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You eat healthy, you exercise, but you have a few pounds that you just can’t seem to get rid of. No matter how hard you work (or don’t work) those last few pounds (or those first few pounds to kick-start a healthier you) just won’t …
Cauliflower seems to be the “it” vegetable of the year! For most of my life, cauliflower was the leftover vegetable on a veggie tray, the soggy and lifeless when boiled, or just ignored on the grocery store shelves. Recently Kale and Heirloom Vegetables and Spinach and …
Thick, Creamy and Filling Soups are exactly what we crave on cold days. The way that this snowy winter has been, it seems all we want are delicious soups. If we indulge in every creamy soup craving, one might think that all we are going to fit in by spring are our sweatpants! I love my sweatpants as much as the next person (I’m writing this post in my sweats right now), but luckily for all of us – creamy and delicious soups do not need to ruin our wardrobe!
Let the sweatpants be a choice and not a requirement. This soup is creamy and filling – but just happens to have the creaminess provided through the use of cauliflower. 2014 seems to be the “Year of Cauliflower”. And I say, why not!? Cauliflower, its your turn to be the “it” vegetable, and why not; we are discovering your amazing variety of uses!
Eating Clean in 2014 seems to be all the rage! I am currently mid-week of a Clean Eating Challenge, and what I am realizing is that (besides my baking) we pretty much do already “Eat Clean” around here! True Clean eating would involve absolutely no …
Every year, when we turn the Calendar to January it seems that everyone makes a pretty serious effort to make healthier choices! Unfortunately, but the time we make it to February many of us fall back into our old habits. I am going to state …
During the cooler months when we are craving rich delicious casseroles, our wardrobes often suffer. Eating rich and delicious foods shouldn’t always mean that you need to fill your diet with tons of fat and calories which make you need to buy new clothes!
Very often, we decide to do some veggie-heavy-eating around here. Normally we spend much of our summers eating tons of fresh fruits & veggies. Because of a little thing called Getting Married we didn’t join a Co-Op this year. We really missed all of the fresh vegetables which were part of those weekly pick-ups! By no means could we Continue reading Mushroom and Cauliflower Casserole