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Since we started this 1 cup diet thing our food has gone a lot farther. I'm liking it. One cup at a meal satisfies us and holds us until out snack time. Plus i love how food lasts! Made hamburger helper the other night and crescent rolls. Normally we would have ate ALLL of it including all 6 rolls. Well now the hamburger helper lasts two meals and the rolls 3 meals. LOL So that is about $.88 a meal! Sweet! Not to mention 1 pound of hamburger turned into small hamburger patties lasted us like 4-5 meals LOL

Sure helps on saving money! Plus i think i have more energy doing it this way.

Less food, more meals :)

My girls have gotten to the age that child seems to so not be working!

Anabel learned how to open the bathroom door. I was always finding her in there getting into my make up and hair pieces. So in hopes of stopping that, we took the handle plate off the outside so you had to reach in and activate the lock switch, and we would have it locked at all times. Well now she has learned how the lock switch works! So i don't know what to do with that now.

Then we have a baby gate up on the one office entrance that does not have a door. Wellllll she learned how to unhook that gate and get it.... she likes to go in there when i am busy in the kitchen. Funny thing is i don't realize it right off because she will put the baby gate back up. I know she has done it because it's not in there tight and it's lopsided. LOL She smart girl!

Ok now Abby.... she is getting really good at climbing. Climbing on the chairs at the table... plus she will take things from the playroom like the baskets used to organize their toys, flip them over and stand on them to get up high enough to grab things off of the table (Anabel showed her how to do it and it stuck!)

I don't know what to do with my girls! Haaaaa!

So Bob decided me and him should start a new diet. We started yesterday. I don't know if this is an actual 'diet' diet or just something Bob came up with but it is 6 meals of only a 1 cup of food each. Smaller portion, more meals.

We are not sure how to do some of the dishes like rice... since you cook it and it puffs up. Last night i made fried chicken and rice (one of my favorite meals) and i cooked 1 C of rice thinking, half for each person of us and then 1/2 C chicken. But after cooking the rice there was a lot more there then 1 C.... so i just measured out the cooked rice.

Or what about Waffles? In my waffle machine i have always done 1/4 C batter per waffle... so i was thinking 1 C would equal 4 waffles, but then again they puff up? So i'm not sure what to do with that LOL

Other then those problem foods, it's surprising how much food is 1 C. It's more of a stretch for Bob but for me it's just cutting back a little bit.

Like last night for my last meal/snack of the day (after we had dinner) i was happy to find out my chocolate candy bars in there was only 1.45oz LOL My thing lately is to sit down with my computer after the kids have went to sleep and do my blogs or games... or read my book. I love to snack on sunflower seeds. So i sat down with 1 C of sunflower seeds and a candy bar.... since with sunflower seeds with the shells on them you really only are eating about 1/2 of the amount. Anyways... i didn't even finish half of it LOL

So it's going really good so far, as long as i remember to eat my in between meals which might be hard for me.

I had to take a picture and i was trying really hard not to laugh. It took quite awhile to clean up and she got a talking to. She was just trying to do what she has seen mom do. Cutie pie!

Finally this evening Anabel went on the potty! It was so excited and happy for her... my eyes might have gotten moistened hehehe :) She got to put 6 stars on the potty chart... 1 for sitting on the potty, 1 for going potting, 1 for wiping, 1 for pulling up her pants, 1 for flushing the toilet and 1 for washing her hands. She was so excited to put that many on the board. Then she got some M&M's and she got to call Grandma and Grandpa to tell them what she did. We made it a HUGE deal and it made her even more excited to get on the potty after that. We didn't have any more success tonight, we would run her to toilet but before she got on she would go in her pull-ups. It's ok, i'm just excited we got one success after trying so much and we will continue to work on it :)

But i wanted to get that down in the family diary here so i will have it saved and can look back and know the date :)