Have you ever considered the environmental impact your food choices have on the world? I went from eating a ‘healthy’ (by the USDA’s guidelines) diet, to aiming for grass fed & sustainably raised animal products, to now aiming for plant based. A meat center diet not only causes you health problems, but it causes environmentally…
Recipes
Toddler Approved Green Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie
Have a hard time getting greens into your diet? Here’s a nutrient packed smoothie to start your day or have as a snack that you won’t even realize has greens in it. Picky toddlers approve of this too! Spinach is one of the most nutrient dense greens. About 1/3 of it’s calories are from protein!…
Easy and Nourishing Lip Balm Recipe
Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. Do you deal with chapped lips during the winter or after a sunburn on your face? I know I have! Some of the ingredients in conventional lip balms aren’t helping heal your lips like the claim. Avoid…
How To Protect Yourself This Winter
Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) syrup is one of my go to remedies during winter. These berries have been shown to have antiviral effects and shorten the duration of viral illnesses, like influenza, by four days! And with less side effects than prescription antivirals. Benefits of Elderberries These nutritious berries are packed with vitamins A, B,…
Super Easy, No Knead Bread Recipe
Crunchy and Easy No Knead Dutch Oven Bread
Meme’s Snow Cream
The world changes when it snows So it’s been snowing here again (yay!) and after sledding, we decided to make snow cream (with a side of coffee and Glühwein)! I have fond memories of making this with my meme growing up. I have 2 recipes I use. The one with milk and sugar is Meme’s…
Quick and Yummy Overnight Yogurt Oats
Good food, good mood! Sometimes I feel like dealing with Daylight Savings time and little humans is worse than a full moon as a nurse. In Germany, we “fell back” last weekend (a week earlier than our family and friends in the US). The spawns seem to think this is a reason to wreck havoc…