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 ...
Fall Recipes
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 ...
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 ...