If you need a festive, colorful salad to add to your holiday table, this is your recipe. Â If you need a quick, easy, and healthy lunch salad to balance out the holiday treats you've been eating, this is your recipe. It is always with a little hesitation that I serve Tim kale, especially raw kale. ...
Recipes
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? Â Or is that just a #foodbloggerproblem? That's exactly what happened with the cranberries I used for these bars. I saw a bag ...
Salted Dark Chocolate Covered Bananas
Did you know that the average person gains one pound during the holiday season? Â (source) That might not sound so bad, but here's the kicker: Â that one pound accumulates year after year. Â That's right. Â You gain that pound and it typically stays with you. Â The study I linked to above surmises that ...
Lightened Up Turkey or Chicken Pot Pie {dairy-free}
When a reader asked me to create a lightened up chicken pot pie, I was immediately brought to the early years of my marriage. Â A new wife trying to navigate her way through the kitchen with a new responsibility of feeding someone else, I was a slave to recipes. It took me a long time to gain enough ...
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. Â 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. Â Eating a whole foods, unprocessed diet as much as I can is important to me. Â 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. Â 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 ...
Almond Butter Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips + a Free Food Gift Label Printable
So here's the deal. Â Ready or not, Christmas is coming. Â Guess how many shopping weekends we have left? Â Five. Â FIVE. Â That's it. So even though Thanksgiving is next week, I'm going to help you get your idea list going with these Almond Butter Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips Mini Loaves. I ...
Sunset Smoothie
Good morning, sunshine! Nature's incredible colors inspired this smoothie. The bright reds, yellows, and oranges we see when the sun sets blend together to make this Sunset Smoothie. Yes, I know that comfort food season is upon us. Â Don't worry, I have plenty of those recipes coming ...
Smashed Chickpea Salad with Cilantro Pesto on Toast
This is my new favorite lunch. Â It's quick, healthy, and soooooo filling! I fully expected to need to eat something else or be hungry again in an hour, but I was satisfied and not hungry again for hours. I used my cilantro pesto for this recipe. Â There are lots of things you can do with this ...
Peanut Butter and Jelly Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
We have this game that we sometimes play at dinner time. Â It's called The Question Game and that's basically all it is. Â Questions. So it's not really a game at all, but we call it a game because we're fun like that. Â There is a container full of questions, and we take turns reading and answering ...