Whenever you’re looking for healthy breakfast ideas for your meal planning, focus on vegetables – they’re the hardest to incorporate at the first meal of the day, but so important! Here are some creative ways to get veggies in right away, at breakfast. I learned a long time ago that I felt much better when I […]
Time to make a healthy, heart-shaped breakfast for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day! For more V-day ideas for kids, check out our Valentine’s Day healthy party plan for the classroom. That’s right folks…Katie’s getting crafty. I don’t really do glue guns and glitter…definitely not fabric or felt…and isn’t decoupage a fancy French appetizer? I can
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Where’s the free toy that used to come in breakfast cereal? It’s not the only thing missing from the box these days. We’ve been duped to think that breakfast variety equates to many different colors of cereal boxes festooned with various cartoon characters or health claims. In reality, all those hundreds of different boxes contain
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
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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What to bring to a potluck brunch? Here are my favorite healthy brunch and breakfast ideas for a potluck. Need ideas for a breakfast potluck? People tend to have their specialties at potlucks, things that they’re asked to bring over and over. One of the most famous at my bible study is a baked French
Who says pizza for breakfast is only for tired college students waking up around noon and grabbing cold slices from the cardboard box on the coffee table? No need for your pizza breakfast to taste like cardboard, too. And there’s no need for pizza to be stuck in the junk food category. As a matter
This pumpkin baked oatmeal is a family favorite! Baked oatmeal makes a great healthy breakfast for fall and the perfect holiday breakfast recipe since it’s prepped the day before and all you have to do is pop it in the oven in the morning! What do mornings look like in your house? Every now and
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When our family first started experimenting with going grain-free, it was important to me to find simple recipes that didn’t call for unique ingredients. I didn’t want to make any big investments in grain free pancakes or other recipes in case it wasn’t something we kept up. After a week or two of breakfasts consisting
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What smell will fill your house on Easter morning? Between hunting for eggs (we hide…ahem, I mean, the Easter Bunny hides…the real hard-boiled eggs), getting dressed up pretty, and going to Mass and making sure we get there an hour early to get a seat, breakfast needs to be simple. Healthy Breakfast Idea: Apple Baked
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News flash! Kids’ cereal has lots of sugar in it, and – are you ready for this? It may not be good for you. The Environmental Working Group released a study detailing the amounts of sugar in popular children’s cereals, noting that many of them have more sugar than a Twinkie. A Twinkie! Could they
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This Latke recipe (also called potato pancakes) is written in my own hand from 1988, when I would have been in third grade. Food has always been a part of my history, and this traditional dish from my Polish heritage is a perennial favorite. When I first served them to my husband, he was incredibly
A lot of people plan dinners and understand the importance of doing so, but lunches and breakfasts are often spur of the moment or just something simple like toast or cereal (both of which have downfalls in the traditional foods realm, unless you’ve made your own homemade versions). Your mission, if you choose to accept,
We threw my sister-in-law a real curveball, coming to visit during Lent when our entire family was grain-free. I’m pretty sure she had a spectacular menu all planned out when I dropped the email bomb about, “By the way, we gave up grains for Lent, and it’s not just a sacrifice thing, but we have
I shared this paleo pancake recipe last week on Twitter in well less than 140 characters. Brace yourselves. I’ll flesh it out a little more today, but rest assured it’s THAT brain-dead easy. It’s really nice having some grain-free options to take the place of traditionally grain-filled breakfast foods. We miss our oatmeal, so options
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Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for a table of contents. Maple syrup. Organic cherries. Coconut oil. Christmas coloring books. Celtic Sea Salt. Easter sticker calendar devotions. When I start to think
Sarah Wood has made my life so much easier this week! Her recipes have been fabulous, and now I even have a few new things to try. (Sourdough pizza is planned for Sunday – we gave up seconds for Lent but will enjoy unlimited feasting on the solemnity!) Here is her last contribution to the
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The first time we made sourdough pancakes, we actually decided they just weren’t for us. I tried Sarah’s sweet apple cinnamon sourdough pancake, and they were so sour mixed with the sweet. Don’t give up on these, though, because I’ve since learned my lesson: it’s all about the sourness of the starter. I’m so glad
I have a bad habit of leaving things in my freezer too long. It’s not that I don’t know they’re there. In fact, I’m very organized and (almost) always have a good handle on what’s in my freezer. It’s just that I’m such a born conservationist. I tend to think, “I need to save these
