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The Friday 5 + Primally Pure Giveaway

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Hi, friends! Happy (almost) Memorial Day Weekend! I hope you have some fun adventures planned for the long weekend! 🙂 The Hauperts are BUSY with all sorts of events and activities, including 3 birthday parties, 2 BBQs, and 1 brunch with friends. Woohoo! Let the summer fun begin! This time of year is always jam-packed for us. It’s like we hibernate all winter and, as soon as the weather turns nice, everyone wants to make plans and hang out. Every week and weekend is scheduled from now until September! Anyway… it’s Friday, and I wanted to share some of my favorites from the week with this edition of The Friday 5. I hope you enjoy it and have a fantastic Memorial Day Weekend! 1. Fullstar Cutter-Veggie Spiralizer + Vegetable Pro-Food Chopper and Dicer – I shared this new-to-me kitchen tool on Instagram Stories last weekend while I was doing my food prep for the week, and I must have gotten two dozen questions about it. It’s a chopper, dicer, and spiralizer, and it’s a GAME-CHANGER f

Clean Eating Barbecued Bell Pepper Recipe

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This bell pepper recipe is perfect for summer grilling! If you end up with a ton of bell peppers from the garden this year (or even just find a good sale on them at the store!), you have to give this recipe a try. It’s easy summer grilling and the flavor makes a great side dish for just about any main course. I’ve been doing a lot of barbecue recipes lately, and for good reason. No oven can compete with the flavor that a barbecue gives vegetables. It’s absolutely unparalleled in my world. So I barbecue often in the summer months and even long into fall. That’s one of the many blessings of California weather. Many, many months for using the grill. And the more I use it, the better I get at using it. Funny how that works, but I’m not arguing. Plus, I can always count on Mini Chef eating his veggies when they’ve been cooked on the grill. So it’s a win-win. These peppers are sweet and flavorful, so if you’re trying to get your own kids to eat more veggies, this may be a good one to t

Does Sleep Quality Really Decline With Age? (Plus, What I Do & a Giveaway)

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One of the most common complaints people have as they age is poor quality sleep. They get less sleep than younger people, and, despite what you may have heard, their sleep requirements do not decline with age. A 70-year-old should still be getting 7-8 hours of sleep a night. The problem is that, for many different reasons, older people usually have issues getting the amount of sleep they need. The popular approach is to accept poor sleep as an inevitable part of aging and find workarounds, ideally workarounds that require a lifelong prescription to a name-brand pharmaceutical. That’s not my way. I accept that the conventional approach may be warranted in certain cases, but it should be a last resort. A person should exhaust the diet, lifestyle, and exercise options before turning to the prescription pad. What about that central position of the conventional wisdom: Declining sleep quality is a necessary function of age. Is that actually true? Why Do We Equate Getting Older With Sle

Home Neat Home: Toy Storage

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I asked Instagram a few weeks ago if there were any Home Neat Home topics you guys would like me to write about. Almost all of the responses had to do with organizing toys! (Also I don’t think I have ever shared a tour of this kitchen, so I will plan to do that soon.) Tip 1: Designate Certain Rooms As Toy Zones If you walk into my front door at any given moment, you will not see toys everywhere. We do have a doorway bouncer for Birch in the kitchen, but otherwise toys are designated to certain areas and within those areas, certain containers. The only toys that are in the living room are Birch’s quilt and baby toys which tuck neatly into a nice basket. I get out his quilt and toys several times a day and clean them up when we’re done for the time being. All of the other toys (the big boy toys are 1,000 x what the little boy toys are!) are in Mazen’s room and our downstairs playroom. Obviously Mazen is allowed to take his toys wherever he wants in the house to play with them, but