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Recipe Repeat: Coconut-Almond Bars {Kind Bar Copycat}
April 3, 2014 by Nicole Morrissey 10 Comments
I’m depressed.
We’re leaving 88 degree Cabo San Lucas for 30’s and grey in the Midwest. It has been 5 days of REAL fruit strawberry smoothies, guacamole poolside (truly, is there anything better than that?), a bit of vitamin D, and kicking my own butt on the treadmill since my conversion from miles to kilometers was a little off. Literally, my butt felt kicked. Walking at 4.35 miles per hour for an hour when your legs are really freakin’ short and the workout room is a steamy 75+ degrees…it’ll have you feeling the burn. Or the kick. Whatever.
But don’t feel bad for me at all, whatsoever. I worked out to earn my…
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