I have a friend, Debbie. Debbie wrote a book:
Her book is called Parents Need to Eat Too: Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, and Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks for New Parents
The real thing looks like this:
So Debbie had this idea to write a book that will help parents not eat like crap. Sure, there are shelves of books about making baby food and feeding kids. But what about feeding yourself? I know I'm not the only one that sucks at feeding myself since having kids.
Now this is the part of the post where I should really be telling you about her recipes, like broccoli & cheddar pinwheels and cheater's chana masala. But I'm not going to. They are all good, they are all yummy. Her cookbook is filled with great stuff. But just saying this would be boring. I'm going to talk about something else. Something specific. Something personal.
Her chocolate chip cookie recipe. You can judge a cookbook by its cookie.
The cookies of which I speak are in the last chapter. They are also on her blog, called The Best Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies in the Entire World. A title which automatically made me skeptical and prepared to hate them. I'm weird like that.
So I made them.
That is the cookie. It has a crown so you can see how awesome and powerful it is.
I gave one to Crappy Boy:
This kid eats a lot of cookies. For him to say that is a huge endorsement.
But her cookbook is for parents, not for kids. So it doesn't matter what he says. He'd probably praise white sugar on a spoon. What does he know?
So back to the parents...
The kids are asleep. Crappy Papa grabs the whole tray of cookies and starts walking into the family room with it.
I stop him:
I tell him he can't eat the whole tray.
He doesn't like this. He actually whines a little. He isn't making fun of the kids. This is sincere whining from a grown man.
We're bringing the cookies the next day to a friend's house, I remind him. I'm not just being a mean wife who doesn't let her husband have her cookies.
But he begs me. Suggests I make more. I explain that we don't have any more chocolate chips. So he offers to run to the store. I consider this for a moment, but making cookies in the middle of the night could wake up the kids! It isn't worth the risk. If those kids wake up and catch me secretly making cookies they will have scars for life! They also will never go to bed again. I have to be a big meanie and tell him that no, he really, truly can't eat the entire tray of cookies.
So I make fun of him.
And he makes fun of me.
In the end, we compromised by counting the number of people that would be there the next day, separating out one cookie per person and he got the rest. Which was still around six or seven cookies. Which was entirely too few. (I'll make more soon, I promise!)
So yeah. These cookies are GOOD.
But I don't want you to think that Debbie is telling parents to eat chocolate chip cookies.
No, those are special treats only.
And now, here is a special treat for you...
GIVEAWAY:
Debbie is giving away a copy of her book, PARENTS NEED TO EAT TOO
How to Enter:
Comment on this post! One comment per person. Comments will close Monday, February 13th at 7PM PST & winner will be picked via random # generator, emailed and then announced here at the bottom of this post.
Comments are now closed, thanks everyone!
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My kids are all grown up (well, of legal age anyway), but your blog still rings true – I love it!
I have four kids: ages 5, 3, 23 mos., and 6 mos. Since I’m feeding a nursing baby who’s just starting to eat solid foods and three preschoolers (and of course my husband too), I never eat. Until late at night when they’re all in bed. . . and then I eat JUNK! For example, while sitting here tonight, I ate ice cream, jelly beans, and the leftover egg roll from our Chinese takeout. I think I need this book!
I’m expecting my second and would appreciate a cookbook for new parents. It is hard to find time to feed yourself – I lived on muffins for the first few months! Tip to new moms: get breakfast ready the night before. Most meals you may have time or can order in but there’s no help for breakfast.
First baby is only a week old, but I have already realized the merits of a one-handed meal. Enter me, please!
Learn to feed MYSELF, again? Fantabulous book idea.
I have four kids(ages 5, 3, 23 mos. & 6 mos) and of course a hungry husband too, so I rarely eat until everyone else has gone to bed. And then I eat junk! Tonight as I’m sitting at the computer, I ate ice cream, jelly beans and a egg roll leftover from Chinese takeout. (Ugh! Yeah, that actually sounds gross to me too, but desperate times call for desperate measures.) I think I need this book!
I need more (healthy) one-handed meals! Thanks for the great blog.
Ha, yes the nutritious eating for oneself does take a hit with kids, especially when the 2nd comes along. I really really try to set a good example most of the time but it is telling that my 2 yr old started learning her letters with “burger letters” on the fast food bags. And she knows which drive thru is which and where she can get her CFA lemonade and Arby’s sayce. Ok all that being said, I do cook and enjoy it, especially the eating part.
You make me feel normal, and totally crack me up!
mmmm Me Want Coooookies!
I love cookbooks like some women love romance novels!
This book is such a great idea! My hubby whines for biscuits when I bake also, I feel your pain!
I have a slight addiction to cookbooks. So of course, I need this one, too. Can’t wait to make those cookies!
