Time to say hello to 2015; and hello to the possibility that this will be the best year of your life. For those of you prepping (with me) for The Whole Damn Thing, it’s almost GO time! While the prep and the weight of the ‘commitment’ itself can seem pretty intimidating as it approaches, I assure…
Category: local food
MODpaleo: Clean, Convenient Fuel
Remember earlier this summer when our friends from MODpaleo came out to our Grand Opening Party at MAD Charleston for a little ‘MEAT & GREET’ to let our clients taste test their delicious paleo meals? Well, we’re actually their pick up location in Mt. Pleasant, which is awesome, and since July I’ve been pumping hard…
Gratitude, Vegetables + Love: Featuring Zoodles [ Day 7 of #23to30 ]
The last 5 years have taught me more than I can fully communicate in the #23to30 chronicles, but these three concepts have proven to be critically important day to day. When one is missing, the whole day is off balance. I’ve always been a vegetable lover – growing up my dad had to have a backyard garden…
Prepping for the Week + The Whole 30 Challenge
There are some weekends that stand out from the rest, and this weekend was one of them. Fall is in full swing in Charlottesville, and things in MADville are getting crazier by the day. A full social, sweat, and food recap of the weekend is in order, but I need to take a day or…
Welcome to Fall: Comfort Food + Charlottesville Weekends
It’s fall. It’s a leaves changing, crisp air breathing, college football kind of fall, and I’m so in love with it. I love warm weather just as much as the next winter-fearing southern transplant, but there’s some naturally ignorant draw to the changing of the seasons that fools my body and mind into thinking that there…
Pausing in Maine: Vegan Lasagna + Higher Vantage Points
Life has been stuck on fast forward lately. Time is moving fast — too fast — and while all the balls still seem to be in the air, I needed to hit a hard pause, away from all the noise. So, in the spirit of my new theme, ‘reconnection,’ I took off to Augusta, Maine…on…
fuel | sweat | grow 