Weight Watchers Cocktail That’s Perfect for Summer
This post contains affiliate links. For additional information, please see my advertising disclosure. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been doing the Weight Watchers diet for the past few months, and I’m actually down 30 lbs so far! I’ll be honest — I’d tried Weight Watchers previously in my life and wasn’t so impressed. […]
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30-Minute Healthy Beef Bibimbap Bowls
The hubby is a big fan of Korean food, and particularly the popular rice-bowl dish, bibimbap. And really, what’s not to like? You’ve got meat, veg, grain, and egg all in a single dish…topped with spices that bring heat, sweet, sour, and tangy all at the same time. Usually, though, whenever the hubby had a bibimbap […]
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From Table Scraps to Super Soup: Making Your Own (Sugar-Free) Chicken Broth
As we often tend to go on low-carb kicks around these parts, I’ve come to know that you often find sugar hiding in some pretty unexpected places…everything from beans to tomato sauce to salad dressings often include the added white stuff. But my personal pet peeve for hidden added sugar? Chicken broth. Go ahead and […]
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Preserving Cabbage: Salt-Lick-Style Freezer Cole Slaw
When I first moved back to Austin for grad school, one of the very first places I remember going to eat was called The Salt Lick. Located about 30 minutes outside of Austin, the Salt Lick promised country music and all-you-can-eat barbecue and sides. In other words, it was pretty magical. Having lived here for over […]
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Weight Watchers Friendly Camping Meals & Photos from Muleshoe Bend Campsite
This post contains affiliate links. For our full advertising disclosure, see our About page. Recently, one of my best friends decided to give Weight Watchers a try, and after seeing her success, I decided I would join in too. Of course, the hardest part about any diet is making it work around “real life” and […]
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Healthy Make-Ahead Lunch: Southwest Chicken Salad
It has been said that Southerners like chicken salad a little *too* much. And it doesn’t escape my memory that I have not just one, but two different chicken salad recipes on this blog already. But today, I made a batch of our favorite “Southwest” chicken salad — with no mayonnaise, no added sugar, and […]
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Healthy Recipe: Easy DIY Tuna Poke Bowl
I’ve always been a huge fan of sushi, but I’ve never actually tried making it at home. It just seems like a lot of work. Who has time for that on a week day? But when we did the Meal Kit Review Series a couple months ago, one of the recipes was for a DIY tuna […]
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My Top 10 Pantry & Freezer Basics
A friend reached out to me recently with a blog request. She told me that she felt like she was “failing the pantry and freezer game.” She wants to cook more, but is quite busy. She thought perhaps if she had more things on hand in her pantry and freezer that she could just throw together in […]
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Make a Plan to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions & My 4-Week Meal Plan
It seems like there’s been a lot of haters discussing the topic of New Year’s Resolutions this year. “Just be healthier all year,” they say. “Don’t go on a diet, adopt a lifestyle change forever instead!” And while they may have good intentions, I tend to think these platitudes overlook the difficulty in creating real […]
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Fried Green Tomato Salad & Marinated Chicken Thighs
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and for us this evening that was certainly the case. I’ve been in a cleaning-out-the-freezer kick, and one of the items I was planning on using this week was a bag of marinated chicken thighs. I use chicken thighs instead of breasts or tenders because they […]
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