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Fig butter breakfast bowl

The breakfast bowl! It’s what everyone’s talking about these days. It’s a great way to get in nutrients, fill up your belly, and practice creativity. Some are elaborate… Okay, pretty much all of them are elaborate. I don’t even know what some of the stuff is most of the time. And who has edible flowers just hanging around…

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No bake almond energy bars

Jackson (my husband/significant other/lifelong running buddy) has faithfully eaten a chocolate chip Clif bar each morning for the past five or so years. Recently, he’s been known to occasionally switch to the pomegranate chia flavor, but for the most part, he sticks to old reliable. Now, I’ve seen this guy complete the Trifecta more than once. The trifecta was…

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Top 10 Series: nut butter

Let’s kick off this Top 10 Series!! For the next few weeks, I’ll be going through the list of the Top 10 Foods for Runners I compiled through serious and strenuous research. First up: Nut Butter. Specifically, almond butter. You see, almonds earned enough mentions to easily make it into the top 10, but peanut butter was a…

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Easy almond butter noodles

Perfect for any night of the week, these almond butter noodles are a quick and easy choice for a healthy dinner. Just add your favorite vegetables and anything else that sounds good (protein, sesame seeds, roasted sweet potatoes, etc). These noodles are part of the Top 10 Foods for Runners series! Check out the full nut (almond) butter post here.

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Haystack onion chicken salad

I often feel like I should be rewarded for eating a salad, but the only thing I seem to get is hungry about an hour after eating one. I want eating a salad to feel like its own reward. On days where I both run and eat a salad, I want it to feel like a maintainable lifestyle,…

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