Yesterday marked 11 weeks until the Flower City Half Marathon at the end of April. Since we’re going to chat about running on Monday’s from now until then, this week I want to tell you about my current favorite pre-run snack – originally inspired by Lisa’s Coconut Oil Chocolate PB cups. I make these all the …
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I make Lisa’s peanut butter coconut oil cups all the time, they have become a fast favorite around here. (Have you tried these yet? You need to get on it!) Once they’re made, they are a quick, easy, satisfying snack – I love to pop one before a run (sort of like a direct fuel …
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Guess what?! OK, to be fair, unless you are a food nerd who reads a lot of foodie blogs, you might not be able to guess and/or be squealing the same way I did when the UPS man dropped this guy off last week. On the right? Our old blender. The lean mean muscle machine …
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I Will Not Eat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups for Breakfast
November 4th, 2011 | Posted by in Breakfast - (7 Comments)I have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in my freezer. Blasted Halloween. These are Maxine’s, and it was her idea to put them in the freezer. I think there is something programmed into women from birth to know that chocolate + peanut butter are best when cold. I will not eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for …
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I seem to be on a pancake kick recently – but ’tis the season for warm breakfasts after all! Let’s roll with it. After I spied a small zucchini hanging out in the fridge this morning and feeling very much in the mood for something substantial after an early morning bike ride, I decide to …
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. -Chinese Proverb That’s great, but we’re not going to talk about fish today. We’re going to talk about cookies. One of the best things that happens when you learn how to …
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How to Make a Rockin’ Birthday Breakfast
September 15th, 2011 | Posted by in Party Time - (6 Comments)September 15, 2011 started out a lot like September 15, 2006. Everyone asleep. Well, everyone but me. Waking up Zak and telling him it was time to go. Getting dressed and moving around with hushed voices, get ready to leave the house in the wee hours of the morning. The cat meowing and meowing and …
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Now that Maxine can ride her bike, Homeschool Phys Ed class is officially in session. Is this really Phys Ed? Or is this just a morning run in disguise? Whatever you want to call it, a bunch of lessons were learned on our group outing this morning – lessons for both young and old. A …
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I go through phases where I eat oats every day. And then there are times where the oatmeal canister gathers dust on its top. This week I’ve been back in that oat phase, and am apparently in a frozen banana phase too. I discovered this concoction last week by accident, really – I can’t even …
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Three Things About Three Things
December 16th, 2010 | Posted by in Late Night Craziness - (9 Comments)Lately I’ve been keeping an eye out for grain free, sugar free breakfast ideas. Thanks to The Primal Blueprint, I’ve been feeling this urge to put a little space between me and my typical breakfast of champi-oats. Ask and apparently you shall receive! Didn’t a recipe for a bitter chocolate pumpkin cake land in my …
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