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I'm the girl, Gracie. Here at GML you can follow my journey of dreaming, working, eating, loving, dancing, and blogging my way through life in NYC.



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Sweet Broccoli Salad

I have a confession. I am not a fan of raw vegetables. Wait, let me reword that. I’m not a fan of raw vegetables unless they’re covered in some sort of dressing or sauce. I could eat cooked veggies all day long, but rabbit food pure rawness just isn’t my cup of tea (and I know [...]

the nutty roll-up.

I was pretty bummed when I stopped eating my favorite wraps last month due to their soy content. Those were a depressing couple of weeks, to say the least. But ever since I found yummy, soyless whole wheat wraps from Trader Joe’s last week, I’ve been able to reintroduce my all-time favorite snack back into my [...]

Solo Cookie success!

Remember how my first attempt at making a Solo Cookie needing some tweaking? Well, I did it! Not without one more failure, though…

Solo Cookie attempt #2:

Delicious, but still too cake-like. Grrr. Attempt #3 was going to take place tonight, but the anticipation was killing me…

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

Solo Cookie

dry ingredients:

2 tablespoons whole wheat [...]

there’s always room for dessert.

I’ve made it no secret that I I love dessert. I’m also a firm believer that there is plenty of room for dessert in a healthy lifestyle. It seems as though when people are trying to be healthy or lose weight, dessert is the first thing to go; either that or their dessert of choice becomes [...]

Peanut Butter Oat Bran Muffins

I woke up this morning craving a big, fluffy muffin. I wasn’t about to waste half a day’s worth of calories on a muffin from Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks, so I took matters into my own hands.

Peanut Butter Oat Bran Muffins

(yields 6 jumbo or 12 regular-sized muffins)

dry ingredients:

2 cups oat bran
1/3 cup NuNaturals Erythritol Crystals [...]

10 Ways: be productive.

Do you ever feel like a day, week, or month goes by and you didn’t accomplish much of anything? I often do. Despite my numerous to-do lists, many tasks and responsibilities simply slip through the cracks…mainly because I find one reason or another to put them off. So in order to help overcome my natural tendency [...]

the art of listening.

I know I say this every week, but today was pretty much thee perfect Saturday. There was that perfect balance of relaxing but also being quite productive. And, well, isn’t that what Saturdays are for?

This afternoon I made a batch of Jessica’s Loaded Blueberry Coconut Muffins. Need I say more?

I made a few slight adjustments to [...]