Cookie Jar Bakery 🧁🍪🍩😍 on Monmouth Str Cookie Jar Bakery 🧁🍪🍩😍 on Monmouth Street in Newport, KY. 
We’ve driven past this place so many times and finally decided to stop and pop in yesterday and I am SO GLAD we did. They have the classic bakery vibes that just makes me think of my hometown and the quality is 💯. Plus we got this entire box for $10 🙌🏻. 
I highly recommend checking them out. You can get some treats here, coffee at Trailhead and then wander down to the Levee.
Low-quality selfie for a high quality day. A woman Low-quality selfie for a high quality day. A woman... a Black and Indian American woman as VP! Thank you Madam Vice President Kamala Harris for breaking this glass ceiling and for all the women who made it possible. #stillwithher
Açaí you! This açaí smoothie bowl from @cincya Açaí you! This açaí smoothie bowl from @cincyacaibol was so fresh and the pick-me-up I needed during these gloomy winter days. Is anyone else craving all the fresh fruits & veggies rn? 
——
@cincyacaibol operates over in the west end and is run through delivery or carry out that is brought to your car. But they have plans to open a storefront later this year 😍🙌🏻 #cincyeats #cincinnatiblogger
I AM A MAN. When Black sanitation workers in Mem I AM A MAN.  When Black sanitation workers in Memphis took to the streets in March 1968, they carried signs stating: I AM A MAN.  The purpose of the strike and march was to take a stand in favor of fair wages and better working conditions after the death of two sanitation employees, Echol Cole and Robert Walker.  This strike was a focal point of the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King joined to show his support. This is where he gave his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” He was killed the next day.  The "I am a Man" Plaza is located next to Clayborn Temple in Memphis. The area includes a sculpture along with a wall listing the names of those who participated in the strikes.  We’ve come far, but there is still more to be done. #MLKDay
GIVEAWAY 😍🥳🤩 Sometimes self-care means ga GIVEAWAY 😍🥳🤩 Sometimes self-care means game night & takeout. 🙌🏻 Ryan and I love Gold Star & decided to mix things up and try some items other than chili. The double decker sandwich was so good 😋 plus the garlic parm fries are 💯. / ad 
You can win a $25 gift card to @goldstarchili to make dinner time easy peasy.  To enter:
Follow @goldstarchili & me.
Comment the food emoji that relates to what you’ll be ordering 🍔 🍟 🥪 & Tag a pal you’ll be sharing with.  Not associated with IG. Winner will be picked randomly on Monday 1/18. #goldstarchili #cincinnatibloggers
Sunday self-care 😌 I have seen so many jokes th Sunday self-care 😌 I have seen so many jokes the last week that everyone has given up their #dryjanuary resolutions because of recent events. And yes, the jokes are funny, but I also believe that alcohol just makes stress even more stressful. 🙃 so if you’re participating in dry January or just trying to cut back alcohol in 2021 then the post at my #linkinbio has some tips to keep going.
Happy 2021 ☺️ / If you haven’t yet, let me r Happy 2021 ☺️ / If you haven’t yet, let me remind you to refresh your professional accounts/brand. By this I mean:
• updating your resume (even if you’re not looking!)
• update your professional site (if you have one - I use @squarespace)
• update LinkedIn (update your experience & any projects you’ve led in the last year, use their featured section to highlight the work you’re most proud of, etc.)
• create a folder where you can save “wins” for the upcoming year like emails from your boss when you’ve done great work, media coverage, recap decks, etc. 
• update your headshot 😌 I shared this on stories a while back but if anyone is interested I’ll make a Reels showing how I used my iPhone & Canva to create a refreshed headshot for LinkedIn & my social accounts 
• what else have I missed? Anything you do at the start of the year to get your professional spaces/work in order?
I’ve likely shared this one before but I always I’ve likely shared this one before but I always find this message to be inspiring. I personally find the coming months to be so bleh and dreary and it really makes me feel gloomy, so I’m reminding myself how much inner strength we all have. Everything that has happened in your life this far, you’ve made it through. 😌🙌🏻 #lovethecov #happynewyear
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 Photo taken at @kinleyh Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 
Photo taken at @kinleyhotelcincinnati because we do not have a tree this big and pretty with our two cats. 😂 swipe for more pics of their beautiful space! I hope you all have a peaceful, relaxing and joyful holiday!
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Fitness · January 3, 2017

Healthy Kitchen Tools

These kitchen tools and appliances will make healthy eating even easier. Meal prep will be a breeze with these healthy kitchen tools.

