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Archive of entries posted on June 2010

Peanut Butter Banana Pudding Cake Recipe

Giveaway Winner And the winner of the Tropical Traditions Organic Coconut Flour giveaway is… Sophia! She of the comment: Wow, I would LOVE to try this in a pizza crust!!! SO amazing! Is the coconut taste strong? I once made banana muffins, and forgot the sugar. Thankfully the bananas in there made it a tad [...]

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Hiking through forests and over mountains

Don’t forget to enter the coconut flour giveaway! Two weekends ago, the boyfriend and I went on our first back-country camping trip together. Although I camped and hiked every summer with my family when I was younger, I had never experienced a full day of hiking, then setting up camp, and then hiking the following [...]

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The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning & Organizing, Part Four: The Bathroom

Don’t forget to enter the coconut flour giveaway! I have created a Living in the Real World Facebook Page. Check it out and if you like what you see, please feel free to become a fan so that I’m not the only fan of my own Page I like you. I like having friends. Support [...]

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Product Review and Giveaway: Tropical Traditions Coconut Flour

Tropical Traditions recently sent me a large 1-kg bag of organic coconut flour to review. After taste-testing their coconut oil, I was quite eager to try coconut flour (their coconut flour has one ingredient: organic dried coconut). Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under [...]

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What I Learned from University

Today I am picking up my university diploma. I opted for a simple 3-year Bachelor of Arts. I want a career in editing and writing, and that is something that you really learn a lot more from experience rather than from spending years upon years in university studying. The degree itself is in Rhetoric, Writing, [...]

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The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning & Organizing, Part Three: Dealing with Housemates

Welcome back to the Living Healthy Guide to Cleaning mini-series! Be sure to check out our previous sessions:  Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh Part Three: Dealing with Housemates By no means am I a Susie Homemaker. But I have learned a few strategies over the years, and following these tips [...]

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The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning & Organizing, Part Two: Starting Fresh

Welcome back to the Living Healthy Guide to Cleaning mini-series! Be sure to check out Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh I have been lucky to truly start fresh when I moved from my apartment to my new condo in mid-April. The mother dear helped me to clean the entire place [...]

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The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning & Organizing, Part One: Why Should I Clean?

Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll! Welcome to another mini-series here at Living Healthy! Be sure to check out our past mini-series if you missed them before: the Guide to Grocery Shopping and Guide to Budgeting. Why Should I Clean? The short answer, obviously, is that if you don’t regularly clean your house, you’ll [...]

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How to Make the Best Packed Lunch Ever

Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll! There are all kinds of excuses for why we can’t be bothered to pack a lunch. It takes too long to make lunch. I don’t want to carry a bunch of food to work. It’s boring. Lunch is an important meal. It fuels us during the day to [...]

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The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning and Organizing

Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll! I’m a bit of a neat freak. When the sisterroommate was moving out of our old apartment and we were looking for a new roommate for me, she warned our friend Mladen that he could only move in if he promised to be very clean and tidy. Otherwise, [...]

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