Modern Foraging For The Everyday Home Chief
Whether you choose to forage in the forest, your own garden or the local grocery store, I’m here to help you make the most of what nature has to offer. Indulgent, healthy and beautiful food doesn’t have to be difficult! Come with me on a journey of self discovery to find your inner home chief!
Quick DIY Garden Boxes
We decided to build our own garden boxes on our back patio! It’s beautiful, conveniently located outside the door of my kitchen and took only a few hours to build.
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Family Garden Reimagined
We decided we wanted to redesign the garden we created last year. We learned a lot of lessons from last years setup and wanted to be more thoughtful this time around. These improvements will help any home garden be more successful!
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Prep Your Garden for Spring
Right now, I know Spring seems really far away… Hold on! Spring is almost here and soon change and new life will be all around us! Bringing hope and the promise of new beginnings!
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Food From Other Cultures
We live in a world of inspiration available at our fingertips from across the globe! A country’s food tells you a lot about their culture. Expand your horizons not only through tastes but also in the history behind these other cultures.
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Stepping Out of Your Food Comfort Zone
Stepping out of your food comfort zone is as easy as grabbing an interesting looking item you’ve never tried before and figuring out what to do with it later. Pinterest has a wide variety of diverse inspiration as well! Get out there and get excited about food again!
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Diets vs Lifestyles
Typically a diet is a temporary and often extreme change in the way you eat, in an attempt to reach a specific goal or weight. However, when choosing a new eating lifestyle you are committing to a long term mindset shift surrounding the food you let into your life. The biggest question out there is…
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Choosing Healthy Snacks
I personally don’t believe that depriving yourself of all of your favorite things is helpful or sustainable. Which means that throughout the rest of the day your snack choices need to be wiser.
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Take Lunch To The Next Level
I get really bored of the same old sandwich or microwave burrito day in and day out… If you are like me and are looking to level up your lunch experience, check out my favorites for some inspiration!
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A Healthy Start To Your Day
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Maybe it’s less about when you eat but what you eat. Make sure whatever you put into your body in the morning is nutritious fuel for the rest of your day!
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Should You Be Counting Calories?
Everything you eat has calories, that’s kind of the point. Your body needs calories for fuel! Calories are not the enemy! However, if you are eating more calories than your body can use or too many empty calories then yes you will likely gain weight. These are the reasons I no longer count calories.
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Make Healthy, Easy!
It is the time of year where we all rededicate ourselves to eating healthier! Take these steps to help you make it easier to incorporate healthy choices into your everyday life.
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Creating A Family Garden
Turning unusable space on the side of our house in a flourishing garden! Easy, cheap and delicious!
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No Waste Pumpkin Carving
We attempted a no waste Halloween! The main part of the pumpkin is of course used as the Halloween jack-O-lantern. The carved out chunks that make the faces were happily gobbled up by our dogs as an afternoon treat. The inside pumpkin leftovers were up to me!
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Air Fryer Pumpkin Seeds
Every year I try some new way of making pumpkin seeds. I like to experiment with different flavors and prep methods but I have always baked them in the oven. Each time they turn out fine but nothing amazing enough to write about… Until this year!
Keep readingThe Emotional Impact of Food
How does the food we eat effect our happiness? On the surface, the food we eat can physically make us feel good or gross, but I have found there is more of a link to happiness through food than just how our stomach takes it. The food we choose has a huge emotional impact. Food…
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The Many Benefits of Sage
Sage is an amazing and diverse tool gifted to us by nature herself! Again, please be careful to only buy from a verified tribal source or grow your own! We must take steps to ensure we are helping to preserve this sacred plant. Whether you use it to aid your health, spice up your dinner…
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Pre-Baby Meal Prepping
Here are the freezer meals I prepared before my daughter was born! It was so convenient to not have to worry about all that goes into creating a meal or running to the store for missing ingredients while trying to figure out this new tiny human I had just brought into the world.
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