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How My World Changed!

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It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here . In fact, I have a contest going right now. So if you have a story to share, no matter how big or how small, you’ll be in the running to win a big prize. Read more here .  My story is a fun one. Nothing crazy drastic, but fun nonetheless. It started January of 2012, when I first started reading success stories from MDA. At this point in my life, I was no stranger to the human body and how best to treat it. I exercised moderately, and ate plenty of vegetables and fish as part of my normal diet. I tried to get at least 6-7 hours sleep and remained injury-free. So when I first started reading, I thought this makes sense. It’s working obviously—however, I’m not going to take the plunge quite yet. Also, wasn’t quite sure what exactly this Mark g

Chop Chop Salad- Spring is Coming!

Up until this mornings freezing temperatures (we’re in East TN), you would have thought that Spring had arrived several months ago. Despite the cold snap, we are in the midst of planning our garden and getting things started in a DIY Hoop house to get a head start on any late frosts. This Chop Chop Salad Recipe is a fantastic way to welcome in those early greens! Feel free to play around with the ingredients in this salad to your liking. We would encourage you to stick to stalky/crunch greens, as they add great crunch and texture. Consider this one a complete meal and it works well with steak or chicken. Chop Chop Salad Ingredients: 2 romaine lettuce hearts, washed and chopped into bite-sized pieces 1 cup cherry tomatoes, quartered 1/4 pound bacon, cooked until crispy and chopped into small pieces 1 1/2 pounds cooked chicken, chopped 2 avocados, pitted and diced 1/2 cup store-bought Paleo-friendly Caesar dressing (we love Tessemae’s ) Place all ingredients in a large bowl a

Cooking in Parchment Paper

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Looking for a portion-controlled, mouthwatering meal that takes seconds to clean up? Try cooking in parchment paper, or as the French say it, “ en papillote.” Although most French techniques have a bad reputation for being unhealthy (hello butter and salt!), cooking in parchment can be a light and flavorful, quick and simple way to cook. Here’s what you need to know to get started. Why cook in parchment? When you cook ingredients like fish, meat, veggies and herbs in a parchment paper packet, you’re steaming the ingredients inside using their own moisture — no added fat required. Plus, there’s no need to dirty pans, so cleanup is as simple as tossing the paper in the trash. The process The French term for this cooking method comes from papillon, the French word for butterfly, since the paper resembles delicate butterfly wings when cut into a heart shape. You then layer ingredients on one side of the paper, fold the other side overtop, and crimp the edges to seal. (To get a visua

Join Me on Facebook Live This Morning

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Good morning, everybody! We’ve got another fantastic success story today, but first I want to invite you all to join me on Facebook Live at 9 a.m. PST today. I’ll be chatting with my Community Outreach Manager, Liz Mostaedi, about our Whole30®-approved products and how Whole30® can complement your Primal journey. AND I’ll be sharing the first announcement for some major things coming down the Primal pipeline. Catch me this morning on the Primal Kitchen Facebook page . You won’t want to miss it! The post Join Me on Facebook Live This Morning appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple . from Mark's Daily Apple http://ift.tt/2llPWVr

Healthy On The Weekends

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^^ My melted butter spots look like mold but I promise they are waaaaaay tastier! Sunny side up! A few weekends ago (I forget which one to reference) I cooked meals at home, didn’t go out to eat, got in some good workouts, didn’t have any parties, and basically just acted like it was a weekday. By Sunday night I felt like it was the healthiest weekend I’d had in a while. This got me thinking….I am a big fan of the squiggly line effect  of weight maintenance, which I think in general leads to healthy weekdays and a more relaxed attitude on the weekends. But what would happen if we treated the weekends like weekdays and the weekdays like weekends? I don’t mean go crazy five days a week and eat really well only two. But what if your week was more evenly balanced day after day, say, treat on Monday, healthy Tuesday/Wednesday, dessert and wine on Thursday, healthy Friday/Saturday, splurge Sunday….would you end up healthier and feeling less deprived than if you were five days on and two

Clean Eating Irish Colcannon Recipe

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Man, oh man…. where has this been all my life??!!! I’ve never had the traditional version, but this clean eating version just sent me over the moon! Colcannon is traditionally made with white… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2lBfBEY