It’s that time of the year…where I start to feel overloaded with all of the holiday meals and festivities and start craving a reset. Whole30 is my go-to reset now for the past 6 years. I did my first one when my second child was just a baby and I discovered so much about how …
Food waste often comes up when working with clients on their kids’ picky eating – What if my kids don’t eat anything on their plate?! All that food will be wasted!” This can often be one of the driving factors for parents forcing ‘clean plates’ and bribing kids to eat at the table — the …
Meal time ruts happen to the best of us — every so often I get in a slump and feel unmotivated to make anything because I’ve lost my inspiration for cooking. When that happens, I refer back to my tried and true meals that I’ve pulled together over the years from several different sources. Within …
7 months ago I came home with 4 baby chicks that I picked up at Rooster Hardware (a local hardware store here in Dallas that emphasizes homesteading and gardening). We had been talking about getting chickens for years – it’s actually a pretty popular thing to do in Dallas, having backyard chickens, but we had …
As I’ve mentioned several times on my Instagram page, I’ve been working on healing some gut issues that have been plaguing me for the past few years. My symptoms were underlying – they weren’t super obvious and in your face but more like continual background noise. Things like lack of energy, feeling bloated, feeling sluggish, …
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Ready for the easiest and most flavorful recipe you’ll probably ever make? Here we go! INGREDIENTS 15 drumsticks* Cayenne pepper Paprika Garlic salt Sea salt Black pepper Trader Joe’s Chile seasoning (optional) DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 400 degrees Spread a piece of parchment paper over a large baking sheet (using parchment helps crisp up the …
When switching over to a real food lifestyle it can be hard to leave some of your favorite comfort foods behind. For many, this means pancakes. Specifically, pancake mixes like Bisquick or Aunt Jemima. I grew up on mixes like these and remember being hooked on them as a kid – and that’s actually where …
I’m not a recipe creator by any means – whatever recipes I do come up with are simple and involve few ingredients or they are spin offs of other recipes out there like my Spaghetti Squash Italian Bake from last week. I love to try more complicated and involved recipes from time to time but …
PaleOMG’s Spaghetti Squash Pizza Pie is one of my all time favorite recipes and it helped introduce me to the art of using spaghetti squash as a base for comfort casserole dishes that are delicious, simple, and full of nutrients. This one is no exception – if you’re in the mood for Italian with a …
These muffins are the perfect way to use up those super ripe bananas right before they go completely brown and unusable – which is exactly how I came up with this recipe! I had a random sweet potato that needed to be used and several very ripe bananas that were close to going bad and …