I know "pregnancy brain" is a thing, but what about "mom brain." Is that a real thing? If it's not, it should be. Then I'll have a valid excuse for my forgetfulness. Last week I was scheduled to bring snack for Luke's school. Easy enough. I had two bags of baby carrots and some cucumbers in ...
Fall Recipes
Vegan Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars
My family likes these Vegan Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars more than traditional apple pie and you'll love the ingredient list!You are going to want to stop what you are doing and make these bars immediately. Seriously. These Vegan Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars just shot up onto my favorite ...
How to Cook Butternut Squash in the Crockpot
Do you ever have those moments where you wonder why you didn't think of something sooner? A how-did-I-even-function-before-this-epiphany moment? That happened to me this week. Yes, I'm being dramatic. But learning that I could cook butternut squash in the crockpot was a game-changer for ...
Comforting No-Meat Balls
Almost as long as I've been cooking in the kitchen, I've been tweaking recipes. When I first started learning about eating a more plant-based diet and healthier foods, it wasn't as easy to find clean-eating recipes as it is today. There weren't two dozen healthy recipe blogs per household back ...
Chicken, Spinach, Mushroom, and Feta Stuffed Sweet Potato
This Chicken, Spinach, Mushroom, and Feta Stuffed Sweet Potato recipe makes a healthy and filling dinner!How many ways can I stuff a sweet potato? Let me count the ways. I can stuff it to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. And then I keep on stuffing it. Sweet potatoes are ...
Crockpot Vegan Coconut Curry Chickpea Lentil Soup
This Crockpot Vegan Coconut Curry Chickpea Lentil Soup is easy to prep and is a healthy, comforting soup!Marriage is all about compromise. I'm sure you've heard that phrase about a million times, especially if you are married. As cliche as it may be, it's true. You have to be able to bend and ...
Homemade Alphabet Vegetable Soup Recipe
This Homemade Alphabet Vegetable Soup Recipe is better than Campbell's and much healthier, too! Did you grow up with Campbell's Soup? I sure did. We always had a can of Campbell's in the pantry, ready to be poured into a pan along with some water. It was easy, that's for ...
Gluten-free Almond Oat Cranberry Bars
These Gluten-free Almond Oat Cranberry Bars are an easy one-bowl recipe and are great for a healthy breakfast, dessert, or snack!Do you ever buy food or ingredients on a whim? Or is that just a #foodbloggerproblem? That's exactly what happened with the cranberries I used for these bars. I saw a bag ...
20 Allergy-Friendly Thanksgiving Dishes
Food intolerances and allergies are no fun on holidays. Here are over 20 Allergy-friendly Thanksgiving dishes!There's nothing worse than trying to navigate a spread of food when you have dietary restrictions. Whether you have food allergies, intolerances, or just follow certain dietary guidelines ...
Roasted Vegetable Brown Rice Risotto with Bacon and Kale
I'm not so stringent with my quest to eat a healthy diet that I have a set of rules I have to follow or I freak out. Eating a whole foods, unprocessed diet as much as I can is important to me. But it isn't everything, and even though I write this blog sharing my ideas, I'm not obsessed with it. ...
Warm Brussels Sprout Salad with Pomegranate and Goat Cheese
I'm convinced that everyone who thinks they don't like Brussels sprouts because of some childhood memory simply hasn't had them prepared correctly. I don't remember ever having Brussels sprouts served to me, but apparently that is because I'm the baby of the family and by the time I came around my ...
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili
The Top 3 Reasons you Need to Make This Chili As Soon As Possible: 1.) It's National Chili Month. Celebrate! 2.) The colors! Could there be a more perfect Halloween meal? 3.) It's a perfect veggie-centric (vegan!) way to switch up your chili routine. Variety is good! I could go on, but ...
