When people name healthy snacks, the list is usually pretty predictable: Baby carrots, apples, nonfat Greek yogurt, mixed nuts, granola, celery with peanut butter, popcorn (light on the butter). Those are great, but after you’ve had them week after week, year after year, it’s hard to muster up excitement for more of the same. Sometimes […]
What to Cook When It’s FREEZING Cold Outside
There doesn’t have to be a blizzard heading your way for it to be too freaking cold to step outside (especially when Netflix or a great book is calling your name). On those days, when hour 4 of your favorite show suddenly feels monotonous and you just need to do something, try cooking up one […]
Should You Try the ‘Taco Cleanse?’
By now, you’ve probably heard rumblings about the Taco Cleanse. Yes, a cleanse. That calls for tacos. Not green juices, kale salads or hot water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne Pepper concoctions (AKA the Master Cleanse, which Beyonce reportedly tried while filming Dreamgirls). If it sounds too good to be true — tacos for breakfast, […]
Cozy Up with Roasted Broccoli Spaghetti
If you’re like oh, pretty much everyone, you’ve probably resolved to live a little healthier this year, whether that means eating out less, hitting the gym more, sneaking a few extra vegetables into your diet, or some combination of the three. Often, ‘eating healthy’ turns into salad, salad and more salad. And the occasional broth-based […]
12 Gifts That Show Off Your School Spirit
If you belong to an SEC or Big 10 school, you can find just about anything bearing your university’s colors. ANYTHING. However, in recent years, the variety of spirited swag is reaching an increasing number of colleges (even the ones without a litany of National Championship titles under their name!), making the ways you can […]
A Snack Break You Don’t Have to Feel Guilty About
Healthy snack food often has a stigma attached to it, and that stigma is: booooring. Followed closely by: rabbit food. You may want to choose only low-sugar, low-carb, nutrient-rich things to eat, but then you think about the sour cream and onion chips in the pantry, and suddenly, all you can think is, sour cream […]
Last-Minute Halloween Dessert: Graveyard Chocolate Pudding Cups
Growing up, Graveyard pudding — complete with Cool Whip-blob ghosts and Milano cookie tombstones — seemed like it was featured in every woman’s magazine my mom read. I saw it everywhere, but I never actually had it in real life. Worms and dirt, sure, but not the towering wonder that was a full-blown jiggly dessert cemetery. […]
The Perfect Costume for 2015: Back to the Future
For the past three years, we’ve all fallen victim to the Back to the Future hoax: You know, that mid-October day when a friend posts Facebook photo — or shares said photo from some questionable COOL LIFE HACKS & FREE FOLLOWERS Facebook page — of what appears to be a screencap from the movie, along […]
Snapchat Ghost Costume
Whether you love the app or are absolutely convinced it’s what those punk youths use to do the sexting with each other, one thing’s for sure: Snapchat is a huge part of our cultural conversation. Everyone’s buzzing about it, which makes the costume a natural icebreaker. It’s the perfect thing to wear to a party […]
Saved By the Bell Costume Ideas
Last summer, an off-Broadway spoof/musical of Saved By the Bell reintroduced me to a show I rarely ever watched — and suddenly wondered why I hadn’t. (Aside from being far too consumed by my love of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Darkwing Duck during those formative years.) The cheesy one-liners! The Max hangouts! The time Jessie […]