I get suckered into a lot of things I consider challenges — juice cleanses, GF/dairy/bread free weeks, free trials of diets — you know, normal health decisions that people regularly make. I consider them challenges to be conquered. And normally, I love them. The one thing I never, ever, ever enjoy? Gross, nasty, chunky drinks marketed as cleanses and detox drinks. But then I heard about FitTea: all natural, aids in tummy health, boosts energy and your immune system, and can even boost metabolism to help you burn fat. I couldn’t say no. To say I was skeptical about trying FitTea would be putting it lightly. It’s a 14 day detox, so if it was disgusting, I’d be having a miserable 14 days. But I just can’t say no. The...

I know a lot of people go into the new year looking for ways to eat healthier and get more veggies in their diet, but that’s a way I like to live all year long (Ehhh, well. I try!). I was stoked when Evolution Fresh contacted me about their Three Days to Green Movement — it’s about starting a healthy habit and trying a green juice. I grabbed two bottles of Sweet Greens and Lemon and a bottle of Essential Greens with Lime at Starbucks. I reallllly wanted three bottles of the lemon, but apparently it was in high demand! I even stopped back a few days later and they had re-stocked and sold out all over again. Can’t even be mad, just glad everyone is thinking about getting their...

A couple of weeks ago, I was approached about reviewing a kosher cookbook. I had to pass because many of the recipes contained meat and I didn’t think I could do a good review only sampling a select few. The publisher instead asked if I’d like to review their kosher cookbook focusing on dairy — if you don’t know a lot about keeping kosher, if there’s dairy then there’s no meat! Meaning Dairy Made Easy is pretty perfect for a dairy-loving vegetarian like myself. I’m not Jewish, so I obviously don’t keep kosher or know everything about it, but I was excited to learn a little more flipping through the book. In the back there’s a list of recipes that can also be made pareve, which is a dish containing...

You know you’ve made a good salad when 1. Josh says “Oooh, can’t wait to eat that!” 2. you take less gnocchi covered in gooey cheese because you need extra room for salad on your plate 3. you wish your latte was really just a cup full of that salad’s dressing. Is number 3 an exaggeration? I wish I could say it was, because it’s kind of a waste of even drinking a latte right now. Lemme take you on a journey to my favorite second favorite restaurant in high school. [Not related, but have you seen Whip It? The diner they work at used to be my #1 favorite, Ken’s Diner until it closed and they filmed here]. The food was all vaguely German themed — my favorite meal...

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. I received a stipend to facilitate my purchase for my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. Do you make New Year’s resolutions each year? Normally I don’t because I don’t think you should wait until January to make a positive change in your life, but I totally love everyone switching into healthy mode for the month of January.  Now if we could just get those resolutions to last all year, we’d be getting somewhere. That’s why I’m a fan of making little changes — taking the stairs, skipping the fries, using less sugar. They’re small steps that don’t make me feel deprived and it’s easy to...

If you’re like me and take basically all of your vacation time at the end of the year, today’s going to be a pretty rough day.  After 3+ weeks off work, I needed to wake up before sunrise and actually blow dry my hair.  Plus, my kitties can’t come to work with me and I’ve gotten used to a certain level of kitty cuddles throughout the day. Rough days need easy blog posts fool proof recipes that you know will be a crowd pleaser.  That’s why I pulled together a list of my 10 most popular posts in 2014 — all of the posts weren’t necessarily posted in 2014; these are the posts with the most views. In fact, most of these posts were put up in 2013 with a few updated in...