• Chocolate Almond Caramel Slice
  • Just Hurry Up and Be Patient: Tips to Get Through the Weight Loss Process
  • Summer Salad Topping: Parmesan Savory Granola
  • Healthy Food to Eat When Life Gives You Rotten Lemons
  • Chocolate Chunk Graham Cracker Ice Cream
  • Gluten-Free Mother's Day Recipe EBook

healthy eating habits

The Two Foods I Will Always Buy at the Farmer’s Market

The Two Foods I Will Always Buy at the Farmer’s Market

When I walk through my farmer’s market in the winter months it’s hard to get excited by stocky carrots, thick cabbage and weary apples. Maybe it’s in part because these produce are nearly non-perishable that they seem less desirable – I don’t know, but there is something about the short, fragile, unpredictable life of a [...]

Read More

Healthy Eating to Lose Weight and Discovering Eating Habits Can Change

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein The first time I ever heard this quote was during a movie. The movie was bad, but I fell in love with Einstein’s quote. It made so much sense to me! This famous quote is so true, especially in weight [...]

Read More

Mahalo, Papaya

I get teased in the office for eating too much fruit.  Yes, organic hippie-dippie natural food company Attune Foods’ employees tease me for eating too much fruit.  I guess it’s because I eat a lot of fruit.  Annelies was on a New Year’s resolution mission to eat four pieces of fruit a day.  I often [...]

Read More

Early Eating Habits: Do You Remember Your First Time?

Early Eating Habits: Do You Remember Your First Time?

Do you remember the first time you ate junk food?   I have foggy memories of eating Arrowroot cookies (a gentler junk food but let’s be honest) and I recall pizza parties around age 6 but I can’t really recall “The First Time”.  I know when it was for Finn (my 9 month old). He ate [...]

Read More

Can Cheating Help Reinforce Healthy Eating?

Can Cheating Help Reinforce Healthy Eating?

I know I’m not the only one whose children’s grandparents thwart the real food system with offers of candy, ice cream, chips, hot dogs, fast food restaurants, and chocolate milk. It seems that one of the most common conversations about food that I enter into starts with, “So how do you handle family members who [...]

Read More