In my quest to find healthy yet easy to make, “normal” recipes for my family, I discovered the The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook. I was looking for a cookbook that took regular food and recipes that even a novice can make, and made them healthier. Often, healthy cookbooks use strange and hard to [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had 2 sweet potatoes sitting on my counter and I had a craving for pasta. So I typed “sweet potato pasta” into the search engine and Voila! I found a recipe that looked good and sounded good and I had most of the ingredients on hand for. I made [...]
I love, love, love McDonald’s Mocha Frappe drinks. LOVE THEM. But, they have HUGE calories in them and I’m cheap. Today I had a craving for one but didn’t want the calories nor did I feel like dragging 2 kids out to go get one because then one $3 frappe turns into a $15 lunch. [...]
Stop buying flavored instant oatmeal. Stop it. Flavored instant oatmeal is a better choice than a doughnut or a multitude of other unhealthy breakfast options, but it’s really not hard to make your own tasty oatmeal from scratch without all the additives and sugar that is in packaged, flavored, instant oatmeal. The unflavored without sugar [...]
Yesterday around 3:30 pm I was inspired to make dinner from scratch, and happened to look up on top of my fridge and notice my poor lonely crepe maker just itching to be used again. So I scoured the web for a recipe for a low-fat crepe and a chicken filling – all made with [...]
