When you’re eating real food (i.e. food without labels), the point isn’t to ever be hungry or feel like you’re being deprived, it’s to fuel your body with good, real food and maintain a consistent insulin level to increase energy and avoid crashing. When you’re in a groove with your grocery shopping and menu planning,…
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The Breakfast Base
There is one key to my personal sanity through the work week, and that’s making sure that I’ve got some food packed to take with me for when I get the morning hunger. I’ve never been a huge breakfast person when I first wake up. I prefer a slow start to my day with coffee,…
Because, We All Deserve Some Good Clean Fun
There is no better prep for a clean eating month than the complete over indulgence of the holidays — at least for me — but the most painful part (aside from the complete and total withdrawal from my holiday wine pours) is social time out in public. It’s not that it’s forbidden to go out,…
In Case you Missed It, Christmas is Over.
Christmas happened. I know that because I was there, but also because that’s what the calendar tells me, and the calendar seems to rule all. When it comes to managing life and time, the calendar presents as my perpetual nemesis. Whether it’s moving at a clip that’s too fast, or painfully slow, disagreement on what reality…
Food Lately, November Style
The last two weeks have been about cleaning up from the chaos of the previous few months, organizing everything within reach, and setting up for a solid start to 2016. I’ve been doing a little more of a local and multi-source roundup for food stuffs lately, trying to both create and save a little change in the process….
Local Loves: Hellos, Goodbyes + See ya Laters
This past weekend was all about local living and embracing the beginning of the new, and finally a weekend (though just barely) to check in on Charlottesville. New chapters, jobs, businesses, and lives; there is so much change happening these days that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with it, and it’s damn near impossible to…
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