by cheri | May 21, 2015 | Dairy-Free, Food Diary & Weight Loss, Gluten Free, Healthy Recipes, Personal, Recipe, Smoothies, Soups/Salads, Vegan, Vegetarian
I had my first successful Nutritarian Day. 100% successful. That feels FANTASTIC. Especially after having like 14 100% unsuccessful days in a row (actually very unlike me)…I’m back on track! I drink 30 ounces of water 5 times per day, every day. I try to...
by cheri | May 20, 2015 | Dairy-Free, Food Diary & Weight Loss, Gluten Free, Personal, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian
In my last post where I talked about my crazy 2-week binge eating episode, I resolved to go on a 42 Day Nutritarian Challenge. That’s 6 weeks for all you mathematicians out there. So the basis of Nutritarianism is pretty simple. You crowd out all the foods that...
by cheri | May 20, 2015 | Food Diary & Weight Loss, Personal
So I was on a 2-week bender full of Oreos and pasta. Old school eating habits…like WAY old school. Having been pescetarian for almost 2 years now, dairy and pasta and anything but shrimp being the very rarest of foods I would eat, I was surprised when I...
by cheri | Sep 3, 2014 | Dairy-Free, Drinks, Entrees, Fast Recipes, Favorites, Gluten Free, Gluten Free Adaptable, Healthy Recipes, Recipe, Smoothies, Vegan, Vegetables/Fruits, Vegetarian, Video
Why Smoothies? Since I started eating super healthy over a year ago, smoothies have become an absolute staple in my kitchen, and there are a few different reasons for this: They’re nutritionally superior meals. As you may or may not know, cooking a food...
by cheri | Aug 21, 2014 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange
Did you ever eat spinach and end up later on with a weird feeling in your mouth or all over your teeth? Like, you had just sucked on some sandpaper and your teeth or your tongue feels funny? Your teeth feel like they’re coated in some weird chalky substance? Or...
by cheri | Aug 17, 2014 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange
If you thought there were only 4 tastes, you thought wrong. There are actually 5! bitter salty sweet sour umami (pronounce it like “ooo-MOM-ee”) So just what is umami? Umami is a word that describes this fifth flavor, but the concept is a bit difficult to...
by cheri | Aug 3, 2014 | Ingredients 101
Did you ever look at the label of an oil that you were buying and see the term “expeller-pressed”? First things first, if you see that term, it means it’s a good oil to buy. But why? Expeller-pressed is the way the oil is made. The way it is...