Best Cookbooks for Families
Even with recipes available online in abundance, everyone needs some cookbooks in their kitchen to love. There’s nothing like a sticky fingerprint or tomato sauce…
Real Food Recipes
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Simple, Kid-Friendly Layered Salad Recipe
SEO KW: healthy layered salad (if it’s the standard 7 layer type salad then make it healthy seven layered salad) H2 Ideas: healthy layered salad…
30+ Cheap & Healthy Instant Pot Dinner Ideas
Dinner time cooking has two modes: relaxing and fun – usually with music and a glass of something on the weekends, and that weekday rush…
Healthy Gluten-Free Cupcakes with a Protein Boost for Breakfast!
SEO KW: healthy breakfast cupcakes H2 ideas: kid-friendly healthy breakfast ideas, healthy breakfast cupcake recipe, high protein breakfast for kids, breakfast cupcakes with healthy fat,…
Pinto Beans Tostadas Recipe | Budget Friendly Dinner
I love an easy, fresh, fun, real food meal. Pinto bean tostadas are simple, delicious, comforting, and oh-so-very flexible, depending on what you have in…
Potassium-Rich, No-Churn, Dairy-Free Ice Cream Recipe | Coconut Milk Free!
“Mom, I’ve had a lot of muscle twitches lately. Why is that?”My kids ask me a lot of health-related questions. Being a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner,…
Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe | Healthy Quinoa Salad
Quinoa is one of my favorite hearty cold salad ingredients, and using it in my Americanized version of tabbouleh makes an easy, healthy quinoa recipe.…
5 Healthy Plant-Based Dinner Recipes
Okay, we’re trying to eat better and take baby steps towards more healthy living. We’re also trying to be better stewards of the planet and…
Why and How to Eat Sardines – Even Kids!
When I was about five years into my Real Food journey, a friend was raving about the health benefits of sardines. Sardines? For real? I…
Instant Pot Vegetable Soup Recipe
One thing we’ve tried really hard to do as a family is making plant-based, plant-forward recipes that we all love. A recent discovery is this…
Healthy Lamb Meatball Recipe Kids Will Eat!
Every Friday my kids and I work together to plan our meals for the coming week (the meal they plan they also help cook since…
Real Food Blueberry Spelt Muffin Recipe
I love a good blueberry muffin. Actually, what I really like are the blueberry muffin mixes that don’t even use actual blueberries – just those…
Kid-Friendly Warm, Healthy Winter Salad Recipe
As I scrolled through social media in December, I noticed a common theme. I saw friend after friend posting that they were struggling to eat…
Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
It’s Christmas! Let the Christmas cookie baking begin! Listen, even before I was trying to make our food a little healthier, I loved baking homemade…
Naturally-Sweetened Sweet Potato Casserole With Maple Syrup
It’s the holiday baking season! Literally my favorite food of the year. I’ve been cooking real food holiday dishes for over a decade now, and…
Grain-Free Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Bites Recipe | Refined Sugar-Free and Kid-Friendly!
How many servings of vegetables do your kids eat on a regular basis? Two? Three on a good day? Do you ever wish you could…
Instant Pot Beef Roast Recipe Greek-Style
A beef roast is one of my favorite meals to serve to guests. It’s simple to make, made with a budget-friendly cut of meat, but…
Kid-Friendly Pesto Chicken and Rice Recipe | One-Pot Instant Pot Dinner for Weeknights
It’s certainly the time of year to pull out all the easy strategies like this one-pot Instant Pot dinner that you can prep the night…
Quick Pot Roast Recipe | Super Simple Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Dinner
There’s something for everyone in this pot roast recipe! Pick one of four flavor variations to try this week and then come back for another…
Simple Sweet Potato Air Fryer Recipe | Sweet Potato Tots – Perfect for Kids!
The last time my husband’s family was together we were celebrating my brother-in-law’s graduation. Since there are 18 of us in total (including 10 young…