Do you guys have to send snacks with your kids to school? Meghan is in kindergarten this year and we are required to send two snacks with her every day in addition to her lunch. And somehow, when she gets home, she's starving again. So let me just warn you that you may see an increase in snack ...
Recipes
Summer Vegetable Tacos
One of my favorite ways to cook a vegetarian meal is to stuff a bunch of vegetables into a taco. I put half of my CSA box into these tacos. The vegetables are absolutely the star of this show. But the avocado creme is trying hard to steal their part. Avocado, greek yogurt, lime, and ...
Homemade Strawberry Lemonade
Can you feel that? Summer is fleeting. She's trying to sneak out the back door while we aren't looking. I don't know about you, but I'm holding on for dear life. Strawberry lemonade. Long live summer. Meghan starts school tomorrow. Like full-fledged all-day-everyday school. Tomorrow. I ...
5-ingredient Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bars
Have you ever found a recipe on Pinterest that boasts it is a "2-ingredient" or "3-ingredient" recipe only to click over and find that it uses a box cake mix? Seriously, people, box cake mix is not one ingredient. Last time I checked a box of cake mix had at least 15 ingredients. This recipe is ...
Healthy Peach Crisp Smoothie
This Healthy Peach Crisp Smoothie is a healthy breakfast that tastes like dessert! This is a very deceiving smoothie. It tastes like peach crisp. Yes, liquid peach crisp. You will gulp it down and feel like you are drinking your dessert. But really it's a healthy, filling breakfast. Crazy, ...
No Bake Sunflower Freezer Cookies
Greetings from the beach! If you follow me on Instagram, you know we are enjoying a family vacation at the beach this week. I had to take a little break from the sun and sand to bring you this recipe I made before we left that quickly became my newest obsession. These no-bake cookies only ...
Summer Squash Noodle Salad with Lime Vinaigrette
The alternate title for this recipe: Summer in a Bowl. What you have here is the best summer has to offer in one delicious bowl, ready to be eaten in less than 15 minutes. You are welcome. You will feel 10,000 times healthier after finishing this bowl of summer goodness. I promise you. Eat ...
Zucchini, Summer Squash, and Tomato Bake
This recipe is for all you green thumbs out there who have a garden bursting with summer vegetables. I can't include myself in that group. My thumb is so brown, it's almost black. I started a container garden on our patio this year. Nothing elaborate, just a few herbs and some green beans that ...
Grilled Kale Salad
If you are a fan of roasted kale chips, you are going to love grilled kale. No need to turn on the oven, just fire up your grill and a few minutes later you'll have crispy, delicious kale that even your kids will eat. Really. There isn't a tastier way to eat your greens than to roast or ...
Easy Lemonade Fruit Popsicles
Isn't it convenient that beautiful red and blue fruits like watermelon, strawberries, and blueberries are in season for USA's Independence Day? I love seeing all the patriot treats floating around the Internet, using the best of summer's red-ish and blue-ish produce. As much as I love ...
Do You Really Get Enough Variety in Your Diet? The 40 Plant Foods Challenge
We've all heard it before. We need to eat a wide variety of foods. When you get a wide variety of foods, you're covering your nutritional bases with different vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and other good things that keep us healthy and aging well. Studies show that increasing the variety ...
Sweet and Sour Green Smoothie
Good morning! I hope you all had a great weekend. After a long week of cloudy and rainy weather, we finally enjoyed some sunshine on Saturday and Sunday. There's nothing like being cooped up with two energetic kids all week in the summer, so we took full advantage of the sunshine and headed to the ...
