Healthy Food • Healthy Living
This Vegan Chocolate Coconut Shake with Granola is rich and totally satisfying, yet loaded with wholesome goodness! The perfect summer treat!
I am so excited to share this chocolate coconut shake with you. Summer is here and things are HOT and humid in Tennessee. Enter this Vegan Chocolate Coconut Shake and the heat is somehow bearable. Seriously, so good!…
These Vegan Basil Pesto and Sun-Dried Tomato Pinwheels are the perfect plant based appetizer to bring to any gathering this summer! They’re full of flavor and sure to satisfy both meat and veggie lovers!…
This Gluten-Free Garlic Kale Pesto Pasta is made using Green Lentil Spaghetti pasta coated in a creamy garlicky kale pesto sauce. The pesto sauce is a combination of ripe avocado, raw pecans, garlic, parmesan cheese, and of course kale. The flavor is bold and earthy with a touch of nuttiness, resulting in so much flavor…
This GF Vegan Crunchy Chocolate Granola is so easy to make and absolutely delicious with it’s rich chocolate flavor along with it’s perfect crunchy texture!…
One of Brighton’s best little buddy’s celebrated her third birthday a couple months ago. Along with a spread of fresh veggies, fruits, crackers and of course cake, they served Hawaiian rolls with chicken salad and Pawleys Island’s Pimento Cheese with Jalapeños. We filled our bellies and it was all so good!..
These Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars are gluten-free and vegan and so incredibly rich and satisfying! Good luck stopping with one!
I need to apologize. I’ve held out on you and I’m really sorry…
These Gluten-Free Blueberry Zucchini Muffins are made with garbanzo bean flour (or chickpea flour – same thing) and so delightful! Naturally sweetened with honey, incredibly moist from the zucchini, and bursting with fresh blueberries, they’re perfect for Spring!..
This Tikki Masala Veggies and Rice is the perfect week-night dinner! The sauce comes together quickly and is as good or better than any store-bought option!Is it odd that the foods my kids seem to eat best are Mexican and Indian flavored dishes? I mean, better than pizza, or pasta, or grilled cheese, or whatever else you can think of that kids typically love..
These Gluten-Free Oat Almond and Flax Waffles are soft and fluffy with a delightful flavor. Plus it all comes together in one bowl – so easy and so good!
I have such fond memories of my mom making the occasional weekend waffles when my sister and I were kids….
My kids are obsessed with bars. Regardless of how much they love fresh fruit, dried veggies, cheese, etc – bars are their favorite snack. Every time. Which I’m okay with. But some of the store bought ones, even the organic, can be loaded with sugar. Don’t get me wrong, I still buy store-bought options…
This creamy Sun-Dried Tomato and Mushroom Chickpea Pasta is the perfect blend of hearty and healthy. Loaded with veggies, garlic, herbs and parmesan cheese!Pasta is one of those things that I don’t think to make often, but actually really enjoy. With the exception of zucchini pasta…
These Vegan Chocolate Caramel Peanut Butter Bars are a dream come true! With a soft almond flour cookie base, rich peanut butter caramel center and dark chocolate coating, they’re delicious and satisfying without being too sweet!…
Shrimp, caramelized onions, seasoned mushrooms, creamy white garlic sauce, GF pizza crust + cheese and more cheese. Any takers? If you’re a “yes”, then this GF Cheesy Garlic Shrimp and Mushroom Pizza is a must! There are so many great flavors working together here, making this one of my favorite, more unique pizzas of all time!…
If you’re looking for a quick and easy lunch or appetizer, that’s also totally satisfying, then these Vegan Green Goddess Mexican Lettuce Wraps are for you! Because it doesn’t get much easier than throwing FOUR ingredients + spices/seasonings in a food processor then baking 20-25 minutes…
I don’t do many product reviews here without also sharing a recipe, but today is one of those rare exceptions. And I don’t feed bad about it, nor do I think you’ll be mad. Because while many of us love to cook and try out a new recipe, there are also times when we just need a quick, healthy meal or snack to grab and take on the go…
We recently joined some friends of ours to see Gregory Alan Isakov perform live at the Ryman. I wasn’t familiar with him before the show, but his indie-rock-folk style is definitely a genre I like and it turned out to be a really great show…
Let me introduce you to these Raw Chocolate Oat Bars, they might just be my new obsession.
I’ve made them THREE times within the last ten days or so, making a few tweaks along the way, and as the saying goes, third time’s a charm..
I’ve made these Green Smoothie Chocolate Chip Muffins three times within the last week. The first round didn’t result in a muffin I was excited to share with you. It was okay, but not great. Truth be told, it tasted healthy…
I really wanted to get this out in time to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, but as you can clearly see, that didn’t happen. Several things played a part in that, the biggest obstacle is that we’re on our THIRD week of dealing with sickness…
This Sweet Potato Refried Bean Egg Skillet is a hearty dish, perfect for breakfast or dinner!
My first inclination is to apologize and share my embarrassment at going 8 WEEKS without posting a single recipe.🙈But when I stop and consider the season we’re in, the craziness of it all and the conscious decision I made to let the blog go for a short time, to prioritize things and focus on family, I can’t really be sorry…
Before having kids, I often heard the phrase “my kids are eating me out of house and home”. In my naivety, I took this to mean their older kids {like seven and up 🤷🏼♀️} consumed a lot of food in their rapidly growing bodies. I realize now they were referring to all kids, big and small…
I realize we’re less than a week into Summer…which means there’s still a lot of warm {and humid for many of us} days ahead. But does that mean that soup has to be off the table? Is it still okay to make soup this time of year? Because while this Golden Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk…
So much yumminess in this Easy Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese with it’s smoldering Muenster cheese, garlic green-pesto-goodness and golden toasted gluten-free bread!
I know, a grilled cheese sandwich hardly seems blog worthy. BUT, before you get all judgy on me {not that I actually think any of you are judgy☺}, let me plead my case…
This Brussels Sprouts Breakfast bowl embodies everything I crave for my first meal of the day – it’s hardy, crunchy, full of flavor and pretty much an all around party in your mouth!…
Popcorn has been a long time favorite snack of mine. As a kid, my mom did nearly all the cooking, but my dad had a few specialty items that were his to fix…
Josh and I were just talking the other morning about smells and their ability to bring back memories or suddenly make you think of a time or place you haven’t thought of in years. A quick google search revealed that this is known as “odor-evoked autobiographical memory”…
Until now, I’d only heard of sweet potato toast. It sounded great, but almost too easy. So with both little ones happy and occupied the other morning, I decided to see if it was really as quick and easy as it seemed. And I gotta say, it was!…
These 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter and Cacao Nib Date Bites are my new favorite energy-boosting snack! They’re a breeze to make, have no added sugar, and are completely kid-friendly…
This Crunchy Lemon Almond and Coconut Granola is pretty much my new favorite thing. With it’s perfectly toasted oats, light lemon flavor, crunchy almonds and chia seeds, plus a hint of coconut, it’s got a lot going for it!…
It’s that time of year where the weather here in Tennessee is constantly changing, some days are gorgeous and warm, while others are cold and rainy. I find myself not really wanting the traditional Winter comfort foods anymore, but also not quite ready for all things Spring. This Easy Lentil Sweet Potato Taco Bowl is the best of both worlds….