Looking for the best cookie in the entire world and would love to have this book
great idea for a cookbook. i dont know how many times i just havent bothered to eat because it woud be too much trouble to make and clean something up~
Laying in bed, on potential bed rest and this was just what I needed! Thanks for the laughs and potential prize
I seriously need this book!!
Also, my husband is just like yours – I seriously laughed out loud because it could be us in this situation!!
Thanks for hosting this giveaway
I think I need this. One handed meals are all I have time for!
LOVE IT!!
Um, already a lot of comments…but someone’s got to win! Why not this new mother of baby #3!!
me want whole tray of cookies! unfortunately, gestational (#3, am I nuts?!) diabetes is keeping me from even 1 cookie right now. sigh. but maybe some nice friend will make a whole tray for me to eat while I’m nursing this latest little monster.
I crave this book. I know about five other mums who need this book too! Good to know it exists, and if I don’t win it, I may well buy it. My go-to recipe is finely chopped spinach in scrambled egg, with toast. Feeds me and the squeaker, and it’s dairy-free.
With a child who wants to be held all the time, I need this book!
I want to win cookie! I mean a cook book!
Okay…this post made me want, want, want this book! With a second on the way, I will be even more desperate for one handed meals!
I would love this book! It was so hard eating when mt daughter was newborn and now I’m having another.
Great idea!!!
I love your blog!
Comment! I want this book. I always joke that I could make Thanksgiving dinner with one hand. My one year old is independent and awesome all the live long day, until mama goes to the kitchen to make dinner. At which point he is a miserable, never-been-fed sack of a baby mewling on the kitchen floor.
Ooo! I love cookbooks, especially ones that describe exactly how I cook
What happens if the winner is in Australia?
Now I’m totally craving chocolate chip cookies…..and wanting to try out some new recipes!
My husband is making fun of me because I am commenting just so I can be entered. I hope I win- my kids need more cookies.
I think I could use some of those not so crappy cookies right about now. I enjoy reading all of your posts. A good laugh every night before bed. Thanks!
What a great idea for a cookbook! Yummy!
Great idea for a cookbook!
You had me sold with the cookie story! I have to get this recipe and my mouth is already watering!
I love cookies, I love books, I love giveaways and I love this blog.
One handed cooking, brill, this could be the start of a whole series of books. One handed bathing, cleaning, sleeping, TV watching and Unicorn hunting, the list is endless.
I have one awesome toddler and she eats WAAAY better than I do. I’ve got my fingers crossed!
I love you crappy picture lady. Dont remember how i found you but i tell all my friends about you. I finally dont feel bad referring to either of my children as ‘it’ or worse. Not to them only to husband and friends. My husband refers to his doppleganger negatively at times. That gives me a sick sense of enjoyment. Dont judge me…wait i know you wont and thats why i am loving you. Loved the park description and laughedmy ass off at the picture. Didnt realize a stick figure could look exhausted, relieved and panicked all at once (nice catch btw). Still havent read all the blogs but so far i have laughed my ass off. Thank you.
Also any tips that make my life easier are appreciated. Healthy easy inexpensive recipes? I will be checking those out for sure. Thanks to your friend.
Lastly, best tip i have received (from a easy housekeeping email from my mother-in-law) store sheet sets inside thier own pillow cases. Organizes linens. Wow.
Thanks again and good luck! Ill be reading:)
Today my toddler fed me peas out of his own mouth and cold macaroni noodles. I only ate them because I was starving and didn’t have the energy to make myself a meal. I am a hungry mother that would love that book!
Cookie? More cookie! More cookie! Pease? MINE!
I can’t wait to read Debbie’s book and try the cookie recipe!
Ooh. I’m definitely intrigued enough to enter…
I NEEED THIS!!! Plus I have been on a neverending search for the perfect cookie…..
I NEED THIS!!! Fingers crossed.
The cookbook sounds awesome! Can’t wait to make some awesome cookies myself!
That book sounds AWESOME!!
I do one handed cooking on a daily basis as my 11 month old won’t let me put him down!
Also, my husband whines when we don’t let him eat all the flapjack my toddler made for nursery!!
I have 4 kids 4 and under and I would love this book. (And not sure if any previous commentors going through IVF would read this far down in the comments, but if you are…I am wishing you the best of luck and science. I spent years crying about why my body wasn’t doing what it was SUPPOSED to do and I now have TWO sets of twins. I sometimes can’t believe it. You will get your baby!)
Dear lord, this is genius! Parents need to eat? WHAT? Who thought of that? I have a 9year old who eats everything in sight. Seriously, his favorite meal that I make is Chicken Broccoli casserole (he requests extra broccoli),paella, and Ceasar Salad with chicken (the boy can eat his weight in salad). When we go to France (we live in Germany courtesy of the US Army) he orders escargot (yep, my boy loves snails!) or squid for every single meal. Of course escargot in Paris is ridiculously expensive compared to other parts of France, but he swears it tastes better in Paris and he must have it. Sigh.
