This Week’s Menu

Menu planning tip of the week: Make delicious, healhty whole-grain (even gluten-free!) waffles from scratch with a penny’s worth of grains in your blender! Make up a double or triple batch Saturday morning (or whenever) and freeze the extras for busy weekday morning breakfasts! Who says convenience food can’t be [...]

Menu-Plan-Monday

Menu tip of the week: Consider eating 2 vegetarian meals per week to give your body a chance to “rest” from meat digestion and to save a litte money! We regularly have Wednesdays and Fridays meat-free (in following our Orthodox Christian tradition). Challenge yourself by making a tasty “rice and bean” [...]

Kefir for Kids

Kefir has always been a mainstay in my family; but up until now, the kids usually only had it in smoothies once or twice a week. Since I always have plenty of kefir on hand, I figured I needed to step it up and serve it more often. Again, reading _The Body Ecology Diet_ reminded [...]

3 Ways my Kids Love Seaweed: Nutrient-Dense Snack Solutions

Thanks to Donna Gates’ Body Ecology Diet I have been inspired to use more seaweed in our family’s diet. Without totally repeating Donna’s Chapter on sea vegetables, I will share some quick snacks that have been a huge hit with my picky 3 year old.
From Body Ecology:
“Ocean vegetables are important to restoring your body ecology [...]

Menu Plan Time

Menu Planning Tip of the Week: Once you’ve planned your menu, take inventory of what items need to be “chopped” (i.e., will you need 3 cups of onions to be chopped throughout the week?). Ergo, you chop all of the onions you’ll need at once and place them in a storage device in [...]

Kelp Noodles: Wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, call me a food nerd, but I totally freaked out at New Season’s when I beheld this product: Sea Tangle Noodle Company’s Kelp Noodles.

In short, these noodles are basically carb-free, wheat free, gluten-free, grain-free; they are made entirely of seaweed (I can hear the mockings….go ahead, I deserve it).

Skeptics may be [...]

Menu Plan Monday

This week’s menu has been influenced by Donna Gates’ _The Body Ecology Diet_, which finally arrived through the inter-library loan after several weeks of waiting. Even though we’re following GAPS, I’m interested in incorporating more of the food-combining principles set forth in this book. More on this to come, but suffice to say this is [...]

My Favorite Slow Cooker Recipe: Taco Meat w/ Hidden Veggies

This recipe is adapted from my favorite Slow-Cooker book; Healthy Crockery Cookery by Mabel Hoffman. I discussed this book and outlined some of my favorite recipes back in this post.
Taco Meat w/ Hidden Veggiesserves 6-8
My family eats this like it’s going out of [...]

Steps to Menu Planning

This post is a follow-up to the overwhelming response I received for my Menu Planning Tool. I realized that it wouldn’t hurt to outline my simple steps at Menu Planning for those of you who are interested in getting started.
For those of you who received my documents, [...]