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Have clutter? Does it stress you out?

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I am absolutely thrilled to be featured on plant-based superstar, Lindsay Nixon’s site today – the vegan mastermind behind The Happy Herbivore! Today’s post is titled How to be a Minimalist Family with Kids! Guest post by….drumroll please – yours truly!!! Please

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Irv & Shelly’s Fresh Picks Review & a surprise for Chicagoians!

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Every Saturday afternoon I am like a kid on Christmas morning. This is when my local organic produce box arrives from Chicagoland’s Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks. The food is healthy, fresh, in-season, and leaps-and-bounds better than what I find in

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my 3 day juice feast & review of the popular BluePrint Cleanse

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Yes, that says feast, not fast. To kick off the New Year I tried out Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Diet 21-day adventure cleanse. I found it was the same as my day-to-day diet, so calling it a ‘cleanse’ was a

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Have you ever been so hungry you could throw up?

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What did you do? Eat? 1 in 6 Americans are hungry. I am not one of them and am not going to pretend to be. A few months back I heard about a food blog event that aims to unite

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how my spring cleaning will benefit you

Do you wish you could clean out your closet once and never have to do it again? Clearing out clutter is and having an un-fussy life is an ongoing process. It takes time, but living clutter-free is healthy for your

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kitchen economics 101: surprise uses for normally composted items

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Wasting very little includes first of all, good planning, followed by smart shopping, then maximizing the goods. These are some simple ways to use up produce and cooked food about to go bad. The moral of the story; waste not, want

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save time, save money and learn to LOVE grocery shopping

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Following my post about minimalist meal planning I received a bunch of questions about how I navigate the grocery store. Having been someone who used to consider going to the grocery store a dreaded and time-consuming chore, I have learned

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how to wash your face with coconut oil

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Coconut oil has many uses in the kitchen; in cooking in place of unhealthier oils, mixed into hot oatmeal or smoothies, or spread on toast. You may have seen my previous post about using it as the main ingredient in

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clean food = clean body = happy mind = better world?

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I have just wrapped up the Crazy Sexy Diet 21-day cleanse. I promise it is not as crazy as it sounds, but I do feel pretty amazing. The cleanse is supposed to be 21-days. I cleansed for 10. In my

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pretty clean already?

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I am five days into this 21-day cleanse, and it feels like a month. I might bail early. Why does it have to be 21-days anyways? By bail I do not mean go on a binge or go back to

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