Cooking with herbs & spices is a easy way to give your food flavor without the added salt & sugar. They enhance a meal and can turn a food into a completely different dish. When you cook with herbs & spices, you’re also getting the benefit of adding different nutrients to your dishes, thus, added…
Friend or Foe: Cooking With Oil (+ Oil Free Granola Recipe)
Are you confused about which oils are healthy? Me too!! Coconut oil is good, olive oil is bad….Wait, maybe coconut oil isn’t good for you…BLAH! If you get nerdy like I do, it’s really about who funded so the oil narrative goes their way. I also feel strongly that, instead of looking at whole foods…
[Giveaway] Can Laundry Detergent Affect Your Health?
Picture this: It’s a chilly, rainy day. It’s overcast & dark outside, the perfect day for staying cuddled under the blanket in your cozy sweats. The baby spit up on your favorite sweatshirt this morning, but luckily, it’s in the dryer almost ready to be worn again. You pull the sweater, still warm, from the…
How to Stop Overeating
You’ve just finished eating and you feel thick as a tick about to pop – & it doesn’t feel good. While you were eating, your mind was elsewhere. It wasn’t until your plate was clear that you realized how full you are. Now, you feel disgusted and frustrated because this diet obviously isn’t working either….
How to Pick a Safe Sunscreen
Here comes the sun, doo dun doo doo. Here comes the sun, and I say, it’s alright. Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter… Flashback to 2016, we’d been playing on the beach all day. Swimming in the ocean, building sandcastles, and enjoying our time before J was deployed. I made sure baby…
How to Make Whipped Coffee
Have you seen one of those videos or heard a friend mention “whipped coffee”? If so, you’re not alone. I feel into the rabbit hole and started watching videos of people making this beautiful whipped coffee. I’m a coffee fanatic so, you guessed it, I decided to try it out myself! It actually reminds me…
2020 Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen
Part of being on a plant based diet means, well, we eat a lot of plants! And although no one is perfect and we all find what works best for us, there are definitely some ways to ensure you get the most from what you’re eating. According the EWG’s analysis of the USDA’s latests data,…
My 10 Favorite Podcasts in 2020
If you’re a momma, then you probably understand why I wasn’t into podcasts until recently. Ya, I’d listen to one while running through the beautiful forest in Germany, but when the podcast ended I would soak in the silence. But a shift occurred in my life, as it tends to do. I began not finding…
COVID-19 and The Importance of Health
This has kept me up at night. It’s something that has become so simple to me, but I feel people put at the bottom of the barrel. My heart aches knowing that people disregard this or find whatever reason they can do put this off. Before people begin to change, some need a major event,…
10 Healthy Snacks (that are all vegan!)
True story: I’m sitting in Kroger, post 6 mile run, chugging my water, & trying to figure out how I want to intro this post. I’m a little hungry and thinking of these lovely snacks I’m typing up…then I see it. The “Candy Center” at the end of aisle 8. Although I don’t have sweet…