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How to Eat Cheetos (and not Ruin Anything)

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Cheeeeeetos. Is there anything better? Well, I mean, except for Funyuns, sometimes. But truly, nothing edges out Cheetos as my favorite nutritionally-damaging treat. Gawd, they’re wonderful. If you want to eat them with any regularity, you need to follow the Three Cheeto-Eating Rules, which have nothing to do with Mountain Dew chasers (which, paired with [...]

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Try Barley for Breakfast

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Almost every morning I make myself oatmeal for breakfast. But recently I bought whole, organic barley (don’t get “pearled” as it’s processed and you lose nutritional value, more on that in a minute) and came home to experiment. For some reason, the universe believes in dramatically overcooking most foods and everything I looked at told [...]

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Hot Pepper Confusion

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I never cooked with them growing up, and now I can’t seem to figure out which peppers are which. My grocery store does not help me, as you can see. If they would simply line up the correct sign over the correlative peppers, I’d maybe get closer to cooking with these marvelous creatures. The sign [...]

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Fabulous Fall Guacamole Recipe

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The Husband gets 10 extra Man Points for surprising me with this delicious weekend-starter. Hell, he gets 20! I’m feeling expansive, and you would too if you were about to dig into summa this. AND, lucky you! I just happened to see his recipe jotted down on a World Wildlife Fund notepad (depicting an adorable [...]

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How to Cheat on Your Diet (and do it well)

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1. Don’t try to be Polly Pure. It won’t work. Try for “sustainable” instead. Unless you are in training for a very specific period of time for a major goal (a marathon or a big fight), your diet should look and feel like something you can continue to do for the rest of your life. [...]

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5 ways to Eat Fast Food and Still Cut Carbs

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It’s good to start by eating less fast food, but even when you find yourself at the local burger, chicken, or waffle joint, there are ways to keep from loading up on insulin-jacking, straight-to-fat-storage carbohydrates. 1. Order protein, eat the guts If you avoid the bun that comes with your standard burger, dog, or chicken [...]

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Pregnant Tea

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I was browsing through my old pregnancy journal and came across this recipe for a tea I made regularly in the summer of 2000, the summer my youngest son was born. In order to obtain the ingredients, I had to drive a couple of hours to a Heritage store, which was a fabulous happy hippy [...]

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Eat More Guts

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Ever since I was medium-sized I’ve been eating the guts out of my sandwiches and leaving the bread behind. Part of this is because I grew up eating sandwiches made with my mother’s whole-grain, crammed-with-seeds, infinitely varied and interesting homemade bread, and once I was on my own (and emphatically NOT baking all my own [...]

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Rethink Your Salad

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Don’t ever purchase iceberg lettuce again. Spinach is the leafy green you want to go with, whether it’s a salad or a sammidge (you like that, don’t you — I learned that word from a Kentucky friend; I could have the spelling wrong). And quit thinking that a salad has to have leafy greens in [...]

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Breakfast of Superheroes

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Okay, people. You need to get more protein into your mornings, and ease back on the Lucky Charms. Anyway, you’re wasting money on the Lucky Charms when all you do is eat the marshmallows and leave the oat-y bits. So save those for a dessert and listen up. You work, play, and train hard, so [...]

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