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Delicious Cranberry Chocolate Protein Bites

May 16, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Delicious Cranberry Chocolate Protein Bites

I’ve been baking cookies since I was at least ten years old. I might have been even younger, but by the time I was ten, I was baking them on my own — nice, warm cookies for winter. Nice, warm cookies in the middle of summer. I love to bake, and I’ll do it anytime […]

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35+ Easy Snack Ideas for Kids

May 10, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

35+ Easy Snack Ideas for Kids

I never have good snack ideas for kids. If I can get three reasonably healthy meals for six people on the table every day, I feel pretty good about myself. So when hungry kids show up around 3pm, demanding food and proclaiming they’re starrrrving and might possibly die, I’m always caught off guard. But they’re all […]

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Macadamia Nut Milk Breakfast Smoothie

October 1, 2016 By Laura 1 Comment

Macadamia Nut Milk Breakfast Smoothie

We’ve been trying out different kinds of nut drinks around here. We’re big on almond milk…and coconut water. So when we had a chance to try out macadamia nut milk, we were all over it. Which is good, because macadamia nut milk is really healthy for you. Like most nuts, macadamia nuts are full of […]

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Deliciously Simple Apple Snickerdoodle Muffins

September 8, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Deliciously Simple Apple Snickerdoodle Muffins

We’re on a roll with the breakfast ideas this week, but these Apple Snickerdoodle Muffins may confuse you. Are they a breakfast? A dessert? A snack? Yes. Mostly what they are, though, is really frigging good. I had them for breakfast, snack, and dessert…and then I sneaked bits of them throughout the day in between. They’ve got […]

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Banana Chai Smoothie

February 7, 2016 By Laura 11 Comments

Banana Chai Smoothie

How to  esplain the banana chai smoothie? I’m a smoothie girl, but in general I’m a 3-ingredient fruity, yogurty, juicy kind of smoothie girl (unless, of course, you can put some chocolate in it. Then I’m that kind of smoothie girl.) But I’m not a complicated, spice-putting kind of smoothie girl. Until now, I mean. Until. Now. […]

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Easy, Healthy Hummus Recipe

January 25, 2016 By Laura 5 Comments

Easy, Healthy Hummus Recipe

I’m still recovering from yesterday’s Bronco game. It was close, and I may have a serious heart condition now, but in the end the Broncos won by two points and we can relax for two weeks until we all have a heart attack together watching the final game. We had friends over, and ate all […]

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Big Green Monster, a Caramel Corn Recipe — and a Giveaway!

October 4, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Big Green Monster, a Caramel Corn Recipe — and a Giveaway!

This is one of the kids’ favorite books. My son has loved it since the day I first read it, shouting along with the story — “Go away scraggly purple hair!” and all the rest. So when Laura Kelly invited me to participate in a Halloween popcorn box blog hop, I set the kids to […]

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Thin Mint Milkshake Recipe

February 12, 2015 By Laura 5 Comments

Thin Mint Milkshake Recipe

Ohhhhhh, yeahhhhh. It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time, people! Which means that while our neighborhood will be full of up-and-at-em, go-and-get-em girls knocking on doors and sweetly demanding you buy some cookies, I’ll be here with my daughter all, “Oh. Yeah. We’ll go out cookie selling in just a bit,” and then I’ll panic and buy […]

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Healthy Snack Ideas for The Big Game

January 16, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Healthy Snack Ideas for The Big Game

It pains me, a little, to write this because my team was knocked out of the playoffs last weekend. Oh, Broncos — you’re breaking my heart. You are. But I’m still watching the rest of the games, and since I intend to spend every Sunday until football is over glued to my couch, I figured […]

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Homemade Salsa

September 24, 2014 By Laura 1 Comment

Our garden is in full swing right now. I can’t remember the last time we got this many tomatoes — by now we’ve usually had at least one good freeze or hailstorm or something that kills off all my tomatoes just before they’re ready to eat. But this time, the little buggers have persevered from […]

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