I also have a 10 month old who is fond of the German baby foods that have fish (salmon, tuna or whitefish) and they all smell like anchovies when you open them. Ack. For breakfast, he’s stopped eating his baby oatmeal and only wants my Rudi’s Organic Nuts and Oats Toast. What baby likes heavy brown bread with nuts and stuff in it? Oh, he also lurves my veggie sausage. Basically he wants my entire breakfast.
Between the two of them, I feel like I’m constantly feeding someone or giving up my own food. I need to eat too!
Do you think this book will make it to Australia, or will I have to keep an eye on Internet book sites? I love love LOVE reading your blog, which i have to do alone cause it makes me laugh out loud-often!! With 3 little ones, some healthy one-handed recipes sound fantastic!! I usually just eat crap and kids leftovers these days!!
I need more one handed meals besides plain sandwiches!
I’m probably too late with my post but meh, I’d scale crazier heights of daring in a bid for scruptiousness.
Holy Crap. I have never seen more comments. This is a needle in a haystack chance of winning… but I gotta get something to eat!
Oooh pick me : D
My crappy kids are all grown but still expect me to supply cookies. I don’t think I’ll share this recipe. I’m keeping them all for myself!
Hi, I’m a happy mother of twins. As they were babys I would have (really) needed 0-hands meals. I ate a lot of cookies instead.
I’d love that book, please, tell me you can send it to Europe
That book sounds like a god send lol.
I love chocolate chip cookies, so you had me there. But, I get bored making the same stuff and love cookbooks. Plus, with being due with my fifth child and once he is born I will have three under three it sound exciting to only need one hand to cook. I can’t wait to try out her cookbook.
I don’t see my comment, so just in case I am trying to post again! Hoping I get it, I would love a one handed cookbook!
This book sounds awesome! I’d love to win a copy! Thanks for the giveaway. I love your blog….it makes me laugh…..out loud….until I can’t catch my breath. On tough days at home with the kids, I read it and it makes me smile. Thanks for all the laughs!
Thanks for writing! I love your blog!
i gotta have that recipe!
You guys at cracking me up. My husband and I routinely make cookies, order pizza, etc. after our kids go to he’d and they know it. We are just mean and exclusive like that. Having said that, I claim my own Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the Whole World recipe, so I would be very curious to try hers!
cookies! over Christmas me and the hubby split all the cookies and ate them at one sitting, I purposelessly make the ones my kids don’t like, 2 cups of sugar and a cup of chocolate chips per 2 dozens, I don’t know what’s there not to like but well, more for us, right, lol
mmmmmm…cookies
That sounds like a great book,
That sounds like an amazing book. Considering I eat chocolate covered granola bars for breakfast…
I have only discovered you recently and love your sense of humor and lack of perfection like the rest of us.
Oooooooh! Cookies!!!
I’d love to win that cookbook! What a great idea!
Yummmmm, cookies.
those cookies sound delicious! Would love to get this cookbook!
I agree. Six or seven cookies is never enough.
I MUST try these cookies!! Cookies are basically a food group in my house. Also, I LOVE your blog! My son turns one this week and I love reading about all that I have to look forward to.
thanks!
Is it bad that my dinner the past few nights has been Girl Scout cookies?!
I think I need this book…
sounds a like a great book. I think cookies are a great endorsement.
I want some cookies!!! And that cookbook!
I would love to win the cookbook! But I have to say, I already make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies ever. (Actually, I may have to make some more tonight, since you’ve got me thinking about them!)
You mean eating the scraps of leftovers off your kid’s plate doesn’t count as good eating? Would love to win the book! Thanks for the chance!
Cookies are a food group. Seriously.
Good luck to you Lauren! I was in the same boat. It’s quite the emotional roller coaster but so worth it in the end! We did 5 IVF cycles before I became pregnant. Now I have a beautiful little girl, and I couldn’t imagine ever going back to life without her!
Maybe my husband could actually make some recipes from this book! Sounds like his kind of cooking.
Yeah, I could definitely go for some cookies…..and a whole cookbook. I love cooking and my 4 yr old loves helping. Good times in the kitchen!
I often forget to eat, or just eat the kid’s leftovers. I’d love this cookbook!
I would love to read this book! Sometimes I forget to eat all together!
Me mom… me hungry… need food…
Me mom… me hungry… need food…
I need all the cookies forever. Please sign me up for the giveaway. Thanks!
Me mom… me hungry… need food…
This book is just what I need. I’m constantly eating off the kids’ plates. And well now I’m curious about the great cookies!
This book sounds like a great idea! I definitely eat like crap because I just don’t have the time to cook elaborate meals for me and my husband. Can’t wait to get the book!
I probably will end up at the cookie recipes every time
Ok, now I want a cookie!! This cookbook looks great!!
I would love this book! Love your blog too!
Would love to have this book! The last cookies I made I went into labor 3 hours later…they did not turn our so well
Currently trying for baby #2. A lot of my meals consist of eating what baby boy would did not finish.
