Healthy Food • Healthy Living
I love chickpeas. I love to add them to my daily lunch salad, I love to use them in cookies to replace the flour, and I definitely love them as the star of these Basil Pesto Chickpea Sandwiches.
If you read my last post on Healthy Mexican Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, then you know that we had planned a trip to the Smokies with our friends only to have our plans thrown out the window with a steady stream of rain throughout the weekend…
Cloudy with a chance of rain, high 70. Sounds like perfect August weather for a waterpark, right? WRONG!
We spent this past weekend with our dear friends in the Smoky Mountains. My parents have a camper they keep over there, so we made plans to go Friday night and come back Sunday afternoon. We pre-bought tickets to Dollywood Splash Country a month or so ago with the intentions of spending Saturday at the park enjoying the warm (ha) weather and wild water rides, then going on a hike or two Sunday morning before heading for home…
I’ve always been a bit intimidated by eggplant. There’s really no reason for this intimidation, it’s just there. My first experience with it was years ago when my sister Jana was nine months pregnant and ready for my little niece to make her appearance. In our efforts to see if there was something she could do or eat to help move the labor along, we read about eggplant parmesan, and the suggestion that it could help induce labor. So we thought, why not? Sounded better than drinking castor oil…
August 19, 2013. Probably not a significant day to most, but for me it marks my very first post.
I’ve poured over so many amazing food blogs, drooled over more incredible recipes than I can count and admired the writing and photography skills of these countless bloggers. So many of these women have inspiring stories, transformations, whole diet make-overs or expanded food and health knowledge to offer to the world. I don’t know that I have any of that. But I have a love for food, a passion for the way it affects our bodies, and a longing to be apart of this online community…
