Don’t get me wrong, it was totally tasty, but I just wasn’t in the mood to eat what I packed for lunch this afternoon. It was a bit of a bummer, but I inhaled the whole thing and powered through because I’m tough. 😀
Salad Time!
Today’s lunch was a big ol’ salad that included:
- Spinach
- Arugula
- Grape tomatoes
- Beets
- Cucumber
- Red pepper
- Green pepper
- Pork tenderloin
- Italian dressing
My favorite part of this salad was the beets. I love ’em!
We've Got the Beet, We've Got the Beet, We've Got the Beeeeeet, Yeah!
Veggies + Pork
So fresh!
PBF: What’s In a Name?
I remember when I began tossing around the idea of starting a blog. I had all sorts of crazy ideas when it came to the name of my blog.
I wanted my blog name to convey a love of food without seeming too overly healthy because, let’s face it, I’m not about to live my life without indulging in mini Oreo cheesecakes, red velvet cake brownies or whipped cream and chocolate wafer cookie stacks.
Plus, would any of you really want to visit www.AsparagusIsDelicious.com? I didn’t think so.
The blog name I initially settled on was “Soft Serve and Cheez-its.” I even created a blog with this name through Blogger, but didn’t post more than once. It just didn’t feel right.
What Could Have Been...
Ryan was actually the one who came up with the name of my blog. He was always catching me in the kitchen with my finger in the peanut butter jar and said I was the queen of peanut butter fingers. When he suggested “Peanut Butter Fingers” as the name of my blog, I was instantly smitten.
Doing What I Do Best
Not only did the name “Peanut Butter Fingers” highlight one of my all-time favorite snacks, but I felt like it also conveyed my laid-back approach to eating. Someone who thinks it’s okay to eat peanut butter straight from the jar using their finger can’t be someone who is rigid about healthy eating or a stickler for diets, right?
And there you have it! The history behind the name of my blog! 😀
Question of the Afternoon
For non-bloggers:
- If you started a blog, what would you name it?
For bloggers:
- How did you select the name of your blog?
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oh, i’m so glad you posted this! too cute 🙂 i liked “Heather’s Dish” because i wanted it to be something where i could “dish” about anything, but especially food. and Heather because it’s my name 🙂
the subtitle of mine is “the story of a joyful kitchen” because that’s where a lot of the joy comes from…the kitchen! i love my joyful life and i wanted that to shine through too 🙂
aw i love that!
We grew up eating “PB spoons.” You dip a spoon in the PB and eat it like a lolly–we did not have sweets in the house, which I think was a mistake cos we’d FREAK when anybody offers us something sweet (“freak” meaning eat everything we could).
Aunt Lily, that’s me,* Use the by-line “Oh…it’s her” cos that’s the look I get when I enter a room. I’m trouble.
*had a blog for several years called MadTante, which is like saying mental auntie–again, that’s me.
I was thinking : What name would reflect my “Mostly Healthy” way of leaving .. I thought and though and thought ….
Very cute post! Initially my blog idea came from my love of restaurants and trying all the new places there are to try in Chitown. I am one that is big on reviews and unfortunately, many reviews that I would find when doing my research did not contain photos or go into great detail (which for someone like myself was important). So there started the idea and from there, I cook so often I thought I would throw in some of my own ideas/recipes as well. So there you have it! 🙂
The name of my blog, Miss Chubby Hubby, came from my BF too! In fact, the idea and concept was Jeff’s. The name itself is because I always call Jeff Chubby, its one of those ironic nicknames because he’s so thing. At one point he did put on a few pounds and asked me to help him lose the weight. He suggested a shared blog that showed both the male and female approach to health. Fast forward 5 months Jeff’s lost the weight and interest in blogging. But that means more time for me. 🙂
I toyed with so many names…and wanted words like pumpkin or cinnamon or mexi food. And then I realized that I always have to define my name in the way of food (Shanna sounds like banana) so that sort of stuck!
Haha so cute! Mine actually came from my love of James Taylor. I’m a freak.
I started out as “Coffee Chatters” because I love coffee and I just wanted a blog to ramble on… but just like you said it didn’t feel like ME. I loved coffee, but more than that I just LOVE food! Hence the name Fervent Foodie was born 🙂
Still annoyed that my wordpress login is coffeechatters… I feel like an imposter everytime I have to log in!
