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I’m always in the kitchen! Always! That’s where the chocolate and Coke are hidden. I do come out occasionally to spend time with my 2 rambunctious kids and Hubbyman!
I have been cooking as long as I can remember. My mom taught me how to cook when I was younger and when I finally left home, I was able to prepare meals instead of boxed dinners or take out. I think this is what won my hubbyman’s heart. Most of the recipes on AMFT are from scratch and fit for the whole family….even my picky kids have to give their approval before it gets posted for y’all!
Even though I cook mostly from scratch, I do take the occasional short cut when in a time crunch (aka Ju Jitsu nights, Girl Scout nights, and soccer days). I grind my own grains for breads, I raise chickens for fresh eggs, I have a bunch of fruit trees, and I plan on starting a garden this fall. I try my best to feed my family healthy foods. I also love to decorate cakes.
WAIT….even though I love grinding my grains and raising hens for eggs…you need to know that I am allergic to wheat, eggs, and extremely allergic to dairy. See what happened when I turned 37, my warranty is up and I’m falling apart. However, I’m looking forward to 2013 and finally getting healthy since 2012 was full of interesting health issues for me.
Little known facts about me…
- I’m a Native Texan, but call Arizona my home now.
- I’m a lover of all things chocolate.
- You will always find me with a Coke or a Dutch Bros Coffee.
- I married my high school sweetheart almost 15 years ago…he is the love of my life.
- I’m a stay-at -home mom.
- My daughter has a food-dye allergy.
- I refuse to touch dirty napkins or tissues.
- Before kids, I worked for the Arizona Supreme Court reviewing cases of kids in foster care for JV judges.
- I store my sun-glasses on top of my head and then forget where I put them (way too often).
- I hate artichokes, sour cream, and flan.
- I have 7 slow cookers and 3 pressure cookers that I love using…okay obsessed with using is better.
- Love living in AZ where we can grill out 365 days a year (if I’m not using my slow cooker).
- I could eat Mexican food all day, every day for the rest of my life.
- My last meal would be Chicken Fried Steak, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, and fried okra. With a large Coke. Well..I think this meal might kill me now.
- I strive to be a gentle Christian mother who focuses on attachment parenting.
- I am a Girl Scout Leader.
- I’m a former La Leche League Leader.
- I co-own East Valley Mom Guide and Blended Conference. I also write on occasion for Eating It Real.
If you like what you see here, please follow me or
send me an email (aroundmyfamilytable@gmail.com) Happy Cooking!
~Wendy~
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Congratulations on winning Grand Prize in the PomWonderful cupcake contest. That is really great.
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My, how time flies—in my minds eye I still see you as a little girl and now here you are, all grownup, cooking wonderful things, with a blog of your own. I am so very proud of you.
Love the recipes! Such a wonderful blog.
You sound familiar to me? Do I know you from somewhere else than blogging?
Wendy
Thank You for stopping by my blog.
Sounds like you and I have a lot in common.
Growing up Mom and I team cooked. We had so much fun in the kitchen!
I prefer to cook and bake from scratch as well. I am baking more and more bread. I used to be scared to yeast; not any more! I make at least half of the bread we eat. I am not a huge bread eater but am addicted to homemade bread.
One can’t beat farm fresh eggs. I have chickens. I enjoy them and the eggs.
I, too, like to eat as fresh and from scratch as possible. Looking forward to following your blog.
Hi! My girls have a reaction to foods with dye, behaviorally. Here is a list of foods that I have found that do not have dye:
No dye foods:
Cereal:
Mom’s best- in organic section-
mini wheat
Mon’s best-lucky charms
Bread:
No corn syrup- Aunt Millie’s brand
Yogurt:
Simply Gogurt
Kids Yogurt smoothies
Dora yogurt
Yoplait, except for keylime pie
Kroger- all natural (6 pack)
Sauces:
No corn syrup-
Barilla Spaghetti sauce
All natural salsa
All natural jam/jelly
No preservatives- all nat. P. Butter
crackers/ granola bars:
White cheddar cheezits
No pres. Organic nilla wafers
Organic Teddy grahams
Low Fat nutty bars
Chewy granola bars
Granola dipps
Pepperidge Farm Colored Fish crackers
Chips:
Tortilla
Blue chips
Potato chips
-plain
-sour cream and onion
Pretzels- plain
All natural cheetos, doritos
Pudding:
pudding, other than chocolate and jello have dye
Kozy Shack brand- No Dye!
