About
My name is Tiffany, and I’m a stay-at-home Mama to a fabulous two year old munchkin man named Jordan, and wife to a wonderful husband named Michael.
This is my story:
When I was a teenager, I wanted nothing more than to be a model. I talked about it, I dreamt about it, and I worked for it for years.
At age 18, I took part in a modeling competition in New York City.
I won!
I came home, quit my job, cleaned out my bank accounts and caught the next flight back to New York City where an agent told me she had an affordable place for me to live.
I’ll save you the gory details and just say…. it didn’t work out. New York City and affordable are four words that do not belong in the same sentence.
Since I didn’t have perfect model measurements of 36/26/36 (I actually had some hips ~gasp!), the agent suddenly changed her tune when I got there and started insisting that she could find me more work as a plus size model.
After years of starving myself, the idea of eating whatever I wanted sounded almost too good to be true. Eat food AND be a model?? Had I died and gone to heaven?
So I started eating… and I never stopped.
Needless to say, my proportions remained much the same as a plus size girl as they were when I was a bony size 8. And since the place I was living became unlivable very quickly, I tucked my tail between my legs and came home.
And I ate. And ate. And ate.
At some point, not to long ago, it finally dawned on me that I wasn’t enjoying life very much. I finally realized, that it had nothing to do with the people around me, or the circumstance in my life. It was ME I was unhappy with.
I looked in the mirror and saw a tired, overweight woman staring back at me, and I’m only 35!
So I’ve decided to change my life. I’m hitting a lot of speed bumps along the way, but at least I’m headed the right direction.
I hope you’ll enjoy my recipes as I experience one clean eating adventure after another in my very small kitchen.
Clean eating: The consumption of simple foods in their natural states. The avoidance of processed, boxed or otherwise “tampered with” foods. Eating at regular intervals of every 2-3 hours in small portions equaling approximately 200-300 calories each. Consuming 5-6 meals per day with the intent of regulating blood sugar levels and improving insulin absorption.
Gracious: characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; “gracious even to unexpected visitors”; “gracious living”.
Pantry: A pantry is a room where food, provisions or dishes are stored and served in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen. The derivation of the word is from the same source as the Old French term paneterie; that is from pain, the French form of the Latin panis for bread.
My favorite quote: “In the past, food and eating wasn’t what I called fun. It was associated with so many other emotions that my actual, physical experience with food was stolen from me.“
