Healthy Choices

Honey Walnut Power Salad

Almonds and a Diet Coke. That was my sad lunch today. As someone who feels that lunch is one of the highlights of the day (sandwiched between chocolate snacks and bedtime), having a bad lunch is more than just a little depressing. To all you out there who can just “forget” to eat lunch, I [...]

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Healthy Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

One of my strengths is holding on to unnecessary items. Unnecessary items of the old jacket, soap holder, throw pillow, Christmas figurine variety. So it goes without saying that the upcoming garage sale – OUR upcoming garage sale, the one where we get rid of a bunch of our stuff – is giving me hives. [...]

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Caribbean Jerk Salmon Bowl with Mango Salsa

This week I made salmon. Spicy salmon with tons of flavor and good-for-you vitamins. Then issued myself an automatic license to eat 50 leftover Cadbury Eggs. I love salmon. But really, the salmon. Chipotle seems to always be on the brain these days, which lead me to morph my salmon dinner into a Caribbean Burrito [...]

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Blackberries and Cream Oats with Honey

This breakfast is my baby. Ever since February when I needed a break from those yummy pumpkin oats, I’ve been getting myself out of bed with this. Every.single.day. Reality check: I’ve been known to exaggerate on the blog and occasionally in real life, too, because apparently the blog isn’t real life? Anyways, I swear on [...]

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Baked Spicy Fries with Garlic Cheese Sauce

Hot, fresh, baked spicy fries are going to come out of your oven tonight. They just are. And I’m putting you under citizen’s arrest if you don’t cover your face in garlic cheese sauce. Did I say face? I meant fries. Fries, face, maybe both. As you can see from my extreme close-up photos, I’m [...]

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Skinny Fajita Shrimp Pasta

You guysss. I’m looking at the world through Mexican-flavored glasses. I may not definitely do not have the looks, the suave, or the rhythm whatsoever, but I swear I have Mexican flavors in my soul. Mexi-Italian fusion skinny pasta? I’m telling you, it’s gotta be in my soul. I did take salsa lessons once. I [...]

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Light BBQ Chicken Pizza

I’ve always been fashionably late with… fashions. Like Capris. As a brace-faced-bad-bangs 8th grader, I was convinced that I would never ever wear them. My friends went capri crazy but I resisted. As luck would have it, I came to realize that my friends were right and now I have a closet full of capris [...]

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Healthy Mexican Sweet Potato Skins

Oh my goodness. Like, WHOA. Could there be anything better than sweet potato skins filled to the brim with roasted corn, black beans, cilantro, a kick of spicy chipotle, and melted cheese? Seriously?

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Coconut Green Curry Lentils

You guys, when it comes right down to it, I’m an OCD hypochondriac. I’m pretty sure I’m singlehandedly driving Web MD’s traffic right now. In between stuffing my face with lentils, I’ve been known to do investigative work on Web Md and make extreme self-diagnoses. I also do this in between bites of sandwiches. And [...]

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Chicken Tamale Pie

Today’s lesson is on healing foods. You might be thinking of brightly colored veggies and lean proteins, and I can dig that. Most of the time. But today I’m thinking of creamy corn bread, spicy enchilada sauce, seasoned chicken, and melted cheese baked into a pie dish. A PIE DISH. That right there is healing.

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