{Today’s Lunchbox} Black Bean Goodness

January 13, 2011
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Today’s Lunchbox As I have mentioned earlier this week, I have been cooking from The Spunky Coconut Cookbook.  Today’s lunchbox includes two dips from the book, both of which I loved.  Here are lunch and two snacks; Pineapple Coconut Quinoa from The Spunky Coconut blog Smoothie made of almond milk, vanilla brown rice protein powder, […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Wraps and Quinoa

January 12, 2011
Liquid Vanilla Stevia

Reminder! Don’t forget the Stevia giveaway currently going on.  There are many different ways to enter as well – the only requirement is that you leave all your entries in the comments of the Stevia giveaway post and not elsewhere. Today’s Lunchbox I am continuing my approach of sticking to the same cookbook and/or blog […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Salmon Salad

January 11, 2011
Liquid Vanilla Stevia

Reminder! Don’t forget the Stevia giveaway currently going on. Today’s Lunchbox A Sweet Green Smoothie, recipe from Affairs of Living Elana’s almond flour bread (the 1.0 version), made with two ducks eggs instead of three chicken eggs.  I purchase duck eggs at the farmer’s market I go to every Sunday (where all eggs sourced are […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Dramatic Reenactment

January 11, 2011
January 10 lunchbox

Today is my last day home recovering from my surgery before I go back to work tomorrow, so I had a lunchbox all planned to share with you, one that I had brought to work in late December and had saved for last week or this week. However, as I was making a late afternoon […]

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Meeting a Goal Without Realizing It

January 10, 2011
Allergy band

Last weekend, I started the New Year with two wonderful yoga classes – a yin class on Saturday, which I combined with an additional twenty minutes of restorative yoga on my own right after, and an extra long savanasa to top it off, and on Sunday a very active warming yoga practice with lots of […]

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Winter Salad

January 7, 2011
Liquid Vanilla Stevia

NuNaturals Stevia GiveawayBefore we get to Today’s Lunchbox, do check out the Stevia giveaway currently going on.  There are many different ways to enter as well. Today’s Lunchbox Today’s lunchbox is similar to Wednesday’s lunchbox, focusing on one of my new obsessions: Cashew Pumpkin Seed Cheese with Apple Cranberry Sauce from Affairs of Living.  Kim’s […]

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NuNaturals Stevia Giveaway

January 7, 2011
Liquid Vanilla Stevia

Happy Thursday! I raved about NuNaturals Stevia last week, and this week you have the opportunity to win a couple of my favorite products. Four Readers will win!! NuNaturals will award four (4) City|Life|Eats readers (who are continental U.S. Residents only) one(1) bottle of our NuNaturals Vanilla Stevia Liquid, Alcohol Free, 2 oz., PLUS one(1) […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Mostly Raw = Timesaver

January 6, 2011
January 6 Lunchbox

{Today’s Lunchbox}I was rushing when making today’s lunchbox so it was all about making things easy. Focusing on raw or close to raw foods definitely makes lunchbox assembly faster for me. Red pepper boats stuffed with the cashew pumpkin seed cheese I raved about yesterday. I skipped the apple cranberry sauce because I did not […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} A New Obsession

January 5, 2011
January 5 lunchbox

{Today’s Lunchbox} Today’s lunchbox contains one of my new obsessions: Cashew Pumpkin Seed Cheese with Apple Cranberry Sauce from Affairs of Living.  Kim’s blog always has wonderful ideas for those of us avoiding gluten and dairy and refined sugars (see my post adopting Kim’s blog for Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger last year).  Here are today’s […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Green & Green

January 4, 2011
January 4 Lunchbox

Happy Tuesday! Today’s lunchbox contains lunch and 2 smoothie snacks: Pineapple cashew quinoa stir-fry loosely based on this recipe from Veganomicon.  I actually adore the recipe exactly as is, but the night my husband made this stir-fry, we did not have all the ingredients, so there was some improvisation (i.e. peas instead of edamame, zucchini […]

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Hidden Noodles Yummy Sauce

January 3, 2011
jan 3 lunchbox

Return of the {Today’s Lunchbox} Series As promised, the lunchboxes are back.  Today’s lunchbox is inspired by Gena of Choosing Raw and Elana of Elana’s Pantry.  Gena has been great about offering desk lunch ideas on her blog – I loved her post called Work Lunches for Real Women and her Meal Sized Salads post […]

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1.1.11

January 2, 2011
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There is something pretty neat about today’s date, don’t you think? How has your first day of 2011 been? Mine has been uneventful – mostly work, an errand, a long yin yoga class. One thing I keep thinking about is themes and words for 2011.  I shared yesterday that my word for 2010 was vibrance, […]

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A Year in Review, A Seasonal Retrospective

January 1, 2011
Washington, DC 2010 Fireworks

I was resisting the idea of doing a year in review post – mainly because I tend to ease into the New Year.  Last year I started the new year sometime in mid-January emotionally, and I am repeating that again this year.  That said, I had fun scrolling through posts since a year ago and […]

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White Beans with Sage

December 31, 2010
White Beans with Sage

Update March 7, 2010 – Since making this recipe last year, I have made it several more times i it has become a true comfort food staple for me.  I am submitting it to this week’s Slightly Indulgent Tuesday over at Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free.  Because the beans taste a bit creamy (despite it being […]

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My Fav (Top 10) Recipes from Last Week (12/21 to 12/27)

December 28, 2010

I have  been a fan of Aubree Cherie’s weekly Top Ten Recipe Lists for several months.  Like Aubree, I avoid gluten, dairy and refined sugars, so the recipes she lists are generally recipes I do not have to modify much to be able to partake.  I also love Aubree’s infectious optimism and tone that permeate […]

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