Making Love in the Kitchen

Who’s grandma didn’t have big bowls of hard candies all over the house? My mom is now a grandma, I feel like its only a matter of time. As a child, weekends at my grandparents house always left me with a very round face. One reason: sugar. Every room had bowl of candies. There were the ones in the strawberry wrappers, the lemon drops, the raspberry candies, the jelly beans, frozen grape bubble gum (don’t ask), even Lucky Charms. It was one massive sugar party and it was the best time ever. I was always returned to my parents at the end of the weekend with a round little face and sporting my sugar crashing cranky pants.

My low glycemic eaters who have taken on the 5 Day Low Glycemic Eating challenge might now be wearing these sugar crashing cranky pants. Sugar is a drug. A delicious one, but a drug all the same. Some argue that refined white sugar is the most addictive substance on this planet. You might even know what its like. You have a little, you want a little more and than you find yourself needing your daily fix, whether it be in your coffee or tea, soft drink, muffin, breakfast cereal, bread, pasta sauce, salad dressing, fruit juice or after dinner cookie. Sugar is in everything and we are consuming more than we think.

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A week without cookies is like a week without sunshine. We just can’t have that! Just because, come Sunday, we are going 5 Days Low Glycemic, doesn’t mean we can’t get creative with a few foods that, when combined, make up some kick-booty treats. Like these here little coconut ditties. Last week, I was indulging [...]

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That’s right my dearies. Not too long ago, I quietly updated my Lunar Cycle Tutorial to add in some vital information which I overlooked in the first and shorter edition. This bonus info is about how our eating affects not only our general mood stability but explains that how we eat affects our hormones on a biochemical level. That’s right ma’ladies. The foods you choose to snack on, indulge in regularly or perhaps even make whole meals out of might be contributing to your PMS symptoms and the muffin top many of us past the age of 25 have to funk with.

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Have you ever cooked down a soup? I loooove cooking down soups. “Huh? What?” I can hear you! What I mean by this is you have your soup, and you have enjoyed it very much as a soup, but then you think- “Hmmmm, this soup is so freaking amazing I would love it as a [...]

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