If you’re eating a real food diet, then chances are you’ve said goodbye to your diet sodas and PSL from Starbucks. You’ve probably ventured into making your own drinkable delights like lavender peach iced tea, hot chocolate, and coffee with weird stuff in it. Another beverage group that can prove to be difficult to surrender […]
Archives for September 2014
Portobello Caprese Recipe
My husband is Italian, and fortunately, I’ve always loved Italian food, so it’s easy for us to agree on flavors in that sense. However, we do our best to stay away from pasta and bread, so often times that lifts many “Italian” options out. Of course, we love awesome alternatives like spaghetti squash pasta, sweet […]
Five Pregnancy Superfoods
Pregnancy is such a joyful time, full of anticipation as you get ready for a new life coming into the world and all the happiness that surrounds it. It’s also a time of intense preparation as you seek to stay fit, deal with morning sickness, and gear up for labor. If you’re seeking a more natural pregnancy, […]
Homemade Smoked Sea Salt
Salt is known for it’s ability to enhance the flavors of all sorts of dishes like salt roasted lamb and gluten free scalloped potatoes. Salt is even used in most desserts in order to compliment of highlights the sweetness, like in these salted caramel dates. What’s even more adventurous is when you start flavoring the salts […]
How to Limit Your Kids’ Screen Time (Without Losing Your Sanity)
My son is only three-months old, and it’s already happened to me. Last week, as I was bouncing him up and down to soothe him, I kept looking over at a massive pile of laundry on our couch that had been waiting to be folded for about four days. I need to fold that laundry, […]
Quick and Easy Gluten Free Burger Buns
Surprisingly, one of the most difficult foods to walk away from in order to eat a real food diet is sandwiches. There’s something about sandwiches, of all shapes, sizes, and flavors, that we love in our culture. Fortunately, there are fantastic grain free and healthy recipes for items like sandwich rounds that can be paired with […]
The Link Between Mental Illness and Thyroid Disease
Mental illness affects many people in today’s world: many more than we realize. Mental illness is extremely complex and warrants an examination of the entire body, mind, and spirit. We’ve talked before about the importance of a properly functioning thyroid, and it comes into play in reference to mental illness. The link between mental illness […]
Probiotic Fig Newton Butter
When I was younger, my high school had a small cart in the cafeteria that served as an a la carte during lunch time. It was full of snacks and way too much sugar. Chips, ice cream, candy bars, pop tarts – you name any junk food, and this cart had it. But every time […]