I think cookies totally count as a one handed meal! I think this book my be perfect for us. Especially if I keep kicking around the idea of having another little munchkin!
I *so* need this book! My DD is in the phase where she won’t let me out of her sight…she actually sits in her walker at the kitchen door and watches me as I cook dinner with *SUCH* a pitiful face. It’s ridiculous…and she doesn’t want ANYTHING to do with daddy… siiiiiigh
I am cooking-challenged, but am trying to learn the ropes. And chocolate chip cookies sound like a good place to start.
I too was reproductively challenged and went through IVF. I am now blessed with my little miracle who is now 4 and a half and she is the light of my life. Best of luck to you. It is an emotional roller coaster but so worth the ride!
Love your blog! Love this book idea!!
Quite the endorsement! Now I’m craving chocolate chip cookies!!!
COOKIES!
hot tamales! what a great endorsement!
Yes please, this sounds like a great book
Me. Want. Cookies. Oh, yeah, and the rest of the book too!
Yes please! I need this book!
I love the idea of this book! I want one for me and one for each of my Mommy friends!!
I am sure I need this cookbook.
i think that book is a great idea and i wish i had thought of it. however, i’m not that creative so i will just buy a copy if i don’t win one. thanks!!!
love this blog!
Drooling already!
OOooh…I neeeeeeeeed this book. As I type 1-handed….and live on a diet of cheese (bitten directly off the chunk, since using a knife one handed is hazardous to screaming baby), nuts, cookies and cake. Today’s fare was orange cake, so it counts as a fruit.
I’m a new mom to 3-1/2 month old Spider and would love to learn some new recipes that are easy-peasy!!
Sign me up for this giveaway! Sounds like a great book that I’d love to have.
Wait, does rolled up deli turkey as an entree followed by a nutrigrain bar as both a side item and dessert not qualify as a healthy meal for a parent? I think with that base, there will be lots of room for improvement.
I need this too. Just last night I was watching a movie with my 4 1/2 year old, and my 2 year old. I had to force myself to eat veggies for a snack when I REALLY wanted the chips!
I already have this in my Amazon wishlist. It would be way cooler to win a copy.
Hope I win!
Mmmm….cookies. 
I have a 3 month old baby w/ colic. Everything I do is one handed. I need that book!
Good luck Lauren,
DH and I had IF for over 4 years but now have 14mth old twins and its so hard and yet so great!
Brenda
I love cookies! And what a great idea for a book! I’d love to read it, so pick me!
I’ll eat well AFTER I try the cookies
I’ve been looking for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe for years. (Great marketing idea for a new book, by the way! Those who don’t win will surely buy one!)
Wow! What a good idea for a book! As a new mommy, I’d love it!
I want one (a cookie and the cookbook!) Pleeeezzz.
Cookbook sounds great…loved your story about cookies…I’ve been a secret chocolate stasher all my life…learned from my mom : )
Glad i”m not the only mommy eating stuff I find… seriously, I pick up AND eat Kix and cheerios before I vaccuum. Desperate.
“I’m not just being a mean wife who doesn’t let her husband have her cookies. ”
ROFL. First time poster, because this line compelled me. Intentional or not, the innuendo is hilarious.
Definitely want to try those cookies!
I haven’t made homemade cookies in ages. After having a child I settle for the premixed Philsbury dough that all you have to do is cut and cook. Easy but still nothing like homemade. Looking forward to reading this book and showing my husband, that “yes, I CAN cook” hehhe
Would love to win this book – it’s been sitting on my Amazon wishlist for a while now…
I WANT IT!!!!
I am so excited to win this book so that I can make yummy food for my husband and toddler, and eat some myself too! Thanks!
After trying to get a decent meal on the table for the past two years after my daughter was born this cookbook is so worth it! Eating leftover toddler food is not appetizing anymore.
I love this blog and I love cookies!! and cooking.
Funny memory: nursing a baby in one hand and trying to make a peanut butter sandwich and pour a cup of milk for the toddler crying and hanging on my other sleeve. . . I really felt like a hero after that crisis was over.
My husband is addicted to finding the perfect cookie recipe. Would love to give this one a try cause we haven’t found it yet!
Mmmmm,these sound yummy! I am always on the look out for great cookie recipes. I wish I had this book when my little one was a baby. Oh well, maybe for the next one?
C is for COOKIE, that’s good enough for me!
Sending positive baby mojo to all who need it. I don’t need mine anymore.
Wishing you all luck! *^*~MOJO~*^*
Sending positive baby mojo to all who need it. I’m done with mine.
Wishing you all luck! *^*~MOJO~*^*
I’m hungry now.
I have been eyeing this book, waiting for the release date. I’m 16 weeks pregnant and I already know that feeding myself is not going to be something I’m good at once the little one arrives (sometimes it’s not something I’m good at already…). And now I HAVE to try those chocolate chip cookies!
