Intro to Cooking: Pizza Salad

Intro to Cooking: Pizza Salad

You know, the desire for pepperoni, cheese and sauce? How on earth do I shake that? Through trial and error, I found the solution. And it includes three of my favorite salad greens ever: spinach, arugula and romaine. You’ll get tons of nutrients, including iron, along with some major flavor.

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One Month Challenge: Eating Clean, Week 2

One Month Challenge: Eating Clean, Week 2

Before I began, I had a lot a questions like “What is clean eating?” and “What foods are clean?” Well to be honest, even after doing loads of reading since my first post on the subject, I am still not entirely sure, so I have decided that I am going to slowly, but smartly, build my way up to much healthier eating.

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Tuffy Luv Is Scared of Breast Cancer, Too

Tuffy Luv Is Scared of Breast Cancer, Too

My boyfriend noticed a lump in my breast while we were fooling around. I’m so scared. I can’t sleep. I’m afraid to tell my parents. I’m at school so I could go to the clinic but I’m really scared about what they’ll say. What should I do?

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WTF Friday: Ioana Spangenberg’s 20″ Waist

WTF Friday: Ioana Spangenberg’s 20″ Waist

Our society generally assumes that ‘body issues’ spawn from the desire to be thinner. Ioana Spangenberg actually suffers from the opposite. This Romanian born, 30 year old model has been trying to gain weight for the past 15 years.

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Chocolate Recipes You’ll Fall In Love With

Chocolate Recipes You’ll Fall In Love With

In honor of the anniversary of Hershey’s Chocolate — which was founded on February 9th, 1894 — and to get you to think outside the heart-shaped box this Valentine’s Day, we present to you some positively decadent chocolate-based recipes. Impress your friends and loved ones with these cheap, easy and incredible treats.

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Dorm Room Workout: Cardio Blast

Dorm Room Workout: Cardio Blast

As college students, it’s inevitable that we’ll all have some weeks where everything is just a bit too much. Maybe it’s because you have three midterms and a paper due, or maybe it’s because you had a few too many margaritas…every night last weekend. (Who, me? No!) So here’s your workout for the week when you have way too much work to get done and can’t even think about going to the gym.

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Sexy Time: What You Should Know About Your Birth Control Pill

Sexy Time: What You Should Know About Your Birth Control Pill

Occasionally, despite my generally laissez-faire, non-judgmental attitude towards sex, there are a few things that perturb me. Rape, of course. Slut shaming. Abstinence-only sex education. And ignorance about contraception.

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What? A Chocolate, Coffee Marshmallow?

What? A Chocolate, Coffee Marshmallow?

Maybe not better than sex, but pretty damn close. At first glance, everyone in the CollegeCandy office was a bit suspicious of these brown, turd like treats. I braced myself for what was sure to be mild discomfort at best when I took the first bite.

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Reasons We Don’t Want to Go to the Gym

Reasons We Don’t Want to Go to the Gym

The gym requires: putting on tight spandex, getting in your car, driving to the gym, then actually doing physical activity (YIKES!). Sometimes there is just no way we are going to get our butts out of bed and go break a sweat. And there is nothing wrong with that!

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Sunday Funday: The Color Run

Sunday Funday: The Color Run

Who doesn’t love awesome activities? As we learned from Dale and Brennan of Step Brothers, turning our beds into bunk beds “would give us so much extra space in our room to do activities.” But you don’t need to build an extraordinarily unsafe bunk bed set to make room for activities when you can do some fabulous things outside.

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