That’s really creative! I think PBF is much more fitting too. And my blog name is Sweets and Veggies. I also wanted something to show I’m healthy but I still like to live a little and eat the things I crave. Sweets are my biggest weakness and veggies are something that I go toward all the time when I want something healthy and delicious. It’s a perfect balance!
Check out my blog some time!!
Thanks for sharing the story behind the name of your blog! I started my blog in January–GaviGetsGoing!–and I chose the name for a few reasons. I liked the alliteration of the 3 G’s, and I wanted to convey the idea that I was making a change. For me, I needed to get myself going BACK in the direction of health (my whole story is on my blog!), and I thought the name was a good place to start. To be honest, I’m not smitten with it, so I’m always on the lookout for inspiration for a new blog name! 🙂
YOu have one of the BEST blog names out there! Seriously. It’s excellent!
I got mine from the movie “Young Frankenstein”. In it, Frankestein is creating his monster and he asks his assitant to go get him a brain, and the assistant grabs the “ABNORMAL” brain thinking that it belonged to someone named “ABBY NORMAL”. Cracks me up everytime!! And since my blog is just about and my day to day life, I figured “Abby Normally” was appropriate.
And also I started Twittering first and “AbbyNormal” was taken. But I’m glad 🙂
i love the name! it’s wicked 🙂
Your salad looked good but I know what you mean about not being thrilled when you don’t open up your lunch to something you’re really craving. luckily today was not one of those days for me! (i got spoiled and my lunch was packed for me and it was delicious!).
The name of my blog is kind of just an inside joke between me and my roommate. she calls absolutely EVERYONE ‘bitty’ so we were joking around one day about my level of activity and she started calling me ‘fitty bitty’.. when i started my latest blog it seemed like the natural choice!
Great blog today. I’m a pretty new reader but I have started following you religiously so thank you for giving me something else to do while I’m bored at work! haha.
I wanted the title of my blog to reflect the transitions that are going on in my life right now…most importantly, my huge career change (I start Dental Hygiene School in January)…so “Scrubs” had to be in my title!
This is so cute! I love learning more about the background of blogs!! I chose HomeCookedEm simply because I love being in my home and eating home cooked meals. And well, my name is Em! 😉
I had a name I really wanted but it was taken. I don’t even remember what it was now, but I settled on The Lifestyle “Diet” because I wanted people to know that I wasn’t going to talk about dieting. I was talking about a lifestyle change and being an overall healthy person… and healthy people eat junk once in a while 🙂 Originally I was stricly going to talk about health misconceptions, but its gotten to be more about my life and what I eat once I got into it.
I love the behind-the-scenes info!
I happened on I’m (not) Superhuman when I considered I’m (not) Wonder Woman might come up against some sort of copyright infringement. The idea is still the same: I’m not physically amazing, my body is injured and broken—and yet the fact that I keep pushing sort of in its own way makes me a little superhuman.
I think we all have times when we’re totally human–and others when we’re kind of amazing.
I picked my blog name, Yuppieyogini, because I’m a little bit of both. I like exploring yuppie as well as yogini aspects of the world. Life is more interesting and exciting as i broaden my world!
Mine started as my wedding blog, and I thought it was a clever name. But I try to blog about life in general, and my whole being is not all about being married, or about healthy living. Just me and the Doctor and the things we do 🙂
I love your blog name! It is cute and catchy. I came up with my name just walking with my friend and testing a bunch out. I thought Tip Top Shape had a ring to it. And, voila-blog name pcked! I’m trying to think of one for my forthcoming recipe blog, though, and am coming up with none 🙁
I just started mine and debated a long time over choosing Running on Cupcakes. I was just thinking about writing something on my intro.
When I first started looking at food blogs they were cupcake blogs, now I love all these healthy blogs, but I have a hard time staying on track. So I wanted a name/blog that combined my love of sweets w/trying to stay healthy. Kinda failing at the healthy part right now, but it’s all about balance. (and I just started 🙂
Aw, that’s a great blog name story! I can’t help but wonder… do you and Ryan share PB jars or do you have your own for finger dipping? 🙂
My parents called me Little Bitty as a baby, and I felt like Little Bitty Bakes would be a nice blog name, as well as a good name for a bakery someday. 😉
we used to share but he said i got “excessive.” i now have my own. 😀
I have a blog on SparkPeople, so it doesn’t actually have a name. I have thought about getting a website, but I just can’t think of a name and don’t know if I would blog regularly enough to justify paying for a website!
