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Hi Friends! Today we have a special visitor on The Bean. Brittany is one of the few bloggers I’ve actually met in real life! She has an adorable blog of her own that you should definitely check out…and more importantly, we share a love of our beloved Buckeyes! Since Fall is officially here, Brittany put […]

We’ve got a winner dinner here my friends. Hubby says it should be a feature on the Bean- that means he likes it 🙂 As I mentioned earlier this week, I picked up some wontons last week and have been dreaming up some Mexican wontons for a while now. I had a basic idea going […]

On Saturday we went to the Farmer’s Market and I came home with, among other things, a GIANT bag of basil. I immediately came home and made a batch of pesto. I used this recipe and it turned out great! Then I immediately made these breadsticks that I’ve been dreaming about ever since Nicole posted […]

In December of 2006, I graduated from college the first time with a BA in Psychology. After working a few jobs totally unrelated to that major, I made the decision to go back to school again. In January 2009, I began taking classes for a Dietetic Technician program. In June 2011, I graduated from that […]

We did it, friends! A successful veggie month. In the words of the hubby, “it flew by!” And it did! So what did we eat during week 4? Hubby was out of town over the weekend so we had some different meals. Thursday: Lentil & Veggie Pot Pies with puff pastry tops. So good! The […]

This could also be called Clinging-to-the-end-of-summer-fruit-and-chickpea-salald. Last night we grabbed what is probably one of the last watermelons of the season while we were grocery shopping. I used one of my favorite kitchen tools, the melon baller to get most of it ready to eat but I had just a little bit extra that wouldn’t […]

Hi Friends! Here’s a little treat to help get you through your Monday. If you’re anything like me, before you discovered the blog world, the only nut butter you ever ate was peanut butter. Over the past year, I’ve broadened my horizons a bit and tried both almond butter and sunflower seed butter. ) Today […]

Good Morning, friends! Just popping in to tell you to go check out my guest post on my best bloggie pal Sarah’s blog. She’s getting MARRIED today and I’m so happy to be filling in for her while she’s away. Since we’re right in the middle of back to school season, I wrote a post […]

Happy Bloggy Birthday to The Lean Green Bean! It’s pretty hard to believe that it’s been an entire year since I sat down and wrote my very first post! You can check it out here if you’re a new reader 🙂 hilarious if you ask me! Since this is how I’m spending the next week: […]