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    Best Salad: Il Mercato

    With two convienet locations, both downtown and Bedford, Il Mercato means market and their market fresh ingredients are sure to please the palate. Forks down, best salad I’ve ever eaten. The grilled vegetable salad at Il Mercato is the perfect…

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    Spring Cleansing Part III – Meal Plan

    Week One: Challenge Drink 10 glasses of water (min) no dairy (except natural yogurt) no meat  no coffee (:()  no wine/alcohol no “packaged” foods no white pasta/grains no refined sugar (this one is sneaky…

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    Beach Ready Lunch

    Photo credit: google “You can expect it to fight cravings for 1-1.5 hours, depending on the contents of the meal consumed, the effects of increased fat metabolism in the liver can extend more then…

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    Lemon Lentil Soup

    Borrowed from the Metro News I’ve made this soup time and time again. It delicious and it freezes well, so if you can’t stomach it all put it away for a rainy day.  Lemony…

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    Spring Cleansing Part II

    I’ve compiled a list of things you might need to complete your cleanse properly.  You are going to need protein in order to feel satisfied, and repair your muscles. Here are just a few suggestions. quinoa (full…

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    Spring Cleansing

    In spring we often haul everything out of closets, and revamp;  well I say we should also do this with our bodies. Why not clear out all the clutter and start fresh, only keeping…

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    Happy Sushi

    For a friend’s birthday we gathered at Happy Sushi for lunch. I’ve never really done sushi pre-8pm before, but in the name of birthdays and sushi: I’ll pretty much do anything. What’s interesting about…

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    When Food Gets Serious

    When people in your life are ill it gets you to thinking…  If we are what we eat, what are we eating that is making us so sick?  I’ve been thinking about this over…

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    Curried Chick Peas and Veg

    Delicious and nutritious, this recipe comes to you from a very generous woman who prepared this recipe for her children and then took the time to write it out for me to try at home.…