one fANNEtastic wedding

Last weekend was epic… or should I say fANNEtastic. Anne, one of the girls from grad school, a very dear friend as well as favorite running buddy got married on Saturday! Stunning, isn’t she? Anne and her new husband Matt are one of the happiest, goofiest, kindest couples I’ve ever met. One of my favorite things about them is

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tips to become a morning exerciser

I’m going to give myself props today. I’m 5 for 5 morning workouts this week! Over the years I’ve grown to love morning workouts but don’t think for a second though that I jump out of bed at 5:30am with a smile on my face, overzealous about the thought of running in the pitch black

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Pumpkin Pie Bran Muffins

Praise the gourd gods. Canned pumpkin is plentiful on grocery store shelves and after drooling over these tasty looking bran muffins last week, I was inspired to come up with a delicious pumpkin bran muffin of my own. Bran muffins are the best kind of muffins in my book. Wheat bran is packed with all

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Greek Yogurt: How to Tell What’s Real & What’s Not

You can imagine the amount of time a room full of dietitians can spend talking about food. Yesterday at my internship, we got on the topic of Greek yogurt after someone discovered we had 7 different types in the refrigerator… totally normal for a room full of dietitians. One of the pediatric RDs started comparing

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best of the best: veggie burger roundup

I no longer have a reason to fuss about delicious-looking but disappointing-tasting veggie burgers on Pinterest. I contacted one of my favorite local restaurants and got my hands on the recipe for the Carolina Brewery Veggie Burger. They were more than happy to share the recipe with us (!!!) so it’s burger #1 today. I also collected your favorite recipes through tweets, comments, emails and

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mint pea pesto linguine

“Do you know you have three bags of frozen peas in the freezer?” That was the first thing I heard when I walked into the kitchen for a big mug of coffee on Sunday morning. Apparently, Rob had already made coffee and reorganized the freezer all before I even got out of bed. My response? “Really? I’ll

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