Dinner Success!

I am trying to be pretty basic with dinner lately.  Normally I go through my cookbooks and make a grocery list and menu based on the recipes.  The recipes are almost always delicious, but I find that we don't have basic dinners very often.  By basic I mean, for example tonight's dinner: Baked chicken breast, couscous, broccoli & salad.  Little man ate ALL of his dinner, which was shocking because usually there's some leftover.  I even made some salad dressing using some balsamic vinegar, olive oil and italian seasonings (my sister Danielle inspired this).  It was so good little man was licking the spoon I used to put it on the salad and couscous.  So I will be making that again for sure!  I find it amazing that I can make these big elaborate meals and sometimes the basic meals are the ones that are the bigger hit.  I think eating "greener" will be welcomed with open arms to my family if I can make it more "normal" for them.  Like dinner tonight for instance.  The hard part will be changing up little man's school lunches.  I am one of those moms who has fallen into the sandwich for lunch routine.  The sandwich will change sometimes, but I would really like to get out of the sandwich routine.  What do you make your kiddos for lunch (I'm talking school lunch that they take to school, not what they eat at home).  For me, it's going to be my coffee.....  Now I could drink coffee black, but I really like it with creamer.  But I think I've found one that I like.  I just wish when they put Natural Flavors on the containers, they had to break it down to what that really means.  Because looking at the ingredient list other than the "Natural Flavors" I think my creamer looks pretty darn good.  And let's face it, if I am giving up the yummy sugary coffee stand loaded with syrups, I still need my creamer!  What do you put in your coffee?  Or are you one of those "crazy" people who don't drink coffee? ;)  (please know that is a joke! Don't be offended if that's you.)

My friend Shannon is driving me crazy with the whole elliptical challenge!  But you know what, that's exactly what I need to get my bootie back in gear!  I didn't want to get on it this morning and I didn't get up early like I had planned to get on it....but I did get on it!  So I am sure she will continue to drive me crazy, because let's face it that's what friends do!