How many different ways can you make a fruit salad? I love salads! These days, they seem more convenient than ever, with ready-made salad kits and most fruits and vegetables so easily available. But how amazing are fruit salads? Healthy, filled with vitamins and nutrients, and also easy to convince children to eat. 🙂 While…
Real Food Recipes
23 Delicious Real Food Muffin Recipes
Breakfast. Am I the only one who feels like I am in a breakfast rut? Maybe it is just me. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so they say. I’ve really found this to be true. I love a good protein shake, or bacon and eggs. Yum! However, my kids can’t have…
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes Yum! Summer’s not quite over – especially for us here in Arizona! But I figure homemade ice cream recipes are good year-round. 🙂 Sometimes we think of ice cream as an unhealthy, sugar-filled, fat-laden overindulgent treat with no merits. But I really feel differently! Sure, most store-bought ice…
How to Make Water Kefir / Water Kefir Tutorial
How do I tell you about water kefir? Water kefir sort of changed my life. Does that sound unbelievable? It’s true; if I could pinpoint one change we made that made the most difference in our lives, I would chalk it up to water kefir. That fizzy, bubbly, tingly, probiotic vitamin powerhouse. It was…
Delicious & Healthy Root Vegetable Bake Recipe
I’ve felt maxed out on recipes lately. By that I mean, I just never feel like cooking anything – and I always feel like I am making the same exact things over and over. Bleh. So I decided to throw some things together, and they turned out pretty good. Delicious actually! This healthy root vegetable…
How to Dehydrate Watermelon (yes, you really can!)
Have you ever dehydrated watermelon? Did you even know you could dehydrate watermelon? As much as we love to dehydrate various foods, it wasn’t until this year that my husband decided to dehydrate some watermelon, when we were overflowing with it one evening. Turned out, it was a success, much like…
22 Healthy Gummy Snacks Recipes
 Gummy snacks are really a quick and easy way to make your own healthy snacks at home. They’re fun and the kids can join in, too! All you need are a few key ingredients. You can use silicone molds or even ice cube trays. The great thing about gummies  – there are practically endless…
How to Make Homemade Broth Cubes for Instant Broth
Broth, once something that I used to be intimidated to try, has become a staple in our home. (Here’s a simple homemade broth tutorial I recently wrote if you’re interested in learning how to make it easily at home.) After the process of making broth, there is only really one minor drawback as far…
Chocolate Protein Smoothie – Dairy-Free
Have you ever thought that in order to have a healthy protein shake, you’d have to buy some expensive meal-replacement shake or pre-made powder mix? I know I used to think that too. Now, there’s nothing wrong with pre-made protein mixes if they contain healthy ingredients, but you can easily make your own…
How to Make Bone Broth
I’ll just go ahead and say it. Bone broth used to scare me. Sounds silly, I know, but I had been reading Nourishing Traditions, my favorite cookbook, for a long time before I was brave enough to start incorporating it into our family kitchen. Why? I don’t know. I guess bone broth intimidated me. I…