Make healthy eating easier and more fun with some new kitchen appliances and tools. You can absolutely eat healthy without these items, but they will help with meal prep, food storage and more. I personally enjoy cooking and trying new recipes so having new gadgets to play with in the kitchen is a plus for me.

Here are the healthy kitchen tools I recommend:

Immersion Blender
With an immersion blender you can make soups from scratch and even make a Whole30 compliant mayo or ranch dressing. You can also make whipped creams, sauces and whip your batters. What’s useful about the immersion blender is you bring the blender to the liquid, so you can puree a sauce or soup without trying to pour it into a blender.
If you have a regular blender, the immersion blender may not be necessary for your kitchen, but it takes up little space in the kitchen and it’s easy to clean so it might actually replace your blender after you try it.

Apple Slicer
These are so simple, but I love them. I prefer apple slices over whole apples everyday and there’s just something nice about perfectly equally sliced apples.

Spiralizer
I love my spiralizer! I just have a small handheld one that was only around $10, although I have also been eyeing the larger ones that you secure to your countertop since I would love to spiralize my sweet potatoes and apples. A spiralizer can make almost any veggie into a noodle. Sometimes just playing around with the presentation and texture of a food makes all the difference when you’re getting tired of eating the same thing. I love eating zucchini noodles (zoodles) and they are so easy to make with a spiralizer. Unless I’m avoiding grains altogether, I like to mix my zucchini noodles into my pasta just to get an extra vegetable serving in.

Chopped Salad Knife and Bowl
Chopped salads are my favorite. All salads have a place in my diet, but I’m especially fond of chopped salads because I think they hold up so well. I like using kale, romaine hearts and cabbage in my chopped salads. These tend to be a bit heartier and won’t break down or wilt like spinach or other leafy greens. (Hence why you should try different salads out to get all the greens in your diet!) You can add all sorts of vegetables and fruits to your salad and chop it up. Every bite has a little bit of all the ingredients and just tastes so good.


Covers for Avocado and Tomatoes
These are so cool! I haven’t tried them yet but added them to my Amazon shopping list. I’m the only one in my house who eats avocado and tomato and it can be a challenge sometimes to finish the entire thing in just one day. As we all know, avocados are ~sensitive~ creatures that go brown in like an hour! These covers help prevent that.

A Variety of Tupperware
I like the larger size containers to hold my bulk cooking like grains or cleaned and prepped fruits and veggies. I use slightly smaller containers (love these!) for prepping my lunches. I also really like IKEA’s lunch boxes. I currently use this salad container and this really fun bento box style container.

Water Bottle with Fruit Infuser
If your goal is to drink more water, try mixing in some fruit or cucumber to liven the flavor up. These water bottles make it even easier to swap in and out the fruits of your choice.

Slow Cooker
My slow cooker is a life saver. I love prepping meat in this thing. I hate overcooking chicken which happens too often when I use the oven or stove top. So instead, I’ve been using my slow cooker and shredding the meat for always juicy chicken.


Egg Cooker
I love my egg cooker and use it at least once a week. my craving for hard boiled eggs will vary and some weeks I can’t get enough so I’ll have them for breakfast every day. This egg cooker is my favorite kitchen appliance (after the slow cooker.) I have so much trouble with cooking hard boiled eggs on the stove-top that I started buying the prepared & peeled hard boiled eggs at the store. I got a little fed up with that since I couldn’t be sure of the quality of the eggs. So now I purchase all the cage free eggs that my heart desires and use this fail-proof egg cooker. Seriously, it’s fail-proof. And the eggs are even easier to peel after using this thing.

