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The Best Healthy Desserts in Los Angeles (Part 1)
This is a love song to all my dessert fanatics! Respectfully, I must cordially request anybody who doesn’t have a raging sweet tooth to leave. TOTALLY kidding. However, perhaps we can convert you otherwise. Let’s be honest, here: healthy desserts in Los Angeles are plentiful to go ’round. Perhaps not in the most budget-friendly forms…not…
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A Word About Romanticizing Your Life
Romanticize, romantic, romanticism, romance…they’re all naturally beautiful words, aren’t they? As of lately, romanticize is a hot buzzword that conveys the illustration of either a person, place, circumstance, or idea in a fashion that reminds people in an idealistic, pedestalized, sometimes dream state. In other words: anything romanticized can easily be dismissed by a skeptic.…
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Baking With Monkfruit!
MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE shoutout to my mother for helping with the recipes! Ever since my youngest sister started her first year at university, my mother has much more time on her hands to read, make flower arrangements, and of course, bake! Additionally, now that I’ve begun working in a hybrid manner, I have more time…
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Copycat Recipe: Body Energy Club chocolate peanut butter smoothie
If you all have already known, I’m OBSESSED with Body Energy Club‘s skinny peanut butter dream smoothie. It was a weekly must–now a monthly to bi-monthly essential, but it’s never let me down! Trust me, I’ve tried the other smoothies on their menu. It simply doesn’t compare! Now, I had, HAD to recreate this at…
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These Protein Bars Ruined My Life
I’ve written many a love letters to Erewhon (exhibit A), but to write to these protein bars mandates a trilogy. A series longer than Lord of the Rings. With a pending conclusion. I can’t do this anymore. Think of any relationship where the two partners just can’t get their hands off of each other, and…
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This Protein Bar is Basically a Candy Bar…but I Like It Anyways
You know what you are told whenever asking to purchase a protein bar: “Basically, most protein bars are fortified candy bars. Your ideal protein bar should contain at least X grams of protein and only X grams of sugar.” It is seriously annoying that many of the protein bars in the market do not contain…
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What We Should Account For in Food More Often, But Probably Don’t (Hint: it’s not fiber or added sugar)
Well folks, it’s time to celebrate: Happy 100 Years of Popularized Calorie Counting! Yep, calorie counting propelled in prominence beginning in the post-war era during the 1920s, though the existence of the calorie was discovered long before. Ever since we began viewing the numbers on our food labels and instructed to pay more attention to…
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In Honor of National Ice Cream Month…
…in general, it is TREMENDOUSLY challenging for me to select one favorite dessert. Coffee cake any day. Mango sticky rice until I die. A whole plate of chocolate chip cookies will win me over more quickly than a diamond ring. Peanut butter chickpea blondies….OOF. Having said that, ice cream holds an incredibly special place in…
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Most Previous Vegan Festivals: Central Coast VegFest + The Artisan Wheelhouse’s Vegan Cheese Launch Party (all pre-quarantine)
To most people’s chagrin, a lot of festivals, conventions, and concerts have been cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic. It is devastating that we are now constrained to our homes and essential businesses in proximity. For the last several years since starting the blog, I arguably LIVED for these conventions. Nothing pleased me more…
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TOP 10 Favorite Vegan Foods (kitchen and pantry staples you can find at a grocery store—no particular order)
Little Miss Vegan Foodie over here has eaten, sampled, devoured, and tasted (but spit out right after) countless vegan food products, whether they are alternatives to animal products or standalone. Below are my top 10 must-haves in any food storage facility–no particular order, just whatever came to mind first. This plethora of items was inspired…
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