Are You a Mom that Likes to Entertain? What About Making Dips? Or Just Hearing About Mommy Moments?
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Here’s a great book about the cheese and whine of motherhood.
How To Spread Sanity On A Cracker is a book by Jackie Hennessey that talks about the trials and tribulations of motherhood with a little bit of humor and a side of cheese and whine. This books shares stories from the author and her friends about funny things that happen while being a mom, and how sometimes there are things that can just drive you to a glass of wine and cheese dip. The stories are short and entertaining and cheese dip recipes are included at the beginning of each chapter. I love the fact the recipes tie in with each chapter and they look easy enough to make (even for me)!
Jackie Hennessey, a mom blogger from Venting Sessions, turned work she did on her site into a fabulous recipe/mom book that entertains as well as provides readers with great recipes to use at home. Some of the dips she has recipes for include:
Baked Brie
Chili Cheese Dip
Crab Dip
Cheesy Beer Dip
Buffalo Chicken Dip
Figgy Cheese Dip
Hot Bacon Dip
and MUCH MORE!!!
There are about 23 cheese dips included in the book. Each chapter starts with the cheese (recipe) and then continues on to the whine (venting story of motherhood).
I was fortunate enough to meet the author in person, as she is also a Rhode Islander like myself. I attended a book signing she held at a wine shop (perfect for this book), and I got to hear her read a chapter aloud from her book. That was very cool. Everyone enjoyed the read aloud and she had a line of fans to sign books for as well! Oh, and I also got to TRY some of the cheese dips in her book! The figgy cheese dip was AMAZING!!!
My Favorite Parts of the Book:
1. Nice short chapters for a quick and easy read
2. It’s a great pick-up and put-down bathroom/kitchen book
3. The stories are real, from the heart, and funny
4. I could relate to so many stories being a mom of two young kids myself
5. I loved the recipes she had to share! Definitely a book I would buy as a gift for other moms I know!
You can purchase this wonderful book on Amazon for only $9.99! Just click on the link below to purchase.
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ice cream
When i am stressed i love to eat CHOCOLATE.. so wish it was something healthier though lol
Potato chips and chocolate cake. Both are my stress foods.
Coffee and chocolate, carbs and caffeine 🙂
zoe lee
madforfashion at aol.com
everythingforana.com
Has to be chocolate!
chocolate!
Bread in any form. haha
chocolate!
Any and all food, I am not picky when I am stressed
Chocolate!!!
Anything salty. Especially french fries.
Triscuits & laughing cow cheese….. i could do a lot worse lol
Triscuits & laughing cow cheese….. i could do a lot worse lol
Not a food but coffee. It’s like an instant stress relief. Even just having the cup in my hand makes me feel a little better.
Anything that isn’t hinged down!!!! LOL
I love chocolates when I’m stressed
I eat chocolate without thinking when I’m stressed out 🙂 *Thanks* for the giveaway!
Chocolate… lots of it… with caramel too! =}
Chocolate!
popcorn
all food
Ice cream, nachos, or chips and salsa
Hmm my favorite food to eat when I am stressed would probably be chocolate!!
I love anything Italian….
Stress foods = snack foods for me. Chips, cookies, etc. The junkier the better!
Love to win a book from another RI mom!
Some kind of thick stew with bread or artichoke cheese dip with crackers and wine. 🙂
peanut butter cups are my favorite when i am really stressed…
chocolate
Hmmm that is hard. I like chocolate, wine, and ice cream!
French bread and nacho cheese.
I’m not a stree eater it has the other effect on me I can’t eat. But if I was I would go for the ice cream 🙂
Salted Caramel Gelato
Chocolate. 🙂
Ice Cream!!!
almonds – chocolate covered are better 🙂
Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies!
Ice cream!
ice cream or pizza, or just crack open a beer
pizza, ice cream, or mac-n-cheese
Chocolate and most anything and everything:) lol
Chocolate
Chocolate
chocolate or anything sweet
thanks for the giveaway
Anything that’s in front of me! Chips…ice cream…full sugar pop…candy…it all works! I wish I was one of those people who DIDN’T eat when stressed, that would be so much nicer!
I just commented under my husband’s account and now I can’t figure out how to delete it…ack! Please, if I win…could you NOT email my husband?? 🙂
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES….mostly lol
I like to eat chocolate when i am stresed!
ice cream or chips
anything sweet!
I don’t eat when I’m stressed but maybe sweets I guess..
When I’m stressed I eat chocolate.
Katie R.
dancehottie1621 at aol dot com
something greasy like potato chips
ky2here at msn dot com
Chocolate cake. Thanks so much.
rickpeggysmith(at)aol(dot)com
I like to eat dark chocolate when I’m stressed
abfantom at yahoo dot com
Cottage cheese with crushed Fritos mixed in
I will clear out the fridge when I’m stressed!
Chocolate or french fries.
Ice cream and chocolate
s2s2 at comcast dot net
pizza! – regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com
Anything
My fav is chocolate and peanut butter
Candy
Ice cream..or other carbs! 🙂
I eat any kinda JUNK food when I’m stressed- chocolate, potato chips, ice cream…
Stress triggers my junk food button. Depending on my mood it could be candy, cake, chips . . . . 🙁
Chocolate helps when I’m stressed. (Roxann)
Chips or chilli
Any and all carbs! 🙂
Comfort foods like steak, potatoes, pasta, etc.
chocolate!
I eat chocolate when I’m stressed
jjak2003 at gmail dot com
chocolate
CHOCOLATE!
miacarey@tds.net
Usually something salty and crunchy!
I usually eat salty snacks, especially potato chips, when stressed.
