I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I
attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
while. I looked at Chris D's blog and she is not up to date either (sorry,
Chris, yours was the first on my list to look at). Is anyone else having a
difficult time getting their blog current? Is it the season, the amount of
work involved? I'm just curious.
-ginny

"Virginia Tadrzynski" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I >
>attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
>while. Is anyone else having a difficult time getting their blog
>current? Is it the season, the amount of > work involved? I'm just curious.

I am dieting. It's difficult to photograph food when you are dieting unless
you invite guests. The things I am still making are things I blogged years
ago, like jams, moussaka, focaccie etc. I'm trying to do a series on
portable foods, but whoìs going to eat it?

"Giusi" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I >
>>attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
>>while. Is anyone else having a difficult time getting their blog
>>current? Is it the season, the amount of > work involved? I'm just
>>curious.
>
> I am dieting. It's difficult to photograph food when you are dieting
> unless you invite guests. The things I am still making are things I
> blogged years ago, like jams, moussaka, focaccie etc. I'm trying to do a
> series on portable foods, but whoìs going to eat it?
>
I thought of blogging the diet. (recently started WW) Is that something you
might consider........the ups and downs, failures and successes?
-ginny

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:01:09 -0400, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> I thought of blogging the diet. (recently started WW) Is that something
> you might consider........the ups and downs, failures and successes?
> -ginny

I'm not a food blogger but I enjoy reading them... and trying not too
sound too much like a party-pooper I think keeping a kind of 'dear diary'
thing about the WW diet (and many other diets) has been done already by
many others and may not be such a 'fresh idea'. An alternative could be to
just focus on the meals you've made and enjoyed (because I know that WW
food can also be pretty darn tasty if the dieter happens to be a good
cook) and you might be able to add some 'zing' e.g. ideas/recipes that
other WW-ers might like? Just my 2 cents worth and feel free to tell me to
go to hell...

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:33:07 +0200, Giusi wrote:

> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I >
>>attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
>>while. Is anyone else having a difficult time getting their blog
>>current? Is it the season, the amount of > work involved? I'm just curious.
>
> I am dieting.

please accept my condolences in your time of sorrow.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:00:05 -0400, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>
> Another blog I took an interest in was called 'What I Weigh Now' by a Philly
> food journalist who was attempting to lose weight. She was posting her
> trials and tribulations the just stopped.....I'm like...WHAT? did you gain,
> have you lost, did you say 'the hell with it'...WHAT?

obviously, she wasted away to nothing. don't let this happen to you!!!!

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:00:05 -0400, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

> Since I have joined
> Weight Watchers, I was toying with the idea of doing something similar on
> mine, but I don't know if I should.

I think it's a good idea. Most of us could stand to lose a few pounds
and it's always nice to do it with a friend. I went on WW after my
second child, lost around 30 pounds and ate well while doing it. I
had purchased a WW cookbook and used many of the recipes from that.
We ate a lot of my recipe chicken soup and my recipe home made rolls
too. It wasn't a spectacular weight loss, but it was within the
parameters of what WW says is healthy of 1-2 pounds per week.

--
Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:00:05 -0400, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> > wrote:
>
> > Since I have joined
> > Weight Watchers, I was toying with the idea of doing something similar on
> > mine, but I don't know if I should.
>
> I think it's a good idea. Most of us could stand to lose a few pounds
> and it's always nice to do it with a friend. I went on WW after my
> second child, lost around 30 pounds and ate well while doing it. I
> had purchased a WW cookbook and used many of the recipes from that.
> We ate a lot of my recipe chicken soup and my recipe home made rolls
> too. It wasn't a spectacular weight loss, but it was within the
> parameters of what WW says is healthy of 1-2 pounds per week.

It's possible to eat pretty normal food when on a WW diet. My sister
was on it, and I stayed with her a couple of weeks. I wasn't trying to
lose weight, and was just fine on it. There were differences. I'd put
mayo on my sandwich when she would use just mustard, and I'd put butter
on some things and she wouldn't, but the basic food put on the table was
the same.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:43:08 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:00:05 -0400, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Since I have joined
> > > Weight Watchers, I was toying with the idea of doing something similar on
> > > mine, but I don't know if I should.
> >
> > I think it's a good idea. Most of us could stand to lose a few pounds
> > and it's always nice to do it with a friend. I went on WW after my
> > second child, lost around 30 pounds and ate well while doing it. I
> > had purchased a WW cookbook and used many of the recipes from that.
> > We ate a lot of my recipe chicken soup and my recipe home made rolls
> > too. It wasn't a spectacular weight loss, but it was within the
> > parameters of what WW says is healthy of 1-2 pounds per week.
>
> It's possible to eat pretty normal food when on a WW diet. My sister
> was on it, and I stayed with her a couple of weeks. I wasn't trying to
> lose weight, and was just fine on it. There were differences. I'd put
> mayo on my sandwich when she would use just mustard, and I'd put butter
> on some things and she wouldn't, but the basic food put on the table was
> the same.

