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Ciara Cray
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
Heartbreaking Pancakes for Valentines Day
Valentines Day is upon us! My favorite holiday and the pre-game to my birthday. This year I made a pancake board (cheeseboards are SO 2019!) with all the fixings needed to build a magical pancake plate. It's a form of self-love, for all my single friends and also a good project for your significant other! I use Thrive Market for a lot of my shopping for everything from foods to beauty products! It's where you can get the same pancake mix I used or other varieties. By clicking
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Ciara Cray
- Sep 18, 2018
- 3 min
Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit!
The more ya eat, the more ya toot! I used to have a real distaste towards beans without ever trying them. Just like most teenagers, I just made an assumption that I didn't like them. Now that I'm a mature (ha!) twenty-something, I've found ways to enjoy these fiber and protein, packed little nuggets. One way is in this fre$h salad! My three-bean salad consists of kidney beans, navy beans and garbanzo beans, all have a around 15 grams of protein and 45 grams of carbohydrates (
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Ciara Cray
- Nov 28, 2017
- 4 min
Thankful...For Food
November is a month of gratitude. Being thankful that you have a little brother to annoy you and remind you of what innocence looks like. Thankful for parents who push you to be the strong independent woman you are but are always there for you when things get difficult. I feel like I have a special kind of gratitude for the presence of my family because of the difficult times type 1 diabetes has put me through. Every day has been a struggle since my diagnosis with T1D. Some d
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Ciara Cray
- Nov 7, 2017
- 3 min
Persippin' on Persimmons
There used to be a persimmon tree in my backyard growing up. It’s long gone now because of the mess and rotting smell that the persimmons produced every Fall. I never did get around to figuring out if I liked them or not, maybe I was turned off by the sight of them decomposing all over the backyard or having to scrape them off the bottom of my shoes. But Fall is among us and persimmons of all shapes and sizes are making their way to the farmers markets and the produce departm
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Ciara Cray
- Oct 31, 2017
- 3 min
I'll have the 45 with a side of 20, and make it quick!
I can easily remember the foods that would ignite nostalgia within me with just one whiff or the foods that remind me of family vacations and birthday dinners. I have a memory of being nine years old and craving a thick cut of steak and a cloud of mashed potatoes during the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. But there was a turning point in my adolescence when these food memories were being made, that has become its own memory and influenced others. This memory has caus
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Ciara Cray
- Oct 22, 2017
- 2 min
Welcome, friends!
You made it! Even though I’ve been developing this idea for awhile, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but that’s the main reason I’m so excited to get started so that way I can either figure it out or have fun not knowing. Like most people, I’ve gone through a lot of transitions and phases that have shaped me into the goal driven woman writing this post. I think change is a heavy influencer over deciding what I want to do in my life. Each bit of change I’ve encountered has
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