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Lotsa Green Stuff Salad
If you're feeling like you need a little extra fresh green stuff in your diet these days, this spring-time salad can do the trick! You could skip the ice bath cooling part and serve this warm if you wanted to or just follow the directions to serve it cooled. Either...
Healthy fats are great, but only if you can absorb them!
Healthy fats are an essential part of a whole foods, health-promoting diet. There are two specific fatty acids (LA and ALA) that are so essential that we must get them from our diet. There are many other fatty acids that we can technically synthesize on our own given...
Why is it SO hard to stop eating sugar?
We all KNOW we shouldn’t eat too much sugar. But why does it have to be so hard to stop?? Considering that excess sugar consumption is a key player in developing heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, weight gain, depression, inflammation, and weakening the...
Prepare Your Immune System for Battle
With anxiety increasing about the spread of the coronavirus, I thought now would be a good time to go over a few key nutrients and lifestyle tips necessary for a healthy and robust immune system. Most people who get hit the hardest or, sadly, succumb to the virus have...
Teriyaki Noodle Bowls
Meatball Ingredients: 1 lb ground beef 1 avocado, mashed 1 tsp sea salt 1 tsp garlic powder 1 heaping tbsp fresh minced ginger 3 green onions, sliced 2 tsp minced orange zest Black pepper to taste The Rest of the Bowl Ingredients: ½ large...
5 Common Intermittent Fasting Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
I am often asked what I think about intermittent fasting. I think it can be a great tool for a lot of people to not only lose weight, but also regain energy, clear brain fog, reduce inflammation, ease digestive distress, and increase levels of awesomeness. I've...
Egg Roll in a Bowl
Ingredients 2 tbsp olive or avocado oil or other cooking fat 4 cloves garlic, minced (or 2 tsp ground) 2 tbsp minced fresh ginger (or 2 tsp ground) 6 green onions, white and green parts 1 lb ground pork (or turkey, chicken, or beef) 1 small head cabbage or half each...
Are you counting calories, points, or nutrients?
Did you know that according to Weight Watchers, I could eat 900 cups of grapes and it wouldn't count toward my daily allotment of points but a measly two tablespoons of ghee would use up half my allotted points for the day? Does anyone else find this a little...
Beyond Burger? No thanks.
Trying to avoid meat, especially red meat? Now you can have your burger and eat it too! I'm already cooking up my next blog post about why you have been misinformed about red meat but today I want to focus on the face-palm that is Beyond Burgers. I believe there are...
Mish Mash
First rule of Mish Mash is there are no rules to Mish Mash. You take some of this, and some of that, you cook it, you add some flavor bombs, and you mash it all together. No two Mish Mashes have ever been the same, hence the name "Mish Mash." That's the beauty of it...