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make any recipe healthier

May 17, 2012

I’m always looking for ways to make a recipe healthier. Well, I take that back – there are times to make a recipe healthier and there are times when you should leave it be. Some recipes aren’t meant to be healthy. But when the time is right to make a recipe a bit healthier – [...]

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creating a meal plan

April 5, 2012

There are many, many valuable reasons out there to create a meal plan every week. It saves you from making multiple trips to the grocery store, ensures that you don’t buy groceries you don’t need (which saves money and translates to less food waste), and also means that the “what are we having for dinner” thoughts [...]

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old school superfoods

March 27, 2012

Not a day goes by where we don’t hear of the latest and greatest health foods (think goji berries, chia seeds, kombucha, etc.) and it might make us look in our own cupboards and groan with the thought of another $150 trip to Whole Foods. Today though, I’m not going to tell you about the [...]

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top 5 ways to eat vegetables at breakfast

March 20, 2012

There is something so….healthy about starting your day off with vegetables. It just feels so good. Don’t roll your eyes, I swear it’s true! Ideally, we would eat vegetables at every meal, not just lunch and dinner. I know that vegetables at breakfast really throw some people off, but it doesn’t have to. It can [...]

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healthy breakfast ideas

February 16, 2012

Last week, when I shared my favorite 1-minute snack ideas with you all, I got a request for breakfast ideas. I used to be the person who could eat toast and peanut butter or oatmeal and peanut butter for days on end, but now I’ve noticed that I need a little more variety in the [...]

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enjoying the holidays

December 21, 2011

Last year I was in the midst of a “healthy holidays” series and I came to an important realization. The holidays are meant to be enjoyed, without stressing out about how many calories are in that cup of egg nog and worrying about being perfectly healthy the whole time. I’m going to eat cheese and [...]

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