As a complete foodie and a person who is in the search for a great staple as a baby shower gift, I hope I win!
I have been reading both of your blogs for some time now and had no idea you were buddies. Figures – great minds think alike!! Love your stuff and you are right, her choc chip cookies are the best ever!!!!
Yeah, I need this. With a five year old and a 7 month old, I need to be able to cook with one hand (without burning baby feet) while also satisfying hubby (vegetarian), child of five (read: Picky Eater) and infant – oh wait, she’s not eating yet. WOO HOO.
First of all, I LOVE your blog! The illustrations are hysterical and always save my day with a good laugh.
Thanks for the chance at a great giveaway! (Btw, I’m going to make the cookies right now.)
Sounds like it should be a terrific book…the blog is awesome!
I’m intrigued by this cookie!
As a new mom I am finding out how true this is! So hard to find time to prepare a meal and eat! I would love this book!
I’ve never commented here before, but this soooo reminded me of my husband and myself. Only he’s the chef (literally) and I’m the one whining for more! HA, LOVED this POST!
And, now I get the added bonus of being entered. SWEET!
When I read about Crappy Papa whining all I could hear was my husband’s voice…
YUM COOKIES!
I need this book! As a new mom I am finding out how hard it is to prepare and eat a meal!
I love your posts…great for a good laugh after a long day! Thank you. The book looks great, what a good idea!
oh please, please, please…baby gets homemade food, husband refuses to eat well, so he gets homemade food, and I get…whatever I can scrounge…sigh…would love some yummy good for me things to eat!
Cookies are a food group. Seriously.
What a great idea! I need more good quick food!
Oh, I’d LOVE to win this book so that I could give it to a really good friend of mine who had a baby about a month ago! This was a GREAT idea for a book for new parents!
Don’t you love it when you have to parent your partner!!
Cookies are a food group. Seriously
Cookies are totally a one handed meal!
I just shared this with my husband because you could have inserted crappy drawings of us into your pictures it could still have been true. This is our kind of strife. Happy cookie making (and one handed eating)!
Love it! This totally made us laugh. And I neeeeed to win this because my husband won’t let me buy it!! You’d think the whole amazing-cookie-thing would have convinced him, but he still says I have too many cookbooks already…how many is too many?!
Mmmm I want a cookie!
My favorite one handed meal after my first child was chocolate brownies with peanut buttet chips. I figured they were better than plain brownies because of the protien in peanut butter.
Pick me, pick me!!!!!
I want the book – but honestly I want one(or the) of those cookies more!
I love the idea of Debbie’s book! I feel so malnourished now that I am a mom of two. Finding a way to easily prepare and easily/quickly eat a nutritious meal would be great. I tell everyone that if I ever lose my left arm in a freak accident then I will be absolutely fine because I always have a child on my hip and never get to use it for anything else anyway. I have adapted with out it. And you totally sold me on the cookies. In our household cookies are a one handed meal (very embarrassing I know!).
This sounds like a must have book with 3 kids!!
My favorite one handed meal when my first son was born was chocolate brownies with peanut butter chips. These are obviously good for you due to the added protein the peanut butter chips provide. And good luck to those reproductively challenged. I was, too, but thanks to the miracles of medicine, I have a a beautiful, healthy three year old destroying my house. Couldn’t be happier.
I have got to try to make those cookies now… hope they work with non-dairy butter never the same taste but close most of the time
MMMmmmm! Cookies!
ooh I really want a cookie now! and a free cookbook!
(do I need to have a website to enter? this is my first comment on your blog. which I just found last week. and read all the way back to last year. and nearly pissed my pants laughing. or fell off the counter stool.)
I love Debbie’s idea for this book. I feel so malnourished now that I have two kids. Being able to quickly and easily prepare and consume nutritious meals sounds wonderful. I tell people that if I ever lose my left arm in a freak accident then I will be just fine because I always have a baby on my hip and never use it anyway! And you totally sold me on the cookie recipe. In our house cookies are a one handed meal (embarrassing I know!).
Awesome, will have to pick this up if I’m not lucky enough to win it!
I love cookies! And I have become pretty crappy at feeding myself since my baby was born.
And now I have to go buy cookies!
I love cookies! And eating.
My husband makes cookies and then we eat about half of the results before they even cool!
The book idea sounds great. I always make sure the baby gets what she needs for good eats, but then making something for myself usually ends up being whatever I can find in the fridge as leftovers if I’m lucky. If daddy’s not around to feed mommy, mommy eats a cheese tortilla and some grapes.
I love cookies. And eating…
mmm, cookies… what i do when there is something tasty like that around is i put some aside for whatever guests or function and then hubby can eat whatever he wants of the rest.
This always happens in my house.
I make awesome treats and come down in the morning and half of them have bites taken out of them as they have been tasted.
