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Month: August 2020

Ditch the Commercial Diet – Forge Your Own Path!

Ditch the Commercial Diet – Forge Your Own Path!

If you’re overweight, the commercial diet industry would have you believe that there are only two choices. Either continue to eat only for today’s pleasure (“carpe oreos”) and pay for that the future, or follow one of their strict diet plans which will lead to the fulfillment of all your dreams. This is a false dichotomy. In reality, not only are neither of these options realistic, but there is a third, unmentioned path to eating healthy and losing weight. However,…

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Italian Almond Cookie Overnight Oats

Italian Almond Cookie Overnight Oats

Whether you grew up calling them Almond Cookies, Soft Amaretti, Chewy Amaretti, or just plain Amaretti — if you ever faced down a tray of holiday Italian cookies, odds are these were your favorites. Crunchy on the outside, but soft on the inside, these almond flavored treats (a distant relative of the French Macaroon, it seems) were normally topped with a Maraschino cherry, or, on more boring occasions, with an almond. Those familiar with my overnight oats recipes know that…

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Maraschino Cherries

Maraschino Cherries

My version of Maraschino Cherries will not qualify as a “health” food, but I share them because I created this recipe to replace the overly-processed chemical-filled version available on the commercial market. Part of mindful eating is paying attention to what is on every spoon or fork you put in your mouth. In that way, this much simpler replacement for commercial Maraschino Cherries fits in nicely with the concept of making small changes to the way you think about your…

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