Category Archives: Nutrition & Wellness

Supporting Immune System Health for Older Athletes

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This post has been sponsored by Wellmune® through Kitchen PLAY.

How to support your immune system health is a topic on the minds of most of us these days, myself included – especially as an athlete over 50 years old! Surprisingly, a heavy training load and being older can both have negative effects on your immune response — despite being fit and “healthy.” To give my immune system a fighting chance to do its given job despite the stresses I put it under, I follow an overall clean lifestyle. This encompasses: a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, regular exercise, no smoking or little to no alcohol, adequate quantity and quality of sleep, and the reduction of personal stress.  Also, staying on the defensive against the onslaught of environmental assaults like allergens, viruses and pollutants is an important strategy, too. I’ve also recently learned that incorporating yeast beta glucans into my daily wellness regimen is a specific, proven way to help support immune health. Read on to learn more about immune health, yeast beta glucans, and the natural ingredient, Wellmune®, which is used by various food, beverage and supplement brands to create immune-boosting consumer products. Continue reading →

Food that Takes Care of You! Daily Harvest Review & Discount

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Obviously, I like to cook healthy things to fuel an active lifestyle – it’s the whole point of this blog. But there are also those days when I am just DONE. OVER IT. CAN’T PLAN ANOTHER MEAL. Daily Harvest - save $25 code: thefitfork

But, I still want to eat beautiful, wholesome, food that takes care of me physically and mentally — and that’s where Daily Harvest comes to the rescue! Read on to learn more about the awesome benefits of this meal subscription service (including a Daily Harvest discount code) that is delivered straight to your door and how it might fit into your life – especially right now when there are food deserts at the grocery store (that is, if you even still are shopping in person).

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Stay Home: Best Healthy Frozen Food Delivery & Pantry Snacks  

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It’s getting harder and harder to leave the house and forage for food! Many of us, like myself, are mandated by law to “shelter in place” for the greater good, although we are still allowed to get out and shop (if we can even find food on the store shelves)! Others of us are in risk groups, have been exposed, or actually dealing with corona virus and can’t get out to find food at all.jennifer holding box porch food delivery

I have easy solutions that can help you keep up your clean-eating routine during the COVID-19 pandemic, including frozen meal delivery services and a few personal small-brand, healthy snack favorites. Ready on to get all the details and a few discount codes. Continue reading →

Detoxing Watermelon Cranberry Gazpacho

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This post is sponsored by Cape Code Select Frozen Cranberries; however, all opinions, content and enthusiasm remain my own.

We’ve already broken the 90 degree mark several times this year, and it’s only March! This unexpected early tropical weather, recent quarantine comfort-food indulgences, and holding on to hopes that I will be frolicking on a Mexico beach in June, has me looking for some light, fresh, cool, slimming meals.Detoxing Cranberry Gazpacho makes a lovely light chilled soup for your meal. Blended with healthful ingredients like cranberries, watermelon, cucumber to flush the body of excess water and toxins.

My Detoxing Cranberry Watermelon Gazpacho is just that, plus it’s a no cook soup recipe too! No heating up the kitchen in the prep of this vibrant, vitamin-packed chilled soup that can help rid the body’s excess water, toxins, salts and other impurities. Read on to get the detox soup recipe and all the details. Continue reading →

Week of Immunity-Boosting Lunch Recipes for Working at Home

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Times are changing and you may find yourself working from home for the time being. My big question as noon approaches, “what’s to eat”?!  Even though many lunch outings have been put on pause and shelves are sparse at the store, doesn’t mean that the mid-day meal needs to be cancelled! Immunity Boosting Lunch Recipes for Work at Home Lunches -- easy and use pantry staples

A satisfying lunch not only provides a break from the work grind and fills your belly, but the right choices can help to boost your immunity, too! Check out the easy, immunity-boosting lunch menu I’m making for myself and my husband (who’s working from the kitchen table all week). Most of the base ingredients immunity boosting recipes are staples you can plan ahead and stock in the pantry, freezer or produce bin. Continue reading →