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How I Stopped Menstrual Cramps

laurel — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:26:51 +0000

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for awhile, but I wanted to fully test out my tips and tricks before I shared them with you. I’ve dealt with pretty severe menstrual cramps since my late teenage years and always felt like it was something I just had to accept. But over the [...]

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Gnosis Chocolate Shoppe

laurel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:54:48 +0000

My favorite healthy chocolate company, Gnosis Chocolate, recently opened up a pop-up shoppe here in NYC. The pop-up store on East 23rd Street is nestled inside Organique, an organic take-out restaurant. I knew I wanted to check out the shoppe and show the Gnosis team my support because there’s no telling how long they’ll be [...]

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Day 4: Raw Food Blogathon

laurel — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:01:50 +0000

Thursdays are my busiest day of the week, but I’m hanging in there with lots of sweet treats! At lunch I swung by my favorite health food store on the Upper West Side called The Health Nuts. They have tons of specialty items (like my favorite frozen young coconut meat), a huge selection of supplements, [...]

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7 Days of Healthy Desserts

laurel — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:50:15 +0000

Last week I held my second blogging marathon. It was 7 straight days of healthy desserts made at home, and I had a lot of fun dreaming up the recipes. My boyfriend was also very happy to get to enjoy all the tasty leftovers I had around the house! I hope you enjoy all my [...]

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Day 6: Healthy Desserts

laurel — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:56:22 +0000

Cookies! It’s Friday and I’m celebrating the end of a looooonnnng work week. Plus, the holidays are coming and I have friends coming to visit soon! With just two days left of my healthy desserts marathon, I knew I had to make cookies on at least one day. This recipe was adapted from Cynthia Lair’s [...]

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Day 2: Healthy Desserts

laurel — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:20:12 +0000

It’s Day 2! I’ve been dying to grill some more fruit on my Calphalon grill pan, so I picked up fresh pineapple slices at Trader Joe’s on my way home from the gym. I had a pretty frustrating and stressful day of work (typical Monday), so a long cardio workout and homemade dessert were exactly [...]

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Healthier Hot Chocolate

laurel — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:18:43 +0000

Now that the holiday season is on its way, most grocery stores are carrying lots of chocolate, hot cocoa mixes, marshmallows, and candy treats. I wanted to make my own healthier hot chocolate the other night and here’s what I came up with. Most store-bought hot chocolate mixes have chemicals, preservatives, and unnatural sugars that [...]

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Sweet Halloween!

laurel — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:14:40 +0000

I’m spending my first Halloween in NYC, and it’s bound to be a crazy week. When I left the gym on Sunday, I was walking along Broadway and suddenly a motorcycle gang of about 200 guys came racing down the street with scary Halloween masks, revving their engines and weaving around all the other cars [...]

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Day 3: Healthy Eating Out

laurel — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:19:08 +0000

This is Day 3 of my blogging marathon: “7 Days of Healthy Eating Out.” Read the details on my marathon here. It’s been a rainy and chilly couple of days in NYC, but I decided to brave the weather and head to the Upper West Side for lunch. I was dying to get out of [...]

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Chocolate Coconutty Macaroons

laurel — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:59:03 +0000

In the world of raw foods, desserts are where it’s at. After falling in love with the raw coconut macaroons I found at health food stores and NYC’s raw/vegan restaurants, I knew I wanted to make them at home. Since my birthday is this weekend, I figured today was the perfect time for an early [...]

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