New Groceries

January 8th, 2013 | Posted by Alison Spath in Healthy Habits - (11 Comments)

I rarely buy books. I much prefer to spend my money on late fees at the library. I did buy Deep Nutrition because it’s not in our library system and b.) I need more than 3 weeks to get through most books these days. (I can read Goodnight Moon in about 3 minutes flat though. Just …
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A Salad Rut

November 7th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Vegetable Lovin' - (9 Comments)

OK you salad lovers out there, riddle me this: What do you do when you are sick of salad? One possibility? Stop eating salad for a while. That’s what I’ve been doing lately. Skipping salad and getting greens elsewhere. Like slipping them into egg quesadillas, green smoothies or shoving them through the juicer. But then …
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A clean refrigerator feels really good. Like a sneeze, only better. I just cleaned out my fridge (and I just sneezed). It wasn’t even that bad (the fridge), but I can’t deny that it looks and feels pretty amazing now that I’m done. Putting away groceries was an extremely pleasurable, mind blowing, out-of-body experience. (ok, …
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Sometimes eating better is more about what you don’t buy as compared to what you do buy.  One trick to making healthier food choices more frequently is to simply stop buying unhealthy foods in first place.  That might sound painfully obvious or maybe it feels absolutely impossible – but if you can manage to leave …
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Let Us Give Thanks

November 1st, 2010 | Posted by Alison Spath in Life - (6 Comments)

November pretty much marks the end of bike riding season for me – as it should.  That’s when it starts getting really cold and blowy and sucky around here.  It’s also when I start giving thanks for turtlenecks, gloves and more importantly, new Y memberships that mean a winter full of heated pools and yoga …
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Pea Soup

July 1st, 2009 | Posted by Alison in Life - (10 Comments)

Party in the park! We had fun at the park today with rulers and colored pencils learning about vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, and the different kind of shapes we can make with these lines. Good stuff. Maxine wants to hear that last bit on “vertical lines” one more time though. We worked on …
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