Recipes

No-Bake Peanut Butter Protein Balls

My son asked for an English muffin with peanut butter for breakfast.  He still prefers Jif.  And when it’s a food with straight up PB, like the English muffin or apples and peanut butter, I’ve been letting it slide.  But when there’s peanut butter as an ingredient IN something, like…

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Recipes

Roasted Carrot Hummus

Carrots. Until about two years ago, carrots were on my Do Not Even Bother list of foods.  I just couldn’t get into them. My husband and daughter are fans so I’d steam baby carrots and slap on some butter, salt and brown sugar. And I’d eat two.  They say to…

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Real Food Champions

Real Food Champion: Michael Pollan

Eat food.  Mostly plants.  Not too much. This is Michael Pollan’s mantra. I first saw Michael Pollan’s name when his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma  was front and center on the best seller rack at Barnes and Noble. The title caught my eye, but since I was homeschooling two young children at…

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Real Life

Book Club at Heather’s

We had book club at Heather’s house last night. I met Heather about a year ago at a free wellness talk.  About gracefully surviving menopause. (It seems this is actually possible.) Heather is one of those people who radiates calm.  She teaches yoga, cleans her house with essential oils, eats…

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