Now I must know more about these “special” cookies! But then I may be tempted to hide them from my “crappy” toddler. Is that bad? Hmmm, I think not. Bring it on…and thanks for the continuous laughs!
Cookies are a food group. Seriously.
OK. I have to say that cookies ARE one handed meals and I NEED this cook book so I can stop eating my breakfast, lunch and dinner at 10:00pm once the baby finally goes to sleep! PLEASE pick me! (Can you read the desperation in my post?) I love you Amber! <3
i hope it comes with a tiny cookie crown!
So excited about weekend posts and giveaways!!
Wow. I have a one in over 2000 chance of winning…so far.
I love making cookies and must say they are often my go-to snack so a recipe book with some healthy mommy and daddy food would be a real treat around here!
I was so disappointed the first time I heard about this book and realized it wasn’t in print yet so I couldn’t go look it up right then!
We’re expecting our first in two months, so it turns out the timing isn’t too late after all. I love cooking now, and am greatly afraid of devolving into macaroni and cheese and frozen pizza’s after the baby.
Anything is a one-handed meal as long as I can eat it over the sink while balancing a baby on one hip and have the four year old tugging at pants leg telling me I need to watch her latest and greatest dance move….Seriously last week I wanted a salad – can’t eat that one handed so I wrapped it up with a tortilla – Problem solved – but a cookbook filled with delicious goodness and cookies – I want one NOW!!!
Love this! My son got so many crumbs in his hair from me eating and nursing
This sounds wonderful! I just had my first baby in January, and I am on my own for the first time this week with the little guy (my husband had off for 2 weeks and my mom was up for a week) and I have discovered that I am twice as bad at feeding myself as I used to be, pre-baby. I so need this book!
Oh, Oh, pick me, pick me! Please?
I love cookbooks and SO need this one!
I have been anxiously waiting for Debbie’s book to come out for months now. I have it pre-reserved at my library now.
I don’t seethe comment I left before.. I would love this book.. tired of eating mac and cheese and spaghettios
Cookies!!!! This sounds like a great cookbook and I love the title and cover. Must check out the recipes too…
What a great idea for a book! Will definitely look into this!
hi. i want to be a winner!
btw, it looks like you’ve lost weight! that purple dress definitely looks smaller and more flattering than the other day…
your hair looks amazing today, too.
(yes, i’m shameless. your point?!)
I’m still trying to decided if the Hubby learns the whining from the kiddos, or if the kiddos learn from the Hubby.
I like cookies (A LOT)and although they may interfere with my weight loss goals after baby #2, I am willing to take the risk for something this good!
This book looks fantastic, and now I’m dying for a chocolate chip cookie. Thanks a lot. =)
Yay! I love this blogger and anything this blogger likes!
Also, I would like alternatives to KD…
I’ve been waiting for this book!
I’ve been waiting for this book!
Fingers crossed that the random number generator picks me! I heard about this book last year and have had it on my ‘to watch for’ list.
Always need recipes for good cookies! Yum!!
Sounds like a great book!
mmm! Cookies!
With a LO who is 10 months old, those one-handed meals would come in very handy
This book sounds genius!
Yum, cookies!
parents need to eat cookies too!! I love your blog, always makes me smile:)
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Yum, cookies!
I need that book and I love your blog!
Can’t wait to compare this cookie recipe with the one I usually use!
I want this! I need this! Thank you!
Trying to get out of the chicken nugget/fish stick vicious cycle! For mommy and daddy, too. But I must say, chicken dinos are surprisingly good with a glass of sauvignon blanc. I’m just saying.
Ooh, I need this. 4 kids, 4 and under and two of those are infant twins. Feeding the parents is LOW on our priority list these days.
now I need some cookies.
I printed out the recipe and can’t wait to try them!
I would love a copy of the book. I have a teenager and a baby and always forget to feed myself. Plus I love cookies.
Love the concept, love the cover photo, LOVE the cookies!!! And I have been slapping my husband’s hand away from the cookies my son and I made for his school Valentine’s Day party all day
me want the book too. Thanks
Yay! Brilliant idea – I end up eating scraps like the family dog. Half a grilled cheese, sandwich crusts… I need help.
I need this book all to much! I have a one year old son, and plan on atleast 2 more in the future. I eat nothing but puffs, and occasionaly a few bites of my sons mac and cheese! Also, those cookies sound to die for good!
mmmmmm
You can never have too many cookbooks!!!
Hmmm… not trying to double-post but I don’t see my comment!
Great giveaway – LOVE this site.
Pick me, pick me!
Pick me, pick me!!!!!!!
Ah! hilarious. I could really use the book too! Typically my lunches consist of eating the kids’ leftovers (gross), Taco Bell (grosser), or whatever I can throw together in 5 minutes from whatever’s left in the fridge. I sadly look at the fresh kale, spinach, carrots, etc. and contemplate making a salad but these days with an infant and a toddler, that’s impossible. Anyway, thanks for your fun blogs. I look forward to reading them!
