Health
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Why I *try* to serve veggies at every meal!
Weather it’s spinach in a shake or eggs, carrots at lunch or corn at dinner, I try to always include veggies at every meal! My reason might be a little different than the one you are expecting! While eating veggies is very important for the health of our growing little ones, that’s not my biggest reason for trying to have veggies at every meal. I have done a lot of thinking about how my kids eat. There is a lot I cannot control. When they are at friend’s houses, when they are at school or someday when they move out, they decide how and what they eat. And there a…
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Concerning Happily Ever Afters
As much as I LOVE a good happily ever after story I had some thought concerning them tonight. I don’t believe in happily ever afters. There. I said it! Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think there are happy moments and days. But, I don’t believe there is such a thing as happily ever afters, and it ends there. Let me explain. Life is full of so many ups and downs. Life is full of trials and hard times. There is no escaping that. No life is perfect and even lives that seem perfect often have their own trials that go unseen to others. So, does this mean that I…
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How I Like Start Every Day
My morning breakfast has changed so changed so much over the years. But honestly, when you are a teenager, you can eat cereal and toast and hot chocolate, pretty much anything. And it’s almost the same in your twenties! But for me, by the time I hit 30 my body was NOT happy doing that sort of thing. It probably was even earlier when I should have been paying more attention to the fuel my poor body was consuming which is why my body had had enough. I have finally found something that my body is thanking me for and that actually makes me happy every morning. The first thing…
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My Daily Lunch Routine
I have been trying get more fruits and vegetables into my daily diet. And by diet, I just mean the way that I eat. I don’t know about you, but making a salad just feels so daunting sometimes. And I love to cook, chop and bake! I think it’s because there’s the morning rush, the daily things that need to be done, work and dinner to think about and it feels like there isn’t really time to go into the kitchen and prepare one. more. meal. Trying to keep it real, for myself, I realized that if I was going to eat something that made me feel good for lunch,…
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Washing Grapes for a Great Day
Do you ever food prep your fruit? I do and it makes life so much better! A couple of things you can do ahead of time: Wash your strawberries but leave the stems on. Wash and pluck grapes from stems. Cut up watermelon and put it into an airtight container or ziplock bags. If you get a watermelon but you won’t be using all of it the same day, store it in the fridge for the rest of the week. You might not think to prepare fruit for the coming week, but it makes eating fruit convenient and with a busy schedule it can make all the difference between rotting…
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Hydrate Hydrate Hydrate
I once read that being dehydrated makes you tired because your blood gets thicker and that’s what makes you sluggish. Being dehydrated makes you feel hungrier and eat more. Being dehydrated makes your skin and lips dry. Being dehydrated can cause other health problems that are no fun. And yet, I always seem to be dehydrated.I found this amazing water bottle online. When I saw this water bottle on Amazon, I knew it would help me stay on track with drinking water throughout the day. Until it came in the mail, I didn’t realize how huge it would be! I was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to drink…