fbpx
healthy eating

Thanksgiving Survival Guide – Tips & Recipes for a Healthier Holiday

Keep this Thanksgiving survival guide by your side with 10 tips to help you have a healthier Thanksgiving and start to the holiday season.  Pin this Post *Originally published November 2016. Updated November 2019* Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday – it’s a day to give thanks, spend time with friends and family, and of course eat! A traditional Thanksgiving meal made up…

Meal Planning Made Easy – Enter the Giveaway!

This page contains affiliate links. See below for full disclosure statement. Just a few weeks ago I filled you in on my big news about my new book, 52 Week Meal Planner, which is officially on-sale in just 8 days! Well, as it turns out, there’s another book coming out the same day (July 31st) that is the perfect pair with…

The Ultimate Healthy Summer Barbecue Guide

Enjoy cookouts without sacrificing fun or flavor with this ultimate healthy summer barbecue guide including recipes, cooking tips, and more! Pin this Post Memorial Day has passed, school’s out for some and almost done for others, and soon enough summer will be in full swing, which means it’s time for fun with family and friends at backyard barbecues! I don’t…

Put Your Best Fork Forward for National Nutrition Month

This National Nutrition Month, put your best fork forward by doing the best YOU can do to live a healthy lifestyle and enjoy what you love in life. As you may have heard, March is National Nutrition Month® (NNM), a time to pay special attention to what we eat and our lifestyle habits around food and nutrition. It happens that NNM comes at…

How to Feed a Healthy Gut: Prebiotics & Probiotics

Learn all about prebiotics and probiotics, why they are important, and how you can get them in your diet! This post was written by Kaleigh McMordie, MCN, RDN You may have been hearing a lot about gut health lately. Everywhere you turn, someone is touting the benefits of gut health or talking about the gut microbiota in some way. If you don’t…

Have a Heart to Heart Conversation to Improve Heart Health

Have a heart to heart conversation with someone you love to help them achieve a heart healthy lifestyle. This post was sponsored by Meta as part of an ongoing partnership. I was compensated for my time, but as always all opinions are my own.  All month long people have been celebrating Heart Health Month – from wearing red dresses on National Wear…

Why You Should Love Pulses and Take the Pulse Pledge

Find out all the reasons to love pulses and join the celebration of the International Year of Pulses by taking the Pulse Pledge! This post was sponsored by USA Pulses & Pulse Canada as part of an ongoing partnership. I was compensated for my time, but as always all opinions are my own.  Do you like hummus, vegetarian chili, and bean salad?…

5 Health Benefits of Pomegranates & 20+ Pomegranate Recipes

Reap the amazing health benefits of pomegranates with these 20+ nutritious and delicious pomegranate recipes to enjoy all winter long! With the release of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans comes another reminder of the importance of eating fruit and vegetables. Back in September in honor of Fruits & Veggies More Matters Month, we shared important reasons why fruit and vegetables matter and…

Menu Plan Monday: January 18, 2016

A veggie-filled menu plan Monday and this week’s Link Love.  Hope everyone had a great weekend! We had a low key one here – spent a lot of time playing games with the girls, which was a lot of fun and brought back fond memories of how I spent my weekends when I was a kid! In case you missed any…

Menu Plan Monday: January 11, 2016

The release of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, plus this week’s link love and Menu Plan Monday.  Hope you all had a great weekend! As I mentioned last week, we went to Vermont over the weekend so we could get our four year old twin girls on skis for the first time. They had a blast and can’t wait…

Menu Plan Monday: Week of February 23, 2015

February’s Recipe ReDux, a recap of our favorite links from last week, and this week’s Menu Plan Monday Hope everyone had a great weekend! In case you missed it, the February Recipe ReDux post went live on Sunday. Be sure to check out my Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles and all the other amazing chocolate recipes my fellow ReDuxers came up with. In…