Today is the final day of the 5 days of Christmas Review & Giveaway Week! On the 5th day of Christmas, day2day joys gave to me... An awesome giveaway from Newman's Own Organics. In the summer, Newman's Own Organics sent me a box loaded with a variety of thier products. Over the next few months, we tried different things and really enjoyed the products. All of the products are Organic by Orgeon Tilth, and Newman's Own Organics seek to provide their foods, fiber and herbal products of the highest … [Read more...]
5 Days of Christmas: Real Food Diet Cookbook {Review & Giveaway}
December 13, 2011 By 14 Comments
Today is the second day of the 5 days of Christmas Review & Giveaway Week! On the 2nd day of Christmas, day2day joys gave to me... An awesome giveaway... Dr. Axe's Real Food Diet Cookbook. This book is great for a real food newbie or someone whose been eating real food for a while, there are tons of ideas. And you'll learn a lot of information about food. A little bit about the author: Josh Axe is a Wellness Physician and chiropractor like my husband. He is also a radio show host of … [Read more...]
A little bit of Sweet, a little bit of Spice: Gingerbread Recipes
December 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
Please join me over at Keeper of the Home where you will find a few healthier recipes including gingerbread cookies, chocolate icing for decorating and gingerbread... yummy! sneak peak: As you well know, it's Christmastime! Your music is playing, the stockings are hung, your tree is decorated and it's time to get baking!When I think about baking during this season, my first thoughts are about gingerbread houses and cookies. I love the spicy, sweet flavor. They are adorable, although they are … [Read more...]
Probiotics 101
November 30, 2011 By 8 Comments
This week is the final post in the Five Flu Fighting Food Series. If you have been following along, you learned about the other 4 in the series: pumpkin, breakfast, green tea and garlic and their amazing super food healing benefits they have on your immune system. This series is opened up to all of our readers who will be linking up their favorite recipes with these key flu-fighting ingredients, so that you can get lots of ideas for creative ways to serve them to your family! This series … [Read more...]
Super Easy Breakfast Quesadilla
November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Please join me over at Modern Alternative Mama where you will find a super easy breakfast idea! The recipe is so simple and will be added in an eBook written by several real food bloggers coming soon!sneak peak:Sometimes breakfast can be boring. Do you ever think so?I'm trying to be better about eating breakfast, especially since it helps boost my metabolism and my immune systerm. My kids have the same old breakfast foods: cereal, yogurt with granola, oatmeal or an organic bar … [Read more...]
Family Chef Night {and H2W}
November 23, 2011 By 10 Comments
Having a healthy family dynamic is very important! Last week, I gave you statistics of obesity in the United States... They are scary! photo credit We have to first make changes to become healthy ourselves, then teach our children how to live a healthy life. A great way to teach your children about healthy choices is to have a Family Chef Night!Have everyone pile in the car and go to the grocery store together! Us moms have to have everything planned out usually so print out a recipe if you have … [Read more...]
Turkey Pesto Pinwheels
November 21, 2011 By 5 Comments
The Holiday festivities are here! A couple of weeks ago, I participated in the Natural Holiday Celebration Carnival where I introduced some natural decorating ideas. Now it's getting close for all of those Christmas parties, work parties, kid's parties, not to mention that Thanksgiving is this Thursday! So are you prepared??? A lot of the parties we're invited to are potluck style. I'm always wondering, what am I going to bring?? And I usually wait the the last minute, making it difficult to … [Read more...]
Easy Garlic Salsa
November 16, 2011 By 9 Comments
You don't want to get your garlic out if you are going to see Breaking Dawn, part of the Twilight series this week, but you do if you want to help your immune system! I believe the character Bella would not even get close to garlic because she is in love with Edward and my husband would know because he read the books! Yes, a 32 year old guy read the series! All joking aside, garlic is defined as a strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb, used as a flavoring in cooking and in herbal medicine. … [Read more...]
The Importance of Eating Breakfast
November 2, 2011 By 13 Comments
Last week the first flu fighting food was pumpkin and we learned how much of a super food they really are! Pumpkins are loaded with carotenoids, high in fiber, are an ample source of vitamins and low in carbohydrates!I gave you a Pumpkin Pear Muffin recipe which would be really simple to pull out in those rushed mornings for a quick breakfast.Did you know that it is VERY important to eat breakfast? Did you know that breakfast can help keep you healthy during cold & flu season? Photo credit So … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Bread {and H2W}
November 2, 2011 By 4 Comments
This past weekend we had tons of fun with all of the Fall festivities that were going on! We carved pumpkins, painted pumpkins, went on a hay ride and even went trick or treating on Halloween. One thing in common with all the festivities is that there are plenty pumpkins around.Pumpkins are very versatile!You can decorate with them, do learning activities with them, they make for wonderful Fall pictures to add to your scrapbook, and you can eat them which is one of my favorite things to do with … [Read more...]
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