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What I Ate in a Day – Holiday Edition

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I’ve partnered with Enlightened to bring you this blog post and share how incredible their ice cream tastes. Seriously, I am so impressed. If you like Halo Top, Enlightened will knock your socks off. The texture and mix-ins are a zillion times better! Read on to see how it fits into my day, macro-wise, and why it’s truly THE BEST “healthy” ice cream on the market.  We’re all up and at ’em well before 6:00 AM. A rule in our house: No television before 6:00 AM, so when I come downstairs, I see Mal and Quinn sitting in the kitchen. Mal is eating breakfast and Quinn is playing with toys. Our kitchen counter is an absolute disaster, but, hey, real life, so I snap a photo of the whole scene. We went to Edaville the night before and didn’t get home until kind of late, so our stuff pretty much exploded everywhere. Rise ‘n shine! Murphy, of course, followed me downstairs. It was breakfast time after all! After I feed Murphy, I pour myself an iced coffee and add some protein powder and a

Iced Cranberry Scones

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These Iced Cranberry Scones are a perfect treat to have around during the holidays!  When you make them with organic ingredients, they are a healthier alternative to the Cranberry Orange Scones at Starbucks made with Monsanto Milk (from cows raised on GMOs ) and lots of refined conventional sugar (26 grams per scone!) My scone recipe calls for a very small amount of sugar… I just add a couple tablespoons of coconut palm sugar to the entire batch of dough, plus a little organic powdered sugar to the glaze. I use organic coconut palm sugar in my baking often. You can use it as a 1:1 substitute for any recipe that calls for regular old sugar. It’s completely unrefined and not bleached like typical white sugar, helping to preserve all of its vitamins and minerals.  To ensure your scones are fluffy and tender, you’ll want to use cold butter – so keep it in the fridge until needed. Also put the coconut milk in the refrigerator the night before (or at least 20 minutes before) making th

A New Chapter For the MDA Forum Community (With a Giveaway)

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When I first began this blog more than a decade ago, I was adamant about the role of a community with it. Sure, I wanted to share the knowledge I’d gained (and the experiments I was trying), but I also wanted something more to the experience. I wanted a healthy comment board that encouraged rigorous discussion on blog topics. And I wanted a forum to foster camaraderie and support among readers. It was critical, I believed, for folks to be able to talk with each other, to ask questions, and to share ideas for what was on their minds and not just on the blog that day. So, my team and I made it happen. The MDA Forum was born. It flourished, in fact. It became, in its own way, a hub of information within the Primal circle for sure, and even within the emerging ancestral movement. But today it’s time for a new chapter. It’s no secret the forum has been plagued by serious technical issues since last fall, and I’m not going to mince words here. I know many of you have shared your concer

Are fat bombs the Holy Grail (or Holy Cow!) of Keto?

There’s an old saying (something to the effect) that if you want to ruin a social gathering, just bring up politics or religion. Truer words have likely never been spoken. But I’d add one more controversial topic that can quickly turn an amicable feast into a SWAT call-out, and that’s food. Some people don’t really care WHAT they eat while others can be motivated to stab a family member with a fork if the wrong dietary approach is broached. All this considered, the ketogenic diet is a controversial topic at best… Some folks think it’s certain death to shift towards a whole foods, low glycemic load, appropriate protein and calorie plan. And in the other keto corner we have folks who have built a whole religion around avoiding protein, carbs and insulin, all the while recommending consuming enough butter and coconut oil to supply 100 AVN conferences with lubricant. As is often the case, there’s a lot of nuance between these two extremes. I do my best to unpack this greasy topic in

Hoos Excited For Basketball!

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^^Second helping of kale chips FTW!!! We had a low-key Friday night – leftover chili and kale chips for all. This was one of my best batches of kale chips in a long time (ok, I admit it, it was one of my only batches in a long time!) This time I cranked the heat up to about 400* and sprinkled on olive oil, smoked salt, and smoked paprika. They stayed in there about 15 minutes and were perfectly crispy. Everyone liked them! On Friday night we finished season one of This Is Us and are taking a break to start season two of Stranger Things! #TVMarathon On Saturday morning we had a light breakfast – toast with PB for me – because we had late morning brunch plans. Our destination: the UVA basketball game! Mazen pumped himself up by making an arena in his room with tons of animal spectators in the stands. We went to Hot Cakes for brunch (Mariebette had a 30 minute wait ) and had coffees, fruit, and quiche. We got to the game a little early and The Cavman was out greeting folks.