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Insanely Delicious Inside Out Peanut Butter Cups

Posted by Julie Ryan Evans
on Jan 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Recipe A Day

inside out peanut butter cupsGet ready, because this recipe is going to blow you away. As if traditional peanut butter cups weren't good enough, this recipe for inside out peanut butter cups takes an unbelievably delicious twist on them.

From A Whisk and a Prayer, you'll have to pray for willpower not to devour the entire batch in one sitting. The outside is made up of a delicious peanut butter cookie while the middle is filled with creamy, rich chocolate goodness. Good doesn't even begin to describe them.

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Food & Party

5 Paleo Diet Recipes That Will Make You Feel Like a Caveman

Posted by April Peveteaux
on Jan 28, 2012 at 7:00 AM

paleo diet recipes
Bison, It's What's For Dinner
In case you haven't heard of the latest food trend that requires you eat like a caveman, I'm here to explain it all to you. The Paleo diet -- or "lifestyle" -- aspires to treat your palate as if electricity, heat lamps, drive-thrus, and processed sugar was never invented. In other words, what man ate during the Paleolithic era (around 2.5 million years ago -- @10,000 years ago), when he was in that whole hunter-gatherer stage.

The idea behind eating like a caveman, is that your body is genetically predisposed to digesting foods available during that time period such as grass-fed meats, vegetables, roots, fish, fruits, and nuts. Big no-nos for Paleo diet are basically anything processed, grains, dairy products, legumes and refined sugar.

Some people swear by the Paleo diet, and not unlike the Atkins diet, you will be decreasing your sugar load, so that's always a good thing.

Here are five recipes and websites to help you go ancient.

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Food & Party

Exaggerating Food Allergies Is No Big Deal

Posted by April Peveteaux
on Jan 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM

food allergies exaggerated
A Welcome Sign for the Allergic
If you are currently alive and speak to other humans on the planet, you know someone with food allergies, or food sensitivities. Perhaps you didn't when you were growing up in the halcyon days of the 1980s, but guess what? That's all changed, people, and it's time to stop saying, "In my day no one was allergic to peanuts!"

Which is why this research being published by the Jaffe Allergy Center regarding the disparity between people who claim to have food allergies, vs. those who actually do, is kind of annoying. It seems that some people may be exaggerating about what foods they are allergic to at the dinner table Because while only three or four percent of Americans have food allergies, around twenty percent make the claim.

For those of you ready to to be pissed off, here is your excuse. But for those of you with food allergies, or food sensitivities, you kind of get what's going on here, don't you?

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Toddler

Toddler Bites Head Off Snake -- And 10 Other Scary Things Found in Toddlers' Mouths

Posted by Adriana Velez
on Jan 27, 2012 at 6:45 PM

corn snakeThis week a mother in northern Israel found a snake's head in her toddler's mouth. Thankfully the child had not been bitten or harmed while beheading that snake! But here's the part that makes me want to scream: They couldn't quite identify what kind of snake it was because its head was so chewed up. OMG! NO! Chewing a snake's head -- that is the worst!

Or is it? Even the most watchful mom has found crazy, disturbing, and revolting things in our kids mouths. I know I have. I've seen rocks, coins, glitter, a random bottle cap -- well, maybe I should just stop there. I asked some of my friends what crazy items they've found in their toddlers' mouths. Are you ready? Okay, let's go there.

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Healthy Living

Too Much Time at the Office Is Bad for Your Health

Posted by Amy Reiter
on Jan 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM

overtimeDoesn't it sometimes feel like all you EVER do is work? You get up in the morning, get in a quick dose of work (responding to important emails and checking the news in your industry while you're still drinking your first cup of coffee), get the kids off to school, head in to work, work, eat lunch at your desk while you work, work some more, come home from work (maybe catching up on some work-related reading as you commute), eat dinner, put the kids to bed, then hop on your computer and work some more before finally, bleary-eyed and confused as to who you really are and what you really care about anymore, you hit the sack for a few (too few) hours of shuteye. Then your alarm goes off, letting you know it's time for you to get up and do it all over again.

Ugh. I'm getting depressed just thinking about it. And it turns out I'm not the only one.

