Monika
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Blueberry Quinoa Breakfast Bakes
Good morning everyone!! I am trying to make new recipes instead of going back to my tried and true favorites and this particular one has been bookmarked for a while now. I bought some whole grain quinoa at Costco about a month ago but haven't made it yet because I am a little wary. I don't think I h
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User Post: Homemade Protein Bars
Today breakfast was a smorgasbord of food because I really didn't feel like anything. I had one protein bar (recipe below), greek yogurt with ground flaxseed and berries and a hard boiled egg.
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User post: Chicken Casserole - the "Healthy" Way
Breakfast was protein pancakes with blueberries.1 scoop pp splash vanilla extract cinnamon 2 tbsp or so of almond milk 1 tbsp blueberriesAfter the gym I had an awesome almond butter banana smoothie. No picture.Dinner was a chicken "casserole" I read a few different variations of this but I can't rem
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Quick Healthy Protein Pancakes
Day 27: Lifting this afternoon - I slept in past my morning cardio - oops.So we all know that I have been doing protein bakes to make sure I get my protein in the morning but the fatkid doesn't like oatmeal (weirdo) so he just does cereal with fruit in the am. I have been working on him getting his
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Berry Banana Protein Bake
So I wanted to try the banana bake a little differently as I have a bag of frozen berries in the fridge and I am getting sick of just have my protein with water on my way home from the gym in the pm.This is my new snack for immediately after lifting. I cut it in four pieces and each piece has apx:40
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Healthy Apple Oatmeal Bake
Happy Monday!!So since I loved the banana oatmeal bake I made last week I decided to try another one. A friend of mine suggested apple and I thought that sounded delicious - lucky for me, it was!!Ingredients: 2 cups rolled oats1/4 tsp salt1 tsp baking soda or powder - which i forgot...so mine didn't
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Protein Oatmeal Banana Bake
I eat oatmeal with vanilla protein powder basically every day and I am getting slightly sick of it....plus I have been running slightly late recently. My point it that I saw this oatmeal bake on a bicycle built for Two and also on Kath Eats Real Food and wanted to try it. The only problem I saw was
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Healthy Orange-Cranberry Muffins - with a twist!
I have a ton of citrus in my house at the moment - orange and lemons galore so I wanted to use them to make something. Adapting this clean eating lemon muffins from The Gracious Pantry I make some lemony orange cranberry muffins. They turned out great but a little sweet for my taste. For someone who
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Classic Banana Bread on a Lazy Sunday
classic banana breadSo this weekend was a great one spent with my fatkid and his mother who was in town visiting us for the first time. She got to see the house, we went to a baseball game and spent time with out friends. On Sunday while we were lazing around recovering from Friday and Saturday John
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Quick, Healthy, Slow Cooker Chicken
This is an easy and quick (prep) dish for me to make overnight or while I'm gone all day. I use the chicken and onions to make tacos with pita flaxseed flatbread while the fatkid eats his plain.
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User post: Healthy Banana Nut Bread
healthy banana nut breadThe fatkid loves banana bread and has been asking me to make it for him since I started this new cooking hobby. The problem is that every recipe I came across that claimed to be "healthy" still had loads of butter and sugar in it. I found a recipe finally after browsing for w
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No Bake Banana Berry Granola Bars
perfect no-bake banana berry oat barsIngredients:1/2 cup almond butter1/2 cup honey2 tsp coconut oil2 1/2 cups Kashi Go Lean2 cup rolled oats 1 cup coarsely ground mixed nuts1/2 cup cranberries dried1/2 cup blueberries - fresh1 1/2 tbsp vanilla2 heaping tsp of flaxseed1 tsp chia seeds3 tsp cinnamon
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User post: Mini Kashi Banana Muffins - Yummy!
So we had a really great Saturday so far, I slept in (which for me is anything past 7) and went to Flow Yoga at 9:15. This was the first class I was able to make it to all week so I was really glad about that. Then when I got home we decided to go hiking at a new mountain which I've been to before b