It's 2020! I'm not a huge fan of making resolutions. I kind of just set goals as I go and work towards them. One of my ongoing goals is to reduce the amount of waste my husband and I produce. I want ...
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Grocery Shopping Healthily and Efficiently
/This post has been recently updated to be more informative and easier to access./ Eating healthy is doable for EVERYONE. But it can be difficult when grocery stores tempt you with all of their ...
Preventing Foodborne Illnesses (During the Holidays)
Howdy, friends! It's been a while...a very long while. I have a post that I wanted to share with you tonight. It's about protecting yourself and your loved ones from foodborne illnesses/food ...
7 Ways to Increase Daily Physical Activity
It's the holiday season! Wow-zers, time has flown! I can't believe that we are less than one week away from Christmas. I always find that it's the countdown to Christmas that I like best, not ...
How to Camp with Health and Style
Summer is for pitching tents, sunbathing, and roasting marshmallows beneath the starlight. Summer is for hiking, cliff jumping, and pulling on sweaters that have the musty scent of last night's ...
Guide to Understanding Sugars and Sweeteners
It has been much too quiet on the blog during these past few weeks, wouldn't you all agree? Don't worry, I'm back, and I'm excited to share this post that I've spent quite a bit of time on with all of ...
Distance Running for Beginners
In the past, never had I ever considered myself a runner, not really, anyways. The most running I'd ever done was during high school PE or at local 5Ks. Now, however, with proper training thanks to my ...
Top Plant Based Protein Sources
Being a vegetarian, I tend to receive a lot of questions from people asking me about where I get my protein, and if I even get enough. A lot of my family members, who are die hard carnivores, don't ...
Fad Diets Debunked
South Beach Diet. Weight Watchers. Atkins Diet. Jenny Craig. Biggest Loser Diet. Name a fad diet that tells you that you'll see weight loss results quickly, and you can trust me when I say that ...
Healthy July 4th Choices
Happy 4th of July or Independence Day! I bet many of you are glad to have the long weekend to celebrate a very important day in our American history. It's the day America became its own nation. Whoo ...