A quick update on Baby Susie: for those of you missed this post, she had two very scary seizures last week, but praise the Lord, NO seizures since last Thursday. We’re still waiting for her lab results to come back to rule out a metabolic or genetic disorder. THANK YOU for the continued prayers! Susie is REALLY into food these days. For a fourteen-pounder who is smaller than 95% of…
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Oatmeal Pecan Muffins.
I love pecans. In everything. Desserts. Vegetable dishes at Thanksgiving. As a crust on salmon. Or soaked, Nourishing Traditions style, to snack on by the handful. But ESPECIALLY in chocolate chip cookies. It wasn’t until I was a grown-up that I realized that pecans are a Southern thang. I had NO IDEA that not everybody loves pecans in EVERYTHING. Well, yankees maybe. But that’s probably it. My favorite pecan recipe lately?…
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{THM Tuesday} Mixed Berry Chia Seed Jam.
I can’t remember where I first saw jam made from chia seeds, but I didn’t invent this, I hate to admit. Ever since I started making Trim Healthy Pancakes and Emily’s S Pancakes, I’ve made this jam to put on top. I’m sorry, but I can’t do sugar-free syrup (gag) and eating pancakes topless (or would it be ‘toppingless?’), well, that’s just too bland for me. There are other…
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Good Girl Moonshine: A Refreshing Summer Beverage.
School’s out, summer is upon us, and the sweltering heat is already sending us all on the quest for something cold and refreshing to drink. Of course, we ALL know we need to drink more water; even those of us who aren’t all Modern and Alternative know that basic fact of life. Water = health. Duh. But sometimes what you’re really craving… isn’t a glass of water. And that can…
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Blackberries. Yummy, Lucious Blackberries.
Blackberries are my FAVORITE fruit ever. It’s not quite blackberry season, but it shouldn’t be much longer… and believe me, I’ll be bringing home my share! I posted a great easy and HEALTHY recipe for Blackberry Cheesecake Crunch over at Modern Alternative Kitchen, and it’s Trim Healthy Mama approved! Click here to check it out! {Oh, and isn’t that photo INCREDIBLE?!?! My fantabulous husband ROCKS at food photography! Yeah. He’s…
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Trim Healthy Pancakes.
OK, I’m serious this time… I’m starting this Trim Healthy Mama thing for REAL. It’s been hard ok, it might have been hard, had I been trying, which clearly I have not — but I just celebrated my 40th birthday and I was NOT gonna have some healthy cardboard concoction for my 40th birthday, ok? I just was NOT. I know, I didn’t have to have the Villa Montez Chocolate…
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Skinny Chocolate.
So, like, everybody I know is reading this new book called Trim Healthy Mama. I bought it, but I’ll be honest… I’m only halfway through reading it. That’s because it’s 600-something pages and though there was a time in my life when I could have read that in a day, now I have a terrible smartphone habit that interferes with me reading actual books. The first step is admitting you…
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{Baby Love} How to Make Homemade Baby Wipes.
I started making my own baby wipes with baby oil and store-bought baby wash when my first baby was born back in 2001. Because I’m cheap frugal, and because I wanted to be Martha Stewart in those days. Twelve years and two new babies later, I’m more frugal than ever, I’m WAY over Martha Stewart, and I also know way more about the chemicals and cancer-causing junk that are in…
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Immune Brew: The Cure for Your Cold.
OK, I KNOW I can’t really claim that I have the cure for the common cold, duh. All I know is… every time my kids and I start wheezing or sneezing or otherwise feel the crud coming on, I make this, we drink a lot of it, and BOOM… we’re better. Just last week, for example, Annie and I both started feeling crummy. I made a batch…
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{Easy, Healthy Snacks} Homemade Banana Chips.
One of my New Years’ Resolutions was to always have homemade snacks and desserts in the house. We always have our snacks and desserts around, and I’d so much rather feed my family the freshest stuff with the best ingredients and none of the preservatives or the Five Bad Ingredients that are in ALL the store-bought stuff. Hence my banana experiment. Banana chips meet all the criteria for the perfect snack: they’re cheap,…
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The Margarine Myth.
It’s no secret that I love butter. If you’ve ever perused any of the recipes I’ve posted, you know. But my love for butter goes way beyond the taste and richness of a good buttery dessert recipe…. I believe butter is GOOD for you, too. And if you don’t believe me, just check out the Nourishing Traditions book I’ve been telling you to buy for years now… I’ve been so…
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Chia Seeds and My New Writing Gig!
Let me be the first to tell you about Modern Alternative Kitchen… if you haven’t already been acquainted. It’s a new blog that was created to be a treasure trove of all the best whole foods and natural health info out there, written by fifteen really great contributing writers. OK, fourteen really great ones and one amateur… ahem. My first blog post over at Modern Alternative Kitchen was published today, about…
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