Food Processor
Ya girl has finally splurged on a food processor. It was time! I am so excited to make my own nut butters and rice my own cauliflower and broccoli. I hesitated on purchasing a processor due to a lack of counter space. However, after purchasing some pre-riced cauliflower and doing the math, I realized a $30 food processor is going to pay for itself after 10 uses and that’s just for riced cauliflower. I’ll be using it for homemade salsas and hummus and “nice” cream and more.

Mini Blender for Smoothies on the Go (Not Whole30 compliant)
I love my mini blender for on the go smoothies. The fact that you can make the smoothie in the same container that you then take with you is so useful and easy. There are a few blender type items already on this list, so choose the one you think you’ll get the most use out of if you don’t want to buy all the things. Regardless, I love this thing and it has help up quite well for me over the years. (yes, years!) The way I blend smoothies is by starting with a little liquid and the greens. By mixing the spinach or kale first I can ensure there won’t be any chunks in the smoothie. Then I add my frozen or fresh fruits, more liquid and a few ice cubes to finish it off.

Baking Sheet
I think most kitchens already have baking sheets, but I’ve kept it on this list because while simple they are so useful. We recently upgraded our single baking sheet to a pack of three with one that is huge and two regular sized pans. I love using the oversized sheet for prepping loads of roasted veggies. When roasting vegetables it’s best that they aren’t overlapping a ton on the baking sheet, so a large sheet will allow you to prep more at one time.


Muffin Pan
In addition to hard boiled eggs, I also like baked eggs. This is one of my favorite, super-easy ways to prep eggs for breakfast. I just spray a muffin pan with coconut oil and crack a few eggs in their individual cup. Then I sprinkle on some salt and pepper and bake. There are tons of variations to this recipe if you want to mix in extra veggies or meat. Personally, I think they taste best when cooked as the whole egg. I prefer a metal pan over a silicone version for these because i think the metal pan allows the edges to get more crispy.
The muffin pan can be used for homemade healthy muffins of course and to automatically portion other meals like mini meatloaves.

Mason Jars
I use mason jars for everything. I like them for food storage of items like chia seeds, nuts and more. I also use smaller jars for homemade dressings. It’s super easy to mix your oils + vinegars and just shake up the jar before pouring on a salad. I also love them for storing salad. I hate wasting food and always do my best to prevent lettuce from getting wilted. One of the ways I do so is by prepping my salads in mason jars. Since they are air tight, everything stays fresh for longer. You can eat them straight out of the jar or pour into a bowl or plate.


What healthy eating tools do you keep in your kitchen? Let me know below!

These kitchen tools and appliances will make healthy eating even easier. Meal prep will be a breeze with these healthy kitchen tools.

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  1. Jenn Schmidt says

    January 4, 2017 at 9:45 am

    Love this list!

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  2. Jess says

    January 24, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    Have you had a chance to try out the avocado covers yet?! I’ve been wanting to try them. ???

