Life as an Aced

I was super excited when I joined a campaign with BzzAgent for Taste of Mexico at Smiths thinking that I was going to get to taste some awesome Mexican food but like all mexican food in Utah this was also a big disappointment I went to the store and picked but a package of Beef Barbacoa which I thought would be somewhat similar to the Carne Asada at Trader Joes that me and eddie are OBSESSED with but NO! I cooked up the Beef Barbacoa the same way I would any taco/burrito meat I make . . . In the Crock Pot hoping to have awesome Burritos ready for dinner when I got home but Eddie really didn't care for it. . .the meat wasn't the best in our opinion and was actually really stringy and the flavor it was marinated in kind of disappeared (guess i should have realized this when it was on manager special over half off for $2.49 originally $5.99) I have a few more things to try with them that I am hoping will be a little bit better because the Beef Barbacoa was just a huge di...

It has been about 6 weeks since me and Eddie started our bread free/ Gluten free diet. We are still going strong but have decided to add in a cheat meal once a week and expand our menu with new gluten free items. We have been shopping different grocery stores to see what they have to offer and have found lots of promising item but not very many that have been awesome or better than the originals. On that note lets start with the good things we have found and will probably continue to eat even after this diet. 1) Glutino Gluten Free Pretzels Picture from caloriecount.about.com   These pretzels are so good and super crunchy. We have eaten them plain, dipped them in dips, put them in the food processor to use as "bread crumbs". . . super good!!! 2) Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins - Pepper Jack Cheese Picture from www.bluediamond.com   You wouldn't think that an almond cracker would taste good but the nuttiness that the almond brings to these crackers is really...

For my Birthday this year Eddie got me a SodaStream and . . . I AM OBSESSED!!!! and secretly I think Eddie is too :P Basically it is like making carbonated crystal light/Mio but it comes in soda flavors . . . since buying it we haven't bought any soda and use our Brita Water Filter wayyyyyyy more than we ever did before we are even drinking more regular water (however this one could just be a coincidence since it has been over 100 degrees every day) Here's the flavors we have tried: Diet Cola - good but tastes more like a generic soda then real diet coke/pepsi Diet Orange - one of our FAVS tastes like non-diet orange soda Diet Fountain Mist -YUCK!! Tastes good with Bacardi Citron but nasty without it Diet Dr. Pete - like the diet cola it is more like a generic than a real diet dr.pepper Diet Root beer - Eddie likes it (i don't drink root beer so. . . ) Diet Energy - Tastes just like Sugar Free Rockstar We have also tried adding crystal light and mio to the ca...