Peanut butter cups recipe!

Here is an awsome recipe for peanut butter cups from Alicia Silverstone's book "A kind diet". These are soooooo awesome! Something that a man had said on one of Oprah's shows stuck with me. He said it was alright to eat the foods that you want as long as you make it from scratch. If you want french fries, make them from scratch. You are not going to want to do this everyday because it can be a pain in the butt. So after hearing that it, it is so true. I LOVE peanut butter cups but it is not something I would make everyday. So if I make this recipe once a month, I still get my fill on my peanut butter cups but it is not as bad as going to the store and grabing one everyday. I also make these in the small muffin pan so they are about a third of the size. My kids love these as well.


SERVINGS
12

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup Earth Balance butter
3/4 cup crunchy peanut butter (preferably unsweetened and unsalted)
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs or 10 graham cracker squares
1/4 cup maple sugar or other granulated sweetener
1 cup grain-sweetened, nondairy chocolate or carob chips
1/4 cup soy, rice, or nut milk
1/4 cup chopped pecans, almonds, or peanuts


PREPARATION
1. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. (If You Care makes unbleached liners made from recycled paper.) Set aside.
2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.
3. Stir in the peanut butter, graham cracker crumbs, and maple sugar and mix well.
4. Remove the mixture from the heat. Evenly divide the mixture, approximately 2 tablespoons per cup, among the muffin cups.
5. Combine the chocolate and milk in another pan. Stir over medium heat until the chocolate has melted.
6. Spoon the chocolate evenly over the peanut butter mixture.
7. Top with chopped nuts.
8. Place in the refrigerator to set for at least 2 hours before serving.

Starting fresh!

You would think I would learn my lesson on watching certain shows after I watched a 20/20 episode on hotels and now have a fear of all the germs inside a hotel room. But no, I didn't! So a couple weeks ago a friend of mine let me borrow the movie Food Inc. This was one of the worst shows I have seen! It makes me so sick to my stomach to even think what I am feeding my body, and even worse what I am feeding my kids bodies. So we are cleaning up our bodies and starting fresh. I have been doing quite a bit of research and will be posting some of my findings. I'm going to try to keep this to all the good things I find instead of it being negative. So welcome to our adventure of organic eating!!!!!
Oh I forgot to mention that I also rented the movie Super Size Me from the library and it may be awhile before I can go out to eat again........I really have to stop watching these shows!

Stay tuned!

This blog is going to be changing since the Weber family has decided to go organic. Stay tuned for further!

Slacking

I know I have been really slacking on keeping up with this blog. I think we have made so much progress so it is not as big of a deal to keep up with this. Adriana has done great this week as well. I actually got my vegetarian to eat meat! She helped me make meat balls from a homemade gourmet recipe and she was more than willing to give them a try. I was so surprised when she said she liked them! She is also trying more soup this week. The only problem we are having is getting her to eat things more than once. For instance she would not eat any of the meatball leftovers so I guess we will keep having her try the foods when they are fresh. I also try to let her help me cook as often as possible because I think that is a big help.

Wow, we have made a lot of progress!

I've been slacking on posting for the last week, but man has Adriana been making so great progress! Last Sunday we went out to eat at Longhorn after we went to the boat show. We went with my mom and dad and they ordered an appetizer of blooming onions. Well Joey was the first one to try it and he couldn't get enough of them. Then Andrew started eating them so Adriana finally decided to try them. Man those three kids couldn't get enough of those! Next came our salads and Adriana started eating off of Maw Maw's salad! Then her food finally came so that was the end of the new foods there. Then later in the week I made meatloaf, baked potatoes and corn for dinner. I told the kids they could not have any dessert until the tried the food. Adriana tried the meatloaf and decided she didn't like that but she ate a whole baked potatoe and a big helping of corn. Way to go Adriana. She is doing great and starting to really open up to trying new foods!!!!

02/12/09

Tonight we got Adriana to try spagetti with sauce on it! She used to eat this when she was little but soon decided she would only eat the spagetti noodles with no sauce. Well tonight she agreed to eat some with the sauce but no meat balls. She ate a couple of bites and decided she didn't like it but hey, its a start! Good job Adriana!
Oh and we registered her for kindergarten today and did a tour of the school. When we walked into the cafe she saw that they were eating hamburgers for lunch and looked at me with a disgusted face, guess we will be bringing our lunch to school a lot:)

Regression then progression

I thought we had taken a wrong turn somewhere. Adriana decided in the past couple of weeks that she was not going to eat any of the foods she had been eating. I had changed her normal peanut butter to a natural one because of the better nutrition of it. I guess that was a wrong thing to do because she then decided she would no longer eat peanut butter. And somewhere along the way she also decided that she was no longer going to eat ham sandwiches. Now what? That was the only way I was getting protein in her. So last week she wasn't eating her sandwiches at all and only eating her cheese stick and dessert. So today I asked her what she wanted to eat for lunch at school and she said just a piece of break with no crust on it! Great, now she is down to eating bread and water as she has not been wanting me to pack her any juice as well. So I packed her a piece of bread with no crust (yeah, very filling), cheese stick, and dessert. So I decided to give the doctor a call and see if they had any suggestions on how I can get her to eat again. They referred me to Sensory Solutions for occupational therapy for her. I gave them a call and it was going to cost me $40 a visit plus pay our deductible which is $1000.00. We just can't afford that right now. So Chris and I have decided we were both going to put in our best efforts and get her eating again. So we made some headway tonight! Chris had a talk to her about starting to eat big girl foods because she was going to be starting kindergarten next year. He had somehow managed to get her to try cream of chicken soup! This is a very big step as she has refused to eat soup. But she tried it and liked it. She ate half a bowl with a piece of butter bread. So now we are heading in a positive direction as long as we can keep her heading that way! Way to go Adriana!