GreenLiteBites is all about my adventures in cooking healthier for my family (and sometimes just me). I strive to limit sugar and avoid processed flours while including as many fruits and veggies as possible.
I started out posting food ideas on my weight-loss blog. They started out very vague -- I'd just share a list of ingredients and such. Slowly I became more detailed (and obsessed) about measuring ingredients, calculating nutritional information and taking photographs. Food was taking over my blog!
Soon I decided to expand. GreenLiteBites is a complete creative outlet for me. I post what I'm eating and feeding my family. I photograph every recipe and calculate the nutritional information for most. Sometimes I will know what I'm talking about and sometimes I'll be asking the questions. Overall this blog shares my experiences with food and cooking! I'm a work in progress.
How do you come up with your ideas?
I’m not sure. It’s a combination of family tradition, what I see on the Foodnetwork and read in cookbooks. I’m an experimenter. I try to stock my pantry with lots of good, healthy stuff and then just see what I can come up with. It is really a creative outlet for me (as is the site and photos).
Who are ‘the 9-Year-Old’ and ‘the Husband’ and 'Little Bean' and all the other people you reference in your posts?
When I first started blogging I called my son "The Baby." He soon became "The Toddler" then "The Little Guy" and most recently "The 9-Year-Old." I've come to the conclusion that it's just not a big deal to use our real names as we always introduced ourselves in videos anyway. So now I will refer to boys by their names. The Husband? Well, he's still "The Husband" as I find it funny. He's real name is Bill, in case you're wondering.
The Husband: I am married to the world’s pickiest eater. For years, the only vegetables he would eat were corn and broccoli. If it were up to him, macaroni & cheese, burgers and chips would be his staples. Sometimes he likes what I make, sometimes he doesn’t and sometimes I don’t even bother.
Ryan: I had "the Little Guy" in 2005. Well, he was “the Baby” and then "the Toddler" back when I launched the site. He was my ultimate inspiration and motivation to change my life and eating habits. Ryan tries just about everything I make even though he may not like it. He's now hesitantly embarking on his own cooking adventures!
Evan: My baby. He's not as adventurous as his brother even though I exposed him to everything I possible could when he was a baby. We're working on it. He turns 4 this year and is coming to terms with the our one-bite rule. Oh! And He's my official egg cracker!
How do you calculate the nutritional information for your recipes?
I use a combination of websites, nutritiondata.com, fitday.com, and sometimes sparkpeople.com. I measure everything on my handy dandy electronic scale and tally up the totals. It’s really not that hard, just time consuming.
and tally up the totals. It’s really not that hard, just time consuming.I have a question, how can I contact you?
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Why don’t you just write a cookbook?
I DID! Click here for GreenLiteBites: Favorites From the First 3 Years. We're on year 8 so lots of stuff has changed!