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Category: Diet
September 30, 2013
Smart For Life Protein Bar Review
A while back I was unhappy to discover that the Protein Bars I was using from Premier Protein contained the artificial sweetner sucralose. I have since finished with that brand of bar and moved onto something much better. I have been using Smart for Life brand Protein Bars for several months now and I’m very happy. The first thing that immediately impressed me was all of the things that they don’t have: No Preservatives No GMO No Trans Fat No Cholestrol No Artificial Sweetners Gluten-Free When I purchased my first box of these at Costco, I wasn’t even thinking about[…continue reading]
September 17, 2013
Unusual Dream…
So, I had a really strange dream on the weekend. I thought that my lovely readers would get a kick out of it. I was dreaming that I was running a race. That kind of dream is not unusual, well, not unusual for me anyways! And I knew it was a race because I was a water/aid station. I was expecting the usual cups of Gatorade and water. But instead they were serving Chicago-style deep dish pizza slices! And in my dream, they were delicious!! I had authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza when I was in Chicago last year for[…continue reading]
September 11, 2013
Going Low-Fodmap
A member of my household has been told by a doctor to go on a low-fodmat diet. It’s a less extreme version of going Gluten-Free for Celiac disease, which is becoming increasingly common. So I’m going to support her by going along for the diet change as much as I can! From what I understand, people on need to be on low-fodmap diets to prevent severe irritation to the intestines. In some cases it’s so bad that certain sugars need to be avoided as if they were poison. The biggest difficulty is that these sugars are the main components of staple foods[…continue reading]
