Posts by mandyvzla

I think your present really depends on how you see Valentines day. Is it a day to celebrate love? a day to remind him that you love him? a day to just buy a present because you have to? a date to create traditions?

Well, for me this year I'm with a fantastic guy :) I feel I'm very lucky and I'm considering that he could be the 'one' hehe hopefuly I'm not jinxing this... anyway, since I felt like this could be a very long relationship, and I went all out for Christmas leting him know I loved him... I decided that this was the time to make traditions. So here's what I did: I grabbed a box, a bit larger than a shoe one and then covered it completly with a collage of photos of us.

I'm not very good with crafts but this was easy to do and I must say the end product was amazing, I'm actually considering stealing it hahaha... anyway, the idea of the box is this: for a year we will put inside the box tickets, letters, menus, candy wrappers, all the things that we did togheter and on the next Valentines day we can open it together and go through the memories of the last year :) hopefully he will like it.

Just in case I went with something traditional also: I got a large transparent jar and filled it with a layer of chocolate kisses (the italian ones seeing as I'm in Italy haha), then a layer of pink gummy hearts, a layer of pink chocolate, another layer of kisses, a layer of red M&M (for this I had to buy 3 bags and take out the red ones heheh), and topped it off with a last layer of kisses :) it looks pretty cool and colorful. And last but not least I'm getting him a gift from Unicef... I think that times like this when we spend so much money on gifts we should also give something back to the people that are really in need :D!

But I think the best gift you can give is spending a wonderful day together, visit a museum or go hiking, go to a park and have a romantic picnic lunch, just have fun together :)

Well, I'm not sure how much help I can provide but I happen to live there hehe... if you want feel free to message/email me and I'll do my best to answer... that way at least I can possibily give you some pointers. :)

Thanks apricotbunny, the problem is that I live in Italy so the situation is a bit different. I don't know, people don't seem to pay so much attention to calories and such. And as you can imagine the food in restarants are fantastic, pizza, pasta, lasagna but they're anything but low fat. But I think I'll be able to find a way to balance it out.

Tonight I'm going out for a dinner and a movie, let's see how it goes. I would propose to cook at home because like you said it's pretty romantic, but he already reserved at the restaurant... meh, guess this is a good time to talk to him hehehe

Hey welcome! :) I'm a bit of a newbie myself but I live in Italy so I often find myself having the same problem with the foods not being listed... but if you go to the Food log and use options numeber 2 you can add personalized food... so you would just have to look at the food's label and add the calories, carbs, fat, protein, etc

As for the other, I'm not sure... maybe using the same method you could gruoup all the of the sandwiches values again: calories, fiber, carbs... and then when you add it, click on the T and tag it, that way you can always have it at hand if you want to add it again (to find your taged itemsgo to account ----> tagged items)

Hope this helped and good luck!