Would you like to get a few pounds off before summer? Vacation coming up that involves a swimsuit? Or just feeling a little fluffy from a winter of comfort food that you now can’t hide under baggy sweaters? In the spring I always have the urge to purge everything in my house that no longer… Continue reading Spring Clean Your Diet – Free Healthy Habits Challenge
Most of us use way too much salad dressing, and the store-bought kinds are full of many different ingredients that we really don’t want in our bodies. For example, I picked up a bottle of ranch dressing off the shelf the other day, only to find that canola oil was the first ingredient. Canola oil… Continue reading Homemade Salad Dressing, Two Ways
Have you ever wanted to look like a fancy pants cook, but you’re really not that great at it? Have someone you want to impress, but you aren’t sure what’s a spatula and what’s a ladle in the kitchen? Then I’ve got the recipe for you! Here’s all the reasons this recipe is amazingly awesome:… Continue reading Salmon en Papillote (in parchment paper)
Now, I know that ranch is the king of salad dressings. People love it on salads, of course, but I also know people who won’t eat a vegetable unless it’s dipped in ranch, and of course, even their pizza needs a good dunking as well. So you may think I’m wrong when I tell you that… Continue reading Green Goddess Salad Dressing
This dressing really couldn’t be any more simple. You probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen already, and it takes approximately 2.6 seconds to put together. It’s way healthier than anything you can buy in a bottle at the store, tastes better, and is so much better for you than all those processed ingredients… Continue reading Easy Balsamic Vinaigrette
The leaves are starting to turn, the air is getting cooler, and with fall each year there is an inevitable invasion. Soon the season of all things pumpkin will be descending, and I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t be happier about the impending pumpkin onslaught. And why not? Pumpkins are not only delicious… Continue reading Pumpkin Pie Green Smoothie
This is it, my biggest secret. You know those days when you wake up, think about what you have eaten the past day (or two, or three), and groan a little bit inside? When your stomach is feeling a little rumbly and your energy is low because you haven’t been nourishing yourself well? Those are… Continue reading Easy Homemade Hummus
The first piece of advice I give each and every one of my health coaching clients is… Eat more fruits and vegetables! You want to lose weight? More fruits and vegetables. Hoping to boost your immunity? More fruits and vegetables. You want help with your chronic disease/fatigue/depression? More fruits and vegetables. Yes, I’m sorry, your mother… Continue reading The Easy Way to More Fruits and Vegetables
I used to have the blackest of black thumbs. I once tried to grow cherry tomatoes in a pot on the balcony of my apartment, and ended up over watering and killing the tomato, all while watering the bird seed that fell into the pot from the bird feeder hung right above. Did you know… Continue reading The Garden Game
Sometimes a girl just needs a treat. Whether it’s a hard day at work, a birthday, or when a certain monthly visitor comes to call, those treat cravings come, even for us clean-eating types! So what do you do when those times come? For me, I like to whip up a batch of these yummy brownies.… Continue reading Decadent (but Healthy!) Dark Chocolate Brownies