Me, pick me!! Pick me! Please?
yum, i could really use a cookie right now!
I ate only microwave burritos for dinner the first 6 months my daughter was alive, since my husband worked late, and I was, alas, one-handed.
I love your blog. Thanks for the giveaway.
I am quite intrigued now with this cookie recipe. I must try it! -Diane
I am a baker and I want to TRY THEE AWESOME COOKIES! I can’t wait to see what your hubby fussed about! Haha! By the way I love your blog and put it on my FB account often. Thank you for making this parenting thing seem more funny on the days I don’t feel like laughing.
C is for Cookie (and that’s good enough for me!)
Would love to have her book!!
And that cookie looks yum. I’d print it and eat it.
Would love the cook book. Read about it on your blog twice now, so whether or not I am the lucky winner, I’ll probably buy it.
Love it! I need it!
That sounds like a pretty awesome book, if just for the cookie recipe!
I love reading both you and Debbie! You are both so funny and upbeat and positive; you brighten my day.
My mouth is watering…even cartoon cookies make me hungry!
After my son was born, I literally lived off Cocoa Pebbles for a year. I desperately need this book before we have another child.
OMG real food…
You can do that with a little one?
I thought we were going to have to eat his left over toast and string cheese for the next few years.
Cookies! I love cookies and could definitely use a bit of help with the feeding grown-ups part. With a new crawler in the house people are going hungry!
Oooo….nap-friendly recipes!
I need that book! I am in desperate need of new recipes. I hope the generator thing picks me!!!
My son is almost three, but I still have trouble feeding myself! I would have NO trouble feeding myself a whole plate of cookies, but that’s another story! Sounds like a fun book!
Forget the cookies (I can already hear the collective gasp!)…I just want to be able to eat a “real” meal! I”m hoping sometime in the next 5 years or so….
I’m all for cookies…BUT I would just love to eat a “real” meal sometime in the next 5 years.
This mama needs real food… and a good chocolate chip cookie recipe!
What a neat idea for a cookbook!
–>Well my name is Deb and I like cookies. A. Lot.
I’d like a copy of Debbie’s book, please.
I could use this book since #3 is on the way!
Im a grown man and father of four. This episode of me whinnig and my wife refusing my need for cookies has actually happened in my home. Thank you for your great honest blog. Now…give me cookies!! (or at least the book so my wife can bake them)
Cookies!
I just found your blog and am LOVIN IT!!!!!
I just found your blog and I am LOVIN YOU!
I desperately need this book! Love your blog!!!
Love it! We both laughed
My husband said I have too many cookbooks already, so he won’t let me buy one so I NEED to win it…can one really have too many cookbooks?!
now i’m tempted to make cookies and eat all of them before my husband gets home from work. it’s not valentine’s day YET…
I’d love to win this book because as a single mama of two, I’m outnumbered and sometimes get ganged up on in the food department AND soon I’ll be outnumbered even more because we are becoming a foster family!
But; I live in Canada and thus am likely not eligible for this contest even though Canadian moms matter too!
Sounds like a great book! Much better diet to. I wish I could say eating my kids sandwich crusts and half chewed orange slices had helped my waist line. But it didn’t. Or maybe it was the three kids in 4 years that did that damage. Details. Either way pick me pick me!
My daughter is 4 months old Friday, and that means I’ve had like 5 actual meals in four months. I could use a good cookbook (and a maid!).
I look forward to the days of eating real food again and not just the leftover pureed baby food I make for my daughter. Chocolate chip cookies sounds extravagant … us moms can dream
Hilarious! Love your blog.
oooh pick me pick me!
One-handed meals? Brilliant!
I need this book!!! Because it has cookies in it, and I need to eat cookies.
Wow! I DO like cookies! It even says so on my Twitter. http://twitter.com/TulsaMJ
As the cookie maker in my family, I just might have to get this book to compare it to my cookies (which are pretty darn good in their own right).
If there is a cookie involved, I am in it to win it.
I carry my son with my left arm so that I can still use my right hand to do things (since I am right handed). My husband carries him in his right arm BECAUSE he is right handed. I think that is a waste. He will never be able to make a one-handed meal. Wait… maybe he is doing this on purpose.
Eeeee!! Me me me me me!
Cookies, cookies, cookies! I shall now go make my Monday better by baking cookies. I may even share some with the 3 sleeping 3 year olds….. if they sleep until I’m done!
Man, I could use that book. Could have used it two and a half years ago, but now would be good too!
Looks like I’ll have a new cookbook to buy, if I don’t win it.
I could totally use some delicious recipes so crappy husband will stop making fun of my crappy recipes that are mostly casseroles made out of already cooked rotisserie chickens. HAHAHAHA
Fun! I definitely need some one-handed recipes… dinner prep time is my son’s “I need Mommy” time.
