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Healthy Lifestyle- week of food, day 2!

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Okay, so last nights dinner of gluten-free penne pasta, turkey meatballs, and no sugar added marinara sauce spiced up with caramelized onions and fresh basil over a bed of sautéed Italian spice green beans was amazing. Yes, I recognize that the previous sentence contained awful grammar; please don't post the YouTube video of weird Al Jankovich's  "I hate these word crimes" :-) (must plug for the video that we cracked up at while we ate dinner) It's so interesting, because I put what seemed like a reasonable portion in front of us without actually measuring. At the end of the meal, I had a quarter of my food left and wished I had only eaten half; Robert ate his entire plate and regretted it. We are's changing so well! Little by little, we are becoming a healthy family. It was amazing to have all of that food in the refrigerator as well, because when I came to packing for lunches today it was so simple! We were actually able to leave the house by 7:30 AM so that...