Kate Willoughby

USA Today Bestselling Author

Diet, Food, Recommendations

Two Choices #5: Croissant or Muffin


If you have to choose between a blueberry muffin and a croissant, the butter croissant is actually fewer calories! A blueberry muffin is about 500, and the croissant is “only” 270. You’d think with the word butter in the name, it would be super bad for you! These days, I’m so chubby, I’ll have to choose the croissant, but there’s nothing yummier than a blueberry muffin straight from the oven with a crunchy muffin top on it and steaming soft cakey goodness inside. YUM.

What do you choose? Muffin or croissant?

Books, Characters, Movies, Rants, Recommendations, Shopping

T-Shirt Hilarity

I am becoming more disenchanted with the Bella and Edward world. I just watched the movie last weekend and was less impressed than I was with the book. I wanted to laugh several times (at non-funny parts), but thought that might ruin the experience for my family. (My 15 year old son liked the movie.)

So, an online writer friend sympathized with my disenchantment and told me about this t-shirt. Here’s the blurby thing from the site where you can buy it.

Don’t you think the vampires-are-people-too thing has gone a little too far? I mean, the whole point of a vampire is that they survive by sucking your blood. I don’t care if his skin glows and twinkles and he smells like kittens and fabric softener, he’s still just a glorified syringe. Remember the last time you had blood drawn? Yeah, me too, and it sucked! It’s time we put an end to this nonsense: Edward, may I treat you to a stake dinner?

Now, I have never watched Buffy, but this still cracked me up. Kittens and fabric softener? LMAO!

Food, Recommendations, Starbucks

Tea Lattes

As you may know, I work at Starbucks. They recently rolled out a new batch of drinks: the tea lattes. I have always been a coffee person, but once in a while I’ll take tea: always with Chinese food, sometimes when I have a sore throat or stuffed up sinuses, but never with milk. Yuck. So, these new drinks–the London Fog Tea Latte, the Vanilla Rooibos Tea Latte, and the Black Tea Latte–are not my favorite beverages on the Starbucks menu. (Although if we’re going to talk SMELLS, the Vanilla Rooibos tea bags smell AMAZING! I want someone to bottle that as bubble bath. I’d buy a gazillion gallons of it.)
They also have two other new drinks–the Berry Chai Infusion and the Apple Chai Infusion. I like both of them, and they both come iced or hot. I like the BCI cold. The ACI tastes a lot like mulled apple cider, which I like. (I just realized I’ve never had that with whipped cream, and I bet that’s pretty tasty.)
So, out of the five new drinks, I would highly recommend the Berry Chai, iced.

Money, Recommendations

Economizing

Times are tough. I’m always looking for ways to cut back and recently we eliminated our monthly Arrowhead water delivery and replaced it with a PUR water dispenser. By doing so we’re saving $190 over the course of a year. 🙂

Do you have any tips for me on how to save in other areas?

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