My Half Marathon Training Plan

Whelp, it’s official.

Once an Excel spreadsheet enters the picture, there’s just no turning back.  In my world, transforming an idea, plan, or goal to a glorious (preferably multi-tabbed) spreadsheet is like signing my name in wet cement.  It took a lot of thought and research, googling and binging, reading and pondering, but I finally got my half marathon training plan together!

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Healthified Chicken Enchiladas & Spanish Rice

I’ve been in a bit of a cooking rut lately.  I’ve cooked up a storm and destroyed my kitchen on a near-daily basis, but the results have been pretty dismal.  I made NC pulled pork sandwiches.  Blegh.  I made turkey meatballs.  Blah.  I made sausage and potato gratin.  Meh.

But then, I made THIS:

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Would you believe me if I told you this saucy plate of Mexican goodness clocks in at under 350 calories? 

Shut the front door.

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Cookie. Coma.

Tis the season for excessive amounts of cookies and glorious baked goodies!  Fa-la-la-la-la…. la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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Everywhere I turn there are COOKIES!  I love ithate it….

LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

HATE.

help.

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I shot that sh*t!

Over the past two years I’ve developed an addiction to food photography.  The styling and the mood.  The subject and the props.  The lighting.  OMG the lighting.  I’ve drooled over photos in magazines, on blogs, and in cookbooks and I’ve snapped thousands of food photos trying (and hoping) to get shots that looked half as good.  I can count on one hand (that’s five fingers, folks) the number of photos I have taken that I truly loved (one of them being the pic I used for my header on the blog).

That is downright sad.

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