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Refined Sugar and Me Week 3 — By any other name would taste as sweet

Let’s check in on week three of refined sugar & me in 2017. So this week… I gained a pound back. Which is disappointing, but although I did continue to chill on added sugar, it was one of those weeks where… well…I ate everything else. But, I see what I did here and why, so this …

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Refined Sugar and Me — Let’s Check in on Week 2

It’s Monday, so let’s check in for week two of the limiting refined sugar challenge of 2017! How’s everyone doing so far? Here: I’m down 5 lbs (!) from where I started doing this on December 30, but that has kind of stalled out. This was pretty much what I expected, though, after my last …

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Refined Sugar and Me in 2017 — Week One: The Experiment Begins

I meant to have a thoughtful post all ready to go in the New Year to talk about how refined sugar fits into some of the ways Mashup Mom is changing focus in 2017, but I lost… well… focus. Blame it on the sugar. 🙂 So here’s the off the top of my head version, and we’ll …

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Make It or Buy It? Salad Dressing — Plus an Avocado Vinaigrette Recipe

Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: Salad dressing. I’m trying to eat less sugar in the New Year (more on that later…), so have been starting to pay more attention to the crazy amount of added sugars in processed foods. I don’t have a lot of salad dressing in my house …

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How to Save half an Avocado — Plus Quick not-Guac!

Don’t you love all the sales we’ve been seeing on avocados lately? There’s nothing worse than a wasted avocado though, and it’s so sad when you want to save half of a cut avocado for later but find that it’s turned brown and unappetizing by the next day. So: Here’s how to save half an …

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