Every once in awhile, I kinda miss bread, and rather than wreck my gut by indulging in actual wheat filled bread, I’d rather try and come up with an alternative that helps me get through those days where I want some bread but without affecting my body in a negative way. I have been trying [...]
Have you ever had a Larabar? I really do love them but for reasons unimportant to this recipe, I don’t buy them anymore. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them, and frankly they taste much better made from scratch. So I decided to make homemade Larabars. My daughter wanted them to be round, you [...]
Our organic lifestyle My family and I have been on a mostly organic diet for over a year now. Removing artificial ingredients and preservatives from our diets have gone a long way towards improving our health and making us feel better. Combine organic foods with clean eating and I cook more from scratch and I [...]
I’m a big fan of all-in-one style dinners. I like to be able to cook everything, toss it together and serve. It makes it easier to deal with the kids claiming they don’t want a particular item (say…veggies) because it’s all mixed in, they have no choice. I’m the type of cook who looks at [...]
Clean and healthy eating doesn’t mean low fat and no flavor. In fact, you can even have bacon on occasion. Yes. I said the ‘B’ word. BACON. And I don’t mean fake bacon made from an imposter animal that is nothing even remotely like a pig. I mean thick, yummy pork bacon. …this is starting [...]
In my quest to find healthy yet easy to make, “normal” recipes for my family, I discovered the The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook. I was looking for a cookbook that took regular food and recipes that even a novice can make, and made them healthier. Often, healthy cookbooks use strange and hard to [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had 2 sweet potatoes sitting on my counter and I had a craving for pasta. So I typed “sweet potato pasta” into the search engine and Voila! I found a recipe that looked good and sounded good and I had most of the ingredients on hand for. I made [...]
I love, love, love McDonald’s Mocha Frappe drinks. LOVE THEM. But, they have HUGE calories in them and I’m cheap. Today I had a craving for one but didn’t want the calories nor did I feel like dragging 2 kids out to go get one because then one $3 frappe turns into a $15 lunch. [...]
Stop buying flavored instant oatmeal. Stop it. Flavored instant oatmeal is a better choice than a doughnut or a multitude of other unhealthy breakfast options, but it’s really not hard to make your own tasty oatmeal from scratch without all the additives and sugar that is in packaged, flavored, instant oatmeal. The unflavored without sugar [...]
Yesterday around 3:30 pm I was inspired to make dinner from scratch, and happened to look up on top of my fridge and notice my poor lonely crepe maker just itching to be used again. So I scoured the web for a recipe for a low-fat crepe and a chicken filling – all made with [...]
