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Day 12 | Clean Eating Challenge

December 11, 2009
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Today was a fun-filled day of clean eats! Doesn’t it just feel great when you know you are filling your body with food that is good for you, helps you have energy, think clearly, and feel… full, but not too full?! Yesterday was a “not hungry” day. Today was a “hungry” day for sure. I [...]

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Day 11 | Clean Eating Challenge

December 10, 2009
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Today was another sleep-in-ish day… Got up at 7 AM. Hit the snooze about 4 times. Going for a run later in the day.

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Sirloin and Black Bean Enchiladas

December 6, 2009
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Smokey chipotle enchiladas, made healthy with ground sirloin and black beans, topped with melted part skim Asadero cheese, greek yogurt, and green onions.

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Tasty Travel Friendly Beef Jerky

February 27, 2009
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This is my rendition of Alton Brown’s beef jerky recipe, featured on the Food Network. These little sticks of goodness are tangy, protein-filled, and travel very well. An integral part of the snack stash for our cross country adventure.

Ingredients

2 to 2-1/2 pounds flank steak
2/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
2/3 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon honey
2 tsp freshly ground [...]

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Hearty Pot Roast

February 2, 2009
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Sometimes the best recipes come together by just throwing a bunch of veggies and a protein of some type together in a pot and slow cooking them for hours. This is exactly what I did for this recipe. I wanted a hearty recipe, a stick to your ribs kind of meal. So I choose a [...]

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Italian Wedding Soup

January 15, 2009
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This is my version of Giada De Laurentiis’ recipe, which I ran across here on the Food Network.
Ingredients
Meatballs:

1 small onion, grated
1 tsp dried parsley
1 large egg white
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 slice whole grain bread, toasted in the oven and ground into bread crumbs*
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
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Shepherds Pie

October 24, 2008
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Ingredients

4 potatoes (24 oz), cubed (you can remove the skin if you prefer)
1 tbsp butter (I use real butter, because it doesn’t have all kinds of additives)
1/4 cup skim milk
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp olive or coconut oil
1 onion, chopped
3 carrots, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 cup mushrooms, coarsely chopped
16 [...]

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Top 5 Foods You Should Only Buy Organic

August 6, 2008
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As published on Figure Athlete.
Throughout the last decade, it’s become increasingly apparent that the farming and ranching choices we’ve become accustomed to, are no longer sustainable or supportive to our health or our future. There are many reasons to support organic farming, from keeping pesticides out of our environment, to keeping those same pesticides out [...]

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Hamburger Soup

June 30, 2008

Ingredients

1 pound extra lean 96/4 ground sirloin
1-1/2 cup diced onion
1-1/2cup (8 oz) diced raw russet potato
1 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced celery
1 cup shredded cabbage
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 cup tomato
1/4 cup rice, uncooked
1-1/2 quarts of beef stock
1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tbsp Worcestershire
1/4 teaspoon [...]

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