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Welcome friends!  This week will mark my second year of blogging!  When I started, I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into, but I’m sure glad I did.  Developing recipes to share with you all in this space has become a favorite pastime, and has brought a little more creativity into my own cooking routine.  I love figuring out what readers are enjoying and creating more recipes in kind.   Therefore, I decided to share the top 10 most visited recipes on my blog to celebrate the anniversary.  I think it will be interesting to reflect every year on what readers like to see, and what is changing in this space.  So, here we go!  Top 10 Alison’s Allspice Recipes for my 2 year anniversary! Continue reading →

A week in the life of a vegetarian.  That’s what I have to offer you today.  This week I am sharing my menu plan so that you can see what a week in the life of a vegetarian looks like. Have you ever been curious or think it might be impossible to achieve?  Well, this is what I am eating this week.  The plan also outlines my pursuit for a healthy diet, including indulgences and shortfalls. Check out the menu for 2 people, including a free grocery list, the plan, and ideas for next week.  Continue reading →

Trying to eat a healthy diet is often times confusing because of the wealth of (contrasting) information out there.  What we know about a healthy diet is constantly changing.  For example, it was once thought that eating eggs would increase cholesterol and increase the chances of heart disease, but now we know that high cholesterol is caused by saturated fats, not by cholesterol itself.  I started a series on healthy habits to highlight the pieces of a healthy lifestyle that I think are important and that I am working on in my own life.  The first post I made was on New Year’s Day, where I wrote about my weight loss story, which is where my goals for healthy habits started.

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College.  That is where my weight loss story starts. I was an athletic young person and never had weight issues before pizza and beer became the only 2 food groups I knew.  My mom tried to teach me to eat my vegetables (Thanks Mom!). However, those first few years out of the house, I didn’t always make good food choices.  Caught up in the college life, exercise was simply something I didn’t make time for as well. Continue reading →

Hello Reader Family!

2016 has been a great year and I want to celebrate it by sharing the most popular, top 10 recipes of 2016!  This is the first full calendar year that the blog has been up!  I highlighted most of the changes I have made here on the blog in June, when I completed my first full year of blogging!  Continue reading →

Alison’s Allspice is having it’s first anniversary!  It’s hard to believe that I have a full year of blogging under my belt.  It took me two years of research and following other blogs to decide that I could do it.  Thank you to all the people who are here supporting me on this journey.  Your support means the world to me! Continue reading →