This Grilled Salmon Kabobs recipe is easy, flavorful, and a family favorite every time!What do you do when you get into a dinnertime rut? Recently I lost all my mojo for preparing and cooking dinner. Something about summertime weather and being outside that sapped my cooking energy. I just found ...
7 Infused Water Recipes to Try This Summer
These infused water recipes are for all of my peeps out there who struggle to drink enough water each and everyday. I get it. Plain water can get really boring. Especially when you're trying to drink a gallon a day. Infused water to the rescue! I do have to tell you something. In general, I don't ...
Coffee Talk, Volume 4
Shall we jump right into Coffee Talk, Volume 4? I've come to love these little chats. It's nice to be able to fill in the gaps with all the things that don't fit neatly into their own blog post. Summer, summer, summer time! I know a lot of kids are still in school for at least another week, but my ...
The Gallon a Day Water Challenge (with prizes!)
Do you know how important it is to drink the right amount of water? Most people know it's important, but do you do it? Do you actually drink a lot of water? Research indicates that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated, so if you do, you're in the minority. I thought June would be the ...
25 Ways to Use Less Plastic
This month's Use Less Plastic Challenge has been humbling. Plastic is everywhere. Everywhere! I don't think I truly realized the extent of it until I started focusing on it this month. At times, I found it overwhelming. I've been on a journey to reduce my family's exposure to plastics for a long ...
Buffalo Chickpea Salad Sandwich
This Buffalo Chickpea Salad Sandwich has "new favorite lunch" written all over it. Or dinner. Who am I kidding? Sometimes tossing a few things in a bowl, mashing them together, and throwing them on bread is all the energy I have for dinner. It really is that easy to make this vegetarian buffalo ...
Kitchen Chores Chart for Kids by Age
Get your kids helping out in the kitchen with this Kitchen Chores Chart for Kids by Age!I think one of the greatest gifts we can give our children is enabling them to care for themselves. Teaching them the life skills they will carry with them after they leave our care will take them farther than ...
The Happy Healthy Mama 2016 Survey Results
Wow! I have to start this post by saying THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to respond to the reader survey. Your answers and insights help me more than you know. It's always a scary thing to put yourself out there, be vulnerable, and give people a platform to criticize. Turns out, you guys ...
Easy Plastic Swaps, Part 2
How are you doing on the Use Less Plastic Challenge? I hope you've at least thought about making some swaps to reduce the plastic in your life. I'm still working on some challenging areas in my life; I'll have the full update for you at the end of the month. Today I have more ideas for you to help ...
Coffee Talk, Volume 3
Let's have a coffee date, shall we? It's been a couple weeks, so where should I start? Oh, I know. How about Mother's Day? Expectations and Mother's Day How was your Mother's Day? I don't hold any fantasy-like expectations when it comes to celebrating Mother's Day. I don't need to be pampered and ...
Quinoa Power Salad
This Quinoa Power Salad is having a bit of an identity crisis. It badly wants to be a cool kid and be called a Quinoa Power Bowl. Salad just sounds so boring and uninteresting; bowls are so trendy and now. Like any child, it had to listen to its wise mother. (Are you following this? I'm the wise ...
Easy Plastic Swaps, Part 1
May is Use Less Plastic Month as part of the Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge. The point of this challenge is to reduce the amount of plastic exposure we and our families have by eliminating as much of it as possible from our lives. Are you ready to reduce the amount of plastic in your ...