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Love & Sex

Nagging in Marriage Is the Fast Track to Divorce

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Jan 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM

cute wedding cake topper figurinesPop quiz: What's being touted as the #1 marriage killer these days? Is it ... A. for Adultery, B. for Budget, or C. for "Could You Please Just Shut Up Already?!" Well, I'm sure there are those who could make the case for D. all of the above, but believe it or not, C., otherwise known as nagging, is starting to get more credit as THE major poison for many couples. A recent Wall Street Journal article cited it as more common than cheating and just as big a trigger for divorce.

The research is there, too: A study published in the Journal of Family Psychology found that couples who became unhappy five years into their marriage had about a 20 percent increase in negative communication patterns ... like nagging.

We shouldn't be all that surprised!

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Entertainment

Demi Moore's 911 Call Makes Breakdown Sound Totally Terrifying (LISTEN)

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Jan 27, 2012 at 5:24 PM

demi moorePoor, poor Demi Moore. The details surrounding her breakdown just keep on comin' out and getting more and more graphic and horrific. The 911 call that was placed from Demi's home on Monday has been released, and it's downright bewildering, cringe-worthy, and, well, really frightening. Basically, it sounds like what we thought was just a little overdose or slight "seizure" seems like it could have actually been a full-blown brush with death. Ugh!

First off, let me warn you: The slightly over eight-minute call is a bit difficult to listen to ...

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Pregnancy

Deciding on a Baby's First Name Is Easy, It's the Last Name That's Hard

Posted by Amy Reiter
on Jan 27, 2012 at 5:18 PM

baby nameYou know that debate that rages -- sometimes within our very own selves, or between us and our partners -- about whether or not a woman should be expected to change her name when marrying? Well, that debate can lead to another dilemma -- sometimes within our very own selves, or between us and our partners -- when children enter the picture. When the moment comes to fill out your child's birth certificate form, yesterday's easy solution (two names) can seem a little more complex (two names? Which one do you hand down? And who will be the odd man out?).

Tessa Blake writes compellingly, in The Huffington Post, about her misgivings about saddling her daughter with a hyphenated last name, including, presumably, both her husband's last name and Blake's own. Giving her daughter a "long, law-firm-ish name," as she calls it, didn't seem like a great solution, but it seemed like the best option they had.

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Beauty & Style

Callista Gingrich's Hair: 7 Facts You May Not Have Known

Posted by Lindsay Ferrier
on Jan 27, 2012 at 5:14 PM

Callista GingrichNewt Gingrich may very well be the Republican nominee for president, if the latest polls are any indication -- and that means that he's getting a lot of attention right now.

And so is his wife, Callista's, hair.

I'll admit, I'm completely fascinated by her immovable hairdo. It's so very, very blond, so otherworldly in its gravity-defying perfection, that it looks like it belongs on the head of a character in a  Dreamworks film.

Callista sat directly in front of me during our CafeMom Coffee Break with Newt Gingrich a few weeks ago, and I kept sneaking peaks at her hair throughout the event. Under the lights, it practically glowed. She looked like some sort of fussy, retro angel.

I'm just dying to touch that hair!

Ahem. Where were we?

Since searches for information on Callista's hair are at an all-time high, I figured that now is an excellent time to point out a few interesting facts about her 'do that you probably didn't know.

Click through to see them!

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Beauty & Style

Watch Cindy Barshop Bedazzle a Woman's Sacred Parts With Fox Fur (VIDEO)

Posted by Emily Abbate
on Jan 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM

Cindy BarshopSo a few weeks ago. we heard all about a fancy new deluxe treatment at Cindy Barshop's chic NYC waxing spa chain Completely Bare. For a casual $225 a pop, women can stop by The Real Housewives of New York star's spot for an, um, enhancement on their lady parts consisting of REAL fox fur.

Sure, I thought the whole thing was wackadoodle when I heard about it the first time. But after watching Cindy jazz up a woman herself, I've got to say -- it's not as bad as I thought. If a Real Housewife says it's cool, then it's so totally got to be the IT thing, right?

OK, I'm kidding. It's still epically hilarious. But man oh man is this a video you've got to see. Take a look:

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