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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Project Weight Loss: Week 5

October 26th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Weight Loss - (6 Comments)

I’m back with another update from Project Weight Loss, it’s now the end of Week 5. For a quick recap, I got started on September 21, 2012 at 149 pounds. Week 1: 146.0 Week 2: 144.8 Week 3: 143.8 Week 4: 143.6 Today, at the end of Week 5, I weighed in at 139.6 Oh …
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Project Weight Loss: Week 2

October 5th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Weight Loss - (18 Comments)

Well, it’s the end of Week 2 of my little Project Weight Loss here.  Last week at the end of Week 1 I weighed in at 146.0. Today? 144.8 (Did you hear me shouting HOORAY at 6:30 AM, EDT today!?) I was VERY happy to see 144 on the scale this morning, especially considering I haven’t …
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Banana Honey Milk

March 27th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (10 Comments)

I went out to lunch over the weekend with a good friend who came in from out of town for a visit. We hit up a local Mediterranean restaurant, and as we were browsing the menu, she suggested the “Banana Honey Milk” for a beverage that she’d had before and enjoyed. Bananas, honey and milk?  I am …
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Attack of the Snacks

March 14th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (10 Comments)

Once upon a time I ate one snack a day, usually between lunch and dinner. But now at nearly 7 months pregnant, I’ve stopped counting how many snacks I eat everyday. I need more fingers if I want to keep track. Today I’m in the mood to hand out some awards to a few of …
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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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Carrot Cake Sorbanana

January 27th, 2012 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (9 Comments)

This week, the girls and I found ourselves in front of a Vitamix blender demonstration at Wegmans. As I slurped down the scary delicious “Carrot Cake Sorbet” sample that Vitamix Demo Man handed me, I immediately began wishing I had an extra $500 bucks laying around to buy this miracle machine that did something amazing …
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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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Dinner Fail, Cookie Win

October 6th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Short or Sweet - (0 Comments)

Dinner tonight was a total flop. I don’t want to talk about it. Okay, fine – I’ll talk about it. Let’s just say it involved the crock pot and a bag of frozen spinach, among other ingredients. Frozen spinach is the only ingredient worth noting as I’m fairly confident that’s what made tonight’s meal… an …
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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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