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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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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls (healthy + vegan)
These cinnamon rolls just might be some of the best desserts I have made of all time. Seriously. ALL. TIME. I don’t know about you, but I have always been a fan of Cinnabon, as well as other cinnamon rolls from Corner Bakery Cafe, Starbucks, and even supermarkets that whip up some mean treats! As…
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Foods That Increase Oatmeal Volume or Thickness 2.0
Probably THE most viewed post on my blog of all time is my article titled “Foods That Increase Oatmeal Volume or Thickness“. I am pretty shocked that this one is a readers’ favorite, because it was one of my first posts that I made when I was still getting to know the blogging world! More…
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Mixed Berry Baked Oatmeal Recipe (vegan + gluten free)
Do I miss home-cooked food already? Very much so. For one thing, I truly miss being able to cook my food very freely without making such a ruckus in the kitchen. I have a sneaky feeling that my suite-mates last year secretly despised me because I would broil Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and mushrooms until the…
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Answering My Old Foodie Questions
A year ago, I published a whole list of questions for readers to answer in the comments! They are all dedicated to food, aka one of my most loved life subjects. I’d thought I’d throw it back a year ago and tackle them all–unaltered, unedited, the exact same as in the post–now for some fun…
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Quick Update: Physique, Diet, and Fitness
Why hello there! Want to dissect my brain? Of course you don’t. That would be utterly disgusting and I would die. Let’s not do that. Jokes aside, I’m currently caffeine-high from my daily dose of chocolate in the form of chocolate Teddy Grahams, which I’ll get into later in this post, but for now, let’s…
Cassie Tran
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Cinnamon Roll Oatmeal (healthy, vegan + gluten free)
When we throw out the term “breakfast food”, pancakes, waffles, eggs and bacon, coffee, and toast with butter are the first meals that come to mind. However, the most common breakfast foods that I relished as a child were pastries: croissants, muffins, bagels, scones, donuts, and cinnamon rolls, the latter being one of my absolute…
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Myths About Food Processing
Happy Saturday, everyone! I am most certainly not sure how January has zipped by so quickly, but are you excited for February? There are so many significant national days and weeks in February besides Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day, such as Black History Month, National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Groundhog Day, National Pizza Day (yesterday),…
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Confessions of a (temporarily) Junk Food Vegan
Not a single day has passed by with the vision of myself as a junk food vegan prior to my dietary changes. Until now. Me, the most headstrong, discipline and will-powered individual that I personally know, one who lost more than thirty pounds, survived a juice cleanse and exercises 99% of the year, became a…
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2017: The Year of Coming to Terms With My Body + Worst Qualities
/If I had a dollar for every terrible quality about myself, I’d be able to host daily Gatsby-style parties, hire servers with glasses of kombucha and make it rain guacamole–cause we all know that guac costs extra EVERYWHERE. But in all seriousness, like most of us, I am an extremely flawed individual. I knew this…
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