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I am defiantly feeling the LOVE this week! 💕Thank you to everyone who emailed me, messaged me on Facebook or sent Linked in messages with your kind words of support and excitement for my promotion. You have all lifted me up beyond measure. When you work so hard at something for so long, make sacrifices and take risks to move to another country and leave your friends and family it’s weeks like this that make it all feel worth it. The job title is exciting but what is more exciting to me is all the people that have been part of my professional journey. Each interaction or project big or small that we may have worked on together has been what keeps me excited to wake up every morning. I can’t tell you how blessed I have been in my career to work with so many amazing people who have pushed me to think bigger than I could have dreamed for myself. Thank you to all of you @labattbreweries @mikeshardlemonade @markanthonyon •
To those closest to me THANK YOU! I am so lucky to have such a solid support network of close friends who have been with me this entire time. You’ve each pushed me when I needed it and been voices of reason when I can’t see straight. Nothing we accomplish is ever on our own and I owe a lot to my family and friends who have supported me without question for the past 20+ working years.
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Cheers to all of you and Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 💗

I spent most my my Sunday testing vegan Christmas dinner recipes for the family. I am sure this Mushroom Wellington will be a hit! 🤶🏻

Happy Friday! I wanted to share a little update with you guys this morning because I am celebrating my 6th month anniversary of eating a 100% plant-based diet. Yeah!!! 💗 I have not written much about it yet because I have been immersed in experimenting and finding my way of living with this style of eating. Before I talked too much about it on here I wanted to be sure it was something that I planned to stick with. The last 6 months have been full of ups and downs as I had to learn a whole new way of cooking. I’ve had some successes and some absolute disasters (vegan banana bread baking has still been unsuccessful). I have also faced many new challenges like navigating menus at restaurants and adjusting to social situations that are heavily focused around meat and dairy. I still have so much to learn but I am committed to staying on this path for as long as it feels good. There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about plant-based eating and the majority of people I know think I am bat shit crazy when I tell them I don’t eat meat anymore. I know the idea of this is challenging to understand but my hope is that my experience will inspire you. I am not here to preach about eating plants but rather inspire you to cook good food and have some fun with being healthy. .
Most people who know me personally know how much I loved to cook and eat meat, the idea of never making Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon again was frightening. The only reason I was able to take the leap into a plant-based lifestyle was that I felt shitty enough to try something different. If I was honest with myself I knew deep down what I was doing was not working. I was struggling with painful periods, extreme hormonal fluctuations and at times I could not get out of bed because of the pain. After 6 months of plant-based eating I am off all my medication and have not had a symptom in 6 months. My period comes and goes, and I barely know it’s there. This is a miracle to me because I have suffered for years with these issues and thought there was nothing I could do about it. Continued in comments.🍃

It’s #givingtuesday 💛! I hope you might consider a donation to this incredible organization I volunteer with called @kitchenpossiblechi ! •
@lowmankatie is doing amazing work to create programs that empower kids through cooking. I have personally seen the power of the program change kids mindsets and help them stay positive when things go wrong or feel a sense of accomplishment when they finish something or flip a crepe for the first time. We teach simple life skills like confidence, problem solving, course correcting and positivity. I have seen my own mindset change volunteering and seeing the kids grow each week! I get SO much joy out of working with the team @kitchenpossiblechi and we want to keep GROWING and empowering more kids so please DONATE today! Any amount makes a difference! •
With love and gratitude Tracey! 💛 •
#givingtuesday #volunteer #cooking

Missing the bright blue Tucson sky this morning. 🌞

Happy Sunday!!!🥑

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are all doing things you love today! 💗
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I managed to get myself out of the city this weekend to explore the Illinois countryside but I am anxious to get back to my kitchen to cook and test more recipes for my COOKBOOK! Yes you heard me correctly I am writing a cookbook and you are all coming along with me for the entire journey! I plan to write and share my weight loss story as well as share all the recipes that have helped me maintain my weight loss for the past few years. I have so much to share with you in this book but more importantly I want to hear from you throughout the entire process about anything you want me to include in the cookbook. I know many of you struggle as I did to find the right formula to lose weight and maintain a healthy mindset. Since I have tried pretty much everything my hope is that my story and recipes can help you find your own balance and ultimately inspire you to cook more and take better care of yourself. How does that sound? Pretty fun isn’t it! •
Thank you in advance for all the support. This group of 1000 of you have supported me and cheered me on for a long time. You have been here since my first @whole30 post and are still with me now as I continue to grow and shift my food philosophy. I am inspired by all of you who contact me often to provide you with MORE information about getting and staying healthy. I have invested countless hours reading, studying and learning about the mind, body & food connection and I want to share as much as I can with all of you. So today I am sharing this with you because this has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. I am a voracious reader of cookbooks and I have always wanted one of my own! Thank you for coming along for the ride! Let’s go!!! 👩🏻‍🍳
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#mywholelifecookbook

Yeah it’s Friday!!!! 💗 Do you need some recipe inspiration this weekend? Have no fear the “frownie” is here! 👩🏻‍🍳 I made these last week and took them to work for some feedback from the team. I explained to everyone that they are raw brownies with only 4 ingredients and no one seemed to smile. Someone shouted out oh so they are frownies. Hahahah!!! I loved the name so I am sharing them with you today. •
1 cup walnuts
1 1/3 cup dates
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup raw cocoa powder
1/3 cup chopped pecans
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Pulse all the ingredients in a food processor. Then place the mixture in an 8” baking dish lined with parchment paper. Press the mixture down and sprinkle with pecans. Refrigerate for 1 hour then cut into 2 inch squares.
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Enjoy and remember to smile!!! 😁

It was such a great week at the @mikeshardlemonade company!! We worked our butts off to get ready for our National Commercial Conference but it all seemed worth it when we celebrated everything we accomplished at our Annual Lemmies award gala!! Cheers to all the winners and everyone else who makes work so much fun! 🍋#bringflavortolife

I am so glad I prepped a big batch of this Cauliflower Curry over the weekend because it’s been bonkers busy and it’s saving me tons of time so I can WORK, WORK, WORK! Is it Friday yet??? 🍲