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How to Eat Healthy During the Holidays and a Sample Simple Menu Plan

December 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Upgraded Nutrition

I’ve been bopping around the Internet a little bit this week, and if you’re interested in following me around, I won’t accuse you of stalking, promise. Check out my article "Can the Holidays be Healthy or is Weight Gain Inevitable?" over at CatholicMatch.com for my "choose this, not that" compromise list when you’re presented with [...]

Recipe Connection: Cinnamon Raisin Spelt Drops (& Sprouted Option)

December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition

My husband nuked my cookie dough! The only redeeming factor in that situation is that it makes for a pretty funny opening to this post. Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Easy, Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

October 15th, 2010 · 48 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

Want to get a super food like pumpkin into your family? Put it in cookies! My husband, who doesn’t even like pumpkin, loves these healthy pumpkin cookies. The whole wheat version of the recipe hardly tastes different than the unhealthy pumpkin cookie recipe I started out with, and they remain quite easy to make. It’s [...]

Recipe Connection: Two HealthiER Birthday Cake Options from the KS Kids

August 13th, 2010 · 52 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen, Recipes

Let’s get the truth out right from the start: those doggone boxed cake mixes are moist and delicious, every time. They’re almost impossible to mess up. They’re also loaded with preservatives, and usually trans fat is only one of its ingredient transgressions. Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook [...]

A Guest Recipe Connection: Modern Alternative Mama’s Chili

February 3rd, 2010 · 13 Comments · Recipes

Chili is a great winter comfort food. It’s warm, hearty, and of course it includes beans! Good, healthy, yummy stuff. Unfortunately, a lot of recipes, like my husband’s old favorite, contain a lot of canned ingredients – canned tomatoes, canned “chili” beans, and more. So what is a whole-foods-eating-girl to do?

Monday Mission: Healthy Upgrades – Make it from Scratch

February 1st, 2010 · 17 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find one box or bottle in your house that you think you can make yourself, find a recipe, and try it out. If it’s a success, commit to never buying that package again (except in times of duress, like new babies or other big stresses). Impact [...]

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The “Meals that Hamburger Helper was TRYING to Imitate” Carnival!

January 28th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition

I’ve been promoting this round-up as a chance to share your one-dish, one-pot or skillet meals that are pseudo-hamburger-helper-esque, but I realized tonight when I was trying to think of a real title for the carnival that it’s the box that is trying to be like our kitchens, not the other way around. So there, [...]