Substituting coconut flour in recipes can be tricky! Learn how to bake with coconut flour and make the right coconut flour substitutions so you can make awesome coconut flour breads, coconut flour pancakes, and more! This one is really a “how NOT to” post, which is of utmost importance when it comes to baking with […]
I’ve been told, in spite of the fact that I see pumpkin recipes all over right now, that September is for apple recipes and October is for pumpkin recipes. In that case, this grain-free apple dessert topping recipe (or maybe breakfast treat) that I’ve been saving for this fall needs to be shared immediately! It
The most versatile, brain-dead easy healthy pumpkin muffin recipe ever – gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, allergen-free AND one-bowl simple. Friends will beg you for this simple and delicious recipe! And you can feel good about it since it has no white sugar. There’s a little girl with egg, nut and dairy allergies on my daughter’s soccer
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to resist the temptation to compromise on food because you’re rushing around or otherwise away from home when you’re hungry. It’s the “real food on the go” challenge. When you’re going from dance class to soccer practice or apple picking to a family reunion, it can
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As a former elementary school teacher, anything having to do with kids and healthy food grabs my interest and I get pretty passionate about it. Over the past few years, more and more schools are moving to a “no homemade” rule for community snacks, birthday treats, and parties. The reason isn’t to support the food
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Knowing what food is healthy is not something kids just know. You have to teach your kids how to eat. Start when they are young with simple rules to start a life of better health. Your mission, if you choose to accept, has nothing to do with holding a fork and spoon properly. I want
It’s not often that a negative review inspires someone to run out and buy a product, but I have a story that begins in just that way. Some years ago I tested a natural deodorant called Herbalix which had two varieties: regular and “nighttime detox.” I detailed my stinky dismay at the end of the
My toddler loves shoes. I think it must be a developmental milestone, because all three of mine have done it. I could write in their baby books: rolled over crawled took first steps started trying on other people’s shoes incessantly steals shoes and wears them around the house As much as I value the habit
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I’m probably the worst person in the world to test laundry products, but here I am, trying it again. When I do a load of laundry, I hate to admit it, but sometimes it stays in the dryer for days. By that time, I’ve forgotten what brand of soap I was even testing! I made
I’m a people watcher, when I get an opportunity. I like to wonder about what other people are doing, their motivations, their “story” that day. Lately, I don’t need statistics to tell me that the nation has an obesity problem. I can see it with my own eyes. Sometimes I try to estimate the percentage
After a disastrous eggplant recipe that featured the new-to-me vegetable in a slow cooker lasagna – one of the few meals in the history of our marriage that my husband reminded me we simply did not eat and even gave away the leftovers – I avoided eggplant like the plague for years. We got a
If the only thing more frightening to you than “lunch packing” is “school hot lunch…” If you feel like you pack the same old thing day in and day out… If you’re bread-free and not sure what to do about it… Or if you feel like you’re in a sandwich rut, ditch the ‘wich –
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Before you throw me over the cliff for even suggesting you turn on the oven in August, give me a chance to explain. First, I live in Michigan. It’s hitting 50F and below here at night, so our A/C hasn’t even been on in weeks. Second, it’s chicken season. As in, chickens are kind of
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Whether you’re cutting down on bread, cutting it out completely, get sick of sandwiches, or you’ve simply run out of bread and (a) can’t get to the store before morning or (b) homemade bread takes too long, here are some sandwich alternatives to get your creative juices flowing for a healthy packed lunch. My mom
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I’m pretty sure you could put anything you like in these muffins for a portable side dish, lunchtime option, or silly addition to an all-muffin meal. “Two cups of stuff” doesn’t make for a very good recipe, though, so I nailed down an exact structure for you to follow, then some recommendations to adapt to
All those myriad gluten-free flours freaked me out for about two years after our family went “low gluten.” Discovering a gluten sensitivity threw off all my baking routines. I had just figured out how to avoid commercially produced bread, tortillas, and crackers, all by making my own. With whole wheat flour, of course, soaked or
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If your stuff always falls out of your wraps or gyros, how about a main dish muffin for a semi-portable meal that’s also uber fun and delicious? In my attempt to have fun with food this week, I created a silly muffin meal: muffins, followed by muffins, with a side of muffins, and muffins for
Would you serve a main dish of muffins with a side of muffins, followed by muffins and with muffins, of course, as the bread – and muffins for dessert? I did. My family thinks I’m goofy, but that’s kind of the point. We’re having fun with food this week. If you enjoyed my silly pancake
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to choose a fun way to serve food this week. Whether you serve a silly meal of pancakes, followed by pancakes, with a side of pancakes and pancakes for dessert, make faces out of butter on a vegetable soup, or just put fruit on skewers with a
Q: “Mom, what’s for dinner?” A: “Pancakes.” “What else?” “A side of pancakes. Oh, and we’re starting with pancakes. Did I mention there will be pancakes for dessert?” Every so often, we have a meal of pancakes. With pancakes as the side. And pancakes for dessert. It may sound like this is a “compromise meal”
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