Healthy Living How To reader, Wendy, asked me to give a healthy makeover to the boxed variety of chocolate chip muffins. You see, this busy mom has made these muffins, as an easy on-the-go breakfast for herself and her children. However, Wendy is working on reducing both sugar and wheat in her family’s diet, so… [Continue Reading]
Blueberry Cheese Tart
Why There is No Cheese in my Blueberry “Cheese” Tart Generally speaking, cheese is composed of fat, a “little” bit of lactose, which is a naturally occurring sugar found in milk, and the dairy derived proteins casein and whey. The amounts of each depends on the variety and age of the cheese. When it comes to… [Continue Reading]
Kombucha: Homebrew How To
If you are just tuning in, let me quickly get you up to speed. A little over a week ago, in a post titled Kombucha: The Basics, Buying and Brewing, I introduced Kombucha, a fermented tea with healing benefits. I laid the groundwork for today’s post, explaining what Kombucha is, the health benefits of imbibing in… [Continue Reading]
How to Make Kombucha
If you want to learn about the health benefits of kombucha, where to buy it and how to brew your own, today’s post is for you. I recently polled the Healthy Living How To Facebook Fans asking “Do you Kombucha”? I got responses from enthusiastic home brewers as well as those who had never heard… [Continue Reading]
Bulletproof Coffee
Time for a Healthy Living How To Reader Q & A Reader Asks What do you put in your coffee? I am trying to get off the unhealthy flavored coffee creamers and think I am sensitive to dairy. Any suggestions? My Response First of all, you are very wise to ditch those unhealthy coffee creamers…. [Continue Reading]
Super Food Cereal
In my experience, the meal that seems to give folks the most problem, when eschewing grains and reducing their carbohydrate intake, is breakfast. At first, especially if one has just been enlightened on the truth about saturated fat and cholesterol, eggs and bacon become a morning staple. Then the novelty wears off and the need… [Continue Reading]
French Toast Cakes
Apparently we love pancakes so much, not only is this beloved breakfast food celebrated with a National Pancake Day on February 5th, but just a week later, it is celebrated a second time with International Pancake Day. According to my limited research, the latter holiday is technically supposed to be observed on Fat Tuesday which… [Continue Reading]
What To Do About High Cortisol
The body’s reaction to stress is called the “stress response”. Without this finely tuned process, we would not be able to get through a day. However, our modern-day high-tech, fast-paced lifestyles have elevated stress to epidemic levels. Our lives have become littered with psychological, physical, nutritional and environmental stressors, which in turn assault our body… [Continue Reading]
Do You Need a Pep Talk?
After seeing this video literally shared over and over on my Facebook newsfeed, I finally decided to click on the video and watch. Can I just say, I am so glad I did. The best three minutes of my day! I take that back, 12 minutes, as I have since watched the video 4 times. Yes… [Continue Reading]
Nut-Free One Minute Muffin
Our friends Stacy and Matt, also known as the Paleo Parents, came up with an amazing nut-free and inexpensive alternative to almond flour using…wait for it…RAW SUNFLOWER SEEDS. How genius is that?! I had to take their creativity to task and give it a try. I used my cheap-o coffee grinder instead of my heavy-duty Vitamix,… [Continue Reading]
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