In my ongoing mission to help you stop fearing and blaming food for everything, we have to spend a moment talking about optimizing your digestive function. Healthy digestive function is critical because it determines how well your body can digest AND absorb nutrients. It requires that every step of digestion is running smoothly and that…
There’s nothing quite like homemade spicy marinara sauce. It’s fair to say that I’m a pasta sauce snob because I grew up with two grandmothers who both made marinara fresh every week. Both were fantastic home cooks having learned the ropes of the kitchen from their Italian mothers who immigrated to the United States. Yes……
My first gluten free Italian panini was life-changing! Tucked away on a side street of Florence, Italy, we discovered a quaint gluten free bakery. Inside, we were surrounded with tantalizing pastries, pizza, and paninis that looked just as good as they tasted. I spent a good bit of time picking the one gluten free Italian panini for lunch. As…
It’s time to stop the pervasive and often incorrect notion that heartburn means that you have too much stomach acid. What’s more common is having low stomach acid! And though it might surprise you — the symptoms of both high and low stomach acid are virtually identical. Big pharma would love for you to think…
Cindy woke up feeling as if her brain was floating in a swamp. The past few days had been rough with lots of digestive issues and brain fog. Not to mention, she was moody as heck. Actually, moody was an understatement. Cindy’s husband would describe her mood as highly variable. One moment she seemed completely…
Run-of-the-mill fruit salads are so old. Why not try making this stone fruit salad recipe that offers a twist of both color and flavor? Think about it… How often do you dive into a pretty pastel-colored fruit salad only to discover that there’s virtually no flavor? Pretty often. The reason is that those fruit salads…
In my opinion, the term “detoxing” is thrown around way too much. (Especially liver detox!) It seems like every other product released into the marketplace is detoxing something. Your skin… Your gut… Your liver… Your blood… Your lymphatic system… The list goes on and on. But one thing has become quite clear to me →…
Why not get your daily protein shake in with a hit of delicious cherries? This recipe is my fun twist to the traditional cherry protein shake that’s great for both hair and skin. What’s the twist? *grin* I won’t say just yet. But I promise you that this odd ingredient gives the shake a really yummy flavor.…
Bland food is the pits. And so are cheap condiments loaded with hidden toxic ingredients that do nothing to turn your food from okay to a WOW. That’s why we tested out different toppings to find the absolute best plant based condiments out there so you can eat without regret! Wait… plant based condiments? Yes. The…
Apparently everyone who’s chronically tired has adrenal fatigue. It’s pretty easy to self-diagnose it thanks to the nearly three million search results for the term on Google. While I certainly believe in adrenal fatigue (and even had it myself back in 2009), most of my clients who swear they have this issue end up with…
