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Healthy Holidays: Cranberry “Corn Bread” Muffins
How are your holiday plans coming along? It’s Tuesday of Thanksgiving week and I am still experimenting in the kitchen and finalizing my menu. Yesterday I made the cranberry sauce, which is now happily...
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Happy Thanksgiving 2012
Our family tradition, after grace and before digging into the delicious food, is to go around the table and say at least one thing we are thankful for. My dad usually gives a speech, the little kids...
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Healthy Thanksgiving 2012: Recipe Round-Up
We are a pretty typical family when it comes to holiday food. For the most part, we like to celebrate holidays with (healthified) traditional foods. You know, turkey on Thanksgiving, ham on Easter,...
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Healthy Recipe: Turkey & Collard Greens Soup
You didn’t throw away the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving, did you? I hope not. All that leftover meat, bones, skin and carcass are the makings for a delicious bone broth. Bone broth promotes...
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Healthy Holidays: 5 Strategies to Side-Step Sugar
Over the top, but true, sugar is toxic to our health. In all its forms, whether processed or natural (I’m looking at you honey and maple syrup), sugar negatively influences our health. Sugar suppresses...
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Healthy Holidays: Christmas Sweets and Treats E-Book Update
I am going to cut right to the chase. Last week I got ambitious, some would say overly ambitious. I wanted to create a Healthy Living How To Christmas Sweets and Treats e-book. My reason was obvious,...
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Healthy Holidays: Pressure Cooker Giveaway
If you like to win fun, useful and healthy prizes, and who the heck doesn’t like to WIN, then today is your day! In the spirit of generosity and to show my appreciation for your readership, I am...
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Healthy Holidays: Fitbit Giveaway
If you like to win fun, useful and healthy prizes, and who the heck doesn’t like to WIN, then today is your day! In the spirit of generosity and to show my appreciation for your readership, I am...
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Healthy Holidays: Merry Christmas
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 When we trust in God, really trust in God for...
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Happy Easter!
The more you give…the more you get. The more you love…the less you fret. The more you do unselfishly…the more you live abundantly. The more of everything you share…the more you’ll always have to...
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Healthy Recipe: Mexican Hot Chocolates (and other healthy Mexican favorites!)
My friend Karen, from Living Low Carb One Day at a Time, asked if I would write a guest post for her readers, while she is on a blog holiday…enjoying the fun and sun on the 2013 Low Carb Cruise. Of...
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Healthy Recipe: Double Mocha Double Layer Cake
I’ve shared this recipe before, in cupcake form…due to the rave reviews from family and friends, it’s been my “go to” dessert. I like cupcakes for easy portion control, however, when it comes to...
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Hold Onto Your Buns: Happy National Burger Day!
As if I need an excuse to indulge in a bunless burger… Today is National Burger Day! To celebrate the occasion, my handsome husband took me on a lunch date to Burger Jones for the “Best Burger in the...
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Happy National Donut Day!
I love taking a “food holiday” and making it healthy! No reason we need to sabotage our healthy lifestyle with yucky unhealthy donuts. Instead, celebrate National Donut Day with my healthy spin on...
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Happy Eat Your Vegetables Day!
Yep! It’s true. June 17th is really Eat Your Vegetables Day! I love me a food holiday with no need to healthify (like we did for National Donut Day). Vegetables are healthy all by themselves. While I...
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Saturday Snapshots: Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Tom and I have wanted to try stand up paddle boarding for some time. Living in Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes, the summer months are the time to splash in the water. However, I think my in-laws...
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Happy International Bacon Day!
Today is perhaps the most delicious holiday to be celebrated, International Bacon Day! Not much is required, other than cooking, eating and enjoying bacon. Some of us celebrate this holiday daily (or...
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Happy Labor Day!
Labor Day signifies the end of summer and back-to-school for many. For those fashion conscious, it was once considered the last day to wear white (I remember that “rule” back in the ’80s). My son,...
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2nd Annual No Candy Pledge: I Dare You!
Are you up for a healthy challenge? Let’s start the holiday season off with a commitment to living healthy in mind, body and spirit with a NO CANDY PLEDGE! During the month of October make a...
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