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    Fall Into Healthier Habits with HLTH Code Complete Meal

    Hope you’re doing well! As the weather cools and life gets busier with school schedules, work, sports, and family activities, it can be tough to find time for balanced meals. That’s why I recently started working with HLTH Code Complete Meal — a clean, delicious, keto-friendly, and gluten-free meal replacement shake made specifically for busy lifestyles like ours.

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    Beer Bread with Cheese & Garlic

    I used Dos Equis for this beer bread with cheese & garlic but you can use any kind of Brown ale, lagers, and porters are all good. Let the beer come to room temperature, or close to it. Sifting the flour is a must. The bread will be lighter and fluffier.

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    Not Your Mama’s Black Bean Sweet Potato Chili

    Who doesn’t love some chili? My favorite chili to make is black bean sweet potato chili. One of our favorite recipes throughout the year, no matter how the weather is treating us, would have to be a big bowl of black bean sweet potato chili. The only problem I always run into when eating a big bowl of chili would be the fact that I’ll get occasional heartburn and sleeplessness right before going to bed. Anyone that gets occasional heartburn before bed can tell you, it feels horrible. I’ve tried a number of different things over the years, none have really…

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    Spice Islands Has Everything from A to V

    Spice Islands has everything from A to V — from Allspice to Vanilla. I always tell my friends and family to use premium spices and herbs in their recipes and Spice Islands offers you the highest quality spices to elevate your entire menu. They handpick many of their spices and take extra steps to capture the natural oils which gives the spices their rich flavor. For example with my rosemary lamb chop appetizer, you can truly taste the warm peppery aroma of the rosemary and serve it with a sweet and tart cranberry apple chutney. How about some butternut squash soup…

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    Wine Pairing with Popcorn | #NationalPopcornDay

    I never really been much of a wine drinker, except for when it comes to making sangiras. My friend and I decided to have a weekend dedicated to binging Netflix. Normally when we do that we get a lot of junk food, however we’re trying to lose weight. So when I grabbed a few bags of SkinnyPop for wine pairing with popcorn. Creating the Perfect Sangria Recipe Choose Your Wine: A white wine sangria gives you many options to choose from and it’s hard to choose a wine that doesn’t work. A few of the favorite styles for this recipe…

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    A Simple Sweet & Salty Dip For Any Potluck with Chobani Yogurt

    We had a potluck at work on Friday – we have monthly potlucks. I normally don’t bring anything, but this week was National People Week at McDonalds. Where they take a week to thank the crew & managers, which is kinda cool. So I could of just went to the store and grabbed something, but I like coming up with fun healthy ideas. So I decided to make a cookie dip & ranch dip using Chobani yogurt. Since I work 3 jobs currently, I needed something quick and easy to put together for work. Being that I work in fast…

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    Healthy Snack Choices With Graze | #GrazeBox

    Are you looking for a healthy snack option? A Graze box would be the way to go. When you go to their site, make sure you have your ebates button activated on Chrome, you get $1.50 cash back on ever purchase you make. YES! Your first sample box has 4 examples and every box after that, you get 8 snacks per box. There’s over 100 snacks of yummy choices, you can check out them here. With the exception of our flapjack box which is $13.99, all of our other 8 snack boxes cost just $11.99 including delivery.  Specialty 4 snack boxes,…