I learned so much in just one hour.   I learned valuable information on buying a wetsuit, and what I should keep on my bike in case of a flat tire (a spare tube, a patch kit, and a pump). Good information to get me ready for all those long bike rides!

• They do a lot of training together.  Every weekend there are bike rides, open water swims, group runs, and even mock triathlons.  I was always nervous to join them in training because I am not very fast on my bike or running.  The members assured me today that people of all abilities are welcome and now I am excited to start training with them. 

I am so glad that I found this group of people and can't wait to get to know them better!  Do you below to any clubs or organizations?  It's been a long time since I have been part of club like this that isn't related to work or school.  It's exciting!