Author Archives: Laura

I Love A Good Quickie!

It’s 4:00 and you realize you haven’t even begun to think about dinner. And to be honest, it’s probably too late to start making anything. But you can’t do nuggets and mac AGAIN! (Hey – nothing wrong with it sometimes, but 3 nights in a row? Now you’re pushin’ it.)

So what is a person to do? Spend another $40 on take out for the whole family? Switch it up by serving the parmesan mac and cheese as opposed to the cheddar mac and cheese? Pray that tonight is the night the magical dinner fairy will deliver a healthy, home cooked meal to your home? (And then also clean up after you eat??)

You COULD do those things, or you could fall back on your ‘go to, no time to cook, or not in the mood to cook’ meals. You CAN make a dinner that is (almost) as easy as ordering in, and feel good about putting a (mostly) home cooked meal on the table.

And here is the secret….

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Join The Club! The Superfood Club, That Is!

I have to admit something. Before I got into this whole health thing, I used to hear about super foods and feel intimidated. I thought the only people who really knew about them and ate them were hard core health nuts – like we’re talking juicers, raw foodists, vegans, etc.

But then I started doing my research, started learning more about these super foods, and slowly started trying them.

And I have news for you – it actually is NOT difficult to incorporate them into your diet, and I am going to show you how!

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You & Your Children Desperately Need This

One of the best things you can do as a parent is to feed your child (and yourself!) a solid, energy packed, nutritional breakfast.

But if your mornings are anything like mine, you are rushing around making lunches, packing snacks, picking out clothing, signing papers that didn’t get signed the night before, breaking up a sibling fight or two, feeding the dog, and actually getting dressed yourself because you simply cannot take your kids to school AGAIN in your robe! (Hey – we don’t have to get out of the car, right??)

So what CAN you do to beef up the nutritional content of your and your children’s breakfasts?

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It Shouldn’t Be All or Nothing

Healthy eating should not be an all or nothing deal.

To wake up one day and tell yourself that ‘you are going to be healthy from now on’ never works, because the moment you eat something unhealthy you’ve failed. And that moment is just a matter of time.

WHY SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE?

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Your New BFF: Water

We all know that one of the healthiest things we can do for ourselves is to drink plenty of water. That is old news. We’ve heard it time and time again.

But did you know that you actually need to drink at least half of your bodyweight in ounces to be sufficiently hydrated. So a 150 pound person has to drink 75 ounces of water a day. That is over nine glasses of water that are over 8 ounces each.

That is A LOT of water!

So today I want to answer the following question:

How the heck are you supposed to remember to drink so much water EVERY day?

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