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, ...
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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 ...
Zucchini Noodles with Chunky Tomato Sauce and Bean Balls
Spaghetti and meatballs=heavy, comfort food=winter. Am I right? A few changes to one of my favorite meals turns it into a lighter, more summer-appropriate dish. Zucchini noodles+quick tomato sauce+bean balls=an easy, healthy, and light summer meal. I'm not going to try to pass off zucchini ...
Coconut Chai Spiced Iced Coffee
Confession time. #1: I said I wanted to cut back on coffee as part of my anti-inflammation diet. I did. For exactly one week. Instead of my usual two large cups of coffee I start my day with, I had just one. If I wanted a second cup, I had a mug of green tea. Green tea is okay, but it's ...
Simple Guacamole
This is the second guacamole recipe I'm posting on my site. I know what you're probably thinking. How many guacamole recipes does one blog need, really? Turns out, you might need more than one recipe for guacamole. The first recipe I shared, way back when this blog was still a baby, is still my ...
Popcorn Trail Mix (a healthy sleepover snack idea)
How old were you when you had your first friend stay the night for a sleepover visit? I can't be certain of the exact age, but I think I was in first grade, so I must have been six or seven. It was Laurie, my oldest bff. A few fuzzy memories from that night are floating in my brain and I hope ...
