Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the things that our garden did well this year was produce carrots.  We had massively thick and stubby carrots by the bunches and had to think of some ways to use them all up.  Pam found this [...]

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I don’t eat much fast food, even when I’m not trying to be healthy. When I do indulge, it’s usually at the Northwest-only Burgerville or at the ubiquitous McDonald’s. The former has many redeeming qualities (including good food), but the latter? Ugh. Maybe I need to reconsider.
Karen at Best of Mother Earth has posted about [...]

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Here’s something a little less provocative for you guys.  One of my friends passes on her copies of Health Magazine to me after she’s finished with them.  The magazine is mainly geared towards women, but there’s often good stuff in there that I can write about.  And there are ALWAYS recipes that I try.  This [...]

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Saturday was my “free day” on the Body for Life program; I could eat what I wanted. What I wanted — what I’ve been craving for weeks — was blueberry pancakes. I went to a local diner and enjoyed two enormous pancakes topped with blueberries — not the blueberry compote found in most places (comprising [...]

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On Friday, I wrote about some of my struggles with vegetables. But there ARE times when I find recipes that are truly packed with vegetables that I can’t get enough of. From time to time, I’m going to share a recipe that I make for my family. They have to be healthy, [...]

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