- comes in tapioca and chocolate
Candy:
Kit kats
Peanut butter cups
Hershey bars
dove chocolate
Naturalcandystore.com- best gummy worms! And they sell sundrops- mm’s dye free
Cookies/treats:
Motts, Wonka & Ocean Spray fruit snacks
Oreos
Chocolate chip cookies
Fig newtons
Kellogg’s rice crispy treats
(all marshmallow brands have dye!)
You can buy all natural,
Or easy to make!
Chocolate milk- Hershey’s
Ice cream:
All sherbet has dye
Snapple freeze pops (next to the other freeze pops)- non-freezer section
Breyers- all natural
Edy’s
-peanut butter cup,
-Cookies and cream
-chocolate chip
-anything w/o dye
Ice cream sandwiches
Strawberry fruit popsicles
100% all natural/ no pres. Popsicles
Breyers all natural ice cream
drinks:
Capri suns
Juicy juice
Orange juice
Clear Gatorade
All natural- lemon lime
Toothpaste:
All natural – training- with other
Adult brand- in organic section
Kids vitamins:
Princess- no dye, but high fructose corn syrup
All natural- can be found with others
Disney fairies- vitamins
Medicine:
No dye tylenol and motrin
Ask for no dye antibiotic
Hi There!
Boy, you’re a busy mom! Love your posts- NYC trip looked like a lot of fun and eating!
It was great meeting you at Camp Blogaway! Let’s keep in touch,
Mary
As a Christian mom, you may want to check out American Heritage Girls. I don’t know if there are troops in your part of the country, but you maybe you could be the first!! It is a scouting option with a Biblical worldview.
Hi Wendy,
I second @mdurbin’s suggestion – my wife has been involved with the American Heritage Girls for the past three and a half years and it has been awesome.
-Nate
I’m impressed at all the from-scratch things that you do, like grinding your own grain, raising chickens, and having fruit trees! I was also an attachment parent and a LLL member. Your blonde toddler son is so cute. I’m glad that you are expanding your girl’s horizons with Girl Scouts, what a great organization. I wish there had been something like that for my family– I did not want to get involved with Boy Scouts due to their discrimination against gays. I guess Campfire Boys and Girls would have been an alternative for us, but I discovered it too late.
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Thanks! I do love Girl Scouts and so does my daughter. We started off with fruit trees…super easy and as my beliefs about food have changed I started grinding my grains…adding chickens was fun for the kids. They are like pets.
Start small and with what’s important to you. It’s easier than you think.
I have a comment about your giveaway page. Could you please have end dates on them and remove them from the page when they are no longer active? Great giveaways that I missed.
Great idea! I will look into it. It would be a lot more work since right now it automatically loads everything, but maybe there is a way….
Thanks Sarah!
How wonderful to e-meet you! My husband and I are high school sweethearts, as well. Thanks again for the kind words on our move to AZ. I’m excited to read more of your posts!
Hello, Wendy! I am a stay-at-home mom too and I am very inspired by your passion to feed your family with tasty and healthy food. I am a struggling cook and I really want to learn how to prepare good food. I have always been busy with work but right now that I work from home, I want to do more things for them. And one of them is giving them delicious, home-made food
I’m so glad to have found your site. Thank you for all the things that you shared and will still be sharing. More power!
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Wendy,
I’m so happy that I found your site. I’m recently dealing with my daughter’s food allergies, and since I’m still nursing, I have the same elimination diet. It’s eggs, milk, oats and peanuts! I’m looking forward to exploring your site to help spruce up our meals! I’m totally in a rut making the same things over and over again!