10 Day Sickie Challenge - Day Ten

One photo of me

10 Day Sickie Challenge - Day Nine

First of all, I must apologize for my post.  I tried for hours to get the recipes copied/pasted over from one blog to another and it kept giving me HTML script errors.  I finally got frustrated and just decided to just link the pages directly to the portions that I wanted specifically for each group (bariatrics/sickies). 

For Bariatric Patients - Please see the Recipes portion of my blog.

For Sickies - Please see my Cooking With Jennifer blog, particularly the No Bake Section. 

Also - Browse the Sinful area. I hope you enjoy this section of my most treasured and most popular recipes.  This is the list of things that people usually choose from when they ask me to bring something to work/family functions. 

For sweets, the biggest hits  are the Chocolate Lover's Dream Cake, Woody's Coconut Cream Pie and the various Cheesecakes. 

For breakfast, Homemade French Toast with maple roasted bacon is always a favorite. 

For dinners, I have several crowd pleasures, but my personal favorites are:

1.  Homemade Chicken Alfredo.

2.  Pizziti = a combination of Pizza and baked ziti  

Feel free to nose around the entire Cooking With Jennifer blog at your convenience. There is a hodge-podge of different recipes that I have collected since I started the blog. I am also writing a family cookbook in my spare time and am planning on adding my grandmother's recipes when I get a chance. 

10 Day Sickie Challenge - Day Eight

Three pretties
For Sickies:

Just because you have a broken wing, doesn't mean that you have lost your desire to fly - but it also doesn't mean that you'll never fly again.  

It was beautiful to me, to see the rose still blooming and still be as beautiful after the rain, even though it might have lost a petal or two along the way.

Life is hard, pain is real, and with a chronic illness, struggles are to be expected.  I don't know why we were chosen to bear the extra burden and heartache, but try to at least see the beauty in the storm. 

For Bariatric Patients:

The first glimpse of the beauty of a woman is seen in her spirit.

Know that you don't have to be thin for you to love yourself.  In fact, if you do decide to have weight loss surgery, the journey will be easier if you already established that you're doing it for you.  

If you do chose to make a change in your life, either through weight loss of traditional methods, surgery, or something else -- know that this part of life is a brand new adventure and you are not going through it alone.