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Clean Eating Slow Cooker Pork Ragout Recipe

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This clean eating slow cooker pork ragout is absolute comfort food. A while back, I asked people to tell me what recipes they’d like to see on my blog. Pork Ragout was one of the many, many… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry https://ift.tt/2NTGeIo

Beautycounter “Starter” Product Recommendations

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I  love  that I’ve received so many questions from followers about Beautycounter – specifically products for those of you who are just getting started with the brand. Beautycounter has A LOT to offer, but instead of overwhelming you with one million products recommendations, I’m going to share my top “starter” products (as well as personal favorites) with you. Let’s start with  skin care . The combination of these products below makes for an amazing starter skin care routine. The 3 products that I always recommend to newbie clients are: Nourishing Cream Exfoliator  (or  Countercontrol Clear Pore Cleanser  for oily/acne prone skin) Countermatch Adaptive Moisture Lotion An anti-aging product (recommendations below) For  anti-aging , I personally love the  Rejuvenating Radiance Serum  and have had  great results  using it. (The whole  Rejuvenating Collection  is awesome, but if I had to choose just one product to start with, it’d be the serum.) However, the  Overnight Resurfaci

Your Most Efficient Kitchen

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This post is sponsored by Blue Apron Are you one of those people who leaves the kitchen looking like a tornado came through when dinner comes to the table? Or are you a clean-as-you-go type? You can imagine where I’m going with this 🙂 I try to be as efficient and neat in the kitchen as possible (sometimes to a fault!) Since my life is going to change a lot when the baby comes, efficiency will be more important than ever. Below are some of the strategies that keep my kitchen as efficient as can be. 1 // Let Blue Apron Do Your Planning And Shopping With Blue Apron , efficiency starts before you even think about your meal plan for the week because their team does your meal planning, grocery shopping and ingredient measuring for you. This is my number one favorite thing about Blue Apron meals weeks! While we do still fit in a grocery store trip in person for staples, this trip in itself is a lot more efficient because we’re only buying the things we need for every week: milk, co

Ditching the Diet Mentality

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I bet that if you’re reading this, you’ve been on some form of a self-prescribed “diet” at one point or another, as I have. In fact, going on a “diet” was part of my routine for a number of years. I’d usually restrict my eating in some form for a few weeks or months, sometimes in preparation for a special event or “bikini season,” and once I’d reached my goal weight I’d resume normal eating (or even go a little overboard due to the restriction) and gain the weight back – and then do it all again a few months later. I’m sure that many of you guys can relate, and, sadly, it’s not even remotely surprising. We’ve literally been conditioned as a society to accept dieting and diet culture as normalcy, a part of everyday life. But what does the word “diet” even mean, at its very core definition? To find out, I turned to good ol’ Merriam-Webster: a: food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for

Testimonial: Years Of Symptoms Cured In 1 Week

Robb, you literally changed my life a few years ago. I had been suffering for years from depression and bipolar disorder until I decided to do something about it and take care of my own health. My journey to reading your Paleo Diet book started with omega-3 milk I had purchased at a grocery store. After drinking it for a few days, my head felt lighter, clearer than it had for a long while. I felt more energy, more motivation than I ever had in my short lifetime of 21 years at the time. Feeling such immediate results without even expecting it, I discovered how important it is to lead a healthy lifestyle by getting rid of the junk (food). I started researching omega-3s more, asked professors about the importance of fats in the diet, and finally searched for a good Paleo diet book to read more into the “perfect human diet.” And that is what led me to your Paleo Diet book. After reading your book, I immediately changed my diet cold turkey. The 100+ grams of refined sugars I used to

Baby #2: The Hospital Bag and 5 Things I’m Doing To Get Ready For Birth

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36 weeks along and baby could come sooner rather than later! My hospital bag is packed, and I thought I’d share with you what I am bringing along plus some things I’m doing to prepare for birth! Here’s the video version for optimal wordiness ( 🙂 ) and photos below for those of you who can’t watch the video. (FYI, you might have to turn off an adblocker to see it.)   To summarize what I’m packing, most of it is for after the birth! I know from doing this before at the same hospital that I don’t really need much to actually labor and have the baby. Here are the two posts I reference for packing my bag with Mazen (these posts were so helpful for me to reference this time around!):  Packing The Hospital Bag  and  Hospital Bag Reflections. Here’s a list of what’s in my bag this time around: For Me Day-after PJs and lightweight robe Day 2 PJ bottoms and a more cozy robe/sweater in case it’s cold 2 nursing tanks 2 nursing shirts My going-home outfit (leggings, nursing tank, w

What I’m Loving Lately 123

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Hi, guys! I hope you’re having a fabulous week! If you haven’t signed up yet, I FINALLY created a weekly round-up email of recent CNC blog posts . Now you can get a recap of what happened on the blog delivered right to your inbox. It’s just one email per week! Just sign up here ! I like the Thursday edition of “ What I’m Loving Lately” , so I think it’ll become a regular weekly feature. They’re fun for me to write and you guys really seem to enjoy them, so let’s keep ’em alive and publish them on Thursdays. Boom. Decision made! 🙂 That way, you still have a random blog post surprise coming to you on Fridays. I like that I can switch it up from week-to-week and keep you guys guessing! Haha! Chocolate Donut Seasoning – One of my nutrition clients recently told me about this seasoning – and, of course, I had to order it immediately . Chocolate Donut Seasoning? What the what!?! I just received it the other day and, OMG, it’s incredible! I can see myself using this ALLTHETIME!!! M

Meal Prep High-Protein Italian Pasta Bake

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We’re in full on back-to-school mode over here – and that also means we’re back on the meal-prep train. If summer is busy, I’m inclined to say fall is even busier. There’s something about the leaves beginning to change colors and the cooler mornings and nights that kind of spurs on the feeling of reset, especially when it comes to prioritizing healthy habits. But with mornings flying by in a crazy rush to get everyone out the door in (mostly) one piece and the rest of the day focused on work, work, work, all I want is our evenings to be full of rest, relaxation, and soaking up the gorgeous fall weather before winter arrives. This means that dinner needs to be something I can get on the kitchen table in no time – and if I can prep it beforehand, even better!  I’m always on the hunt for tasty meals that will last throughout the week, but don’t require a ton of effort. And as much as I love an amazing culinary experience as the next foodie – sometimes a gal just wants to EAT. That’s

Brighten Up Eats

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Nothin’ like a smoothie to brighten up a rainy day! Sub-Zero Superfoods sent me a sample pack of their blend-at-home smoothies. They’re similar to Daily Harvest in that they put pre-portioned, superfood ingredients into a frozen cup delivered to your doorstep and you just add milk and blend when you’re ready to eat. They offer a great variety of options too – some with rice protein, low sugar, collagen for all you collagen peeps, bowls with granola included (that’s what I have above!) and some with greens. All have been tasty and on par with smoothies I’d get in a fancy smoothie shop. I’ve obviously been on a total smoothie kick lately. Mazen loves the chocolate-peanut butter-banana combo so I make those for his breakfast the majority of the time. (Usually plus a slice of whole wheat toast.) He often only drinks half the smoothie for breakfast and I save the rest for later. And sometimes I finish his half eaten toast with my smoothie! Granola on top of this one. Yogurt, nectarin