Raising healthy eaters- Getting off to the best start
Before we are off and running on topics such as healthy snacks and lunches, getting your kids interested and involved in nutrition, and help for picky toddlers, I thought that we would touch on this all important subject of what we eat while we are nourishing our little ones during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Although I …
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Q & A: Healthy freezer meals requested!
Any chance I could talk you into doing a post on healthy freezer meals? Do you freeze many meals? I’m getting ready to have my third baby and would rather do this than rely on prepackaged frozen meals. My oldest is barely over three, so I know time will be at a premium.Fullheartandhandsmama Such a …
Menu Plan Monday- Jan. 6
As promised, here is my menu plan, complete with a step-by-step of how I planned it below: Monday: Spiced chicken breasts, quinoa, red cabbage coleslaw (all recipes from Nourishing Traditions– except quinoa- I just cook it like rice and we use butter and Bragg’s on it) Tuesday: Taco salad with guacamole and sour cream- the …
Amazing Greek Salad Recipe
This is the ultimate Greek salad that I could practically live on (especially while pregnant). I made this recipe because I disliked Greek salads in restaurants that had such big chunks of veggies that you could never fit more than one piece in your mouth at a time. I love all the flavors mixed together! …
Healthy and Frugal Menu Planning Help
Seems like the topic of healthy and frugal meal planning is a timely one for many! I’m so glad! If you have never been much of a meal planner, I encourage you to grab a cup of something steaming and delicious, and sit down to join me as I discuss how I use meal planning …
Raising healthy eaters- What eating healthy is and isn’t
When I teach nutrition, there are 3 simple guidelines that encompass my basic nutritionally theory. Although I wish I had created them myself, I didn’t. They have been taught to me over the years through various writers and speakers that I respect, but most specifically through the book What the Bible Says About Healthy Living …
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Menu Plan Monday- Dec.31
After a blissful week of little cooking, back to my regular meal planning I go: Monday : At a New Year’s eve wedding! Tuesday : Quesadillas (using brown rice tortillas and beans), with homemade salsa and guac (recipes here ) Wednesday : Chunky Butternut Squash soup- absolutely delicious! (recipe below) Thursday : Shepherd’s pie (my …
Rich Carob Balls & Allergy-Friendly “Sugar” Cookies {Healthy Holiday Treats with Allergy-Friendly Options!}
Shannon has declared a Christmas edition of Works-for-me-Wednesday, so here are a couple of great cookie recipes. They are both quite healthy, and very adaptable to different diets and allergies (wheat free, gluten free, egg or dairy allergy, etc.)! Enjoy! This is one of our favorite little treats! The recipe originated from Rejuvenate Your Life, …
To clarify some things
Raising healthy eaters- Laying a strong foundation
Menu Plan Monday- Dec.17
My challenge for creating a meal plan this week was that we are going out of town next weekend, for a whole week. Because I absolutely hate to waste any food if I can avoid it, my meal plan needed to use up the fresh produce still in my fridge. Plus, I didn’t want to …
Book Review: The 100 Mile Diet (at last!)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, and actually stayed up late a couple of nights to keep reading. It’s a topic that fascinates my nutritionally minded, health-nut brain, and inspires me to re-evaluate much of what I am buying. I did not agree with everything in the …
Smoothie of the Morning- Carob Delight
This is one of our favorite evening treat smoothies, but occasionally we use it as a morning smoothie, just because it’s so yummy! It’s very creamy, and tastes like a carob milkshake. If you’ve never tried (or heard of) carob, it is the pod of a tree, that has a sweet, somewhat chocolaty flavor to …
Raising healthy eaters
Menu Plan Monday- Dec.10
I’m feeling uninspired this week. Perhaps it’s that I’m doing this at 12:40am, or that I know my kitchen counters are full of dirty dishes. Whatever the reason, sometimes meal planning is just hard work. I suppose that what makes it hard at times is that I don’t want to just be conventional in my …
Got raw milk?
Menu Plan Monday- Dec.3
One of the things that I am striving for in my meal planning these days is a good balance of red meat, poultry, fish, and vegetarian meals. This week I have 2 meals with red meat, 2 with poultry, 1 with fish, and 1 vegetarian: Monday: Turkey veggie pot pie (I believe this is from …
We’re buying into a cow share!
Sweet tooth alternatives
Crystal just posted recently about taming her cravings, such as chocolate or ice cream, especially in light of wanting to lose or maintain weight. I will confess that sugar is often still my downfall. I grew up eating a lot of junk and sweets and old habits die hard. very. hard. The most basic method …
Making Homemade Yogurt
Today I made a batch of homemade yogurt, and as I am often asked how I do it, I thought I would post a simple tutorial on how to do it.
Baking with Honey
Last week, I mentioned that I use honey to replace regular white or brown sugar in all of my recipes. Since it’s difficult to find recipes for doing this, I thought I should elaborate on the why and how’s of doing this. The primary reason that I don’t use white or brown sugar (which, by …
Gleaning apples
Gleaning is a wonderful way to get things for free! And last week a friend introduced me to a place just brimming with organic apples, free for the picking. It’s in a large public park in our city, out in the country a bit. In a far off corner, she discovered that there was a …
Smoothie of the Morning
This household loves smoothies!!!! My husband’s affectionate nickname for me (especially when he wants a smoothie, hmmmmm 🙂 ) is the “Smoothie Queen”. Last Christmas I was incredibly blessed (and spoiled!) with a Vita-Mix blender to help support our habit (our daily smoothie habit, that is). I’ll try to share some of my favorite recipes …