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Quick Dinner Fix: Shrimp & Asparagus Pasta

Quick Dinner Fix: Shrimp & Asparagus Pasta

Some nights you think you have it all planned out but then you turn around and it’s 9pm and you forgot to take out the chicken to defrost for dinner because you were too busy drinking martinis. These things happen. It happened to me just the other night and by that time, I didn’t feel like starting a meal that would take an hour to make. So, I improvised. In the fridge was a bunch of asparagus I…

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Easter Eats: Bacon Feta Stuffed Mushrooms

Easter Eats: Bacon Feta Stuffed Mushrooms

It’s Easter week and my family has always been a huge fan of traditional holiday cooking. Every Christmas Eve, we celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Every Thanksgiving, we do turkey and homemade stuffing with candied yams. Grandpa always asks where the macaroni is even though it isn’t on a Sunday and isn’t an Italian holiday. He gets his macaroni on Easter Sunday though, usually in the…

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Shakeology No-Bake Cookies

After getting in touch with an old friend from high school who is now a Beachbody coach, I thought that my next great experiment might be to try out Shakeology and a new workout routine. So, beginning on May 5, I’ll be joining a 60 day challenge group.

M2 is a big fan of P90X, but personally, I found it very difficult to stick with the full 90 day plan, especially if you haven’t worked out in…

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Carrot-Raisin Salad, Quick Pickles, and a Drunken Maple Marinade

Carrot-Raisin Salad, Quick Pickles, and a Drunken Maple Marinade

With the weather getting warmer it’s FINALLY time to fire up the grill. There’s nothing quite like the char of a barbecue to add some flavor to anything and everything. Not to mention, what could be better than cooking in the great outdoors (thanks to the help of modern technology)?

Yesterday, my lady friend and I went all out to feed a small army of people who were helping us paint lawn…

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Pineapple Thai Fried Rice

Pineapple Thai Fried Rice

  I almost forgot about this gem. It was Asian night at our house last week and we brought it. I’m a big fan of Thai pineapple fried rice but some restaurants add raisins or curry and I don’t dig it. This was another attempt at perfecting my ideal version of it and I think we finally have a ringer. I wanted to eat the whole pan.

Ingredients

2 eggs, scrambled & cooked 2 cups of cooked brown rice 1…

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Friday Finds: NYC Yogurt

Friday Finds: NYC Yogurt

Friday happened to be one of the most beautiful weather days of the week. And what better to go with bright beautiful sunny weather? One(?) word: FROYO.

It was just one of those days that we couldn’t figure out what we were going to do for lunch when we stumbled past NYC Yogurtand decided to head in. It was M2′s first time at a serve-yourself froyo operation and while it wasn’t anything out of…

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Quick Orange Chicken with Broccoli and Brown Rice

Quick Orange Chicken with Broccoli and Brown Rice

The was an amazingly good little surprise. Especially since it all came from my pantry and freezer and was relatively healthy to boot!

Once upon a time I was a big fan of Applebee’s Orange Chicken Bowl… until I read the calorie count. Little did I or my mother, who was also a big fan of the bowls, know that we were consuming around 1500 calories with each sitting.

Needless to say, my mother and I…

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Italian Sunday Dinner: Thin Linguini Frutti Di Mare

Italian Sunday Dinner: Thin Linguini Frutti Di Mare

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m Italian and so is my boyfriend. We love to cook together and Sunday is macaroni day. My family is old-school and still gathers every Sunday at 4pm around a big table with a  feast that could feed an army of pasta (ravioli, stuffed rigatoni or cavatelli on a good day) and assorted meats (meatballs, sausages, pork bracciole, sometimes slow cooked ribs in…

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Concoction Night: Creamy Vegetable-8 Soup

Concoction Night: Creamy Vegetable-8 Soup

It was concoction night in my house this week and we can thank my honey for this one. He opened the fridge and asked what the hell we were going to do with all the V-8. I had bought it thinking maybe we could make something healthy with it. The closest we got were some Bloody Marys  He asked if we could try to make a soup with it. We had attempted to make a lobster bisque recently that we weren’t…

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A Friday Favorite

As you’re well aware, M2 and I like to explore the city on our lunch breaks testing out the local fare from new and old places, fine dining and dives. This one definitely rates a dive but don’t judge a book by a cover or a restaurant by its awning. At least in New York. This may very well be an appropriate barometer in other areas but not here.

We’d heard good things from our coworkers and I’d…

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The Military Diet Success Story

The Military Diet Success Story

The military diet was a challenge for me. I certainly didn’t follow the rules by any stretch of the imagination. I can’t eat a plain can of tuna for dinner, it’s just not gonna happen. I decided to use the diet as a guideline and inspiration for a healthier three days of eating. If it managed to keep me under my daily calorie goal, it would all have been worth it. And I’m here to report, it…

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M2's Day 2

M2′s Day 2

Day 2 and going strong…

For breakfast, M1 made a simple baked egg in a cup recipe of 1 egg white with 1/2 cup of spinach, salt and pepper. We melted 1/2 oz of sharp white cheddar on top and added a banana to the mix. Breakfast was served for only 201 calories.

For lunch I had a slice of bread, a tbsp of sunflower seed butter and a hard boiled egg for a total of 288 calories.

When the 3pm…

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Day 1 Military Breakfast Calorie check-in

Day 1 Military Breakfast Calorie check-in

It’s Military Diet week here at WorkEats.  I got on the scale this morning and weighed 132.8 pounds, a whopping four pounds heavier than I was only two weeks ago. No woman ever wants to see the scale number go up so here I am, facing the fact that a cookie at 3pm every day during work is not doing anything for my big butt, nor are hefty breakfast sandwiches or carb-filled lunches. Sometimes we…

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Recap: The Military Diet Day 1

Recap: The Military Diet Day 1

Yesterday was the first of our slightly modified three day military diet challenge. So far so good.

I’ll admit, yesterday I cheated. Pizza found its way to our office (of course it would!) and I broke down and had a slice with my tuna. I mean, it’s bread… It just also happened to have some sauce and cheese on it. And be really yummy. M2′s low-cal tuna salad was also awesome. She added a nice…

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The 3-Day Military Diet

My Dad spent 4 years in the U.S. Army as a member of the 82nd Airborne. He used to tell me that this three day plan was what guys would do to shed a few pounds before weigh-ins. In high school, I tested it out and stuck to the rigid menu my father photocopied for me from what looked like an original so old that it had been written by a typewriter.

Since I’m feeling like I could use a little…

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Monday's Lunch = Sunday's Leftovers

Monday’s Lunch = Sunday’s Leftovers

Rarely is there anything more exciting than saving money. Especially when I can’t even put a number on the amount of money I’ve thrown out in the form of food. This weekend it was my mission to avoid the grocery store until Sunday, when I planned to make a big dinner that would also serve as a leftover lunch for M2 and I.

Since yesterday was my two-year anniversary and my girlfriend and I went on…

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Honey's Crab Cakes

Honey’s Crab Cakes

I don’t have too much to say about these other than that they are delightful! This is my honey’s recipe which we’ve had fried before but decided to put a healthier spin on this time by baking instead. Turn up the Frank Sinatra, pour a glass of wine and indulge in these babies.

Ingredients:

1 lb lumb crab meat 4 sprigs of fresh parsley 6 basil leaves 1 clove of garlic 2 stalks of inner celery with…

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