I haven't had time to develop a full week's meal plan yet...but I wanted to share a few ideas of the things I have been and will be enjoying this month (and beyond)! Knowing your food options after cutting out white sugar and white flour might just be half the battle... Breakfast Scrambled Eggs with Avocado and Salsa Mom's Best Naturals Organic Multigrain Oatmeal with … [Read more...]
Summer Fruit Kebabs with Honey and Coconut
Talk about a healthy, sweet summer treat?! After all the chocolate and brownies as the past few desserts, I thought it might be time for some 'dessert of the month detox'! ;) And what better way than with fresh fruit, honey and unsweetened coconut! Or sweetened coconut flakes if you insist on having sugar in your dessert. Or if that's what you've got on … [Read more...]
Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
The first pantry challenge recipe for this month...banana muffins. With whole wheat flour. Honey. Really, really brown bananas. And of course, chocolate chips! Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Banana muffins with whole wheat flour, honey, really ripe bananas and of course, chocolate chips! 1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour1 tsp baking … [Read more...]
No Sugar Strawberry Freezer Jam
Got a Surplus of Strawberries from a Sale or a Trip to the You Pick Them Farm?! Make this Strawberry Freezer Jam! When you accidentally come home with 17 lbs. of strawberries from a morning at the pick your own berry patch, you have to do something. And you have to do it fast. I started to can the strawberry jam, but quickly saw that if I continued on the canning … [Read more...]
Fresh Squeezed Lemonade with Raspberry Ice Cubes
Need something cool and refreshing to sip on this weekend?! This fresh squeezed lemonade with raspberry ice cubes is just for you then. I have been drinking glass after glass...and this is a great way to use up those cheap raspberries we've been seeing! Lemon and raspberry flavors are much like peanut butter and jelly. Mint and chocolate. Vanilla and … [Read more...]
Radish and Cucumber Bites
I think it's become my duty to help you all see that radishes are for more than just salads and salad mixes. Up until last summer I too had only had radishes on or mixed into salad. I had never really noticed them, but I'm so glad that I've discovered that there is much more to radishes than just salads. Last year for Grow. Eat. $ave., I made a braised chicken with spring … [Read more...]
Berry Quinoa Parfait
Boy did summer come ablazin' in this year. It rained, and rained, and rained. Then boom...it was hot. Stifling hot. It's on these stifling hot days that I have no intention of turning on the oven...or letting something cook for an hour on the stove top. It's on these stifling hot days that I'm really not all the hungry. I just need something cool and light for … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Make Fruit Salad
I love me some fruit salad. It's rich in flavor. And good for you. There's no need to add artificial sugars, as the fruit is sweet enough. But there are still some fun ways to dress up a simple fruit salad. I love adding different toppings and spices to fruit salad. Plus, how about this easy, "no juice" storage idea! 5 Ways - The Fruit Salad Edition Crushed Pistachios … [Read more...]
Strawberry Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal
Now that it's rhubarb season...and the start of berry season, I thought a strawberry rhubarb baked oatmeal was in order. I took the baked oatmeal recipe from my Breakfast and Lunch Cookbook and gave it a few twists. And this is what I got... 3 stalks rhubarb. plus about 3 cups diced strawberries (that I froze recently.) Toss the strawberries and rhubarb … [Read more...]
5 Inexpensive Ways to Boost Nutrition in Your Daily Diet
1. Ground flaxseed - We started adding ground flaxseed to our diets back when Ryan was struggling with speech delays. After much research, I learned that ground flaxseed is full of Omega 3s, which are great for brain (and speech) development. Whole flaxseed is less expensive than pre-ground flaxseed and can be ground in a coffee grinder. It does go rancid quickly, so I don't … [Read more...]