Super Food Salad-in-a-Jar

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One of my goals for 2015 is to incorporate more greens into my diet. I love salads, but I don’t make them as often as I should. Salads-in-jars to the rescue! These little beauties are the key to fitting more greens into your diet. You simply prepare a number of jars at the beginning of the week with the dressing on the bottom, filler in the middle and greens on the top, and you are set for a week’s worth of salads! These mason jar salads stay fresh in the fridge for up to a week. To up the ante on the…

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Curried Coconut Lentil Stew

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Just like many of you, I’ve been trying to eat healthier in the new year. I ended 2014 having made some significant changes to my diet and lifestyle – the main one being I went vegan in August. Since January 1, 2015, I’ve not been eating any processed sugar and have been trying so very hard to get more greens into my diet. I love greens, but I often forget about them! Poor little, forgotten greens! I’ve also been trying to do more food prep on the weekends, so that we are more prepared on weekdays leading to healthier meals…

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Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015!

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Looking back at what was 2014, I cannot help but smile. Jesse and I started 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii, with my family and then spent seven weeks backpacking Europe this past summer. It was an amazing experience spending time in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands and Belgium. We met some wonderful new people (hello Dani and Sven, Jane and John, Konstantin and Natascha!) and re-connected with wonderful friends in Belgium.  I had my heart stolen by Barcelona and felt completely at home in Copenhagen. We travelled to the States with some of our very best friends and made wonderful…

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