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The Best Way to Save Money on Organic Fruits and Veggies!
How to use strategy and mindfulness to save on your organic produce budget. The easiest way to save money on organic produce is to simply stop buying it. I know that doesn’t sound helpful if you are wanting to limit your...
Places We Send Our Friends to Eat – EUROPE (With or Without Kiddos)
We’ve been eating our way around the globe and compiled quite a list of super crave-able, and seemingly random, places. Seriously some of them I dream of flying back just to eat there. I am a person that feels if I’m going to pay the money and consume the...
Places We Send Our Friends to Eat in the U.S. (With or Without Kiddos)
Places We Send Our Friends to Eat in the U.S. (With or Without Kiddos) We've been eating our way around the globe and compiled quite a list of super crave-able, and seemingly random, best places to eat in California and now we're adding others...
How My Son’s Sensitivity to Dyes and Corn Syrup Led Us to Real Food (Clean Eating)
When my oldest son was about 2 1/2 years old we were struggling to keep his weight up. He does not like milk, which is a huge chunk of calories to account for. I tracked his food for a week and found that he was only getting about 800 calories per day,...
RECIPES
Cleaning up our food to avoid artificial ingredients, took ALOT of getting used to. Finding recipes that did not include a seasoning packet or bottle of dressing felt like looking for a needle in a haystack. These recipes are developed with this in mind and include my favorites from around the web:
How to Hard Boil Eggs That Come out Perfectly (And Peel Easy) Every. Single. Time.
I know, I know, making a hard-boiled egg should be easy and shouldn’t even require a post. But I have to tell you, I just couldn’t get it right and now that I have it perfected, I’m sharing it because I know there are others of you out there struggling...
Easy Shredded Chicken in the Crock-Pot with a Twist for All Your Favorite Recipes
This recipe is so easy that it really doesn't need much of a recipe, BUT we're including it because it's easy to throw in the slow cooker and have your chicken ready to shred for a variety of recipes from tacos and enchiladas, to Hawaiian...
Yummy Mason Jar Cakes (more frosting goodness!) with Template for Labels
When I saw the cake in a jar idea, I fell in love. I am usually known for my cupcakes (well my kids love them anyway), but this year I wanted to do something different. I figured with the cake in a jar, even if the cake crumbles or the frosting gets sloppy, the...
Simple Yellow Cake Recipe with Chocolate Chips from Scratch
We recently had a movie party theme where I served these adorable cakes in mason jars. We try to follow Michael Pollan’s “real food rules” for eating when we can, and because my eight year old is super sensitive to dyes, so for this cake we went with his philosophy,...
No Sugar Added White Wine Melon Sangria with a Twist
Sangria has been around for centuries and is very common to find in Spain, Greece and Portugal. It’s basically, wine, sugar and fruit (yum!). But I found the sugar too sweet in most recipes and since we try to cut out processed foods and excess sugar as much as...
Oh So Good Chimichurri Sauce
My favorite recipes are ones that use very few ingredients, take very little effort, but taste like you did a lot of work. This Chimichurri Sauce is one of those recipes that tastes time consuming, but could not be easier to make. You will be putting it on everything...
Delicious White Wine Sangria No Sugar Added with Amaretto
I cannot say enough good things about this Sangria recipe. It is so delicious and so easy to throw together, for any occasion, in any season. You can use whatever fruit you have on hand as long as you keep the ratio of Amaretto to wine the same. This Sangria is...