It only takes one bad experience with a veggie burger to think they aren’t for you. Most store-bought ones are pretty rough and it takes a special chef to nail the perfect combination. If you’ve had a bad experience, don’t let it taint you from trying again. If you don’t eat meat, there are bound […]
Why don’t I eat fennel more often? This thought popped into my head one morning and within a few hours I came across this delicious-looking fennel salad recipe from Foodie Crush. Isn’t it funny how that happens sometimes? I was so excited, I made it for lunch that day. I cut the mayo from the […]
One of my favorite new cookbooks is Everyday Raw Detox – I have loved trying out their great selection of juices and salads and other raw treats. I kept flipping pages and landed on their recipes for at-home body scrubs, face masks and my new favorite beauty product, their MSM Face Mist. For all of […]
Ok blog readers and subscribers, this is an Elissa Goodman insider secret. You are all about to recieve information that is yet to hit the mainstream, but will shortly. It’s about Shatavari, a bitter-sweet herb used for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine. The effects of Shatavari are powerful and far reaching. Shatavari is used to rejuvenate […]
My fiance loves chicken. LOVES chicken. I think he could eat an entire one. Me? I’d probably be content never eating chicken again. He’s also very health-conscious and took my advice to exchange one of his meals each day with a salad and to add in a green juice. So every morning he drinks his […]
The kids are all settled in for the summer so my fiancé and I decided to get some R&R in Cabo for the weekend. We went to a beautiful resort in Cabo, which I’ll tell you about in my next blog post. While there I had a chance to read a book that profoundly affected […]
I grew up with two parents who believed sleep interferred with their daily lives. I can’t tell you how many times I heard, “early to rise makes one healthy, wealthy and wise”. On the days I slept past 7 am they told me I was wasting my day so I learned to view sleep as […]
Yes, even I have a few sleepless nights: I stay out too late with friends or I’m up all night packing for that 6 AM flight time I ignored until midnight. I’ve also had a lot of sleepless nights tossing and turning endlessly, hoping to fall into a deep sleep but instead staring at […]
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