I eat like crap since having my two kids. I actually just ate 2 cookies or lunch! C’mon random number generator! You failed me on that powerball ticket last week. Mama needs a new cookbook!
I just ate 2 cookies for lunch. Uuugggh.
I literally just ate 2 cookies for lunch, so I can relate. C’mon, random number generator! Mama needs a new cookbook!
I love cookbooks! This one sounds great — what a good idea.
Oooh, I would love to have this!!
Cookies! Must own this cookbook!
Am I too late? I have no idea what the time difference is from PST to GMT. I’m probably a whole day late or something, but i’m taking my chances because I neeed this book (whine). Oh, and I love the blog too
really cheers me up when I most need it. Thanks lady.
I just wrote a comment and it disappeared! Try again. I want this book!
I desperately need this book! Love your blog!!!
I would looooove to have a copy of this book!
I would loooooove to have a copy of this book!
Ooo I’d love to win this! I need quick, healthy food ideas!
I love your blog!! You crack me up and I love the “crappy pictures!” I recently had twins so I know all about being terrible at feeding myself! The twins eat better than I do 90% of the time. I would love a copy of the book, free or if I have to pay for it!!
Yay! I want to win! I actually checked out this book the first time you mentioned it and put it in my Amazon shopping cart to order later. But I’d happily take a free copy
This sounds like my kind of book!! I have an 8 month old attached to my hip…or my leg, or my shoe. Whatever she can grab on to, she will!
Yay cookies!!
Love your blog! I read it whenever I have downtime at work and it always puts a smile on my face. My husband and I are currently trying to become “crappy parents”
and I am soo looking forward to all the crazy times and joy and all the rest that comes with it. 
And the book sounds great.. and delicious 
– for all the moms I know or maybe me… hopefully one soon too!
I want to win a cookbook with the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever in it. I wonder if my husband will let me have any of them….
Pick me!!!
Please choose me random # generator! I am 4 weeks from having my first baby and I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it!
Woot! This sounds like a great book, and I love the new giveaway plan!
I have a two year old, and we’re hoping for another. One-handed, two-minute recipes would come in handy balancing a toddler while pregnant…
My mother is always hounding me to keep eating something…’you need to eat, you’re breastfeeding…’ Yes, I know Mom, I’m eating..I had a dish of cereal and a glass of OJ’ Mom: ‘What? You need more, go find more to eat..’ Sheesh. Guess I need to check out the book. Also, the cookie supply at our house has been next to nil since our son (our first) was born on November 21st, with the exception of a batch of chocolate chip I made for Christmas. It has helped me lose weight, however I am feeling a bit deprived. Not to mention, my hubby loves to have cookies with his cup of tea every night and really hasn’t since Christmas. But like I’ve got around to making any…yep, gotta check the book out if it will allow me to cook and/or bake more around here…
what? cookies aren’t a meal? if you eat the whole plate they can be a meal!
what? cookies are not a meal? if you eat the whole plate they are a meal!
That looks like an awesome cook book and since it’s also my birthday today it would be wonderful to win it! Oh and I would love some cookies too
Yay! I love one-handed eating AND cookies!
Yay! I love one-handed eating… AND cookies! Pick me!
What a great idea for a book!!
Oooh, I need to try those cookies!
Yummy!
Yumm!!
Next you’ll say “left over peanut butter cups from Christmas” is also not a ‘one-handed meal’
But they’re almost a sandwich!
Would love to grab the book – we are always struggling with food ideas in this household. Plus, I like cookies
Thanks for all the fun posts – I enjoy them.
Bwahahahaha.. You make me laugh. Girl Scout cookies came out a week ago. Don’t ask how many boxes I bought. Seriously, don’t ask.
Bwahahaha. You make me laugh.
Yeah for cookies! I hope if I bake them they get crowns too!!
I would LOVE to win this book!
yay for a book to feed mommies!
I eat bad enough already, I don’t want to eat worse when I have kids.
I am totally craving some cookies now!
This cookbook sounds awesome!
I am totally craving coookies now!!
This cookbook sounds awesome!
My husband whines too! I don’t usually bake because I burn stuff that is out of site (even when I set a timer!). He has to buy cookies from the store.
I’m totally making these cookies tonight & I hope I don’t wake my boys!
I cannot wait to make these cookies! I usually try to eat my share first because anything I do bake gets gobbled up super fast… Mainly by the hubby…
When I make cookies, I have to hide them from my husband so he won’t eat them for breakfast when he’s getting ready for work in the morning. And he looks for them, too–in fact, I have to rotate my hiding places because he has found them a couple of times!
I ate Taco Bell in the car today while my kids napped in the backseat: I need saving from myself. The book sounds great.
Pick me, pick me!
I want!! I want!!
I need to learn how to eat.
The book looks awesome.
Did I make it? I think this is a great idea for a book and I can’t wait to check it out.
Love your blog!! Hoping to love the book!!!!