I’m Susan Hammond, a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, and sister, not to mention daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, neighbor, and friend. For the past three years, I’ve published a weekly, online newsletter with menus and recipes for fit, fast, family-friendly meals, www.fizzymeals.com.
My hopes for this blog:
- To help families have dinner together.
- To show that healthy food can still be fun and comforting and delicious.
- To lend a hand with weight management, when needed.
Things you should know about me:
I’m not a nutritionist. In fact, my favorite nutritionists are Cookie Monster (because I’m a big believer in Sometime Food and Anytime Food) and Joy Bauer, the Today Show nutritionist who recently described herself as a disgrace to her profession.
I’m a homecook with 40+ years of experience and a six-year journey of weight loss (70 lb) and weight management.
I love food: reading about it, thinking about it, planning it, shopping for it, cooking it, and of course, eating it.
In spite of the above, I’d never make it as a foodie. It’s all about the feast, but make mine fit and fast.
Recent Reads:
- Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren
- A Pig in Provence by Georgeanne Brennan
- Sea Change by Robert Parker
- Evening by Susan Minot
- Bleeding Hearts by Susan Wittig Albert
- What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert Wolke
- Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel
I love:
Sunny days, early summer, spinach, Beach Boys tapes, coffee, cooking on a rainy day, neatness, red bell peppers, perfect white shirts, lemonade, mu shoo pork, herb gardens, mysteries, yellow squash, Friday Night Lights, making things, Asiago, autumn, grilled shrimp, farmers’ markets, blue willow, patios at twilight, cannelloni, Marblehead, NPR, Christmas, chocolate chess pie, the beach, Kenny Chesney while driving with the windows down, walking at sunrise, homegrown tomatoes, pesto . . .
You can contact me at:
blog [at] fizzymeals [dot] com
