Articles tagged with Chocolate
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Treat Meals: Don’t Deprive Yourself
Many call it a “Cheat Day”. I prefer to call it a “Treat Day”. No matter what you choose to call it, I believe it’s a good idea to relax from your “diet” at least once a week. Being too strict with your diet will inevitably cause you to give into the cravings and to [...]
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Chocolate Surprise Cupcakes
3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder 4 TBSP butter, melted 1/3 cup buttermilk 1 large egg, beaten with 1 egg white 1 tsp vanilla 3 TBSP strong coffee Method: Heat oven to 350 degrees and line a 12-cup cupcake/muffin tin with liners. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, sugar [...]
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Healthiness is Not Just The Diet
To me, healthiness is more than just diet and exercise. It is about fueling our bodies with whole foods, exercising to build strength and vitality, nurturing our creativity, and finding community in the world around us. My approach to eating is balanced. I believe that eating a whole foods, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to [...]
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Mocha Cherry Smoothie
I've been making a lot of Chocolate Cherry Bomb smoothies lately based on Kristen's Raw Vegan Recipe but decided last week that I needed a bit more of a kick to I made a version with espresso - it was so yummy I have to share! Plus I had the day off work waiting for [...]
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Trick Or Treat?
I was reading a fascinating study while I was in America last year saying that treating yourself has been proven not to work! The study says that when people treat themselves, or are treated by someone else, then unconciously they think 'Well if I have to be treated then I must be doing something I [...]
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We All Make Mistakes!
People make mistakes all the time, for me the important thing is whether someone just admits that they had made a mistake, especially to themselves, and actually what they do about it that really counts and makes the difference next time. For example I bought some water pistols last weekend for the kids, when they were playing with them [...]
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He Can Buy You More Than Chocolates
It is sad to admit that I have been dreading my husband's cute gestures of appreciation at the end of the week. Although he is perfectly aware that I am currently undertaking the Slim Fast diet with success, he insists on arriving home with an elegant box of torturous truffles in a sickeningly beautiful [...]
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Avocado Shake Recipe
I have been wanting to do this one ever since I saw a variation of it on Mark’s Daily Apple. Overall it tasted pretty good. I sort of wish I had some vanilla or even some unflavored protein powder. A lot of the flavoring of the avocado was lost in the chocolate protein powder. The [...]
