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Jenny Craig Recipe Creation: Tortellini Primavera

Special thanks to Jenny Craig for their sponsorship of this post. Of all the new dishes released in 2020, I very quickly fell in love with the Three Cheese Tortellini with Chicken. Now, it could have very easily have been because it was pasta.  By now, you likely know that pasta and I have been in love for years… but that’s not what I love most about this dish.  I love that it’s extra saucy, with a creamy pesto sauce that goes on for days.  When dishes are extra saucy, it makes me think of all of the other vegetables I can easily add to the dish (without sacrificing an ounce of flavor.) I made a simple primavera out of...

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Easy Summer Vegan Recipes

Go plant based or eat more plant based this summer with these easy, tasty, vegan recipes!  Easy Summer Vegan Recipes BLT Summer Rolls with Avocado and Egg Buffalo Jackfruit Sandwiches Buffalo Jackfruit Tacos Grilled Sweet Potato Fajitas Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower Salad Farro and White Bean Veggie Burger Curried Chickpea Salad Sandwiches with Avocado Easy Three Bean Zucchini Macaroni Salad Avocado and Bell Pepper Salad Southwestern Avocado Zucchini Pasta Salad Chopped Zucchini Pasta Salad with Avocado-Mustard Dressing Spiced Chickpea Yogurt Bowls with Spiralized Cucumbers Mediterranean Quinoa Salad with Spiralized Veggies Ginger Tahini Cucumber Noodle and Carrot Salad Vegan Spiralized Summer Spring Rolls Vegan Pesto Zucchini Noodles with Asparagus Vegan Carrot Dogs with Spiralized Toppings (Four Ways!) Vegan BBQ Pulled Pork...

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La Vieille Ferme Blanc 2019, Rhône Valley, France

La Vieille Ferme is one of the biggest and best-known wine brands from France’s southern Rhône Valley and has been a mainstay in America’s wine stores for decades. Owned by the Perrin family, which produces the famed Châteauneuf du Pape of Château de Beaucastel, La Vielle Ferme remains one of the top southern French wine values. I was reminded of this as I sampled the 2019 La Vieille Ferme Blanc, which lists for an average price of $9 (on Wine-Searcher, a red and a rosé are similarly priced). It had been some years since I had tasted the wine, and I was prepared for something decent if not distinguished. The wine rises well above “decent,” surprising me with its depth...

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Blackened Mahi Sauteed asparagus and yellow rice with Chardonnay

Blackened Mahi Sauteed asparagus and yellow rice with Chardonnay Touch here for the full post on the Your Dinner 4 Tonight tumblr My post often contains affiliate links. All products are ones I have. If you choose to purchase one of these products through the URL , I will get a small commission at no extra cost to you. All proceeds help support the blog.

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Dr. Will Cole Reveals Where Most Health Problems Really Start

As a functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Will Cole sees countless patients around the world who struggle for years with ongoing symptoms. They go years without getting real answers about their health. According to Cole, the problem is that most people focus on symptom relief rather than looking at the underlying cause of why symptoms exist in the first place. Here he explains that more often than not, health problems start at the most foundational level of our bodies – our cells... Your body is made up of close to 37.2 trillion cells and produces 25 million new cells every single second! This doesn’t even include the bacteria located in your microbiome which outnumbers your body’s own cells 10 to 1....

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