Living a Life Fueled by Healthy Food and Fitness
Remember that song from Mary Poppins that goes, “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down?” Well, I think I needed a spoonful of sugar to help my sugar-free Jello knock-off dessert to go down. It was NOT GOOD and tasted like cough syrup. Bleh. 🙁 I love sugar-free Jello and eat a little…
This weekend I discovered something. I do not particularly like regular hummus. Blasphemy, huh? I think it’s bland and needs a little “oomph” to taste good. What I do love, however, is flavored hummus! My lunch today featured a combination of roasted red pepper and jalepeño cilantro hummus on a whole wheat sandwich thin with…
First of all I want to say THANK YOU to everyone for your supportive comments regarding my answers to your Ask Me Anything questions. I was really nervous to open the doors for such personal questions and I wanted to provide you guys with honest answers, even if it made me step out of my…
Guess what I did today? I signed up for the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll half marathon! The race isn’t until August 1, so I have plenty of time to not train before race day. I’ve only run one other half marathon, which I completed with Ryan in December 2007. Our official time was 2:14. I…
Yes, five different cheeses made it into my pasta bowl today. Count ’em: Asiago Parmesan Romano Goat Feta If I had more varieties of cheese on hand I would’ve added them to the mix. Fifty cheese pasta sounds great to me! Though cheese and noodles sounds like the perfect lunch to me, I added a…
I adore the crock pot. What I do not adore is crock pot recipes that are intense, comprised of a billion ingredients and require cooking before using the crock pot! To me, the point of the slow cooker is to throw everything into a pot and “fahgettaboudit.” Ryan and I think our slow cooker pulled…
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