Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
This is a great snack or dessert when you are looking for something sweet that won’t take all your #ww personal points for the day. The first star of this dessert – is Wasa crisps. Don’t sleep on these! You may remember your grandma having …
You probably have all the ingredients to make this delicious healthy blueberry lime chia seed jam! *Updated 2022 – with new personal points for my @ww friends! Click THIS LINK to have this recipe added to your Weight Watcher recipe builder and it will calculate …
Frequently I make vegan recipes because two of my adult kids have been vegan for a while now and I like to make things they can enjoy! I will explain how to make these very easy vegan blueberry muffins! Looking back on my first food …
I got home from work yesterday and had 3 boxes waiting for me. I knew what one was because my sister Biz told me already: Yippee!! Harry and David pears! As you can see, one has already been consumed. Then next 2 boxes? My friends …
This recipe I got from The Cooking Club of America. To be honest, I didn’t play around with it too much to try to make it less calories, I made it as is, and tried to keep the portion I ate smaller! This bread is …
This muffin is my version of a brown sugar cornmeal muffin from the 2000 Cooking Light Complete Cookbook. I didn’t have any cornmeal and I had bananas to use up, so I threw those in instead. I also didn’t have vanilla yogurt the recipe called …
I LOVE Nutella! I never even tried it before a year ago, and I didn’t know what I was missing! But how do I incorporate that into healthy eating? I had to come up with a dessert. I’ve only made this once before, but it’s …
First off, I hope everyone had a great weekend. I actually didn’t go on the computer at all over the weekend! (Which was kind of nice!) I have the day off today, it’s the last day of summer vacation since my kids start school tomorrow. …
I recently watched an episode of Jamie Oliver’s Cooking at Home show on the Cooking Channel and the show was focused on strawberries. One thing that he made was a strawberry jam. He said his mother never used pectin to make the jam; it was …
I read an interesting article today from the University of Michigan Health System. They devised a “healing foods pyramid” which is shown below. I’ve mentioned before that researchers are now saying its better to eat 7-10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, and as …
When I went to the store last weekend, I found in the freezer section all sorts of flavors of Goya Brand Fruit Pulps. Flavors like papaya, pineapple, passion fruit, etc… For each 1/2 cup its only 39 calories. So I picked up the passion fruit …
I adapted this recipe from “Eat Better America”. I LOVE banana bread, and like Christina, we always have bananas in our freezer! The one thing I did change was instead of walnuts, I added chocolate chips. I also used Nevella, which is a new brand …
I had worked up an appetite for lunch today. I spent like 4 hours deep cleaning. I even pulled out my oven and cleaned under/behind that…yuck! Since I hadn’t gone the store yet, I was thinking about what to make with what little I had …
I’ve done a few things differently as I mark the first week of trying to consume 10-13 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. I’ve noticed a few patterns here: *I’ve had almost no snacks. Just breakfast, lunch and dinner *I’ve had NOTHING after dinner …
So, after trying to get more fruits and veggies in, I didn’t do so hot over the weekend. I ate better, but I did NOT get all the servings I needed, so on Monday, I was back on. One thing I am noticing by eating …
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 …
Weekends are usually crazy busy around our house. Chores, sleep-overs, shopping, getting ready for the week, going to the pool, etc… Yesterday was a gorgeous day in the Chicago-land area. It was hot, so we decided to go to our local pool for several hours. …