Roasted Red Pepper and Sweet Potato Bisque

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Roasted Red Pepper and Sweet Potato Bisque

Looking for a deliciously indulgent soup that both your tastebuds and your body will love? Look no further!

This Roasted Red Pepper and Sweet Potato bisque is so good you’ll forget how good it is FOR you! Perfect as an entire meal, or get crazy and serve it as a starter to your foodie friends. This is one recipe people won’t ask if, “this is one of your healthy recipes”

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Best Road Trip Snacks

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Best Road Trip Snacks

I’ve spent a lot of time on the road. Between family road trips and the several years I spent touring across the United States as an actor, I’ve definitely put in some miles. And if there’s one thing I know about hitting the open road, it’s that what you’ve got in your ears and have available to eat can totally make or break the long hauls.

I imagine it must have had something to do with not wanting to hear, “are we there yet” a zillion times, but the way I remember things, my parents always wanted to get where we were going as quickly as possible. What that meant to me as a kid was that we had short bathroom breaks, and ideally when we had to get gas. Because of this, snacks were essential.

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Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras Recipes

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Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras Recipes

Next Tuesday is Fat Tuesday.  Some people call it Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday. Any of them work, take your pick.

But really, Fat Tuesday?

Have you ever wondered why it was called Fat Tuesday? I’ll be honest, for the longest time I thought it was because that’s when the church did the Pancake breakfast fundraiser and we ate all the pancakes and bacon. Funny thing is, I was partially right.

Side note: all you people who took French in High School but never clued the rest of us in, thanks for nothing. The translation gras mardi from French to English is… yup, you guessed it. Tuesday Fat. Tuesday Fat. Fat Tuesday. (Face palm)

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Nutritional Tracking

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Nutritional Tracking

I get it, I know.  Food journaling/tracking can be a pain. Like, a super annoying pain. Like the 19-month younger sister pain when you're rocking the only child thing (love you girl!)!  But the thing is this. The more information you have, the easier it will be to determine what is (or isn’t) working! I know tracking isn’t fun. Trust me, as a trainer, it’s not fun for me to BUG you about tracking- but it’s helpful, which is why I want you to do it.

That being said, I don’t think it’s necessary that you track ever morsel of food and drink from now until the rest of your life. I DO think it’s necessary in certain situations. Some of these include:

  • Starting a new nutrition program

  • Starting a new wellness program

  • When you want/need to lose body fat

  • When you hit a plateau in your body fat loss

  • When you have a goal with a deadline

The more you track, the better, but if nothing else, record what you are putting in your body.

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Cookbooks

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Cookbooks

So here’s how I feel about cookbooks… I love them

Yes, I realize the internet has kinda become a big deal.  And yes, I realize that I can look up recipes on the internet.  However, there’s something about a book…

Maybe it’s because I love books so much.  Or maybe it’s because most blogs have waaaayyy too many words and pictures to scroll through before you can actually get to the recipe (I try not to do that since it annoys me so much).  Or maybe I’m just weird (I never said I wasn’t), but it’s true. I do love a good cookbook.

Note the word “good”. 

Yes, I have thoughts about what makes a good cookbook.  Big surprise, huh?

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