It’s time to eat right. March is National Nutrition Month and the theme for 2013 is “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day” which encourages personalized healthy eating styles and supports the fact that different factors affect our diets such as lifestyles, cultural traditions, food intolerances, allergies, etc. I think this is a great theme because…
Tomato Kale Soup and Meal Planning
What do you get when you have a big bag of kale to be used, a husband with a cold and a Dietitian wife trying to make him better? Homemade tomato kale soup! I have been trying hard to work on my own recipes- as in no adaptations, no inspiration or guidance from cookbooks or…
Heart Disease: Go Red and Blog Your Heart Out!
Today I am writing about a topic very important to me, heart disease, along with many other bloggers as part of the American Heart Associations’ Blog Your Heart Out Campaign to fight heart disease in women (and no we are not getting paid to do this, we simply support this movement and want to spread…
Healthy Living Survey
My mother-in-law is visiting from Texas so I will be a little busier than usual. Since she is in town for 10 days we jumped at the chance to take her up on her baby sitting offer and go out to dinner for Valentine’s day. I think it’s been over 6 years since we went…
Chocolate Covered Marshmallows & More Valentine’s Treats
I totally on board with a little dessert splurge around the Holidays. I tend to gravitate towards chocolate but that’s just me. I wanted to make an easy Valentine’s treat for the kids and when I saw these heart shaped marshmallows I knew I needed to make something with them. I didn’t have to think…
Spinach-Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms & Meal Planning
How was everyone’s weekend? Two of the kids caught a cold last week and passed it along to me. Luckily I caught a mild case of it and with a good nights’ sleep Friday was still able to run 8 miles with my running group. The only problem was that running for over an hour…
Eating Healthy When Dining Out
I fell in love with eating out at [good] restaurants when I was in college. I lived in Austin, Texas, how could I not? My friends and I would spend the weekends trying new places, spending money we didn’t have on full course meals. Not that we didn’t frequent a million inexpensive Tex-Mex places too….
What I Ate This Month and Meal Planning
Hi friends! I hope you all had a restful, rejuvenating weekend. We had a lot going on at church this weekend, spent Friday making homemade deep dish pizza and Saturday night tried out a new Greek restaurant which unfortunately ended up being very average. We had a brief period of warmer temps (mid 40s with…
Health Benefits of Water- How Much Is Enough?
I started my blog with the intention of posting both recipes and nutrition information. Then I found myself falling in love with photographing food so it was hard for me to post a non-recipe, picture post. After blogging for 2 years and learning what is and isn’t working, I’ve come to realize it’s pretty tough…
Healthy Snack Ideas and Frozen Banana Pops
We are in our second week of the four week DietBet weight loss challenge I am hosting and today I thought we’d talk about healthy snacks. I know personally I get into the routine of eating the same few things for my snacks so I thought it would be helpful to make a list of some…
