Lightened-Up Apple Cranberry Crisp

Hi all! Happy “Wednesday” night. I just love Thanksgiving week.. I mean how can you not?! Thanksgiving is my very favorite holiday. Even though we should be thankful everyday, it’s always nice to have a reminder! I imagine I’ll probably put together a post (actually been working on it), but in short, this year has really blown me away. On pretty much a daily basis I wonder how did this all happen? How...

Crowding Out

Wow.. didn’t mean for today’s post to get so long, guess I’m making up for the lack of posts over the last couple weeks  On to it! FITNESS Around lunch time I moseyed my way over to my apartment gym to get in a bit of a workout. I had it in my head that I would move 3 miles on the treadmill. Of course ideally, that 3 miles would be in the form of a jog.. but my cardio sucks.. so it ended up being ~2 miles...

Saturday Sweet: Faux Fried Ice Cream

As you all know by now, Mexican food is my weakness. I love cheese, guacamole, fried chips.. the works! Fortunately there are all sorts of healthy substitutes for many mexican dishes, but there’s one I haven’ t touched on yet.. dessert! Fried Ice Cream has been a special-treat dessert for as long as I can remember.. so naturally a healthy version creation was needed! Chocolate Faux-Freid Ice Cream 1 scoop healthy...

Decide, Eat, Laugh, Love

I am overwhelmed with gratitude for my amazing family and friends! Thank you for making my 25th year so amazing, and by 26th Birthday weekend wonderful! Goodness, I have so much to update you all on.. and perhaps it’s partially because it’s my birthday and people get particularly reflective on birthdays and holidays, please forgive any particular cheesiness & wordiness in this post   Since the last time I...

Clean Cookbook Giveaway & Sweet Summer Treat

YNL Giveaway! In honor of my new company website launching, and first newsletter distributed.. I believe it is absolutely time for a giveaway! This is one of my very favorite cookbooks, and it’s completely coincidence that it’s written by an IIN grad (I hadn’t even signed-up for IIN when I bought it).. Clean Food by Terry Walters She’s all about fresh & seasonal! The recipes are straight forward,...