I started off my blog as “One Little Onigiri” becauce of the time I spent in Japan, but as much as I love Japanese cooking, it isn’t the bulk of what I eat. So I re-evaluated the name, and ended up going with “Callieflower Kitchen”. My boyfriend made up the name “Callieflower” by mixing my name + cauliflower, which I thought was adorable and represented how I try to live a healthy lifestyle 🙂
More Fruit Please came about as a way to remind myself of my goal to eat more fruit. I realized that I really liked fruit, but would hardly eat it! I think that stemmed from my aversion to fruit growing up. Since starting the blog, I’ve been much better about loading my grocery cart up with fruit and incorporating it into my diet almost every day!
its funny that you bring up why you named your blog what you did – for the longest time google reader has been telling me to read you, but i hate peanut butter, so i was totally averse. of course, a few weeks ago i gave in and checked it out – and im so sorry i judged you on your love of peanut butter! you have a great blog thats so much more than just peanut butter fingers.
hahaha glad you decided to stop by! 😀
I was telling Hubby I wanted to run a 5K and to see how long it was around our block while driving…he said “Ok 5K Rae.” So he started calling me that and then when I started my running blog that’s what the name had to be!
love this!
My blog is called “The Nutritionist Reviews” and I named it that because I have my bachelors degree in dietetics and am a nutritionist. I love to try many new products and review them too which is where the other part of the name comes in!
I had different names for the blog before but changed them because they didn’t seem perfect. I am happy with the name now and think it fits pretty well!
I settled on my name because I like to cook, but I don’t consider myself as skilled as others (like yourself). I don’t create recipes and I’m not as adventuorous as I should be. So I thought that I am more of a “pretend cook.”
I just started reading your blog and I have to say I love it! I, too, an am an avid peanut butter finger snacker, so I felt you were a kindred spirit ;]
I’m thinking about starting a blog of my own and coming up with a name is so difficult! I keep thinking of ones that i like, but then a week later I’ll think of something I dislike about it…right now I’ve got “This Gator Eats Greens” or “Gator Girl Eats Greens” or something along those lines [since I go to UF, and all!]. We’ll see, though.
I decided I was on a mission to create a balance in my life. Who says I can’t have my snickers and salad? Haha its all about balance.
I have been toying with the idea of starting a blog, not only about a healthy lifestyle, but also dealing with the changes that my husband and I will experience as he begins his career in the foreign service.
I was thinking I would call it “A Bear Abroad” subtitled: One Gal’s Adventures as a Foreign Service Spouse.
My husband and our friends have stopped using my first name and now just calls me “Bear” (derived from ChaarBear) and I am trying very hard to embrace it. Especially because bears are cute.
40 Apples = my love for apples, x 40. 40 seemed like a good number. It was also a weird enough name to feel right 😉
I chose mine because I couldn’t think of anything clever in English, and I’m a French major! Une Vie Saine = A Healthy Life. It’s different!
ash – we had a tough time with ours (“double shot of texas”). we wanted it to convey both of our personalities without being too cheesy. we played around with something about him being a future teacher and me a future doctor. or something with him loving basketball and us being engaged (maybe “hoops and rings”). but we finally chose our name in a coffee shop (which we both love – hence the “double shot” part) and in texas (again something we both love). ultimately fit us perfectly.
Ha my blogger name – because I eat about 4 of them a day and ONLY the chocolate ones….geeze my dentist probably secretly hates me.
I chose “Swift as Shadows” from a Bible verse. I don’t have mine in front of me right now, so I can’t remember exactly where it is, but it’s about life passing by quickly. I always wanted to start a blog, but let life get in the way. One day I decided to buckle down and start doing what I love doing — writing. It’s still a struggle to keep my blog updated, but I’m learning as I go. =)
in high school I took a Latin course and at one point we did a section on mottos… One of the mottos was Dum Spiro, Spero which translates to “While I breathe, I hope”. My dad was battling cancer at the time and I remember it really sticking with me that as long as you are breathing there is always hope for the next moment….
