Month: January 2015

Protein Powder: The Good, Bad and Ugly

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Travel back in time with me, would you?

I’m thinking the 2000’s. I remember this as the time when Diet Coke, Splenda, and chalky protein bars and powders all became cool. I remember intuitively all of these “fake foods” felt wrong but I wanted to be skinny, sexy, and cool, so I ate them anyway.  No wonder my parents had to use the “jump off a bridge” saying so often!

So today’s topic is protein powder. Keep reading to learn the good, bad and ugly…. Continue reading “Protein Powder: The Good, Bad and Ugly”

Top 5 Tips to Recover from a Cold

We’ve all been there. You go to bed with a tinge of a sore throat and wake up with a nasty full-blown cold. That’s what happened to me this week. Actually, I’m typing this in bed because I’ve received so many texts and emails from sick folks 🙁 So here are my top tips to recover from a cold.  Continue reading “Top 5 Tips to Recover from a Cold”

Turkey Joes to Brighten Your Winter Mood

It started a couple of weeks ago. The holidays were over, but I still wanted some comfort food. It seems to me my Dad made the best sloppy joes as a kid. This could become a family debate, as my Grandmother still makes a mean joe in which she adds gumbo soup to the mix, but that’s another post 😉  And I don’t know about you, but I find ground turkey a bit boring (and sometimes dry) so I wanted to remedy that with my childhood food fix in a healthy way. Here’s what I came up with. I hope you love it!!  Continue reading “Turkey Joes to Brighten Your Winter Mood”

My Favorite Fun Immunity Remedy

Everyone knows that this time of the year is full of sugar, spice and everything nice, sprinkled with the sniffles or cold and flu. This time of the year it’s likely anyone reading this knows someone who is sick or has already come down with a cold themselves. Here’s where my favorite fun immunity booster, Kung Fu Tonic, comes in. Continue reading “My Favorite Fun Immunity Remedy”