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Healthy Cooking Mistakes You’re Likely Making

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Cooking more healthfully doesn’t need to be a painful task, but if you’re falling into these common traps you may be fighting an uphill battle. How many of these habits do you need to break?   You don’t measure high calorie ingredients There is such thing as “too much of a good thing.” While there’s no disputing that ingredients like olive oil, nuts, avocado and nut butters offer healthy fats, inflated portions can lead to inflated waistlines. When each tablespoon of olive oil contains 120 calories and 14 grams of fat, and each cup of cooked whole grain pasta adds up to 200 calories, it’s important to measure out these ingredients to avoid a calorie overload.   You defrost meat on the countertop Is it common practice for you to toss that package of frozen chicken on the countertop before you leave for work? This is a food safety nightmare waiting to happen. The drastic temperature shift from freezer to counter rolls out the red carpet for potentially harmful bacteria and foodbo

I Now Have Plans All the Way to Ninety

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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 .  I’ve been intending to write this for some time but was waiting for some milestone. I guess that 75 years is a good one. My birthday was last Saturday. Basic statistics. At present I am 5’8″ tall, weigh between 176 and 180 lbs. with a 32″waist. Before I discovered the paleo lifestyle I was 205 lb with a 39″ waist. I was also asthmatic, arthritic, grumpy, and on the verge of diabetes. My doctor told me straight: lose weight or go onto medication. Great. I had been struggling with weight gain for forty years. In my twenties I had given up smoking, in my thirties I was gain

Monster Mash

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This post is sponsored by Best Fiends  Happy Friday!!!! We went on a dinosaur hunt a few days ago and chased down this huge monster made out of a fallen tree that someone (the city of Cville?) decorated with wooden planks. From the highway it looks like a big dino on a hill! It was fun to see it in person. I’m sad that the Irish Soda Bread ran its course. I should have bought some for the freezer! I suppose I could also make it from scratch sometime, but I am not much of a baker. Breakfast was Nespresso decaf, yogurt and buttery toast. I found this kale salad in a bag at Whole Foods with a great texture and lots of different veggies shredded in (like brussels and cabbage). I ate it all week! This was my favorite lunch – served with leftover pork chop, manchego cheese, Caesar dressing and some chopped veggies, all tossed together in a big mixing bowl. Mazen has been loving his monster game, which he plays by his own rules, assembling the monster cards on the floor. And I’ve b