These Flourless Sweet Potato Muffins are easy to prep in the blender and are made without flour, oil, or refined sugar. They are a healthy way to start your day and are perfect for busy mornings! Do you have smooth mornings or hectic mornings at your house? Morning time is hectic at my house. I’m ...
Fall Recipes
Applesauce Breakfast Cookies
This post was originally published in October 2013. When you've been blogging as long as I have and have over 850 posts (!!) published, there are bound to be some recipes that get lost in the archives. This is one of those recipes that I wanted to bring forth into the light. I could just update the ...
One Pan Chicken and Vegetables with Fresh Herbs
This One Pan Chicken and Vegetables with Fresh Herbs recipe is perfect for busy weeknights! It all cooks on one pan, making clean up a breeze. In general, we try to stick to a more relaxed activity schedule with our kids. We don't like to have scheduled activities every night of the week. We ...
Healthy Sweet Potato Casserole (Vegan and Gluten-free!)
This Healthy Sweet Potato Casserole recipe is vegan, gluten-free, and made without refined sugar! You won't miss any of it. This recipe is proof that healthy food can be delicious!My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the sweet potato casserole. My husband is cringing right now because he ...
Autumn Kale Salad
This Autumn Kale Salad with an oil-free dressing will transform the way you think about kale salad!I have a confession. This might be hard for you to believe since I run a whole blog based on healthy eating. Okay, here it goes: I don't really love kale. Wait...whaaaat? Did you just hear me ...
Spiced Apple Cider Baked Donuts
There's a local donut shop where I live, Bill's Donuts, that's pretty much a legend. It's a tiny shop that people flock to, creating long lines every weekend. I've lived here for over 6 years and have only been there once. It happens to be right across from our church and my parents, brothers, and ...
Butternut Squash and Kale Lasagna
Are you ready to turn your everyday vegetarian lasagna into a decadent fall dish that is a total show stopper? This Butternut Squash and Kale Lasagna is your ticket. I love lasagna in all its forms, but this butternut squash lasagna ranks up there with my favorites. It's rich, has great flavor, ...
Pumpkin Banana Quinoa Breakfast
Have you heard? Quinoa breakfast is the new oatmeal. If you haven't tried quinoa for breakfast yet, let your obsession begin here. This Pumpkin Banana Quinoa breakfast is creamy, lightly sweet, and perfectly spiced for fall. You're going to love it. Of course it's made with healthy, ...
Curried Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
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 ...
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 ...