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Cheesy Mashed Potato & Italian Sausage Dobladas

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Hi, guys! Here’s another edition of our “ Quinn and Mumma ” days. It was your pretty standard morning of adventures, but this post concludes with an easy and delicious weeknight recipe. It’s actually an old school CNC recipe that’s been revived since it’s such a simple, nutritious, and quick dinner to throw together on busy night – or, hey, just any night when you DO NOT feel like cooking. Basically, you should add this recipe to your regular quickie dinner rotation! 🙂 Our morning started like a lot of them: “Snugs” on the couch while watching TV and sipping iced coffee (for me) and milk (or an “animal smoothie” for Quinn), getting ourselves dressed and ready for the day, and then eating breakfast together. On the menu for me: Shredded Brussels sprouts with air fryer cauliflower gnocchi and shredded cheddar. I’m obsessed with this meal lately! After breakfast, we got ourselves ready to leave the house, but not before checking the box for our weekly delivery. Inside was milk,

My Mind Is Still Catching Up With the Reality Of My Transformation

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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 Monday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! Primal eating was not a reality for me for a very long time, I did not even hear the words until I was 27. But flash back to when I was 12-years-old, and had just found out that I was 203.2lbs. I remember that number so clearly because of how hard I sobbed that day on the scale at the doctor’s office. When my 8th grade self saw that I had crossed in to 200+lbs, I immediately I lost any self worth. Media in the 90s made it clear that being fat was social destruction and meant that you were “less than.” Living in this culture of perfectionism, I continued to eat and cope with my “imperfections” with sugar addiction and exuberant amounts of terrib

(Holi)day at the Derby Street Shops

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Hi, guys! The Hauperts had quite the fun holiday weekend with all sorts of activities to kick off the most wonderful time of year! I really love that Thanksgiving fell so early this year because now we have an extra week of “Christmas holiday” to celebrate. (Quinn always says “Christmas holiday” when he’s talking about Christmas, and it’s the cutest thing ever. It’s also caught on with Mal and me, so now Christmas is “Christmas holiday” in our house!) I woke up bright and early on Black Friday for a special fun run at the Derby Street Shops . I actually wanted to do a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning, but it was SO COLD, I opted out. (Props to those of you local readers who ran on Thanksgiving morning. It was frigid!! I’m proud of you guys!) I was a little bummed to miss out, which is why I was especially excited for the Black Friday Run at Derby Street. The run kicked off at the BRAND NEW Lululemon location (right next to the Capital One Cafe), so I was psyched to see what i

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Happy One Month Day to Little Birch!! While this month has gone by fast, I can’t even remember what it was like to be pregnant – that feels like ages ago. Each day he gets a little more alert. He’s started cooing and I think we’ve gotten a few real smiles – the kind that involve the eyes and a wide open mouth! We had Thanksgiving all over again on Friday night in the form of leftovers. Thomas made my plate and I think there was more on it than on actual Thanksgiving! I still managed to eat most of it though. Breastfeeding hunger makes my appetite XL. VIDEOS We had leftover turkey + cranberry + cheddar sandwiches twice over the weekend. I much prefer turkey on a leftover sandwich than on a plate with gravy! Thomas grilled wings on Friday while we watched All. The. Sports. Tiger + Phil’s golf match, UVA football (so sad of a loss!) and UVA basketball. We had some friends over to keep good company : ) Their dad game is strong <3 Wings, salad, mac and cheese. Do