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My new breakfast.

Last time my husband and I went to Tesco’s together, we went a little crazy just buying whatever looked good.  One of the products that ended up in our cart, mostly because it was on sale, was a yogurt and fruit thing called Frusi.  It was in the ice cream section and looked fairly healthy, and I thought it would make a nice healthy dessert.  We tried it, and it was really good.  But we both thought, "This would be a great breakfast."

I hate breakfast.  I hate scrambling to find something to shove in my mouth when I’m still half asleep.  I only eat breakfast because I have to because of one of my medications.  So a little pot of fruit and yogurt with cereal on the bottom is a super easy way to go.  But I don’t really like the usual non-frozen fruit and yogurt as much because the fruit is all cooked and processed.  With Frusi, it is frozen fresh fruit, so there is no sugary syrup involved.  And even better, each serving is right around 100 calories.

I promise I’m not getting paid by Walls.  I just love these things and want plenty of people to buy them so they don’t go off the market.

Alana

www.girlalive.com 

Holy cow!

I’ve been having the craziest week ever.  About a week ago I got linked somewhere.  I’m not sure where all I’ve been linked, but I got 45,000 hits in one day.  And I’ve been averaging about 5000 per day since then.  That used to be about the number of hits I got in a year.  I’ve had a total of 92,000 in the last 7 days and almost 100,000 in the last 30 days.

Most of this traffic by far is my food site.  Then when I thought that it was starting to slow down, I got an email from BBC Radio.  I was interviewed about the site on BBC Five Live on Saturday.  Then today I got an email and a phone call from BBC in Northern Ireland, wanting to interview me.  It’s crazy!

I’ve been getting a flood of fan mail and hate mail.  It seems that Americans love me, the English love me, and the Scottish want to kill me.  So no change from what I’ve experienced living here.  I’ve been getting so much mail that I actually had to change my contact email address for this site.  I’ve changed it to .

The new address will allow me to actually answer my emails from my friends and family by putting the email from strangers into a separate place.  So my friends and family should continue to use the email address you have been using.

I don’t know how I feel about all of this popularity.  It is flattering and exciting, since I’d love any chance to write for a living instead of doing medical coding.  But it is also stressful.  I have always hated being stared at and judged.  At least I’m being judged for my words and ideas so far.  I guess I don’t mind the radio inerviews, because at least it isn’t television.

Alana

www.girlalive.com