I’ll try to write down a recipe that I always just make out of my head for you today, okay? After making it once, you won’t need the recipe again either (score for time-saving!). Sometimes you’ve been using a recipe so long, you can’t even remember the first time you made it. This healthy parsnip […]
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This post is from contributing writer Steph Jenkins of Cheapskate Cook. Fall is the perfect time to pull out your Instant Pot for easy, real food recipes. We have a lot going on in the Fall between school, work, after-school activities, and getting ready for the holidays. Fall also starts the cold and flu season, so it’s the
Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read on for instructions for freezing, canning, and dehydrating apples in multiple ways plus our best real food apple recipes! If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many
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When your 3-year-old and 6-year-old boys both like a meal with cabbage, apples and chicken, what do you do? Cheer and run around like a crazy woman because it’s a miracle. Figure out how to make it quick and easy with only one pot. Put on your skeptical hat because there’s no way it can
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When winter squash are suddenly everywhere in the fall, acting like they’re all gourmet or something – what’s a home chef to DO with them? Especially if…you don’t like mushy orange vegetables but you know they’re good for you! And what are the different kinds of squash anyway? Interested in cooking squash in an Instant
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Finding a healthier pumpkin pie with the perfect texture has been my mission. Making sugar free pumpkin pie with maple syrup has been my secret ingredient. Here’s my healthy pumpkin pie recipe. It’s time for the KS test kitchen to get some action again! Today we’re testing a few different ways to make healthy pumpkin
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That chewy, dense texture sometimes found in roasted pumpkin seeds can really turn people off from the whole Halloween tradition – but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can make totally crispy pumpkin seeds from your jack-o-lantern (and other fall veggies) and the method might surprise you. The trick is to soak them
This post is from KS Contributing writer Becca Stallings of The Earthling’s Handbook. It’s late afternoon, and you’re stuck at home with the kids, no car, cold rain outside, and a menu plan that calls for fresh ingredients that you were going to get at the store – before your plans changed. The kids are
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If you’re trying a grain-free diet like Paleo, SCD, or a Whole30, breakfast often feels like the most affected meal. Consider average breakfast fare, especially the quicker/easier options: Our Favorite Grain-Free Breakfast There are good grain-free granola options, but on a Whole30 even those are usually out because of sweeteners – and most bacon is
When is a cake not a cake? I don’t know the real answer to what surely sounds like an 8-year-old boy’s favorite joke, but my answer is this: When it doesn’t have any flour or sugar. Flour and sugar – often more sugar than flour – define the art of baking a cake. As much
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I’ve never been that crazy about Halloween. Don’t get me wrong, getting dressed up is fun. Spending time with friends is great. Of course as a kid the candy is the real star of the show. An adult perspective. But on the whole it’s more of a hassle than anything, especially as a parent. Scrambling
All summer long you are in control of what your kids eat and when they eat. There is an abundance of fresh fruit to serve IF they need a little snack (not when snack time is a mandatory part of their day). Breakfasts don’t have to be made AND consumed in ten minutes in order to
Want to use up all of those apples but sick of making applesauce? Fermenting apples is an easy place to try fermentation for the first time. A salsa apple ferment is a crowd pleaser. This is a guest post from Jo at Nourishing Time. Ferments are an area I feel I’ve been lacking in here
Fall is here and so are pumpkins! I love stuffing these nutritious veggies into cookies and more. This sugar-free gluten-free pumpkin cookie recipe is a big hit in the Kimball household. What’s 10 tablespoons divided by (7×12) cookies? Got your Math brain on? I’m running on even less sleep than usual since the arrival of
I would have to say that Autumn is by far my favorite season. Warm mugs of milky chai tea, crunchy leaves, the crisp coolness to the air, and pumpkin everything! With everyone making pumpkin muffins, pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin-whatever-else, this is the perfect season to add pumpkin to your skincare routine. Related: DIY Herbal
Whether you’re in the canned or home-pureed pumpkin camp, sometimes you have just a little bit of pumpkin puree left over after a recipe. It’s…
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
I’m lying in the title. The soup I’m sharing today is really one of those “framework recipes” to help you craft a soup that is just exactly how you like it. We’ve enjoyed a simple, creamy butternut squash soup that’s a little spicy, and we’ve also tried the roasted garlic base, which of course becomes
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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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