If you’re active in the fitness or healthy living world, you’re probably well aware of the importance of protein. Protein is more than just another macronutrient that you obtain from a giant piece of chicken or bowl full of beans. In fact, proteins—or the thousands of smaller units called amino acids of which they’re composed—are…
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Chocolate-Covered Cherry Smoothie + Smoothie Week
Sure, it’s November and winter may be on its way, but if you’re anything like me, you can drink a good smoothie any time of the year. Although smoothies usually don’t hold me over the way a meal would, I do love having them as a snack, means of refueling after a workout, or as an…
Cranberry & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
Usually I’m a careful person, but ever since my childhood years, I’ve thrown caution to the wind when it involves raw cookie dough or cake batter. Yes, I know that raw eggs can contain salmonella and should be avoided, but there’s something wrong with baking a cake or a batch of cookies without sampling the…
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Muffins
Bananas are quite simply one of my favorite fruits. They’re cheap, they’re portable, they’re satiating, and they even satisfy a sweet tooth when chocolate, cake, cookies, or muffins are nowhere to be found. Throughout my pregnancy, though, bananas and I have had a rocky relationship. After I realized I was pregnant, I noticed that bananas…
Double Chocolate Protein Bites
Hi there! I don’t know about you all, but I’m glad it’s Thursday (aka, Friday Eve). I’m more than ready for my vacation to begin, especially after hustling all week to tie up loose ends and finish all my work before I’m out for so many days. Perhaps it’s my recent obsession with sweets and chocolate that…
Almond Butter, Oat, & Chocolate Chip Snack Bites + WIAW
I have to apologize to you again. (This seems to have become a habit for me.) All of the recipes I’ve come up with recently are for sweets/desserts. We’ve been cooking a lot of our old stand-by meals lately, and when I say “we,” I really mean “Mark.” I’ve mentioned before that my pregnancy sweet…
Mint-Chocolate Matcha Chia Pudding
As difficult as it’s been, I’ve been trying to lay off the sweets during my pregnancy. Says the woman who bought cinnamon rolls and 2 slices of cake at the grocery last weekend! I’ve always had a pretty big sweet tooth, but I’ve become pretty good about keeping healthier sweets on-hand (such as these or…
Tropical Pineapple and Coconut Chia Pudding
It’s the middle of winter, and it’s cold. I know this. I know this because, for the second time in less than a week, the local weather forecast predicts a wintry mix of sleet, ice, and snow. What I like to call snizzle. Here on the Gulf Coast, we just don’t get snow. In March…
Pumpkin Chia Pudding
I know, I know. Every blogger is bombarding you with pumpkin recipes since we’ve been experiencing fall for, oh, not even a full week. I promise in the next couple of months I will share comforting, warming, autumn-inspired dishes that feature other ingredients, but since I haven’t done a lot of cooking lately, this pumpkin…
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Bites
Growing up, I was a chocolate chip girl. Shortbread, the Plain Jane that it is, wasn’t even worthy of calling itself a cookie. Snickerdoodles, though a fun word to say, were missing pizzazz. Peanut butter cookies, with their back-of-fork indentations, were pretty stellar (I mean, peanut butter was basically the only sandwich topping I ate…
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