Delicious Maple Steak with Apple, Walnut, and Blue Cheese Salad Confession: When I was a kid I hated steak. I had one bad experience with dry, chewy steak and I swore it off forever. Fortunately, as a young adult, I...
Low carb lettuce wraps are a versatile way to have a delicious low-carb, keto-friendly dinner the whole family will love. Low Carb Lettuce Wrap Recipes My family loves tacos, but after months and months of Taco Tuesday, we got a...
Low Carb Sausage Stuffed Zucchini Recipe If you’re on a low carb or keto diet you probably already know that zucchini is included in many low carb or keto recipes. With only 6 grams of carbs per medium zucchini it’s...
Healthy Cherry Vanilla Smoothie Recipe My family loves fruit smoothies. Although there is an endless number of smoothies we can make from various frozen and fresh fruit, we tend to stick to berries, peaches, and bananas for the most part....
Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe This cake is trouble, you guys. I want to make it all the time. I want to eat it all the time. I want you to try it so you can join me. This flourless...
Easy Pumpkin Curry With Coconut Rice Recipe I have a serious fondness for curry dishes. The warmth and the variety of the flavors in both curry powder and garam masala make me very happy. Though I never ate Indian cuisine...
Tomato and Avocado Salad – A Simple Summer Recipe Sometimes I get a little overzealous in the summer when produce is at its peak. Sometimes, when the beautiful colors of nature are at their most enticing, I purchase a few...
Easy Homemade Pie Crust Made With Butter We all need a simple homemade pie crust recipe in our recipe box, don’t we? I don’t know why, but people seem intimidated by the thought of making a pie crust from scratch. It’s...
What To Make With Leftover Mashed Potatoes – An Easy Potato Puff Recipe Over the years my family has eaten a lot of potatoes. Mostly because we like them and they are filling. Partly because potatoes – even organic ones...
Slow Cooker Garlic Butter Chicken with Cream Cheese Sauce Garlic butter chicken. Cream Cheese Sauce. Oh my. Where do I even begin? I guess I should tell you first about the tender, moist chicken. But, you just have to...
Simple Sweet Pepper Frittata Recipe If you’re looking for a simple weeknight meal that’s easy on the grocery budget, put this Sweet Pepper Frittata recipe on your go-to list! This recipe takes just a few minutes to prep and feeds...
Easy Chicken Quesadillas Recipe – A Frugal Family Dinner Chicken quesadillas are an easy weeknight dinner favorite at my house. They take no time at all to make and we always have leftovers for the lunch the next day. The...
Quick and Easy Weeknight Pineapple and Shrimp Stir Fry Recipe First of all, this one was a kid-pleaser. Second of all, it was quick and easy to make on a weeknight. Does anything else matter? Oh. Okay. I’ll tell you...
Healthy Buttermilk Pancakes Recipe Fluffy. Sweet. Buttery. Comfort. Yes, please. I grew up eating pancakes made from a packet mix. I could make ’em myself by the time I was 10 and did so most Saturday mornings. I had no...
Easy Quinoa and Pecan Casserole Hello, comfort food! It’s nice to eat ya. Quinoa has long been one of my favorite side dishes, but recently I’ve been looking for more ways to make it a main dish. We certainly aren’t...
Pork Chops and Fried Apples – A Paleo Fall Favorite One of my favorite things about fall is the abundance cinnamon-y food. On a cool fall evening there’s nothing nicer than the scent of a warm, home cooked meal wafting...
Vegetable and Lentil Soup Recipe If you’re looking a bowl of warm comfort, you’ve come to the right place! I threw together some veggies, lentils, and homemade bone broth in the slow cooker last weekend and made my taste buds...
Homemade Maple Whipped Cream Recipe What makes coffee and hot chocolate a little more special? Pies and puddings much more delectable? Pancakes and waffles downright decadent? Why it’s my homemade maple whipped cream! This creamy taste-of-heaven is super easy to...
Delicious Wheat Free Desserts When I began my real food journey, I vowed that no matter what I did differently to achieve health, I would NEVER cut wheat and sugar from my diet. Of course, I had no idea that...
Coconut Lime Shrimp Recipe Have you tasted summer? I have. It tastes like coconut lime shrimp and it is delicious! I found skewered shrimp on sale and couldn’t pass it up, but I didn’t have a skewered shrimp recipe handy....
Eggplant Mini Pizzas Recipe Although my family follows a traditional, Weston A. Price diet at home, we often eat grain free. Properly preparing grains takes a lot of time and none of us feels best when we consume too much...
How to Make Kombucha Taste Better So, you decided to try kombucha because you’re intrigued by the health benefits. You grab a bottle of GT’s Gingerade or, my favorite, GT’s Guava Goddess, and you decide it’s not half bad. It’s a...
Easy Honey Balsamic Roasted Vegetables Raise your hand if honey balsamic roasted vegetables sounds yummy. Now, raise your hand if you have time to babysit a balsamic glaze on the stove on a random weeknight. Yeah. Me neither. That’s why...
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Healthy chocolate peanut butter fudge? Is that possible? Yes, my friends. It’s not only possible, it’s super easy and melt-in-your-mouth decadent. Who Doesn’t Love Chocolate and Peanut Butter? Chocolate and peanut butter are a classic...
Simple Homemade Soaked Crackers Recipe After our family stopped eating conventionally prepared grains and started eating our grains soaked, soured, or sprouted, I started experimenting with and tweaking various recipes for our favorite grain products. These days I mostly bake...
Simple and Delicious Scrambled Eggs with Avocado I admit that eating a better breakfast was difficult for me when I first began my real food journey. I was used to eating carb-laden breakfast foods just to get something down my...
How to Make Soaked Wheat Tortillas When I began my real food journey, one of the things that troubled me most was how I would replace conventional, store-bought wheat products such as tortillas. Sourdough bread, soaked waffles, and soaked pancakes...
Peppers, Onions, and Mushrooms – An Easy Vegetable Side Dish Recipe Peppers, onions and mushrooms, oh my! My absolute favorite vegetable side dish (Oh, heck, I could make this a main dish!) is peppers, onions and mushrooms sauteed together in...
Easy, Tender Cube Steak Recipe Cube steaks are one of the most frugal cuts of beef. They make a wonderful dinner for a family on a budget. They are versatile and can be grilled, baked, or pan fried with ease....
