Well it's not TOO terrible! It's not shopping til I drop. Too poor for that. It's not smoking : been there and done that as a teen. It's not drugs: I got surgery to make me healthier.

It's baking. And cooking. I LOoooove looking through cook books, especially the old church type or "my grandmas favorite recipes" types and finding yummy goodness to bake. The whole process from reading, imagining the steps, buying the ingredients, laying everything out, Mixing it all up, the smells floating through the house, My children and husband giving me a rating on a five star scale, Smiles on happy chocolate covered faces, cleanup, all of it.

Only bad part is, I've been making mostly junk and I'm working so hard to keep it out of my body and now km feeding it to Mu family more than ever before. I just have so Let's extra time now as a stay at home mom who's not eating all day, so I want to do this entire process about four times a week.mostly sweets, I don't like cooking as much as baking. I have 6 picky-ish eaters and a hubby who will eat anything so I like I stick to basic stuff for them really.

Note to self: find healthier things to mix in the kitchen.

I do this, too. I bake a few times a week and I love it. I give it away or send it to work with my husband. It's so much more enjoyable now than it was before. I let myself have a few bites of whatever I bake.

Try a website the world according to eggs. She has recipes that are healthy for the sleeve

What if you learn to do really complicated time-consuming cooking, like fancy cake decorating or French cuisine. I'm sure a lot of the appeal is the actual process and if you make it complicated you might get more bang for your buck. We knitters do this by using really thin yarn and tiny needles, to make them go further.

Or you could volunteer to cook at a shelter or make a business out of it and do catering or something like that. You won't have to have it in your house then.

Did you think of taking some chef courses? Then, once again, it's out of your house. Lots of the classes are for healthy food too.

Maybe look for some better recipes like home made granola bars and whole grain breads and muffins of course you will need to watch they are not high sugar...I would not go low carb for growing children I actually wouldn't period but that is me I would just try better quality carbs.

Or you could try scrap booking or something equally addictive and time consuming....

I have decided to make my family's food healthier as well as my own I have never allowed my children to be overly picky about fruit and vegetables and my hubs is military and likes to stay fit so it is going ok.