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My Meal Prep

My Meal Prep

With a focus on having a little bit more meat protein this month, I added a super high quality sausage to my beans, prepared a piece of panko-crusted sea bass for the salad, made tuna pasta salad (using chickpea rigatoni), and smothered stewed meat.            Hey...

Welcome to the Fit Chicks! Nutrition Seminar

Welcome to the Fit Chicks! Nutrition Seminar

Program Welcome – Name, What your question about carbs? Game – Eat This or That Carbohydrate Lesson - Definitions, Good/Bad Types, Low-Carb Diet, and 75 Foods List Doing Keto and Other Low Carb Diets Building a Food Trifecta – Using the List of 75 Foods to focus on...

14 Keys to a GREAT Diet

14 Keys to a GREAT Diet

14 Keys to a GREAT Diet | by Berkeley Wellness (#FitChickApproved) Developing healthy eating habits isn’t as confusing or as restrictive as many people imagine. The essential steps are to eat mostly foods derived from plants—vegetables, fruits, whole grains and...

This BEST Veg Chili is Worth Your Time

This BEST Veg Chili is Worth Your Time

Best Vegetarian Chili (and idea Sunday meal prep recipe!) America's Test Kitchen explains why this recipe works: Vegetarian chilis are often little more than a mishmash of beans and vegetables. In order to create a chili—not a bean and vegetable stew—we’ve found...

Less Than 5 Percent of Americans Live a ‘Healthy Lifestyle’

Less Than 5 Percent of Americans Live a ‘Healthy Lifestyle’

Depressing statistics from a new study by Julie Beck March 23, 2016 A fun thing about being an American health journalist is constantly reading about how horribly unhealthy your country is. (And subsequently, being reminded about how unhealthy you probably are. And by...

Oh Wow! Lunch Just Got A Lot Better

Oh Wow! Lunch Just Got A Lot Better

It's Fall. That means it's time to stop the cold salads, sandwich wraps and grilled vegetables. Ready to mix it up and enjoy lunch again? Here are two simple recipes that can be the centerpiece to your lunch this week. These flavor combinations are delicious and the...

4 Steps to YOUR Yummiest Grain Bowl (just try it)

How to Make a Grain Bowl Without a Recipe By Leslie Stephens, posted on Food52 Blog - Here at Food52, we love recipes -- but do we always use them? Of course not. Because once you realize you don't always need a recipe, you'll make your favorite dishes a lot more...

The Most UnHealthiest Salads #stepawayFAST

The Most UnHealthiest Salads #stepawayFAST

Five examples of crazy unhealthy salads from casual chains wasn't enough. We complied a total of 15 menu items that give salads a BAD name. Nutrition, clean eating and being healthy should be confusing. Let's help you! A good salad starts with great green (mix your...