The goal of the Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge is to work on one specific health goal each month. Together, we are working for form habits that will stay with us and help us be our healthiest selves. I'm so happy that February is the Eat More Plants Challenge! This is something I feel ...
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 4 and February Challenge Announcement
Well, I can say that cutting sugar was a great way to start out the year. I feel like I've got myself on a strong foundation for eating healthy all year long. Let me tell you a little bit about my week and then I'll reveal what February's challenge is going to be. I didn't eat 100% added sugar ...
Broccoli Soup
This is a healthy Broccoli Soup that thick and creamy, but totally vegan! I have a small confession to make. As a hardcore soup devotee, I am constantly cooking up new soups. Soups are a staple in my winter diet; I love how you can make them full of goodness, and they are ...
DIY Body Spray with Essential Oils
DIY Body Spray with essential oils is super easy to customize with your favorite scents. Back in college, my roommate and I would slather ourselves with Victoria's Secret body lotion and body sprays every day. You must have been able to smell us coming a mile away. Now I cringe thinking about ...
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 3
As part of my Happy Healthy Mama Healthy Year Challenge, January is Cut the Sugar month! This is my week 3 update. You can find the week 1 update here and the week 2 update here. Woo hoo! We made it through week 3 of the Cut the Sugar Challenge! How was this week for you? The Highs All I ...
Do You Really Know How Much Sugar You’re Eating? 12 Foods with Added Sugar
If you've decided to cut back on sugar, you need to be aware that there are more foods with added sugar than you might think. Grocery shopping probably takes me longer than most because I never put a new product in my cart without reading the ingredient label. I want to see exactly what I'm going ...
Healthy Living: What is your WHY?
Healthy living is a decision. A choice you make somewhere along the way, usually a decision that's propelled by something. An event in your life. An article you read. Something your friend told you. The way you feel. Something ignites your desire to live healthier. My question for you today: ...
Pear Oatmeal Bars
These Pear Oatmeal Bars are vegan, gluten-free, and 100% fruit sweetened, with no added sugar. Let me make one thing clear. Creating 100% fruit-sweetened bars that don't taste like cardboard is no easy task. This recipe may win the award for most recipe trials in one week. I finally got it ...
Cut the Sugar Challenge Update: Week 2
Whew. What a week. Here's what I learned about myself this week: I like to eat sugar when I'm stressed. Monday, Meghan was on a two-hour delay for school. The meant my blog-working time was cut from the normal 2 1/2 hours while Luke is at school to about an hour. Then during that hour, ...
How to Sweeten Coffee without Sugar
The year was 2006 and I'd just read multiple books and articles about the detrimental effects sugar has on our body. I decided I was cutting it out of my diet, cold turkey. My biggest fear was the coffee. At that time I drank my coffee with copious amounts of CoffeeMate French Vanilla creamer (I ...
Toxin Free Cleaning Made Easy
I'm excited to tell you about a service that's been making my life easier the last few months. ePantry is a company that allows you to put all of your household supplies on autopilot. Yes, friends, it's true. There is a company out there that will take care of the boring side of your shopping ...
A Mason Jar Salad for Every Weekday (5 recipes with step-by-step instructions)
One of my secret weapons to keeping my healthy eating on track is preparation. Having a mason jar salad in the fridge and ready at lunch time makes the choice, when I'm hungry, simple. When I'm really hungry I can make bad food choices, but when lunch is prepared ahead of time? The potential for a ...