I’ve been a vegetarian for just over five years now.  Who knew that an experiment to demonstrate my will-power  to avoid college foods like fried chicken and cheeseburgers would have resulted in a complete lifestyle transformation.  After becoming a vegetarian, I decided to keep the progress going and tried to find the campus gym.  Well, as luck had it, I lived right up the street from the gym.  This was where my love of running and all things health and fitness-related began. Read the rest of this entry »

How was your Thanksgiving? Lovely I hope. By now you’re probably sick of reading, talking and thinking about Thanksgiving and turkey but I just wanted to tell you about my Thanksgiving since it wasn’t exactly what I was anticipating. Let’s just say: If you’re 23, completely new to cooking turkey and don’t know you have to cook one until the day of Thanksgiving, well, miracles do happen. Cooking a turkey can be much easier than you think.

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If you still have turkey left over from the weekend, I’d like to recommend some recipes for dinner tonight (or tomorrow) to help you carve away at your stockpile of refrigerated poultry. Leftover cooked turkey is perfect soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, you name it! So in other words, don’t let it go to waste.

See leftover turkey recipes after the jump!
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