There are days when I just need to cleanse.  But not like juice cleanse because I don't have the will power to just not eat anymore, so when I say cleanse I really mean a day to just power my body up with super foods.  Going through one day a week where I try to keep things pretty liquid and low cal is what I feel allows me to hit a reset button.  I mean, in my mind it's what allows my body the opportunity to flush out all the bad stuff & keep my shit on track.

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I love tomato soup, and what I love even more is dunking crispy and melted grilled cheese bites into my soup.  I mean what's not to love about it?  It's so fun!  We haven't done any classic tomato soup with grilled cheese dunkers this year, and as soup season comes to end it's got to happen!  So I bring to you my new favorite thing - mini-grilled cheese.  Small little grilled cheese bites made with way less butter and way less calories (praise!), but still all the crunchiness that's perfect to soak up a creamy tomato soup.  Use a petite baguette as the base, thinly sliced to whip up little baby grilled cheese bites, and then load it up with the best cheese and even some veg.  That's exactly what I did for our week night, pre bowling fuel - Tomato & Chickpea Soup with Mini Grilled Cheese Bites.

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A fun weekend with friends left me with a two day hangover.  TWO DAMN DAYS!! & you know what's a really bad idea - drinking on Sundays!  Particularly drinking heavily on Sundays.  And I have no one to blame but myself.  I suggested playing a drinking game to Temptation Island, and then I brought out the Chambongs.  All on Sunday, and I knew it was a bad idea.  The end result - me waking up Monday morning emailing my boss to inform him I won't be in the office Monday or Tuesday. 

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We are baaaaaccckkkkk from vacation - a kind of bittersweet feeling as it always leaves me a bit slow to return to restart the productivity needed for everyday life.  Jumping back in to the real world was especially rough this go around as we are back from the oh so beautiful and oh so relaxing Costa Rica.  It was a vacation that can summed up by long days at the beach, lots of Pina Coladas (my favorite!), getting lost in 

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In my adult life, one of the childhood staples I still absolutely love & cherish is ramen.  I honestly think ramen was one of the first things I ever cooked for myself, probably in middle school, and I vaguely remember feeling so accomplished that I officially cooked something for myself.  It was always an easy after school treat.  Even in high school I remember coming home after school with a friend and us cooking up a thing of ramen as a fun after school snack.  & one of my best friends, Sarah, was a popular ramen maker back in the day because she turned us all on to cracking an egg into our ramen while it cooks.

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