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    DROP THE SWEET TEA DRINKING AND PICK UP THIS INSTEAD…

    This post is in partner with Tea Motions. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Please visit my disclaimer page for more information. Let’s talk teas.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I am a SOUTHERNER and I used to make my sweet tea with Liptons and a cup of white sugar.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀YUPPPPP. I did that.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Now that I’ve learned how truly horrible that is, I don’t drink it and when it’s offered, it honestly tastes like dirty dishwater to me. Here are the top three reasons I suggest NOT drinking sweet tea anymore for:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s SUPER interesting to me that teas can be healthy for you and actually do your body more good than bad. So, how did…

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    Jubilee Organic’s Making Lunch Time Easy

    This post is in partner with Jubilee Organics. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Please read my disclaimer page for more information. Let me tell you about one of my best kept secrets. Well, it’s not gonna be a secret after this! Some days, I just don’t feel like cooking. I mean, I wanna feel like I’m doing the most when I’m actually doing the least. What does that look like for me? Before I transitioned to a healthier lifestyle, it meant wheeling into the nearest fast food establishment but since I now know better I take pride in what I put into my body. One of the things…

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    Helpful Foodie Love Via Hello Fresh

    This post is sponsored by Hello Fresh. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Please read my disclaimer page for more information. It’s the final countdown! We move Monday and seriously could not be more excited! We’ve had so many set backs with this entire process Derrek and I still can’t believe it’s actually happening but thank goodness for answered prayers! I’ll be sure to share more details soon but let me share something that is a complete lifesaver right now, our Hello Fresh delivery service! Every week we receive a shipment of three Hello Fresh meals in the mail. I cannot tell you how awesome it is to get…

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    Healthy Food Ideas (what I like to eat right now)

    Hands down, healthy meal and snack ideas, are one of the most asked about topics from my followers. I can see why because it’s something that I am constantly changing in our diets. Before I transitioned to a healthier lifestyle, I was the queen of cheap and fast food items! The dollar menu was my jam and I could have carried less about the nutritional value. Now that I’m older and wiser (ha) I get to share the many things that I’ve learned along the way and what my go-to meal and snacks are right now. A few years ago, when I started my blog, one of the first things…

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    What Cooking with Green Chef has Taught me

    As many of y’all know, I work from home. I spent most of my time home and we maybe eat out twice (if I am lucky) a week. This means that I am constantly in the kitchen making snacks and meals for everyone. This can get so tiring and also put me in a cooking rut and I feel like I am making the same things over and over and spending long periods of time in the kitchen. Enter Green Chef, the answer to my cooking prayers! Green Chef is the only USDA-certified organic meal kit delivery service available. I’ve found their menu options to be super healthy, diverse and…