Nutrition

fredsbro on December 21st, 2011

I love cookies (and I suspect you do to!).  I wanted to share a holiday recipe that is healthy, tasty, and something you don’t have to feel too bad about since it doesn’t use butter, flour, or sugar. 1 cup uncooked (Quaker old fashioned) oatmeal 1/4tsp salt 1 egg white (or 1/4 cup egg sub) [...]

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fredsbro on December 15th, 2011

They say the average American gains a full 5 pounds during the holidays.  We spend all year avoiding donuts/cake/cookies at work, eating salads at lunch and trying our best to have reasonable meals.  And then your mother in law sends  a fruit cake in the mail.  Not one of those horrible ones you see on [...]

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fredsbro on November 30th, 2011

It took all the names of those that entered the put them into a spreadsheet.  Each entry got it’s own line… so if you tweeted (worth one entry) and added therunningmike.com to your blogrole (worth 3 entries), your name was on my spreadsheet a total of 4 times.  I then printed the spreadsheet and cut [...]

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fredsbro on August 9th, 2011

It’s official – the house is sold and I’m in temporary housing until I get a few more things worked out! I know I’ll be there at least 30 days – so I’ve decided that I want to use this time to get my training back on track and take off some of my extended [...]

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fredsbro on April 27th, 2011

Not much a recipe person (let’s just say that I don’t like to cook)!  However, I can make a pretty mean breakfast and post-workout smoothie. I came across an interesting tweet from UltraRunnerRose with a tip of how to kick up your smoothie a notch… with the Jalapeno! Here’s Rose’s magic recipe: 1 apple 1 [...]

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