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Quick Trip to Falmouth + Date Night at C Salt Wine Bar

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Hi, guys! On Thursday morning, Qman ended up sleeping till about 7:15 AM, so when he came into our room, Mal and I didn’t know what was going on. Recently, we’ve had a lot of super early mornings (and middle-of-the-night wake-ups), so him sleeping that late was quite the nice surprise! Once we were up and ’em, I realized that Mal and I needed to divide and conquer if we wanted to get ourselves out the door on time. I had planned to go to CrossFit and he had a tee time with one of his friends for golf, so he walked Murphy and I got Quinn ready for school. After I dropped Quinn off at school daycare, I headed to CrossFit for a work out. This one was pretty brutal. It was all-out, high-intensity, and my legs were screaming for mercy. Holy cow. All of those wall balls, snatches, rowing, and box jumps definitely caught up with me! Back at home, I took a quick shower and then finished filling our clean out bag from thredUP . When I went to snap a photo, Murphy got his big ol’ pug butt

I Simply Could Not Accept the “You’re Just Getting Old” Excuse

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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 . I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! In the summer of 2012, I was like the vast majority of people (and doctors, for that matter)—entirely ignorant of the role nutrition plays on health. Little did I know how absorbed I’d become in the burgeoning ancestral health movement. In fact, if someone were to have told me then that I’d be a health coach by 2016, I would’ve laughed in their face and rolled my eyes, slowly backing away. However, I’ve always had a passion for science and how it should shape spirituality. This passion led me to obtaining my Bachelor Degree in Geology—the rationale being that if I understood how the earth works, then I could gain a better understanding of how

A Probiotic Sour Beer Aims to Give Your Beer Habit a Healthy Boost

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Even if you love beer, you may not think of it as a health food. (Though you could !) A research team at the National University of Singapore is hoping to change that by creating a probiotic sour beer.   Chan Mei Zhi Alcine, a fourth-year student in the NUS Food Science and Technology Program, came up with the idea of what the university says is the world’s first probiotic-containing beer as a way for people who are lactose intolerant or dairy averse to consume probiotics.    “As a believer of achieving a healthy diet through consuming probiotics, this is a natural choice for me when I picked a topic for my final-year project,” Chan said in a press release .   Still, the effort to cultivate live probiotics in beer proved challenging because the hop acids impede their growth and survival, she said. It took Chan, working under the supervision of Associate Professor Liu Shao Quan, nine months to perfect the brewing process and recipe. During that time, the team experimented with di

The Leftovers

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3 dinners, 3 lunches = 6 meals! I love having leftovers for lunch, and I rarely buy lunch foods at the grocery store knowing I’ll have leftovers to spare. I always buy salad greens and a nice cheese, though, because I like to turn leftover proteins and veggies into a salad! Here are a few of the meals we had this week in both dinner and lunch form. Baked BBQ tofu with sweet potato fries and roasted zucchini and mushrooms. I used Dinosaur BBQ sauce, which was quite spicy on the tofu! I baked it for about 30 minutes. I prepared a plate for lunch the next day so I just had to heat that up when I was ready. I added a little sour cream that was calling my name too! Another night we had Greek baked cod, based on this recipe . I subbed the tomato sauce out and added sun-dried tomatoes and tons of feta! Plus green beans for an all-in-one dish. Pita chips on the side! This was SO GOOD for lunch the next day : ) With crackers this time. We have made this Blue Apron meatloaf 3 or 4 t