Geoff K
gkaufmanss@yahoo.com
Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!
ice cream and brownies.
chocolate cake and ice cream. julie hawkins
honeypie411 at yahoo dot com
I eat chocolate when I’m stressed. But, then again, I eat chocolate when I’m happy, sad, anxious, angry, antsy, and just about any other time.
kaseejohnson@verizon.net
Vanilla ice cream
ice cream
jessicabanks1721@yahoo.com
Chocolate, stressed or not.
chrisdeglen(at)gmail(dot)com
What is your favorite food to eat when you’re stressed?
ME FINGERNAILS..OK…CHIPS
Either chocolate or cinnamon toast!
heatherpooh [hotmail]
Chocolate!
tdlsfm(at)yahoo(dot)com
My favorite foods to eat whether stressed or not are apples with caramel ice cream syrup over and ice cream with caramel
I would love to win this and if I win, all get a review as I post reviews.
My favorite comfort food is a plate of Macaroni and Cheese; always gets me settled.
It’s definitely chocolate for me.
I like to nosh on peanut M&Ms when I am stessed.
Brownies and a cup of coffee.
marcia.goss@gmail.com
I’ll eat just about anything when stressed but I can really destroy bags of salty potato chips.
When stressed, I eat corn chips.
When I’m stressed, I may eat chocolate, cheese or chips. I’m logged into rafflecopter as Patrice.
Chips and salsa – thank you.
It has to be French Fries
rtrexel@gmail.com
Anything Chocolate!
marypopmom@yahoo.com
CHIPS AND SALSA!!
trevor_clinger@yahoo.com
cake
chocolate!!
thischickwins said:
stress triggers my sweet tooth and i eat chocolates, good ones.
thischickwins at gmail dot com
french fries
dwarzel at hotmail.com
I like to eat chips and dip when I feel stressed. thanks!!
Cereal!
cody_endres(at)hotmail(dot)com
Ice Cream
Peachesncream887(at)hotmail(dot)com
Ice cream. 🙂
chainmail (at)iwon (dot) com
Salty foods- chips, etc.
Sherry Conrad
discriminating_diva at yahoo dot com
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Usually cookies
ice cream
Any kind of chocolate! thank you!
crystalfaulkner2000 at yahoo dot com
see’s candy bourdeax’s, really expensive but when I can get them. Or chili cheese fritos are great too.
I can’t eat anything when I am stressed…but when I need to unwind I go for chocolate
hippopurplemonkey at yahoo dot com
Any kind of crunchy chips
brn2lisn {AT} gmail [dot] com
chocolate!
Coffee-flavored ice cream
I crunch down on carrot sticks and get my stress out.
Thanks for the contest.
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Pretzels. Crunchy, plus because of the salt I don’t end up eating many.
I love cookies when I’m stressed.
I eat ice cream when I’m stressed
Spinach dip and haw bread
srawberries:) yummy
Ice cream.
I love Mexican food when I am stressed. Something about the spiciness to it!
Ben T/Toni H
Ice Cream
Ice cream always!
reeses pieces! Holly Hennessy Swint astroqueen67@hotmail.com
brownies
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
sunnymoon said-
my fav snack to eat when stressed is a big warm
chocolate chip cookie
almanyc_1 at netzero dot com
I eat popcorn with lots of butter when I’m stressed
klconn7 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Pizza
nachos with tomato sauce/cheese
msurosey@yahoo.com
Oreos
Cookie dough ice cream!
macaroni and cheese
I wouldn’t really say that I necessarily eat when I’m stressed because I get acid reflux stuff but if it were anything it’d probably be ice cream.
yupbucket@hotmail.com
Chocolate!
ice cream
Mexican food, love it!
michelle tucker
sweet and salty..anything..pretzels with icecream..
Ice cream everytime!!
Chavonne H
chavonne.harvey@yahoo.com
Chocolate or Potato Chips
my favourite food to eat while stressed is gum or candies like gummybears or sour keys.
Before yesterday I would have said fried or salty foods…now it’s fried zucchini sticks, onion rings, fries with cheese and bacon and mile high mud pie all from Red Robin. 🙂
mac n cheese, also chocolate is yummy… speaking of that…… mmmmmm chocolate!!!
Any form of chocolate 🙂
Candy or ice cream!
Chocolate or sweets
Chocolate!
pizzanumber2 at yahoo dot com
Anything sweet
Snickers 🙂
Sweets!
Thanks for the review & giveaway!
Gotta have chocolate! :o)
Potato chips
tweety800265(at)yahoo(dot)com
I’m fortunately not a stress eater.
Brownies
I don’t eat, I juice vegetables .
Anything potato; french friend, potato soup, mashed taters etc etc lol
I like to eat pizza when stressed
Peanut butter m & m s
CHOCOLATE!!!!
when stressed I search for sweets.
Something with cheese 🙂 some time ice cream too but that is only when I”m really stressed!! 🙂
Homemade Biscuits with TONS of butter & honey…..
A baker’s dozen’ll take care of all my stress, lol….
I love eating strawberries (okay, or any kind of ice cream:) when I’m stressed! Thanks!
Lays regular chips – my nemesis
anything chocolate
My favorite food when stressed is sweets…chocolate, ice cream, cookies, etc.
ice cream and pretzels
that would be chocolate!
Candy Bars
Ice cream and chips
ice cream…or just something sweet! 🙂
Chocolate or candy of some kind.
French fries or Doritos with sour cream.
ice cream or chocolate
Hershey’s Drops… of the Cookies and Cream variety…YUM!
M&M’s peanut..thanks, simms3710@yahoo.com
Cookies, especially chocolate chip.
ice cream!
Chips
Amy Brown, fuhrman_amy@yahoo.com
I turn to sweets when I am stressed!
I like to eat almonds when I am stressed.