About 2 months ago, my husband and I decided to try a mostly plant-based vegetarian diet. I’ve wanted to eliminate meat from my diet because of the chemicals and hormones that are given to animals to raise them quickly to get to market. For my husband, his cholesterol was high so we decided to try…
I’ve been looking for healthy snacks that I could take to work and have around the house for my family. We always have fruit around to snack on but sometimes you just want something different. This recipe provided that….it is flavorful and crunchy….and healthy! The only downside to it is that it’s addictive. It’s pretty…
Can you believe it’s back to school time again already? Since this is the first time in 17 years that I haven’t had a child going back to school, back to school means something different to me. That means it’s almost time to start fall marathon training. Woohoo!! I live in Texas where it’s currently…
Last weekend I made some Roasted Curry Chickpeas and Mr. Real Food sat down and ate them all. Guess they were pretty good! As usual, when I sit down to plan our meals each week, I ask him what he’d like to have. And he requested some really spicy roasted chickpeas, maybe with Tabasco. He puts…
I run every Saturday with a great group of women. We run anywhere from an hour to 3 hours or so and talk about lots of different things while we run. Actually, to be completely honest, we mostly talk about food. I’d like to say that we only talk about healthy food but sometimes the…
I probably don’t need to tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? It’s a well documented scientific fact that the morning meal is the one that can make or break your day. My reality though is that I’m busy and don’t have time to cook a nutritious meal every morning….
I recently bought my first waffle maker and love, love, love it! I looked at a ton of different types but decided on this awesome little appliance: It was a bargain from Amazon….and to be really honest, it’s pretty fun to spin it over to cook the waffle. My family was pretty excited about it…
I’ll be really honest here….I have never liked Brussels sprouts. Mr. Real Food can sit down and eat an entire bowl of them in one sitting while I can’t even get a single sprout down. But I decided to be a little more open-minded about it and try preparing them in a different way. And these were actually…
Ordinarily I don’t eat celery or pears…they just aren’t that high on my list of foods I love but we got lots of celery and pears in our co-op basket so I couldn’t let them go to waste. But this simple salad was awesome! I actually had 2 bowls of it! It takes less than…
I started experimenting with a vegan diet about 6 weeks ago. In all honesty, I thought it was going to be much harder than it actually has been. I was worried about cutting cheese out of my diet but that hasn’t been all that difficult. But I hadn’t really ventured into vegan baked goods. I’ve…
Do you let your kids have cookies for breakfast or even eat them yourself? I’ll admit that I love a sweet treat in the morning, especially with a cup of coffee. Definitely not the best choice ever but I now have an alternative that I can feel good about eating! These cookies are great for…
I am so excited to tell you about this awesome cookbook! Rachel from The Stay at Home Chef sent me a copy of her new cookbook “Slow Cooker Cooking” to review. I won’t even wait until the end to tell you that I love it! You all know by now that I love my slow cooker…