• Frozen Yogurt Fruit Bites
  • Blueberry Pie Yogurt Parfaits
  • School Farm - Teach a Child to Grow
  • Chocolate Almond Caramel Slice
  • Just Hurry Up and Be Patient: Tips to Get Through the Weight Loss Process
  • Summer Salad Topping: Parmesan Savory Granola

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Operation Back to Basics

Operation Back to Basics

September didn’t used to mean all that much to me. When I lived on the East Coast, it meant colder days ahead and a shift from summer’s simple foods to healthy food of a heartier sort. When I relocated toTexas, pretty much nothing in my life shifted come September. Light, healthy eating remained since it’s [...]

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Dear Fast Food Chain Restaurant

Dear Fast Food Chain Restaurant

  I am not here to talk about the obesity epidemic. I am sure you have heard enough about it. You have been crucified for your Quarter Pounders and your Nuggets. You have had movies made about how unhealthy your food is and I have seen the You Tube video where your food looked the [...]

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Five Healthy Snacks You’ll Never See In a Vending Machine

Five Healthy Snacks You’ll Never See In a Vending Machine

Does this sound familiar – it’s late afternoon, you’re beat but there’s tons still to do. You can’t nap because if you do either your boss will fire you or your family will, so the only option to boost energy reserves is to eat. And what you really want to eat are the kettle chips [...]

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3 Reasons to Snack on Probiotic Foods

3 Reasons to Snack on Probiotic Foods

It was all I could do to refrain from dropping my jaw in horror when a new acquaintance was telling me about her toddler getting into everything in the kitchen: “When he was born, I put all the snacks down low so the other kids could serve themselves. Now he tries to serve himself, so [...]

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Getting Back on the Healthy Snack Bandwagon

Getting Back on the Healthy Snack Bandwagon

I’m a believer in the saying pride goeth before a fall. I’ve learned its veracity the hard way.  For that reason, even when things are chugging along happily for me in the health & fitness realm, I no longer let myself become, well, prideful. Weight loss maintained for a while? Careful whatcha brag about as that’s precisely the [...]

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