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Super Bowl Snack Time!
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Click the links below to go to the recipes!!
1. Baked Garlic Plantain Chips
2. Spicy Hummus
3. Dark Chocolate Rice Cake Dippers
The good thing about all of these recipes is that they are super easy to make, time saving, and taste wonderful. In fact, the plantain chips work perfect for dipping in the hummus and the rice cakes would go great with some chocolate fro-yo on top!! Have fun with these easy, clean, healthy snacks for Super Bowl 49!By the way, I'm rooting for the Seahawks and hope that Beast Mode, I mean Marshawn Lynch 'mollywops' aka destroys the Patriots defense. And doesn't have to say a word to the press, he says enough on the field.
Stay hungry my friends...
Ray B.
Top 3 Foodie Gadgets from Etsy
Thursday, January 8, 2015
What foodie or home cook doesn't like new gadgets? I mean I just got a coffee french press and I thought I was queen of the world and made coffee even when I had no intentions of drinking it! Over the last year I scoured the web for super cool and trendy products that I would love to have in my own home! I made sure make this list was diverse, featured small businesses, and were pretty cool. Here's who made the list:
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From Unhappy Girl to Hungry Girl
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
From Unhappy Girl to Hungry Girl
A life lesson in growing up.
Written by: Racheal A. Ball
Recently The Ladders reached out to me and give my take on what employment and my life was life after graduating and how I got there! Of course I was beyond honored to share my story. The Ladders is a GREAT resource when it comes to job hunting especially if you have a desired income of $40,000 per year and up. They make the process extremely easy and cuts out getting all those random emails regarding an 'open position' for a mystery company that pays 100% commission! Here's my life lesson in growing up...
College graduation was the day I’d been waiting for since
pre-school. It wasn’t easy getting there either, I mean 5 years of studying,
sleepless nights, crying, professors that refused to use technology, chicken
flavored ramen noodles, turning 21, a million part time jobs that equaled 40
hours a week, internships, and buying completely over priced and under utilized
text books that all led to May 13, 2011.
Turns out this was also one of the most boring days of my life, nothing
about a paid keynote speaker screams FREEDOM!!
Then all of a sudden it came time for me to get a real job!
I mean what does it really mean to have a ‘real job’ in today’s world? Does
this mean making a $50k salary, having health benefits, making enough to pay
your student loans, 401k? For today’s college graduates it totally varies,
there are no more comfy cookie cutter jobs anymore and what you spent on
college may not reflect what you’ll be earning and that’s a tough pill to
swallow.
I’ll use myself for example; coming out of college I knew
exactly what I wanted to do, where I was going to do it, and how much I was
going to make. Well, that’s where I had
the game messed up!! I worked my butt off in college doing tons of internships,
working in my field, winning scholarships, etc. but none of it prepared me to
make $10 an hour with no benefits and terrible hours in my so-called dream
career. I was so let down, my pride was assaulted and the worst part was that
job was all I had. I was crushed.
New grads have to prepare themselves for the real workforce,
which means wearing a suit to work and packing your lunch everyday because
bills come before Buffalo wings and beer now. It means maybe taking a job
because pays student loans and rent, working patiently perfecting your craft,
becoming the best employee you can become, making sure to treat every
experience as an opportunity to learn something new and develop and new skill
that can be beneficial in your next job. Although working, as a fitness club
manager for less that a Starbucks Barista made was tough financially I was able
to develop skills outside of my major particularly marketing and sales.
The person that graduated 4 years ago has changed everything
she once knew about herself. That person is me, I knew I wanted to be a nurse
or PA coming out of college and you couldn’t tell me anything different! I knew
I was going to go to grad school, make a ton of money, and not worry about
anything else. But life has a funny way of changing you, it gives you hurdles
to jump over, twists and turns to make, it will even knock you down flat on
your butt and may even make you cry. Eventually life comes back around and
teaches you that things change and it’s OK to change with it.
Take every opportunity life gives you, it may suck now, but
it’ll reward you later (you have to have faith). The point of hard work is that
it’s hard but so is your resolve to conquer it.
Stay hungry my friends...
Ray B.
Healthy Apple Nachos
Sunday, January 4, 2015
This morning I wanted something sweet, crunchy, and easy! So I made healthy Apple Nachos... This recipe is really easy, a tad on the healthy side and takes all of 15 minutes to make. Your kids will love helping you make this! I don't have kids, so it makes me look really fancy in front of my friends and family when I bring this to parties! Here's how I made them:
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