Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
This breakfast was so good – I made it yesterday and dreamed about making it again today for breakfast! The loaded breakfast potato could be a new rotation for my breakfasts! You can customize it with whatever you have on hand. I microwaved the baked …
The breakfasts I mostly lean towards are 95% savory vs. sweet and something about a savory cheesy egg and chicken sausage skillet breakfast makes me feel like I’m ordering breakfast from a diner! Over the weekend, I visited a farm by my house and bought …
Eating salads while you are trying to lose weight can get tiresome after a while. To be honest – I don’t eat big salads every day while on my weight loss journey – but if I do – this is the one I want. I …
For the first year – my garden is producing so many vegetables – this homemade pasta sauce is so great and fresh! This is the 3rd year I’ve had a garden in my backyard – with so/so success. This year however, with lessons learned from …
Have a bunch of garden veggies that need to be used up? This is my go to summer easy pasta salad. You can customize it based on whatever you have on hand! I’m on Weight Watchers – blue plan – this comes in at 8 …
I subsribe to so many different cooking sources via e-mail that the last few days all the Thanksgiving recipes have been making me excited for Thanksgiving!! I wanted to share a few links with you if you are hosting the event yourself or just need …
For those of you who don’t know, over the summer we got a healthy vending machine in our office. I know some of you are thinking, is there such a thing? Well, there is, and in the Chicago land area, it’s called Healthy U Vending. …
I’ve made various kinds of salsa in the past. I’ve made a roasted version here, and attempted a version of my sister’s salsa here. Yesterday when I was at the store, I picked up some more tomatillos, a big poblano pepper, a white onion, some …
My twin sister always makes fun of me because I make pasta so much. But with so many different ways to make it, you can never get tired of it. When I had my first apartment, I think I made pasta at least 4 nights …
I am a member of Slow Food, which tries to bring people back to the table with the freshest foods, cooking with real ingredients, the more it comes from the earth, the better! Recently I joined that Group on Linked-In and a fellow member Meredith …
Okay, I had 14 comments on getting a free coupon for Silk Soy Milk and so I asked my 3 kids to each pick a number. The winners are: Duo Dishes Sophia of Burp and Slurp Cassie from Foodie with a Little Thyme Please e-mail …
Congrats to Errign who wins a coupon for a free POM tea drink!! Thanks to everyone who left a comment! Errign, I will contact you to get your address. Do you know what this is? Neither did I. When I was grocery shopping over the …
I’m normally a super positive person, and can roll with pretty much any punch that’s thrown my way. But yesterday was bad… Friday started out great, it was gorgeous outside, I only had to work 4 hours. After work I was going to take the …
I’m participating in a 5-a-day challenge on blog to lose to try to eat all your veggies and fruits per day. So far, its going great. I’ve been eating fruits and veggies as snacks and sneaking them in my smoothies, and tonight I snuck a …
I’m trying to stick to a program where I work out as soon as I get home from work. I only work about 5 minutes from my house, so I am home by 5:05 and by 5:15 I am ready to go to work out …
Dinner in about 15 minutes that is! I basically took boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut them into strips and tossed them with this spice mix: I know it says “Hamburger” grill mates, but I think it tastes great with chicken! I just sprayed a skillet …
After several weeks of not making it to my local farmer’s market, I finally went today! I love going there and of course, my three kids came along for the ride! We had a great time! I’ll share what we saw/got there: Our first stop …
