The new FFA.
One of the best things about my cousins is their adventurous spirits. While many other children won’t touch a stalk of broccoli with a ten-foot pole, these cute kids jump at every chance to try something unusual.
Something like… Raw Macaroons
Above, Charlie puts his seal of approval on a raw macaroon baby
(the first of four that he ate)
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Abby and Michael smushed peanut butter and chocolate chips in their Banana Hammocks
The boys enjoyed the banana hammocks even more after they learned what a banana hammock actually is.
Then they kept running around the house yelling “banana hammock!!”
Ah, boys are easily amused 
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And then there was All-Fruit Ice Cream
(Strawberry-peach this time) No Ben&Jerry’s for these kids!
(Well, I’m sure they eat Ben&Jerry’s too. Everything in moderation, right?)
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But the foodie adventures didn’t stop there:
After they informed me that they love Whole Foods, we just had to make a trip to the grand opening of the chain’s newest store.
Who needs Toys-R-Us? A few hours spent at Whole Foods = perfection.
Only a foodie would understand .
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Question of the Day:
What are some “foodie” things you like to do that others just don’t understand? My dad and I could spend hours at Whole Foods, just wandering around. Little sister and Mom think we’re nuts.
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Power Song of the Day: “Teenagers”
Last day to enter the giveaway. And it’s
Vegan Thursday
tomorrow!! (I have no idea why the color/size of “vegan thursday” is off… but I’m tired of trying to fix it. Maybe wordpress just wants to be sure it stands out. WordPress is vegan-friendly; who knew?)
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You have some awesome cousins!
I like to find random ingredients in the store and then find a recipe that uses them. I still don’t know what to do with the corn tortillas sitting in my freezer or the macadamia nut oil in the cupboard but I’ll find a use for them soon. And then I’ll be off to the store to find something else.
Health food stores are bettter than toy stores, for sure!
I love food shopping too! I like to go to little Asian markets and fruit stands and health food stores. I also love to cook! For the life of me, I can’t stick to a recipe because I get really creative, but it almost always turns out delicious.
Your cousin’s name is Abby? Tell her she has the best name
I could just shop and shop and shop when it comes to Whole Foods
I collect nut butters like cars
I love finding the good shots when it comes to plating dishes
Baking? I’m all over that.
I read ingredients religiously
I’m just one pure foodie
Not only COULD I spend hours in Whole Foods, I HAVE done so on numerous occasions!
I think this is the cutest post you’ve ever done, and that’s saying something because they’re all so cute. But I’m a sucker for cute kid photos, even if they’re not mine (Better if they’re not mine. Then I don’t have to listen to them whine and put them to bed hehehe)
Oh I could go to three grocery stores in one day and it would be the happiest day in my life. Is that sad?
Love the raw macaroons!
Yay for Vegan Thursday I’ll be making your Little Vegan Veggie soup. 
good thing i’m already vegan, or i’d keep forgetting about vegan thursday! i always forget things. i laughed when you said that wordress was vegan friendly. it’s nice to have them on our side.
I like reading cookbooks for fun. My friends think I’m crazy for it. They just don’t understand!
I would love to make those macaroons. But I don’t have any coconut butter. Would oil work?
I love food stores of all kinds. It’s my favorite kind of shopping…..sad but true.
Love the boys’ reaction to the banana hammocks
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That’s priceless!
Inspired,
Check out the macaroon recipe post. I wrote in it that you can definitely sub oil for the butter!!
Hope you like them!!!
i love wandering around whole foods and grocery stores. my mom humors me when i go with her but to her, grocery shopping is just an errand that she has to get done and with her busy work schedule she tries to do it quickly.
that’s awesome how your cousins are so willing to try new things and healthy eats! i loveit!
i love going to the grocery store. like seriously love it, even regular old krogers. i go probably five times a week
Ahaha kids are so cute. I don’t know why people say kids don’t like veggies…most kids I know are down to try anything.
I could spend hours wandering around markets – favorite thing to do at home, favorite thing to do when I travel. I also spend hours and hours reading cookbooks – I used to read literature for fun but now I read cookbooks to help stimulate creativity. And of course, photographing food. I don’t do it in front of people, usually, because everyone would think I’m nuts.
I’m the same way! I could forever grocery shopping – I love it!
My boyfriend drove us both 1.5 hours out of town just so that I could experience a Whole Foods. He patiently stayed with me while I grocery shopped for 1.5hours and then he treated me to lunch in their little resto area.
It wasn’t even a big Whole Foods. The neighborhood walmart of Whole Foods if you will.
I totally understand where you’re coming from.
I love that song!
Happy WEDNESDAY Katie!
I love seeking out health food stores when I visit other cities, especially little local ones in hopes of finding products I can’t find in Nashville. So fun, and only something a fellow foodie would understand.
Wow a WFM with a parking deck!? I don’t care where that is, I want to travel to see that. I love that store
I can totally relate to the Whole Foods thing! There’s only a few WF stores in Canada and neither is close to my city at all. Whenever I go to the States (usually 1-2 times a year), I always look for the nearest WF (and Starbucks )locations! We’re going to Maui in 12 days and I’ve already found the nearest store (and requested a visit there
My fiancee teases me so much about how we have to go “grocery shopping” every time we’re on vacation! But I LOVE Whole Foods… I could spend hours there. I once spent 30 mins trying to decide on a yogurt! And don’t get me started on how much I stock up on bars & other products I can’t buy in Canada when I actually do get to a WF store. Love it.
