The 5min Blog

Staying fit during the holidays is maybe one of the biggest challenges that we face during the year. Halloween candies, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas cookies or Hannukah doughnuts…you name it. All those yummy treats that just want to drive you away from the yellow path. Oh temptation. Us, humans, are too weak to fight it.
So we [...]

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OK, so we all know that season 8 of 24 is fast approaching on the horizon and with it being the last season I have some predictions. The thing being that for the series to end, Jack must either die and be theoretically replaced or there are no more terrorists… Well we all know from [...]

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Some people say that you can only call yourself an adult once you have wine glasses. Others think that the limit isn’t set by the glass, but by the bottle: if the wine comes in a box, that means that you still have a lot to learn about classy drinking. Because the fact is that [...]

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What’s better than chocolate cake? Chocolate cheesecake. Better than ice-cream? Cheesecake ice- cream. Better than yogurt? Yogurt cheesecake. So yes, if I had been with Hansel and Gretel, I wouldn’t have fallen for the candy house. Now, if this house had been the Cheesecake Factory, I would have been a very easy prey.
So for Thanksgiving, [...]

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If any of you keep up with any of my other blog posts you will see that I have recently been apartment hunting. Well the apartment is found and the oven is bought, now all I need to do it to figure out how to use it. Now if it’s not enough about learning [...]

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I’m all for healthy lifestyle: choosing organic, low calories, and keeping a balanced diet . But when it comes to butter, cream and crunchy bread, there’s nothing I can do. They  make me forget about the healthy lifestyle and make me want to book a  flight to Paris right away. We have a lot to [...]

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I’m house hunting at the moment and I only have two must haves for my new place.
1) A bathroom where you don’t feel less clean after you’ve come out of it.
2) An area for an oven.
Now don’t get me wrong, my name isn’t Curly Sue and I don’t have 6 brothers and 11 sisters all [...]

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One of the tell-tale signs of Halloween season is the traditional candy corn which seems to populate every candy aisle in every store. A self-confessed candy corn addict, none was more thrilled than I to discover this video from the Food Network, detailing the labor of love with which this colorful treat is made. Like [...]

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Okay, so we’ve reached that point in our lives where going out trick or treating would look more like begging than cute kids dressing up and receiving candy. But never fear, you are now entering the next stage in your life: THE Halloween party stage. In some ways, this is actually a little cooler.
Sure, you [...]

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We all know the sugar high and then sugar stress that comes with Halloween. Whether you’re the mother of an excitable child or just worried about your own sugar levels, Halloween can have you calorie counting like the best of us.

We all know what excess sugar and fats can do to us; our Halloween costumes [...]

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