In March I was inspired by my sponsors at Finish Power and Free Alliance of Moms to “clean it forward” by making a commitment to grow a healthier me through clean living. I am now a few months into my goals and wanted to share a final update on my progress and what I have […]
Salads
Raspberry Salad and Creamy Raspberry Dressing with Organic Girl
Healthy eating and healthy living is a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately. I haven’t exactly been at my healthiest in the past year or two, but I really want that to change. Between my diet, lack of fitness due to time constraints and a bad car accident, mountains of stress, […]
Cooking with Shiloh Farms: Tropical Quinoa Salad
I recently received a wide variety of Shiloh Farms products to test out and review. So far, I have tried 2 different recipes with the ingredients from Shiloh Farms. My husband and I recently traveled to Hawaii for our 20th anniversary. The tropical flavors I savored there were the inspiration for both recipes. I found […]
Bacon and Feta Cheese Salad
Bacon and Feta Cheese Salad As I get older I notice my taste buds changing. For example, when I was a kid I hated salad! I have grown to enjoy salad more and more, the older I get. I can actually say that salad is one of my favorite dishes to order at certain restaurants. […]
Meals In a Pinch With Lean Cuisine & Side of Mandarin Broccoli Salad #FrozenFavorites
Meals In a Pinch with Lean Cuisine & a Side of Mandarin Broccoli Salad Between soccer practice, gymnastics, scouts, work and all of the many errands and chores a mother encounters, coming up with quick and healthy meals can be a bit of a challenge. I know that I definitely get stuck in a […]
Five Dinners In One Day: Heat ‘N Eat
Five Dinners In One Day: Heat ‘N Eat Back in July I told everyone that I was planning to make five dinners in one day so my family could heat ‘n eat them while I was at BlogHer. I am not always this organized of a wife and mother, but I thought it would be […]
Paula Deen Corn Salad
Paula Deen Corn Salad Looking for a fresh new salad to serve as a side dish? We tried this delicious Corn Salad, adapted from a Paula Deen recipe. I personally love corn in just about anything – okay, not quite, but I do love me some corn! I especially love corn in my salsa, […]
American Flag Fruit Kebabs
American Flag Fruit Kebabs Serving fruit at your 4th of July barbecue? Create and American Flag Fruit Tray by sticking cut up bananas and strawberries with the tops cut off, and blueberries on some skewers. Simple cut your strawberries and bananas into similar sizes and alternate them on a skewer. Then place blueberries onto some […]
Low Calorie Chicken Salad
Low Calorie Chicken Salad I LOVE Chicken Salad, and think it is such an easy thing to fix for lunch, that is super tasty. Unfortunately, because of all of the mayonnaise in chicken salad, I don’t have it very often. This is quite disappointing for me too, because I have a heck of a […]
Thai Brown Rice Salad
Thai Brown Rice Salad We are getting to the middle of Summer, and all of it’s heat. When it’s hot outside, I don’t like to eat really heavy, so I am all about finding and creating new and tasty salads. After some thought and collaborating, I came up with this Thai Brown Rice Salad, which […]