Do you need Christmas gift ideas? The Christmas countdown is ON and I'm determined to get my shopping done early (ish) this year. As I'm doing my research, I want to share with you some gift guides to help you find gifts your friends and family will actually LOVE. Let me do the work for you. This ...
Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl Recipe
This Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl Recipe is vegan, gluten-free, and full of nutrients! If you are looking for a warming, plant-powered bowl that tastes as good as it is nutritious, this is your recipe. A "Buddha Bowl" is basically a bowl of vegetables and such all mixed together, and it's pretty ...
27 Ways to Detox Your Home
For the longest time, I considered the food I put into my body important for good health, but didn't really think about my environment as much. It didn't occur to me that not only can eating the wrong foods make us sick, but so can a toxic home. Do you need to detox your home? The fact is, our ...
Try New Foods Challenge Final Update and November Challenge Announcement
Can you believe we are in the final months of this year? Today marks the final day of the 10th month of our Healthy Year Challenge. Overall, I'm a healthy person, but this year I've focused on every aspect of my health more than ever before. I'm so glad I decided to do this challenge and am proud to ...
I F**king Hate Cancer and it Fuels Me
I can't have a healthy living blog and not write about cancer. So much of what I do here is fueled by my hatred, my absolute hatred, of this disease. Does it fuel you, too? Does it motivate you to keep the course in your healthy lifestyle? Look around your family and your friends, the people you ...
Fish Tacos Recipe from 100 Days of Real Food: Fast and Fabulous & Giveaway
Do you have a favorite meal that you adore, but never make at home? A meal that you'll order anytime you see it on a restaurant menu, yet have never thought to recreate in your own kitchen? That was fish tacos for me. I love fish tacos, but until 100 Days of Real Food:Fast and Fabulous showed up on ...
A Day in the Life, Volume 3
Welcome back to another volume of A Day in the Life! I always get great feedback from these posts, so I think you all must be as nosy as I am. When you drive around neighborhoods at night do you peek in the windows with lights on to see who's eating dinner, who's watching TV, and who might be ...
The Oil Cleansing Method for Clear and Younger Skin
If you are a part of the natural living world long enough, you're sure to come across the facial cleansing method known as the oil cleansing method (OCM). I first started reading about it years ago and was immediately intrigued. I read many testimonials of how it left skin glowing and even cleared ...
When Convenience and Healthy Collide
This is how it went down. The kids and I were shopping at Costco. We hadn't had lunch yet, but it didn't matter because nearly every aisle offered a new sample to help satisfy our rumbling stomachs. You could skip lunch and be satisfied from a trip to Costco. And that was happening. We turned one ...
Try New Foods Challenge: Week 1 Update
October is Try New Foods Challenge month! For the first week, I tried two foods that I'd never tried before: yucca (or is it yuca?) root and plantains. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen the new food adventures as I chronicled my recipe testing on Instagram stories. (Follow ...
Coffee Talk, Volume 5
Friends! It's been much to long. We have some serious catching up to do. I really hate when we let too much time slip between our coffee talks. Life is like that, isn't it? You have the best intentions to stay in touch with your nearest and dearest, and before you know it an entire season has ...
Nut-free Granola Bar Recipe
If you are looking for a nut-free granola bar recipe, this one is chewy with a little crunch and super easy to make! I'm extremely grateful that my children don't have tree nut or peanut allergies. I can only imagine the stress a mother must feel on a daily basis knowing that accidental ...