Halfway through the 30 days! Wooo! For anyone who’s interested, or just starting, or wants to know what it’s all about, I’m here to share my personal experience. I’ll give a quick overview of the diet in case anyone is unfamiliar, but if you want the full details, check out the whole30 website. Basically you avoid the following groups: (1) sugar, (2) alcohol, (3) grains/processed carbs, (4) dairy, (5) legumes. In addition to completely cutting these food groups (again, I’m not getting into the nitty gritty–visit their website for that), there’s a couple of other principles that I took to…
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Continue ReadingA quick and simple whole-30 approved breakfast packed with chia seeds, almond butter, and fresh bananas
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Craving that late-night Chinese food? Well here’s an easy, healthy baked version that can still satisfy! Cabbage and carrots tossed with a savory sauce makes for a delicious crispy eggroll!
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A deliciously decadent cheesecake with graham cracker crust, chocolate ganache and lots of toasty marshmallows.
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A sweet and salty snack sure to impress! The toffee provides a nice snap and buttery crunch atop some saltine crackers that hold it all together. Topped with chocolate of course for extra decadence!
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A beautiful homemade pizza topped with salty prosciutto, soft and melty burrata, and a crisp arugula. Highly recommend my homemade rosemary red pepper pizza crust, but I promise this pizza is good on any dough!
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An amazing tiny house getaway in the woods, off the grid out in rural Virginia. Plus a recipe for delicious make-ahead foil packets that contain a full meal of steak, veggies and potatoes, perfect for a campfire dinner.
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Soft and buttery cookies made from cake mix. Use butter pecan cake mix to make delicious cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar and topped with a cinnamon glazed pecan.
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Crispy cinnamon sugar wonton taco shells filled with cinnamon sugar apple deliciousness. Serve warm, and if you’re feeling fancy top with caramel or vanilla ice cream!
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Delicious chewy chocolatey cookie bars made from simple ingredients including one boxed cake mix, chocolate chips, AND mini m&ms! – – Do you all remember that cake box cookie bars; recipe I shared a few weeks back? Well, I had the brilliant idea to use brownie mix this time around! And it works just as great with some chocolate pudding mix, and all the rest of the same ingredients. It’s still easy, it’s still delicious, and it’s even more chocolatey! In fact I bet this recipe could be adapted to pretty much any flavor of boxed cake mix. Red velvet…
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Delicious homemade fried chicken nuggets on mini waffles! These savory little bites are perfect topped with maple syrup for a little extra kick of sweet! – – Umg, these are the best things ever! They were a major hit at our Superbowl party! They do require some work, but I promise you they’re worth it! The chicken nugget recipe I used was adapted from Stephanie’s copy-cat chick-fil-a recipe at Stockpiling Moms. I actually happened to not have milk in my fridge, but luckily I keep buttermilk powder in my fridge as a backup, and it worked wonderfully in this recipe. I…
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Delicious caramel apple cider sangria, festive for fall, but delicious all year round! – – Who doesn’t love apples? Who doesn’t love wine? Who doesn’t love putting the two together? If the answer is you, I’m not entirely sure why you’re reading this, but who am I to judge? First things first, chop some apples! I really liked having the mix of red and green apples for some extra color, so for this recipe I used red delicious and granny smith. If I had to pick one though, I’d go with the granny smith. I like the little bit sour…
