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5 Reasons Why September is a Great Month to Start Over

Get Started in September

As most of you know we are in the last few weeks of our warm summer days and we hope you are squeezing every second out of the golden sun and short-sleeve weather. Before you jump ahead to autumn, hibernation mode, we want you to know that September marks a GREAT and PURPOSEFUL month to get started on whatever health [...]

“Going Local” at Quill’s End Farm

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My girls and I were able to spend five amazingly wonderful weeks in Maine this summer.  As we have done in years past, we made the local farmers’ market part of our weekly routine.  We arrived just in time to catch the tail end of blueberry season, the peaches came and went in less than two weeks while the fresh [...]

Why so much hype around
RAW foods?

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“Becoming raw”  is exactly that – living a lifestyle that believes the most healthful foods are those that are uncooked (with a slight exception for some heat as long as it is below 118°F). And why raw?  Cooking is thought to break down natural enzymes in food, which are needed to assist with digestion and absorption of nutrients. So does [...]

Tomato & Pesto Open-Faced Sandwich

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I always love the beginning of tomato season. Usually appearing in early June, tomatoes seem to make their way into the markets just when I need them most. After months of root vegetables and hearty leafy greens, juicy tomatoes announce with gusto that summer has arrived. And once they do appear on the scene, they make their way into everything. [...]

Corn Chowder

Corn Chowder

The little girls and I have been in Maine for about a week now, enjoying every minute of being “off the grid”. Lots of time out on the water, berry picking on the mountain, “crabbing” on the rocks. But we have had a couple rainy days that have driven us indoors. Wet and cold outside, we were looking for ways [...]

How I stay motivated to workout (and how you can too)

Jumprope Workout with Steph

Making time to MOVE your body is a challenge that most of us deal with on a daily basis. Most of our jobs are seat-based jobs where we walk from the car, to our desk, to the bathroom, and back to the car – eventually at home in our beds, right? As a new business owner, I do a lot [...]

Barley & Peach Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

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I was an anti-salad girl for a long time.  For starters, they are cold – and I am all about the warm foods.  Texture was also a problem.  Too often, I felt like I was sitting down to a plate of grass & leaves from the backyard.  But I think that the biggest mark against the average green salad was [...]

Summer Green Smoothie

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Recently, morning smoothies have become a part of our daily routine. With all of the stone fruit showing up in our CSA box, coupled with the abundance of berries that we have picked, we had no choice but get creative. And it really has become an adventure for all of us, gathering around the blender in the morning to taste [...]

Delicious Ideas for Healthy Workday Lunches

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Lunch can easily be a major pitfall if you are trying to “live healthy” at work. Often squeezed between meetings, forgotten because you have too many things to do, thrown out because your lettuce is bland, or overloaded with grease because you decided to eat take-out, LUNCH can be a meal that holds us back from meeting our goals to eat better. [...]

A Trip Down the Coast

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Sometimes you just have to step out. And that is exactly what I did last weekend. Somewhat on a whim, I packed up the car with nothing more than a change of clothes, a bag full of s’more fixins and my oldest daughter Brin – and we went south. Not far but far enough to feel like we were AWAY. [...]