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This blog post was sponsored by The Quaker Oats Company in partnership for their More Taste, Less Waste campaign. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting and making Chickpea in The City possible. One of the biggest struggles I face when making meals is being conscious of not wasting food. As a food blogger and someone who loves grocery shopping, I have a difficult time ...
Every year when fall hits, I can't stop myself from consuming all things pumpkin. I'm sure you're rolling your eyes thinking I'm like every other person who is on that #PSL train but no really, I'm talking about fresh pumpkin roasted in the oven straight from my mom's garden, canned pumpkin blended in my smoothies and every kind of squash I know dipped in caramelized onion hummus (trust me, it's ...
Yesterday was a very exciting Friday. Not just because I watched a marathon of the Tiny House version of House Hunters with my roommate but because I stopped at Sur La Table on my way home from work. I had a gift card for a while but haven't had a chance to use it so when I was heading towards the train home, I spotted it and knew what had to happen. Only I would go into a cooking store at 6p.m. ...
Finally it's Saturday morning and I can sit at my dining room table, carelessly enjoying my first homemade pumpkin spice latte of the season. I can write my thoughts out from the past two weeks and get back into the bloggy world. All I've been wanting to do lately yet haven't found a single second to do so. *Insert crying emoji here*. Going almost a full week without blogging really brings me down ...
This post is directed towards my love of all things pure. Pure-ly Elizabeth that is. The rest of the ingredients are pretty pure too, you could say. I used almond milk, a banana, chia seeds and natural almond butter. All on my list of goodies. I found this recipe from an Instagram that belongs to of one of the first foodies I ever began to follow, Courtney Swan. I started following Courtney a ...
Instead of doing one product in specific that I love, I want to do a post on three products I tried within the past week that I bought at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods that I was SO pleased with. I highly recommend these and they're relatively cheap (always a perk)! If that doesn't get you to go buy it, trust me when I say they taste way too good not to buy. The first product is Trader Joe's ...
