It's laughable to me now to look back and remember how stressed I was in college, balancing classes, school work, internships and jobs. I didn't even know what #adulting really was back then.
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In case you haven't been to Florida lately, it's getting a little hot up in hurrr. Besides chugging gallons of water daily to keep from passing out under the intense sun rays, we're also doing our part to keep popsicle companies everywhere in business.
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Healthy eaters, look away. I strayed away from my usual healthier baking to make some indulgent, melt in your mouth cookies for my pops for Father's Day. While he's a pretty healthy guy most of the time, he isn't one to cut back where cookies are concerned.
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If you couldn't tell from my thumbprint cookies or the homemade pop tarts, I'm kind of a huge fan of Urban Canning Co. Any time I see that they have a new jam flavor out, I'm instantly brainstorming recipes with ways to incorporate it.
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The older I get, the more I realize how ridiculously talented my group of friends is. Everyone is overflowing with They're all overflowing with talents and I have no shame in bragging on them.
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Behind every successful food blogger, is their taste tester. A friend, roommate, family member, significant other. Someone who is willing to try anything and everything and give you their honest opinion. For me, my partner in sampling out new recipes is my husband Andy.
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For the past few weeks, I've been limiting the sweets I've been eating. Besides just trying to keep my tummy happy, we're also in the midst of birthday season and my body can't handle birthday treats three times a week. But all bets are off since it is now my birthday week, so I say LETS EAT CAKE. Or in this case, brownies.
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I used to hate quinoa. HATE. I couldn't figure out what all of the buzz was with this newfound health food a few years back. I gave it a fair chance at first, cooking it up in a couple different recipes, but was not a fan. I wrote it off and decided it just wasn't for me.
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If the bananas in my kitchen could speak, they would tell you what a horrible person I am. I buy bananas weekly, promise them a wonderful life of being served with yogurt and granola, or on warm oats with almond butter, but instead I neglect them until they're brown beyond recognition on my countertop.
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I often find myself looking for a new physical challenge. I get bored with my current routine, so I find a new (to me) race to sign up for and start training. This is how many, many months ago I found myself signed up on my Ragnar Relay team: Will Run for Pancakes.
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I got my love for Almond Joys from my mom. I remember being a kid, sorting out my Halloween goodies into piles by candy type, while under the watchful eye of my parents. They played it off as wanting to make sure we threw away the open or suspicious pieces, but really they were just eyeing what they would take out of my stash after I fell asleep. And my mom was always sizing up the Almond Joy selection.
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The past few weeks I've been training for my next race. And far different from my usual road half-marathons, this race requires me to step outside of my normal treadmill training comfort zone and onto the trails. For the Ragnar Relay, I'll be running three times on three different trails in Atlanta over the course of about 24 hours. To say that I was ignorant to what this would require of me is an understatement.
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Raise your hand if every time you travel down the cereal aisle at the grocery store you're tempted to swipe a box of pop tarts into your shopping cart (*raises both hands*). Pop tarts were one of my favorite treats as a kid, and are probably still my favorite treat as an adult. But if eating pop tarts as an adult is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
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GUYS. Spring is HERE. I get to a point towards the end of every season where I'm over it and ready for a change, and I was done with the cold weather around mid-February (as done as you can be when you live in Florida and it rarely gets below 60 degrees). Now, I'm just ready to add a healthy sun-kissed glow to my skin so I can start to look like the Florida girl that I am.
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Do you ever find yourself caught up in an internal battle, frustrated with yourself and wondering how you let your head take you there? That has been my life the past couple of weeks.
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