He lost he battle with cancer later that year and I eventually got the motto tattooed on my back in memory of him.
My blog deals with all of the consequences of his death and learning to deal with grief and how to try and move on with lire in a positive way…
It Would help if I said the name of my blog was the motto and if I typed the link correctly! Haha
Aww i love the story of this blog’s name!!!! I got mine because recently I’ve been going through a lot of stuff and I didn’t really like who I was. So, I’ve been learning to love myself…hence the title of the blog =P.
My name comes from this little story 🙂 http://myfoodevent.wordpress.com/about/
How cool to know the history of the name. Love it!
I chose my blog name from what I truly try to revolve my life around. I firmly stand behind the “Triple F Philosophy” I have posted on my blog and that faith and enjoying life are both vital parts of achieving true health and fitness. 🙂
I love peanut butter fingers. I think you made the right choice! :).
Mine is pretty simple..I had the HARDEST time of thinking of something cutesy (which really isn’t me anyways), so I stuck with what I am…an Okie :).
it took me a few days to think of a good name, and…. well…. clean eats in the dirty south came to me when i was on the toilet. nasty, but true.
but it fits me, because i’m an antonym – a british vegan in the south! plus, it’s a catchy name (i think?) that really sticks!
Good post! As for your question: My blog is Off the beaten Path. I named it that because my life never seemed normal. Plus, after throwing around a lot of different names Mr. Guru loved that one.
Although my blog is about a healthy lifestyle, it’s name is just my name–borrrrrrrrringggggggggg. Originally I used it just to keep in contact with the tons of relatives I have. I’m adopted and I’ve always known my biological family and then I have my adopted family and half and step family etc. Between all my different families I have 10 siblings! So I have a lot of people to stay in touch with!
Recently I’ve transitioned from a keeping in touch blog to a healthy lifestyle blog but I don’t know how (or if I can) switch the name! Do you know?
I’d like to name it Healthy Balance Healthy Life because I really believe that everything is about a balance of good nutrition and small indulgences. I don’t like to give up anything so I just try to find the healthiest possible version of what I want! A healthy lifestyle (nutrition + keeping active) also keeps me balanced and grounded both physically and emotionally so the name just fits! My twitter handle is HealthyBalance1 though so at least I’ve got that name there!
I chose the blog name “The Pajama Chef” after a long process. After reading blogs for awhile and brainstorming about blog names, I began to be too influenced by other people’s blog names. They’re great and all, but I didn’t want yet another blog that sounds similar to this or that kind of food. And my name, Sarah, is so common that any blog name I thought of, there was another one like it. I don’t really have nicknames, and the ones I do have I don’t want to post online! 🙂 They aren’t inappropriate, just embarrassing! So I chose the Pajama Chef, because a) the minute I get home, I throw on some pj’s, and b) my blog is about cooking and baking.. hence the chef 🙂
I have a blog that is dedicated to my family, but if I had a food blog, it would definitely be called “peanut butter & honey” or “peanut butter & bananas”….I could live off this stuff!
TOO CUTE! Well when I originally started thinking about starting a blog I knew that I couldn’t come up with on without a name. I read yours along with several other daily and all of my friends kept telling me how I needed to start one of my own. My nick-name from EVERYONE I know is something along the lines of munchkin, bite size, bity, baby or little one… you get the picture. I also wanted something dealing with food, but that I could also talk about my life and it make sense with my title. So “Bite Sized” because I’m all of 5 feet tall, and texan because I tend to have a small country accent that people make fun of and OF COURSE because I live in Texas 🙂
I lived in Illinois for 20 years and realized I needed a change. I moved to Bellingham, Washington and fell in love. The pacific northwest was the perfect place for me. I’ve never been happier. My brother told me to call my blog Saved by the Bellingham. This place has truly saved me.
I named mine (fill in the blank) blonde. I couldn’t think of just one word with which I wanted to define myself, since I intended for my blog to cover a variety of topics. This way, I can just “fill in the blank” with whatever seems appropriate for the post! Cop out? Maybe. Haha. But it works! 🙂
I named my blog Jammin’ in the Kitchen because I thought of how much I like to wear my pajamas (a.k.a. jammies) when I’m home, and I also like to “jam” to music every now and then 😉 I’m also a huge punster 🙂