If we’re talking about pure comfort food and classic family-friendly meals that you can make in the Instant Pot, I’m gonna talk about sloppy joes. This is a meal I grew up eating and loving. Of course, we didn’t make it in the Instant Pot (do you even remember pre-Instant Pot days?) and we didn’t […]
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I once heard a picky eating specialist say you shouldn’t teach kids about “healthy food” because it will cause disordered eating. An interesting statement that…
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Soup season is my very favorite time of the year for frugal, real food cooking. All you need to make really delicious soup is a few ingredients: broth, onion, celery, carrots, spices, and a few other ingredients you can change out depending on your mood. Soup is an easy way to eat clean vegetables, protein,
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It’s not often that I am able to go on a one-on-one date with any of my kids. Life is just so busy! So when my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to go see my oldest daughter’s theatre performance, we made the most of it by going out for dinner before the show.
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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I don’t like coffee. I think I just heard some gasps. It’s true. I just don’t like coffee (though some days I wish I did!). My parents weren’t coffee drinkers. And we didn’t have the Starbucks craze of today. So it just wasn’t something I was exposed to. But I have always loved tea. Growing
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One of my favorite morning practices is getting the benefits of morning sunlight. The best part about this easy habit is that it is absolutely…
Chili season is here! If you don’t have a favorite go-to chili recipe, let me fix for you that right now. There are all kinds of ways to do chili. When I was growing up, one of my mom’s friend’s famous chili recipes even included Coke – you know, like the soda. In chili. Don’t
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 love a good sugar cookie. They are a part of my childhood in a deep way because my mother and my grandmother used to
Here’s how to stop stress eating if you’re anything like me. I used to weigh 200 pounds. I wanted to have healthy eating habits, but I didn’t know how to stop stress eating. After I started working with a functional medicine specialist, I was eating better. I learned how to read food labels and focus
Fat. What a controversial subject! If you were a child of the eighties like me, you were told from a young age that fat is…
We love real food, and we love feeding our families well. But sometimes our schedule makes eating healthy dinners around the dinner table almost impossible. Between school, work, carpooling kids around, after-school activities, and sports practices, from-scratch dinners feel more like a weekend affair than a daily practice. But we all know that real food
Whether you’re having a cookout or just want a quick dinner, this healthy layered salad recipe is an easy crowd favorite. Learn how to make a healthy layered salad to please the whole gang here.
Monk Fruit Powder Is it okay to use monk fruit powder in healthy recipes? Is it safe for kids?
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Dinner time cooking has two modes: relaxing and fun – usually with music and a glass of something on the weekends, and that weekday rush at the end of the day before it’s time to head to an activity or start the bedtime shuffle. We do our best to eat well and sit at the
“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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When my husband and I started talking about having kids and parenting philosophies, I was eager to discuss how to prevent picky eating. Since I was a teenager, I had struggled with multiple chronic illnesses but found that a majority of my symptoms were relieved through diet and lifestyle modifications. I knew that eating well
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I love an easy, fresh, fun, real food meal. Pinto bean tostadas are simple, delicious, comforting, and oh-so-very flexible, depending on what you have in your kitchen, what foods you love, and how far you’ve gone into your real food journey. It’s my very favorite kind of meal. Real Food Bean Tostadas Tostadas are very
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