What To Do With Strawberries…

07.07.2017

Anyone else psycho about wasting food??! I work at a Bistro in Camp Randall. Every Friday, we have to get rid of our leftover sandwiches, salads, wraps, etc. Every Friday at 2:30PM, I bike to my apartment, lopsided with a garbage bag slung over my shoulder and Longchamp FILLED with leftovers over the other shoulder. …

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Let’s Toast… To Sweet Potatoes

07.05.2017

Toast… without the toast? hmm Yep. The nutrition world is coming up with new food trends ALL. THE. TIME. It’s hard to keep up – but that’s all part of the fun!! I hopped on the sweet potato toast bandwagon recently and… I’m obsessed. Its gluten free, healthy, and a fun way to mix up …

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Salted Vanilla Cashew Butter

07.03.2017

It’s the night before the fourth of July & and all the roomies are gone… What do I do?? Hint: it involves a blender + cashews. Yeah… I made cashew butter. Someone call the fun police!! I have had an obsession with nut butter for as long as I remember. When I first became interested …

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Crack Cookie Dough

06.30.2017

You’re probably reading the title and wondering why a blog with “kale” in the name is writing about cookie dough. A few years ago, I gave myself a challenge, to learn how to make unhealthy food, like slutty brownies, healthy. I was on a mission. I scrolled through what felt like an infinite about of …

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Everything You Need To Know About: Flaxseeds

06.26.2017

Alright guys, I’m ready to spill the beans on flax seeds…. Flaxseed comes from the flax plant, which is native to the area of the Mediterranean to India. This seed was cultivated around 3000 BC in Babylon, an ancient city of Mesopotamia. And guess what?? King Charlemagne was such a flax believer that he passed …

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