When a Picky Eater Might Have More Going On: How to Identify and Solve Oral Sensory Processing Disorder
Do you have a picky eater? Are meal times a battle? Before you get frustrated and assume your child is just strong-willed, take a closer…
Special Diets
How to Evaluate New Nutritional Philosophies Through a Critical Thinking, Traditional Foods Lens
Walking into the “diet/nutrition” section of a bookstore is overwhelming, the sheer quantity and variety of books absolutely staggering. I wandered into that section in…
9 Successful Elimination Diet Strategies (even for Families with Children)
Figuring out how to do an elimination diet can be confusing. Why are there so many different elimination diet meal plans? (Here’s my elimination diet…
What Does It Take to Cut Triglycerides by 75%?
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I…
Whole Food Protein Sources: After a Workout, During Pregnancy, & Brain Boosters
Protein shakes, energy bars, and supplements marketed to athletes sometimes feel like the worst offenders in the processed foods world. Between the odd chemicals claiming…
Grain-free Quinoa Bars Recipe
Quinoa is not a grain. Technically, it’s a chenopod, related to beets, spinach, and the ever-delicious tumbleweed. As seeds go, it’s not incredibly high in…
Quinoa Oat Protein Bars Recipe
My husband doesn’t eat quinoa, no matter how I serve it, but when he tried this gluten-free quinoa oat protein bar recipe, his feedback was…
Five Keys to Weight Loss with Real Food
We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship® Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, eggs, and more…
The Comparison: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), GAPS Diet (Gut & Psychology Syndrome), and The Maker’s Diet
Over the last month or so as the adults in the family went grain-free to combat some symptoms of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or…
Jordan Rubin and the Maker’s Diet
I’ve been teasing you for a few weeks about the opportunity I had to see Jordan Rubin, author of The Maker’s Diet and survivor of…
Monday Mission: Learn About Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
I continue to run into people, both online and in real life, who have celiac disease or cannot handle gluten, including an elderly neighbor who…
Almond Power Bars
These bars have such incredible flavor, you’d never guess they don’t have any sugar and only a smidge of natural sweeteners. Gluten free and with…