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5 Self-Care Tips To Improve Your Diet

Did you know that having positive self-care can improve your diet? As a society, we often run ourselves ragged trying to keep up, thus compromising our self-care. We can often overwork ourselves, carry more stress than the healthy amount, and often don’t stop to think about how all these things can impact our diet and well being in a negative light.

So in honor of our 5-Day Whole Wellness Challenge, I will be sharing my top 5 self-care tips.

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Half Baked Chickpea Blondies + Edible Cookie Dough Dip

When you are stuck at home due to COVID-19, you think of creative ways to pass the time. So for this month, I’m creating recipes based on what is in my pantry.

I assume that most people will have the same ingredients so let’s look inside our pantry to see if we have these ingredients on hand:

can of chickpeas, almond flour, a jar of peanut butter, random ⅓ bag of dark chocolate chips, maple syrup from last week's pancakes, and baking essentials like baking soda, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, and vanilla extract.

Have all these ingredients? Alright, let’s start baking!

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The Perfect Paloma

I’m completely over winter! Okay, I’m usually over winter the first day it starts, haha but now I can say that it’s time for a change. So instead of waiting for mother nature to catch up, I will just start without her!

So, in rebel fashion, I am traveling to LA for a few days (travel post soon), eating ceviche till my heart’s content, and drinking these refreshing Paloma cocktails!

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Magic Bar Cookie Skillet

As I was packing food supplies for my winter retreat, I noticed that I didn’t have anything for dessert. Who doesn’t think about packing dessert!? But I didn’t want to bring a lot of ingredients to make something homemade so that’s when I came up with an idea to make “a cookie skillet in a jar”! All the dry ingredients are in a jar. Just bring one egg and coconut oil and you are all set!

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Winter Retreat in Shawnee National Forest

At the beginning of January of this year, Southernmost Illinois provided me a four-day lodging experience so that I could explore the most beautiful National Forest in the state of Illinois. Not a bad way to start the new year, amiright?! If you are looking for a winter retreat in the Midwest region, then look no further.

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