Spring is here at long last!

I have so enjoyed the beautiful weather we’ve been blessed with in the past few days. Not quite so excited to get the power bill today and see a record-breaking amount for the month of January…. but that was a very frigid month requiring non-stop heating, so I suppose I can understand. But now that [...]

Nothing like a hot oven to keep you warm…

This Nashville winter has been pretty darn cold. In fact, I would say it’s the coldest winter of my life – except I forget that I spent 5 years of my childhood in London. So while I don’t remember those winters, I’m sure they beat middle tennessee’s. 
Regardless, it’s cold, and I’m huddled in my miniscule [...]

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge

Don’t think that dietitians (or RDs2B for that matter) are all perfect eaters, with daily diets that meet each and every one of the dietary guidelines and reflect the food guide pyramid. I will admit that before starting my dietetic internship and meeting my fellow interns, I was worried that no one else would eat [...]

T-2 days til Turkey Day!

Hope some of you appreciated my alliteration efforts for that title. Even as a vegetarian, I still refer to Thanksgiving as Turkey Day. This year will be my second turkey-free Thanksgiving, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be missing out on anything! In fact, 2008 saw the conversion of my mother to a meatless diet, [...]

Trick or Treat!

Can you believe that tomorrow is halloween!? More importantly, can you believe that it is almost November!?? I certainly cannot. It seems like just yesterday was August and I was starting the internship, and now it’s already the time of the year when:

I have to set the alarm extra early in the morning to account [...]

Thoughts of the day

I just want to start this post with something that has had me very curious: why is everyone all of a sudden obsessed with PB&Js? In the past 3 days, I have had over 100 people find my blog and read my post on Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, most all from searches related to [...]

Fall is here!

October is here. On one hand I’m excited and enjoying the beautiful fall weather – I can walk to work in the morning, and more importantly walk home in the afternoon without being drenched in sweat. On the other hand, I’m still in disbelief that Halloween is around the corner, the kick-off of the holiday [...]

Lessons from the MICU

Proud to say that I just finished my first clinical rotation! It was an overwhelming week, a very difficult rotation to start with, but I learned a lot and feel like the other rotations can’t be any more complicated than this one! First of all, I learned what the heck the MICU was… simple-minded me [...]

Blogging in the rain

The end of the week is here, and I’m sitting on my screened in balcony, in sweatpants and a t-shirt typing this while it’s raining. It’s so nice to be able to sit out here in this nice cool weather… a rainy friday night, perfect for staying in, catching up on work and watching movies!
I [...]

A love for local food

This first week of the internship finished with a meal and panel at the Nashville Farmers Market. The food was to die for! There was a table full of wonderful food prepared for us, all local ingredients. It included:

pork chops (from a farm outside Bowling Green, KY)
3 varieties of tomatoes, sliced, with balsamic vinaigrette
corn, picked [...]