I’m stuck. Uninspired. I have pages worth of brainstormed blog ideas, but none of them are lighting a fire right now. I just haven’t been feeling it for the past few weeks. But I need to keep at this because I’ve set a goal: create a blog that has enough…
Last weekend my friend Sara mentioned she and her college-aged daughter were committing to Whole30 for the coming month. I’d seen the book Whole30 and knew it was a healthy eating diet, but was curious about the details. That got me wondering about other real food diets such as Paleo…
Sometimes I play a game called Three Ways Before No Way : prepare a vegetable three different ways before saying, “No way”. If, after trying a vegetable in three different recipes, I go back for seconds on any one of them, the vegetable wins. Carrots, eggplants, and most recently, Brussels…
I have a family history of butter eating. My maternal grandmother served us butter sandwiches. Knowing my Grandma Frisen and her sweet tooth, I’m pretty sure she sprinkled a little sugar on there, too! Butter mint candies were often in her well-stocked candy dish. My grandfather was also a butter…
Armed with a detailed grocery list (organized by department and aisle because I’m that Type A about such things) I confidently steer a shopping cart into the overflowing produce department of my local Mariano’s. I head straight for the organic section. I always have such high hopes of filling my…
My plan was to start this blog to share what I’ve learned about eating real food. I’d love to be able to support others in our mutual quest to eliminate junk food from our plates, pantries, cars and desk drawers. I’ve been learning about and moving toward a real food…
When I was a kid, my grandmother had a bowl of fake, rubbery bunches of grapes, along with their plastic vines and leaves, as a decoration on her coffee table. My sister and I liked to give them a little squeeze when she wasn’t looking. If you would have asked…
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…
