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Home / health beauty and fashion

Category: health beauty and fashion

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 11 Comments

Twenty days

Just a little chit chat on this Wednesday morning. It’s been a while since we’ve done that.

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Category: health beauty and fashion
Tags: papilloma, surgery
Posted on July 21, 2014August 21, 2023 by Lisa Clarke — 3 Comments

Wineberry Crisp 2.0, now healthified

This recipe is vegan, gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, low-sodium, and (even after all of that) really quite good. You can use raspberries if you can’t get wineberries.

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Categories: food, health beauty and fashion, recipes
Tags: dairy free, fruit crisps, gluten free, heart attack, vegan, wheat free, wineberries
Posted on May 13, 2014June 15, 2022 by Lisa Clarke — 4 Comments

Pedal | Lift + Press | Pedal Harder

Fitness + Music = a new playlist for the gym, and you can listen to it, if you like.

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Categories: health beauty and fashion, playlists, Polka Dot Radio
Tags: cd mix, mix tape
Posted on March 12, 2014 by Lisa Clarke — 11 Comments

Green smoothies, again

I’ve been drinking green smoothies for the last few weeks, and I don’t hate them. In fact, I really like them. I’m a convert! Check out my recipe.

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Categories: food, health beauty and fashion, recipes
Tags: breakfast, green smoothies, healthy
Posted on January 27, 2014 by Lisa Clarke — 8 Comments

Let’s talk about meat substitutes

What’s your favorite meatless hot dog alternative?

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Categories: food, health beauty and fashion
Tags: hot dogs, meat substitutes, vegetarian
Posted on July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

Weekend Favorites

Favorite links and photos for this week, plus a little chat about vintage fashion.

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Categories: health beauty and fashion, weekend favorites
Tags: favorite links, flickr favorites
Posted on June 15, 2013June 15, 2022 by Lisa Clarke — 3 Comments

Diet food

Wherein I talk about strawberry butter on toast and peppermint iced tea in a blue mason jar. But not at the same time.

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Categories: food, health beauty and fashion
Tags: strawberries, tea, weight loss
Posted on May 9, 2013 by Lisa Clarke — 8 Comments

Thursday

Wherein I get my hair chopped and tell you a little bit about some of the crafty work I have in progress.

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Category: health beauty and fashion
Tag: haircuts
Posted on April 28, 2013April 28, 2013 by Lisa Clarke — 18 Comments

The butter dilemma

Every year at this time, I take a look at our diet and think about reducing the amount of processed foods we consume. In some ways, the guidelines we now have to follow for a heart-healthy diet have made whole(er) foods meal-planning even more challenging.

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Categories: family, food, health beauty and fashion
Tag: heart attack
Posted on February 28, 2013 by Lisa Clarke — 3 Comments

Fun with chalk

I had a little good, clean (messy) fun today. It started on Twitter, as all good things do, when Stacey said this: Hair chalk is a trend? I didn’t even know it existed! I feel so behind, sometimes…— Stacey Trock (@FreshStitches) February 28, 2013 And, well, I didn’t know it existed either, and I just […]

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Category: health beauty and fashion
Tag: hair dye

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