Just got done having salad for breakfast.   This is the morning of our weight reveal in the News-Herald.

 

In October of 2009, my husband and I made an agreement.  We were driving home from our annual vacation in Gloucester, Ma.  I had bought a vegetarian book titled, "The Kind Diet," by Alicia Silverstone and was reading a few of it's beginning pages to Gary.  After several miles of gory mental pictures related to the book, he asked me to stop reading.  Gary decided and I agreed, we would not eat meat at home anymore.  We were free to choose whether to eat meat or not while out at a restaurant or at a friend's house, but I would not bring any meat into our home.

 

We have lived by our agreement since that day in 2009, until we were told our little dog, Freya, was a diabetic. 

 

After much reading, I decided to make a homemade diet up for her.  I made this decision because information on the web was contradictory and I was having such a horrible time sorting through the ingredient panels on cans of dog food. 

 

My decision was to adapt one of my favorite recipes called, "French Chicken in a Pot."   The original recipe is fantastic and so good tasting.  I will include the (people's) version in my next blog. 

 

Ok, we're aware I have a weight problem.  Baking chicken for the dogs was torturous to say the least!    Visions of baked chicken breast on crappy, but oh so soft white bread with a heavy hit of Miracle Whip ("A sandwich isn't a sandwich," as we know) with lettuce, salt and pepper!  BUT, back to reality, I

made the chicken recipe...solely for the dogs.

 

So, today as I sit at the table eating a breakfast salad, I'm kind of proud that I didn't succumb to the chickens' temptation.

 

Jo