Those are some smart kids! Most kids I know hate grocery shopping. I don’t know why, you’d think they’d like it because that’s where all the candy is!
Those kids are too cute! And that’s very cool that they are willing to try new things! I’m convinced that many kids who are picky eaters are only picky because their parents just feed them pizza and chicken strips and things just because they don’t think they’d like anything else. They don’t let them TRY new things!
!I could spend hours and hours in there just wandering around… never gets old!
I love it when kid’s aren’t afraid to try new things! Good for you for introducing them to all that yumminess. On my days off, I like to cook and bake – and my family/co-workers don’t really understand…
i love your blog, I have learned something new today, thanks for sharing
banana hammock is such a funny word!
I love visiting Whole Foods in other cities! No matter where I go, I must out the local Whole Foods. So far, I’ve deduced that Memphis has the crappiest WF of them all. It used to be a Wild Oats, and its very small. I wish we had a super Whole Foods!!!
Hours in Whole Foods, TJ’s, the cereal aisle at Target… uhhh =P
Hmm, clipping coupons for FOOD, rummaging through recipes, going to bed planning what I am going to eat for breakfast the next morning. The list goes on and on…
welp, I don’t even think the pickiest of eaters could resist the allure of your treats my dear. Glad the tots like ‘em! Your gonna be such a faboosh mama.. packing your kids fudge babies in their lunch boxes. Adopt me?!
Haha, the same goes for my family–my dad and I love to skip through the aisles of WF, but my mom and sisters think we’re crazy. Another foodie thing I do is peruse the Williams Sonoma catalog very closely–my Mom calls me all the way from home in Alabama to tell me when it has arrived in the mail!
Aw!! I LOVE the future foodies!!!
My favorite foodie thing to do is take photos of my food. Usually folks think I’m bonkers. LOL
And, hey, I linked to you in my latest post: Chocolate-Covered Cherry Smoothie
http://healingwithjuices.com/2010/03/chocolate-covered-tart-cherry-smoothie-recipe/
Hugs,
Michele
I love spending hours on weekends washing, prepping, baking, cooking and freezing foods. People laugh when I tell them I spend 8 hours in the kitchen and love it! Perhaps I should have become a chef rather than an accountant…
shopping at whole foods is the equivalent of a kid in a candy store for me.
every time i go- i just want to buy the whole store!
i sersisouly take 40$ with me, and LEAVE the rest of my wallet (and credit/debit cards!!) at HOME.
that way, i only get a few treats and get to go back AGAIN AND AGAIN
I love browsing grocery stores!! My fiance doesn’t seem to understand though….. Oh well, I just leave him at home sometimes
Hey, I’m having a cookie giveaway of sorts to go with my upcoming defense, and i’d love to get some input from you! http://theradioactivegan.blogspot.com/2010/03/cookies-all-around.html
Your cousins all get gold stars for foodie adventuresomness… I don’t care if that’s not in fact remotely a word, it should be just for them. I was a picky little eater as a kid. I didn’t even like bananas! So I definitely wouldn’t have been munching on banana hammocks. Oh sigh. SO glad that’s changed!
I’m so with you on food shopping. I could do it for hours!
ewww, banana hammocks, ewww! new name please!!!
I love learning about new foods and have discovered so many through the blogs. Some of my friends think it’s strange that I prefer rice milk, or add flax to every single breakfast, but generally they are open to trying new things too.
I think my “weird” thing must be taking pictures of food and loving grocery shopping. I know those are not weird for other bloggers but for my friends in “real life” they are
If we would have Whole Foods in Finland I would spend majority of my free time there
Well, I like to read cookbooks. Really read them. More than once (and I own an every-changing collection of hundreds of cookbooks).
Not to mention that I am always trying new recipes. I’d get really, really bored making the same few meals all the time.
I too could grocery shop for hours. Sometimes on a Saturday, I put my ipod on and wander the store for a good 1.5 hrs. I take trips to Toronto to hit up several markets and grocery stores all in one day, then about an hour clothes shopping. Most of the day is spent buying food and stocking my cooler with ice to bring the cold stuff home!
Nobody in my family understands me! They all think I’m a complete weirdo for constantly reading food blogs and being so enthralled with healthy food. Every once in a while, when I’m on my laptop, my mom will ask, “What are you looking at? Food?” and then laugh. Sighhh, I feel so misunderstood.
Oh well, it won’t change a thing. I get heart palpitations when I walk inside a Whole Foods, especially if it’s been a while since my last visit. I will gasp and whisper under my breath in total amazement. Haha. And it seems like I’m constantly bringing home bags of groceries…I basically have a never-ending grocery list. Not good for my financial situation, but so much fun!
Wow–that Whole Foods looks enormous. I am sure I could easily drop a few hours in there and more cash than I am willing to admit ha!
Oh, I love wandering grocery stores. I just hate having to decide what treasures I can afford to take home with me – I’d like to take them all!
I also like to purchase and read cookbooks like they are novels. Is that weird?
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