By Brandy Neth

If any of you have ever completed a 100 day challenge of any kind, you know this process is intense, exciting, exhilarating, scary, sad and rewarding all at the same time. I’ve completed two 100-day challenges in my life, and I don’t regret either experience.

For my most recent challenge, I decided to “enjoy” a completely raw food diet for 100 days. I know it sounds a little crazy, but everyone knows I’m a bit of an over-achiever at times. So, why exactly did I choose this as my challenge? Simple: it scared the bejezuz out of me. It scared me bad.

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de Veres Irish Pub

Calling all local businesses! On Friday June 7th, de Vere’s is hosting a charity golf classic, Puttin’ For Presents, benefiting The Kylee Lillich Charitable Giving Tree, and we need corporate sponsorships to help make the event a huge success!

The Kylee Lillich Charitable Giving Tree’s primary purposes are to help:  Needy, homeless and hospitalized children, Grieving children who have lost a sibling, parent, or primary caregiver and other children’s programs including Hospice and “animals helping children” programs... Read More

For many, the kitchen can be an intimidating place, especially when you have a pile of fresh ingredients and no great recipes to create that perfect dish. With countless techniques and styles to prepare a meal, which direction should you take? Do you boil the cabbage or steam the Broccoli? Should you grill the Asparagus? What about the Kale? Lucky for you there is light at the end of the tunnel. California’s produce delivery service Farm Fresh To You has partnered with online meal planner Design My Meals to help solve these problems and serve culinary inspiration straight to your door step and directly to your computer!

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