Recipes

Sharing What I Love – 02.15.2013

February 15, 2013

Five Food Firsts: Lately, what I love about being healthy is learning to love new (to me) foods that I thought I hated. In truth, I had never actually tried some of these foods before. When I was little, someone I looked up to probably said they didn’t like it so I decided I didn’t [...]

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My First Green Smoothie

January 14, 2013

I’ve always been skeptical of green smoothies. I’ve never seen one that looked appetizing so how tasty could they possibly be? Perhaps my skepticism came from seeing a Jamba Juice worker cutting grass with a regular scissors to blend into a shot drink. Or when I asked someone at Jamba Juice who drank one of [...]

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Sharing What I Love – 01.11.2013

January 11, 2013

Five Things I Love This Week: 1. Gluten-Free Walnut Flax and Chicken Strips I grew up with a mother who doesn’t eat red meat, and a father allergic to shellfish, so we ate a lot of chicken. A LOT of chicken. As an adult, it’s not my favorite thing to eat. But once in a [...]

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6 Months Into A Gluten-Free Lifestyle…

January 10, 2013

It’s been a little over six months since I adopted a gluten-free lifestyle. At first I wasn’t sure I would be able to stick with it for more than a week, but I found that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. What Made It Easy: + I found gluten-free products like [...]

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Sharing What I Love – 01.04.2013

January 4, 2013

Five Things I Am Loving on Pinterest This Week: 1. Easy way to clean the microwave: I spent the last three days of Christmas vacation doing some “winter cleaning”, tackling those chores I’ve put off all year. One of them was cleaning the microwave. I wish I took a “Before” photo so you could see [...]

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30-Days Gluten-Free!

July 5, 2012

I looked at the calendar on Tuesday and realized it marked 1-month of eating gluten-free! When adopting a gluten-free diet was first suggested to me I thought it would be really a hard change to make. But I’ve found that with a little extra time spent planning (which by the way, I love to do…); [...]

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Looking On The Bright Side…

June 25, 2012

It’s only Monday and my plans for the week have already changed. I had my alarm set for 5 am so that I could be at the pool for a swim by 5:45 am. When it rang I said, “Umm no…” turned it off and went back to sleep. That is 2 mornings in a [...]

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Jambalaya Recipe : Paula Deen : Food Network

January 9, 2012

It’s January and my favorite time of year to make soup! So in spite of the almost-70 degree weather that we’ve been having, last night I made some Jambalaya! Contrary to popular belief, there are a few Paula Deen recipes that do not require a stick (or 2!) of butter, and this happens to be [...]

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