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Healthy Recipes :: Spanish Quinoa

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My inspiration for this recipe came from the desire to recreate the Spanish rice dish from my favorite restaurant with an extra nutritional punch. Trading up the white rice for quinoa for additional protein, this recipe is well suited for vegetarians as a main dish. While quinoa is commonly considered a “whole grain” it is actually a seed that is a relative of leafy green vegetables like spinach. Quinoa not only offers a higher protein content than grains such as [...]
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Ride Food: Banana Oat Bars

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At the end of every summer riding season, my motivator starts to sputter. While mid-summer I thrive on long, high-altitude rides, my rides start to lose length quicker than the days lose sunlight in the dog days of August. As the race season tapers off, so does my motivation to eat well, so instead of packing my bag full of treats that will actually fuel me on all-day rides, I shove some cookies or a Snickers bar in my bag [...]
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Ride Food :: Early Morning Workout Energy Bites

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  After being unemployed for a few months, I recently started a new job. While I was not unemployed for long, I quickly adapted to the free time and flexible schedule—especially when it came to my workouts. With my triathlon training I try and fit in at least two swims, two bike rides, and two runs in a week, and that is in addition to yoga and strength training for injury prevention. Now that I am back to working a [...]
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Ride Food :: Coffee-laced Almond Cookies

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Over the years of making home-made ride snacks, I’ve created some verifiable disasters… bars that wouldn’t stick together, imitation Lara bars wrapped in foil that would subsequently explode and coat everything in its vicinity with goop, and some combinations of ingredients that just simply didn’t taste good. I’ve learned that just because I think something tastes good, it doesn’t actually mean that it tastes good. It’s something along the lines of ‘a taste that only a mother/creator could love’. Recently [...]
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“Shake Please” – The Best Recovery Smoothie Ever

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Recovery Drinks are best consumed right after intense activity.  They provide your body with protein, vitamins and carbohydrates to kick start the rebuilding process. It is not only important for building stronger muscles but also helps to tackle that intense hunger that can show up instantaneously, causing poor meal choices and overeating.  And if you are like me… severe grumpiness! “Shake Please” is my own personal concoction of frozen fruity recovery goodness.  It’s so good that even Mr. I-hate-recovery-drinks has [...]
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