Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
I’ve been going through binders of recipes I’ve copied from magazines, or gotten from friends during my time off from work over the Holidays. I wish I could get paid for reading cookbooks/recipes I would be a millionaire!! During the fast paced Holidays and people …
How many of you stay home on New Years Eve? We do! Every year we let the kids stay up and bring out snacks around 10 ish. This year I want to add some healthier options for me, so I went to Cooking Light to …
What a wonderful Holiday time….I haven’t ventured to step on the scale yet, I’m going to kind of detox my body by eating healthy foods for the next week or so and then see what the scale says. Thanks to my Aunt and Brother, I …
I’m taking the week off of blogging! With family in town, shopping, baking, decorating, it’s going to be an awesome week! I will be catching up with all your blogs and re-capping my Holidays next week! I hope you and your families have a Very …
There is a restaurant around the corner from my office that sells Roasted Red Pepper Soup every Wednesday. You know its good when many people in my office come back with the great aroma of that wonderful soup. I’ve had it many times, and every …
I got this super old Weight Watchers Cookbook for a quarter at a garage sale. I’ve actually used it several times and this morning I used it to make pancakes. There was a recipe for buttermilk pancakes, but instead of adding the buttermilk, I added …
A representative from General Mills has asked me to highlight an initiative with General Mills and Bob Harper from The Biggest Loser! The Biggest Loser shared new stats from the U.S government citing more than 49 million Americans struggled to get enough to eat in …
I had no idea what to make for dinner last night. I started to look in my freezer, in the pantry, on the shelf, in the fridge. I was stumped! But then I saw that I had ricotta cheese I hadn’t used yet, and not …
Even though in Chicago the actual temperature is 0, with a windchill of -23, I still enjoy making smoothies for breakfast and today’s was the tastiest EVER! Ingredients in my Magic Bullet: 3 handfuls of fresh spinach 1 tsp. sugar 1 TB. ground flax seed …
H-O-L-Y C-O-W that was a great finale! It’s always my favorite part of the season. I totally called it yesterday, I thought for sure Danny would win since he lost so much weight on his own for that 60 days. But, did I think he …
I was asked by Muir Glen if I would be interested in tasting their new line of canned tomatoes. Ummm…yeah! Since I make home made pasta sauce virtually every week, or add diced tomatoes to soups and stews, I knew I would use them. Little …
I make macaroni and cheese at least 2 or 3 times a month. I usually switch up the cheese, add ham, change the pasta type just to keep it interesting. This version is by far the best one I’ve had in a long time. It …
As Christmas is coming super fast I am starting to make a list of gifts for teachers/the crossing guard/and after school staff. I usually just make something. Last year I made home made chocolate covered pretzels (with sprinkles by my daughter!) This year I am …
For lunch yesterday, I brought a baked potato and on top I put leftover sloppy Jo’s and a slice of Alpine Lace Reduced Fat swiss cheese. It was so good and totally filling. For the sloppy Jo’s I actually used ground chicken with Manwhich sauce. …
I know this combo sound pretty weird, but in fact it tasted great. I wanted to make pumpkin muffins but then I had an over ripe pear and over ripe banana, so I decided to throw those in too! This recipe is based off a …