WW is a common sense diet. I like it!

--
Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:50:24 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

> One of the most sucessful blogs out there stems from a diet. Kalyn's
> Kitchen. She lost a good bit of weight years ago on the South Beach
> diet, and her blog is devoted to South Beach type recipes.

I love her blog and I don't do South Beach. She doesn't dwell on the
diet, but labels recipes appropriately.
>
> I can see a dieting blog being something like that...with not only
> your ups and downs, but what kind of good food you are devising to eat
> in those guidelines. Same with Giusi....


--
Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

In article >,
"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:

> I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I
> attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
> while. I looked at Chris D's blog and she is not up to date either (sorry,
> Chris, yours was the first on my list to look at). Is anyone else having a
> difficult time getting their blog current? Is it the season, the amount of
> work involved? I'm just curious.
> -ginny

I haven't posted since the end of April. It's been a low priority item
for me (and it's not like I've got a boatload of people who read what I
post there). I keep saying I'll catch up ‹ I've got the pictures,
that's for sure. :-)

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
On June 25, celebrating 65 years of joy and wonder. I got the joy
while everyone else wondered.

On 07/08/2010 11:12 PM, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> I know a goodly number of you guys out there are food bloggers, as I
> attempted to be. I have gotten derailed and haven't posted anything in a
> while. I looked at Chris D's blog and she is not up to date either (sorry,
> Chris, yours was the first on my list to look at). Is anyone else having a
> difficult time getting their blog current? Is it the season, the amount of
> work involved? I'm just curious.

My general food blog is a sporadic thing by design. I've posted fairly
frequently since 2006. I'm starting a new blog, though, and I'm taking
it pretty seriously; gonna take photography lessons, etc. It launches
on the 1st, and I'm totally jazzed. I got the domain and hosting
sponsored, and I have people helping me with it, so if I lose steam,
they can take up some of the slack.

(It's a gift to my mom, so I'm not posting the URL here until I show
her, but you're on my Facebook, so you may have seen me talking
wayyyyyyy too much about it lately, because my mom doesn't do Facebook.)

Serene

"Virginia Tadrzynski" > ha scritto nel messaggio

> I thought of blogging the diet. (recently started WW) Is that something
> you > might consider........the ups and downs, failures and successes?
> -ginny

I do mention it occasionally, but since my blog is mainly for clients or
potential clients it doesn't seem too great to talk about needing to diet
(after I eat my own food?) I can't be mentioning all the time that this is
weight I gained from quitting smoking, because it seems too much an excuse
after a while. So mostly I invite people over and feed them something I
want to publish, which I did last night with an idea for pasta presentation.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:01:51 -0700, Ranee at Arabian Knits
> wrote:

> In article >,
> Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
> > This isn't a paying thing for me and I don't have deadlines. Right
> > now, I am toying with going back through dishes I have made over the
> > past year or so, that never got written about and putting the
> > pictures of those up.
> >
> > I decided that for me, I am not going to be like many bloggers. I
> > decided not to do ads, and I decided that I probably won't get
> > involved in challenges, and things like that. My pictures won't be
> > studio quality, although I will try to put up decent pictures.
> >
> > I have been reading a ton of food blogs over the past few years. Some
> > of them are really good, but it is getting to be big business
> > now...and some bloggers are reviewing this, and reviewing that...and
> > getting products sent to them for review. Many of them are trying to
> > outdo each other. My feeling was (after thinking about it a lot, and
> > talking to another food blogger who stepped back a bit) that I am
> > doing this for me. And that I don't want to be part of the race to
> > put up posts every day or every few days, or to constantly be trying
> > out things.
> >
> > I am happier for it. Some of my favorite blogs seem to be of that
> > persuasion too...they post when they feel like it. And as a result
> > they feel genuine, and from the heart.
>
> This is my take on it, too. I'm not a professional, I'm not trying
> to be a professional. I don't get paid and I don't have ads.

I don't like the food blogs that plug products, books and are
generally over the top commercially. I will not subscribe to most of
them I see right away are so commercial, unsubscribed from some that
turned the corner commercially and don't read others even though I'm
still subscribed to them. I should unsubscribe so they won't be using
me as a statistic for advertising $$, but it only just occurred to me
that's the way their game is played.

--
Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.