Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
There's this recipe I love, and I hesitate to even mention what it is, because it is SO awful for you. It involves ramen noodles. And eggs. And lots and lots of butter frying. (Okay, the eggs and butter are okay, but the …
Fiance was working in the film industry in California a few years ago. Now he's taking some time to "find himself" (in front of the XBox, mostly). While he's doing that (apparently by playing Red Dead Redemption for hours on …
Think about your days. They probably go something like this:
You wake up a little groggy, and you make some coffee. Then you wake the kids, make breakfast, and get them off to school. At some point, you work. The same …
There are a few things you can absolutely count on happening in your life: You'll scrape your knee, you'll fall in love, you'll drink too many margaritas and end up sobbing hysterically in a back alley about a boy you …
Have you ever noticed how the universe sometimes really wants you to go down a certain path? Everywhere you turn, there are reminders of a track you almost chose, still have the opportunity to choose, but are resistant for …
Nothing strikes fear in the heart of me quite like Christmas. I wish I could be less grinchy about it, but mandatory gift-giving doesn't do much to heal my soul, and I'm pretty sure two month a year of straight-up, white-hot …
Woohoo! We made it through a whole week of facials based purely around produce you can buy at the farmers market. Now, granted, we could have done SO much more - but I'm exhausted. And out of produce. Those tomato slices you …
So I spent the day with carrots - cutting them, grating them, chopping them, and otherwise pulverizing the heck out of them to find some recipes that worked. My heart and soul I poured into this crunchy endeavor.
And …
Potatoes. They're lumpy, dirty, pocky, and misshapen. Clearly not the winner in the Miss Veggieverse Pageant. However, today we're going to award these big dumpy doofuses Miss Congeniality - because they're just so darned …
Let me give you a little run-down on what goes into these particular kinds of posts. It involves researching for half an hour in my books and an hour online in the morning, two to three hours of recipe creation and …
Look at this fruit to the left. Just look at it.
It's juicy, beautiful, tangy and sweet. But it's not a cantaloupe.
That's right, boys and girls. That is not a cantaloupe. Technically.
I just learned this afternoon …
After a trip to the farmers market on Friday, and a ginormous bounty of fruit and veggies in its wake, we're going to do an entire week devoted to facials, skincare, and haircare that you can create just from a trip to your …
Not that you could tell it in Colorado today, but winter's a-comin'. Oh, yes. It is. And with it comes chapped, dry lips.
Can I get a collective "booooo!"?
Now can I get a collective "yay!"? Because we're going to fix …
All around the internet, people are chanting “We want Crunchy Betty! We want Crunchy Betty!” Ripping their shirts off, and crying in stupor at the mere glimpse of my retro diva. This was in my dream last night. …
Yay! Just what you always wanted! A reason to clean the bathroom. It's your favorite thing to do. And even though you've probably cleaned it twice already today, you're itching to do it again.
What? You haven't cleaned …
Let's talk about soap, and how you shouldn't use it on your face.
Don't use soap on your face.
Okay. Now that that's out of the way, here's something you SHOULD use on your face, and you can use it daily - or morning …
Well, crunchy friends, look at what we have here. It's a brand-new design. And it's FABULOUS!
My courageous, patient, and clearly talented friend and designer Jan at TwoScoopz gets ALL the credit. And I must say, if …
Something exciting is happening today. Something big and grand and earth-shaking. For me, anyway.
Crunchy Betty is getting a HUGE makeover!
So while I chew my nails and wait for this magical moment to be upon us, here …
All summer, I tried to get my kid over there to try the acne honey-aspirin mask. He refused. I watched, as blemish after blemish came and went, and promised him it would work. He didn't care. I mean, really, a kid who …
For those of you who don't know (and many don't), there is a new bill in Congress called the Safe Cosmetics Act. It sounds benign enough - helpful, even, right? Who doesn't want safe cosmetics? Who wouldn't like to see the …
I'd wager a bet that no other fruit works quite as hard as the little lemon. And I know hard workers. I watch them from my couch all the time.
How many times have you juiced half a lemon for a meal and then watched coldly …
In The Book of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz, he postulates that the overabundance of choices in this day and age actually leads to more unhappiness with the decisions we finally do make.
Parenting styles are …
Summer in Manitou Springs is not always enjoyable. This might be surprising to hear, given it's a tourist destination for something like 1.4 kajillion people each July and August. They laugh, spill ice cream everywhere, and …
After I wrote about using almond butter as a facial scrub, my lovely friend Stephanie from Make It, Bake It, Buy It, Fake It made the huge mistake of commenting on how much she'd like to prepare her own. Thus began the …
