Good news!  I’ve got an awesomely healthy delicious snack to share with you. Bad news.  I’m not actually sharing this with you.  I’m only sharing the recipe.  If you want some you’ll have to make it yourself. Good news: Zak is still on his juice fast. Bad news: You can’t juice an avocado. Good news: …
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Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld was one of the first books I read when I was beginning to learn more about cooking and nutrition.  (The Family Nutrition Book by Dr. William Sears was another one if you’re just getting started.) I remember looking at her recipe for brownies with spinach and wondering if you truly couldn’t tell …
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It’s sort of a bummer that I read Deep Nutrition just as the holiday season was descending upon us. A bummer in terms of writing blog posts, anyway. I can’t come here and write about eating fewer refined carbs smack dab in the middle of the sugariest, sweetest time of the year.  Nobody wants to …
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Potluck Apple Crisp

October 4th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (1 Comments)

Over the weekend we had a potluck picnic on the calendar and we were asked to bring an autumn themed dish to pass.  I needed something simple, but more importantly, something that I could remember most of the ingredients to off the top of my head.  Per usual, I was making my decision about what …
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I have just returned from Iowa! Did ya miss me? Did ya happen to see a 5 month pregnant woman running through the Atlanta airport last night in an effort to catch her connecting flight back to New York on time? If you did, let’s just pretend that wasn’t me. No, instead let’s chat about …
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Today let’s be thankful for leftovers. I made pumpkin pie this year! Until this week, the only thing I knew about pumpkin pie was that I liked to eat it. Therefore, as a pumpkin pie newbie (and a girl without a lot of extra energy to spare right now), I decided to go with the …
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Merry Happy Birthmas

October 27th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Life - (2 Comments)

Some days you’ve totally got your act in gear. And then there are other days where you don’t. Like the kind of days where you’re forced to use holiday muffin tins for pumpkin muffins at the end of October. Good thing the horde of hungry kids at snack time didn’t notice. Sometimes you can’t always …
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Tomorrow We Run With Zombies

October 21st, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (4 Comments)

In preparation for running from zombies tomorrow, we hit up the only logical place for dinner tonight. Actually, in preparation for running from zombies tomorrow, first I dropped the girls off with Aunt Ellen, then I picked up The Man and we hit the bar. The veggie bar at Wegmans. If I hope to ditch any …
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White Bean Blondies

October 15th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (7 Comments)

It’s Saturday. And at the moment, I am home alone. The kids are out, the husband is out, I am in. With the house cleared out, I opted for a few of my favorite things. I tested out my knee with a short run (3 pain free miles + 1 naggy mile) on a cool, …
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Not Another Cookie Recipe

September 24th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (4 Comments)

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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