The Chocolate Cereal Generation
American comedic writer Robert Orben once said, “Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.” I fear that I am part of the “chocolate” cereal generation. Since an early age, I have had a deep love for sugary cereals: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honeycombs, Reese’s Puffs …
Peterson Family at the BYU Stadium Party
This year, prior to the start of the Football season, BYU made some major improvements to Lavelle Edwards Stadium. They installed some giant High Definition video boards on the North and South ends of the stadium as well as LED ribbons along the top edge of each endzone seating area. To help celebrate these and get fans hyped up for …
Time Crunch
I don’t know about you, but after I hit the 1:00 button on the microwave, I rush off and try to complete a task before the timer starts beeping. Of course, the same habit has continued since I’ve started eating meals from GOFoods. But with fifteen minutes rather than one, I can usually accomplish more than frantically emptying the dishwasher. …
Alternative Diets: Keeping an Open Mind
When I open my pantry and look at my shelf, I see the usual: bread, cereal, bananas, peanut butter, canned food, etc. When I shift my gaze to the shelf right below mine, I see a completely different picture: bags of mysterious bulk-item grains, bottles of extracts and supplements, jars of honey, and other things that I can’t quite place. …
How Prepared Are You, Really?
This is the question we all have to ask ourselves: When it comes to the future and our family’s ability to survive an emergency, what will we do? These types of events may leave us without the resources we tend to take for granted. We all know the dangers that we face living today, whether it is the fear of …
Food for Thought
Society defines a vegetarian as a person who does not eat meat and sometimes other animal products for health, moral or religious reasons. But for the last twenty-three years of my life, I will reluctantly admit, vegetarianism to me meant skimpy portions. I naively thought that the vegetarian section on a menu was code for “You’re going to be hungry …
Be The Best You!
Part 1: THE RACE In the spirit of National Trail Mix Day last week (yeah, who knew), I reflect to a recent hike. There I was, pounding up the switchbacks on my way up a well-known mountain in our area. Now, this mountain is like 210,000 feet and just short of the moon so I had no plans to go …
Pig and Pork Day with the Peterson Family
This past year, as a family, we decided to get a family membership to Thanksgiving Point. Thanksgiving Point is a local place set up by the family that started Word Perfect. As a family, they wanted to give back to Utah County, so they established a family-friendly location with a Museum of Ancient Life (or as my family calls it, …
An Immense Undertaking
Several years ago, I was assigned the stupendous task of organizing my family’s food storage. After surviving six spider bites, ten hours of monotony, and an avalanche of canned corn, I’d compiled a list of our food storage—and a list of things I wish I would’ve known before I started. 1) Calculate first. Initially, I thought our food storage was …
Happy Summer Finales
Last week I spent a few days in the San Francisco Bay area visiting a friend before starting the new school year. I LOVE this area, and I was so excited to go back, enjoy some lazy time at the beach, and return to Utah with a fresh bronze glow. The second day I was there, we slipped into swimwear, …
