A few months ago, the folks over at Good Food Made Simple (GFMS) reached out and asked us to give their food a try. I am always skeptical about packaged/frozen food. In my experience convenience usually comes at a (nasty!) cost. However, when our sample…
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Toasted Mozzarella Kale & Garlic Sandwich
Over the weekend, I made this heavenly sandwich — the most delicious sandwich that I’ve ever had. I used grilled vegetables (onions and green bell peppers) but you can use anything as a filler — vegetables, meat, whatever you like. I’ll break the recipe into…
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Immunity Boosting Juice
This morning, we broke out the juicer for the first time in awhile and M. made the most delicious juice that we’ve had yet. Typically I have to choke down fresh juice — it can be so bitter and grainy — but this one was…
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Baby Weight, Cleansing + A Breastfeeding Smoothie
Lately so many people that I know have been doing cleanses and I think that it’s awesome! It makes me so happy to know that people are starting to wake up to the horrors of the Standard American Diet (SAD), and become educated about the…
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Whole Foods: Delicious, Raw, Vegan Recipes
After the last post in my whole foods series, I received another question about eating raw. This time I was asked to share some raw food recipes. When we think about raw food and incorporating raw food into our diets, we typically think of eating…
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Whole Foods: Raw Foods
After the last post in my Whole Foods series, I received a few questions about why I emphasize the word “raw” in some of my recipes. It’s a really great question and something that I’ve been meaning to write about. Simply put: eating raw foods…
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Whole Foods: Smoothies
Back in November, I mentioned that I would be making a big push toward a “whole foods” diet. It’s been going really well. At home, we eat about a 90% whole food diet. (Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and…
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Happy New Year, Welcome 2014!
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. —Antonio Machado I’ve heard it said that what you are doing at midnight…
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Goodbye Microwave
Back in October, our microwave died. It was a week before our Halloween party and I was a little bit panicked thinking that I would need a microwave for party prep. We had intended to replace it, but things got hectic and then the party…