An All New HEAB

August 27, 2010

Time to get down and dirty with some almond butter lovin’ here at Heather Eats Almond Butter! Are you ready?!? Many thanks to Cory at Zesty Blog Consulting for all the time he spent helping me transfer my blog to a self-hosting site…and by helping, I mean he did all the work! There are still [...]

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A Hike With A Side Of Tater Lovin

August 26, 2010

Yesterday, Chris and I took Erin’s advice and spent the afternoon hiking around Brown Bridge Pond. Thanks for the suggestion Erin as we thoroughly enjoyed our 4.2 mile walk through the woods! The forest was so quiet and serene, and the only other people we encountered were a few kayakers floating down the water. After [...]

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HEAB Quirks

August 25, 2010

Some of the weird things I did over the past 24 hours: Ate chocolate potato pudding from the waning Naturally Nutty Chocolate Butter Toffee PB jar. Potato pudding: 1 baked white potato blended with Jay Robb’s chocolate rice protein powder and unsweetened vanilla almond milk. It was…different. I didn’t hate it, although I have to [...]

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Heather Eats Seed Butter

August 24, 2010

Thanks to everyone who left me a comment yesterday regarding avoiding food allergies in babies. I must admit that I’m now more confused than ever as there is so much conflicting info. out there. The two pieces of advice that I definitely plan to follow are to take a daily probiotic and to breastfeed for [...]

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Give Me Veggies!

August 23, 2010

So, yesterday, Chris and I decided to take another day trip. We definitely packed a lot in this weekend and enjoyed visiting some smaller towns around northern Michigan. Let’s see, our first stop was Boyne City. We picked up sandwiches from the Lake Street Market and ate them down by the harbor. I had a [...]

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Hiking In Sand Is Not Easy!

August 22, 2010

Yesterday, CD and I did more exploring. After about an hour in the car, we arrived in Glen Arbor. Such a cute little town! Taking Sarah’s advice, we stopped at Thyme Out for a sandwich. CD and I split the roast beef on olive focaccia bread. The bread was smothered in some type of blue [...]

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Nutty Solutions

August 21, 2010

There are so many different ways to enjoy nut and seed butters… Homemade raw pumpkin seed butter, TJ’s crunchy peanut butter, and TJ’s almond butter with oats. Pancakes! Kabocha squash pancakes drizzled with tahini and maple syrup. Peanut butter atop a yogurt mess with cereal. Roasted creamy almond butter smooshed into a banana boat. Almond [...]

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I ♥ Michigan

August 20, 2010

Yesterday, CD stayed in Fife Lake to work, and I drove the 25 miles to Traverse City solo. First, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Sarah from Savoring Sarah for a delicious lunch at Old Town Coffee. I took Sarah’s advice and ordered the Little Buddha Wrap made with Brownwood Farms Famous Kream Mustard, a locally produced mustard.  We sat [...]

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Something Old, Something New

August 19, 2010

I’ve been loving the classic combo of nut butter + strawberry jelly lately. It just never gets old, right BroccoliHut? Great Harvest raisin walnut toast. One slice topped with Naturally Nutty cinnamon vanilla sunflower butter and the other with butter and Trader Joe’s reduced strawberry preserves. This morning I woke up hoping to take the [...]

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Bad Fats?

August 18, 2010

Every time I write a post on fats, people always respond that they love their good or healthy fats, but I think my idea of good fat is probably a bit different from most other food bloggers out there. Trans fats? Very bad, but saturated fats? Nah, I like them. I used to use cooking [...]

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