Blue Diamond Almond Products

There are several almond products that I like and I just noticed that they are all made by the same company: Blue Diamond Growers. I started with their Roasted Almonds with Sea Salt that come in a plastic “can” that is shaped more like a coffee cup than your typical jar of nuts. So they [...]

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Design Your Own … Cereal

Yes, that’s right. In case you are sick of standing in the cereal aisle reading all the labels trying to figure out what you will really be eating out of that box, now there is a better way: custom choice cereal. Snack Girl tells all about it at her blog (& gives you the chance [...]

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Update: Only 7 more pounds to go!

So I lost another post-partum pound and can now fit back into my looser pre-pregnancy jeans. Yay! But as you can see from my exercise log, I haven’t been exercising that much. So what has caused the lost pound? I think my gluten-free diet has played a large part. I am eating gluten-free at the [...]

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Quick, Healthy, Frozen, Heat-in-the-Microwave Food? Really.

Yes, really. It’s Amy’s. I discovered it a few years ago when I lived in Manhattan and was working crazy hours. I was getting tired of take-out and sometimes just wanted to eat without having to call and wait for the food. But I was busy and tired and had an incredibly small Manhattan-apartment kitchen. [...]

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Quick & Easy Gluten-free Breakfast

My friend Lizette knows that I am trying to eat gluten-free these days, so she offered up a quick and easy breakfast that sounds delicious so I wanted to share it with you too! Here it is, in her own words: 1 ripe banana 1-2 tbsp of peanut butter (for me whether I use 1 [...]

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Actually Delicious Gluten-Free Bread: Udi’s

As I mentioned earlier, I am eating a gluten-free diet these days. What is a gluten-free diet? According to the Mayo Clinic: “A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes the protein gluten. Gluten is found in grains such as wheat, barley and rye.” So what exactly must one avoid? A lot. The Mayo Clinic [...]

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