Last month, we looked at why seed oils are bad for you (hint: inflammation). This month, you’ll learn how to avoid seed oils and alternatives to seed oils. After I had worked on my leaky gut and addressing my food sensitivities, my digestion was no longer interfering with my daily life. Except, I repeatedly had […]
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Last year I taught a health and nutrition class for 5-8 year-olds at our homeschool co-op. Hands down the activities they were most excited about were our kitchen projects. Kids love to cook! I only got a handful of days with them in the kitchen because it was used by another class. But when we
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Smashed potatoes are my family’s new favorite potato side dish. We’ve tried all the classics: mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, homemade fries. Honestly, it’s…
This tomato soup is a real food crowd-pleaser at my house. It is budget-friendly simple food at its best, and you can make it in your Instant Pot. Whether you’re feeding your kids a quick, healthy lunch or making a family-friendly meal to share with friends, this instant pot tomato soup recipe ticks all the
Let’s talk about how hard it is to make dinner every night. We are the kind of family that rarely eats out, so we eat most of our meals at home. While that sounds like I must make a nice dinner every night, it is simply not true. Instead, I make simple, flavorful meals with
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Homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies – they are so so good, and not too hard to make a little healthier! I love dessert, and I love chocolate and peanut butter anything (like this homemade freezer treat!). I also love real food. So we make this delicious chocolate chip peanut butter cookie with whole grains
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As much as I’d like to be, I’m not a planner by nature. Do you struggle with planning too? But I learned very early on in parenting that without a meal plan, it’s nearly impossible to get nourishing food on the table every day. Now that my kids are a bit older (my oldest is
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“I don’t like muffins!” That is a common phrase heard coming from my youngest daughter (almost eight). Of all my kids she is the only one that I would have ever labeled “picky.” I prefer the term “selective.” To be fair, she does have good reason. She had a lot of feeding challenges and trauma
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I love a good blueberry muffin. Actually, what I really like are the blueberry muffin mixes that don’t even use actual blueberries – just those…
There’s something for everyone in this pot roast recipe! Pick one of four flavor variations to try this week and then come back for another round later. My mother-in-law says that the best pears are the slightly brown, bruised, so-ripe-they’re-almost-overripe, and her litmus test of perfection is whether the pear juice runs all the way
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Do you love banana bread? It’s one of those desserts/breakfasts/snacks/whatever that tastes exactly like my childhood. We always made banana bread. Not only was it perfect for our tight budget (no food waste here!), but it was a tasty treat for me and my brothers and sisters. As we grew up, we learned how to
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Is it possible to be a morning person and at the same time hate making breakfast? The answer is YES! That sums up my mornings. I get up way too early every morning to have quiet time before the kids are up. It sets the tone for my day. During my morning time, I eat
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Need a nourishing, budget-friendly, real food breakfast for school mornings? Or do you just hate flipping pancakes? We got you covered in this recipe. First, let’s acknowledge how amazing pancakes are. When you transition from processed food to real food, you might have to say goodbye to a lot of food that was in your
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Something amazing happened this week. Because I’m teaching my kids to cook, dinner got on the table on time when it never would have otherwise – including the easiest homemade mashed potatoes ever! Tuesday was a crazy day, with one meeting stacked upon another and school conferences at 4:30 p.m. I neglected my own meal
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Looking for a real food version of frosting? Made with healthy fats, this chocolate or almond frosting tastes great, is easy to make and pipes easily. You can even color it naturally for fun cake decorations. My husband was always the kind of person who ate the cake out from under the frosting at weddings,
I got a Costco membership just for the butter. Hundreds of dollars later, I still haven’t found the butter I was aiming for, which is sort of ironic. What is my magic bullet butter, you ask? I thought Kerrygold was my only option for grassfed butter that I could trust. Why? Other people trusted it.
I’ve often said that whenever I see “new” or “improved” on a food product, that’s a red flag that it’s processed and probably something I don’t want to eat. How can humans improve upon God’s creation, the food given to us in nature? On the other hand, I myself released a second edition of Healthy
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It’s time. Time to sign off of the fake butter revolution, and start putting real butter on your toast. And your mashed potatoes, vegetables, in your baked goods…and anywhere else you might use margarine or a “spread” that makes some health claim or another. This might be incredibly difficult for some of you, having grown up
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