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Cookie Jar Bakery 🧁🍪🍩😍 on Monmouth Str Cookie Jar Bakery 🧁🍪🍩😍 on Monmouth Street in Newport, KY. 
We’ve driven past this place so many times and finally decided to stop and pop in yesterday and I am SO GLAD we did. They have the classic bakery vibes that just makes me think of my hometown and the quality is 💯. Plus we got this entire box for $10 🙌🏻. 
I highly recommend checking them out. You can get some treats here, coffee at Trailhead and then wander down to the Levee.
Low-quality selfie for a high quality day. A woman Low-quality selfie for a high quality day. A woman... a Black and Indian American woman as VP! Thank you Madam Vice President Kamala Harris for breaking this glass ceiling and for all the women who made it possible. #stillwithher
Açaí you! This açaí smoothie bowl from @cincya Açaí you! This açaí smoothie bowl from @cincyacaibol was so fresh and the pick-me-up I needed during these gloomy winter days. Is anyone else craving all the fresh fruits & veggies rn? 
——
@cincyacaibol operates over in the west end and is run through delivery or carry out that is brought to your car. But they have plans to open a storefront later this year 😍🙌🏻 #cincyeats #cincinnatiblogger
I AM A MAN. When Black sanitation workers in Mem I AM A MAN.  When Black sanitation workers in Memphis took to the streets in March 1968, they carried signs stating: I AM A MAN.  The purpose of the strike and march was to take a stand in favor of fair wages and better working conditions after the death of two sanitation employees, Echol Cole and Robert Walker.  This strike was a focal point of the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King joined to show his support. This is where he gave his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” He was killed the next day.  The "I am a Man" Plaza is located next to Clayborn Temple in Memphis. The area includes a sculpture along with a wall listing the names of those who participated in the strikes.  We’ve come far, but there is still more to be done. #MLKDay
GIVEAWAY 😍🥳🤩 Sometimes self-care means ga GIVEAWAY 😍🥳🤩 Sometimes self-care means game night & takeout. 🙌🏻 Ryan and I love Gold Star & decided to mix things up and try some items other than chili. The double decker sandwich was so good 😋 plus the garlic parm fries are 💯. / ad 
You can win a $25 gift card to @goldstarchili to make dinner time easy peasy.  To enter:
Follow @goldstarchili & me.
Comment the food emoji that relates to what you’ll be ordering 🍔 🍟 🥪 & Tag a pal you’ll be sharing with.  Not associated with IG. Winner will be picked randomly on Monday 1/18. #goldstarchili #cincinnatibloggers
Sunday self-care 😌 I have seen so many jokes th Sunday self-care 😌 I have seen so many jokes the last week that everyone has given up their #dryjanuary resolutions because of recent events. And yes, the jokes are funny, but I also believe that alcohol just makes stress even more stressful. 🙃 so if you’re participating in dry January or just trying to cut back alcohol in 2021 then the post at my #linkinbio has some tips to keep going.
Happy 2021 ☺️ / If you haven’t yet, let me r Happy 2021 ☺️ / If you haven’t yet, let me remind you to refresh your professional accounts/brand. By this I mean:
• updating your resume (even if you’re not looking!)
• update your professional site (if you have one - I use @squarespace)
• update LinkedIn (update your experience & any projects you’ve led in the last year, use their featured section to highlight the work you’re most proud of, etc.)
• create a folder where you can save “wins” for the upcoming year like emails from your boss when you’ve done great work, media coverage, recap decks, etc. 
• update your headshot 😌 I shared this on stories a while back but if anyone is interested I’ll make a Reels showing how I used my iPhone & Canva to create a refreshed headshot for LinkedIn & my social accounts 
• what else have I missed? Anything you do at the start of the year to get your professional spaces/work in order?
I’ve likely shared this one before but I always I’ve likely shared this one before but I always find this message to be inspiring. I personally find the coming months to be so bleh and dreary and it really makes me feel gloomy, so I’m reminding myself how much inner strength we all have. Everything that has happened in your life this far, you’ve made it through. 😌🙌🏻 #lovethecov #happynewyear
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 Photo taken at @kinleyh Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 
Photo taken at @kinleyhotelcincinnati because we do not have a tree this big and pretty with our two cats. 😂 swipe for more pics of their beautiful space! I hope you all have a peaceful, relaxing and joyful holiday!
Forget the milk, Santa wants a Fairy Ring cocktail Forget the milk, Santa wants a Fairy Ring cocktail to go with his cookie. 🍪🍹 ⠀
Taken at @kinleyhotelcincinnati downtown on Race Street.⠀
If you haven’t been I highly recommend for the vibes alone! But also the cocktails, desserts and customer service were 💯.⠀
The bar lounge area is decorated beautifully and was spacious so there was plenty of room for groups to safely distance from one another. ⠀

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