It’s not just families that makes weird food for the holidays apparently. Peppermint potato chips?! On second thought, sweet-and-salty is a pretty awesome flavor combo… “Wow, you must really love cooking!” a friend exclaimed yesterday when she dropped by unexpectedly to find me under a pile of dirty dishes surrounded by 72 muffins (however would …
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image credit I love Trader Joe’s. (For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s a health food store but smaller, quirkier and way more affordable than Whole Foods.) Always have. The Hawaiian shirts, the quirky foods, the peppy staff and even that stupid bell – just walking in the store makes me smile. And when …
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Now this is a real kale lady. Thank heavens her grocery store carried more than four bunches or she’d be in a salad bikini… like all the rest of the PETA girls. Also? I find this guy strangely creepy. I hope she made him pick a piece from the bottom of her dress. Gasp. “It’s …
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Traffic lights, not just for on ramps and high school pranks anymore! (Oh the fun you could have with a traffic light, some “borrowed” construction signage and a bra. Or so I’ve heard. Ahem.) The red, yellow, and green may be coming to a table near you and I’m not talking about bell peppers. Mark …
Katy Perry may have thought that she liked kissing a girl because of her soft lips (or because it got her attention from men who like to watch two girls kiss thereby relinquishing the power of her sexuality for the voyeuristic enjoyment of others) but it turns out there may have been another reason the …
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That’s definitely a bad food substitution. But an awesome autocorrect. This site makes me cry laughing. Protein pancakes. Protein cookies. Protein ice cream. Protein muffins. Protein bars. Protein pudding. And everyone’s favorite – the ubiquitous protein cookie dough balls. What is up with all the bastardized baked goods? Well, like all good things it’s starts …
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Tell me how you really feel, kids… Horror-stricken and wide eyed, my four little ones spent an hour last night staring through their grubby fingers at the TV — the only noise the ocassional “Oh GROSS.” At one point my second son groaned, “Please let me go mom! I can’t watch this show; I’m going …
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A few Sundays ago found me standing at the pulpit of my church giving a talk about… how my colonoscopy was the best day of my life. (Seriously, forget childbirth. That hurt so bad I still have nightmares about it. But whatever drugs they gave me for colonoscopy not only gave me amnesia but made …
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Today’s post is not about bath salts. Definitely do not eat those!! “Tastegasm.” I have used that word twice today. And yes I want to smack the Jersey Shore right out of me too. So what could beguile me enough to use a word that if I read it in a SAT essay I would throw my …
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See – THIS is the proper way to get your protein. Over the years of writing about fitness, I still have several Great Fitness Questions that I have never gotten a satisfactory answer for: – Why does eating one pound of chocolates make me gain more than one pound of weight? How is that even …
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