Tag: real food

DIY Natural Food Coloring

DIY Natural Food Coloring

|DIY Natural Food Coloring| My life is basically categorized by two segments; pre-healthy and now. My pre-healthy life included a lot of fun things, artificially neon fun things. I especially loved Pinterest’s (do you follow me on Pinterest??? If not you should!) trendy food and […]

5 Ingredient (Whole30) Sausage Gravy

5 Ingredient (Whole30) Sausage Gravy

I almost feel bad about just how easy this sausage gravy recipe is.  I mean can I call it a recipe with so few ingredients?? Yes. I suppose I can. In fact lately almost all of my recipes have had very few ingredients and I […]

Our Whole 30 Journey: The Beginning

Our Whole 30 Journey: The Beginning

I’ve had quite a few people ask what a Whole 30 is and why we are doing it.  I very briefly described it in this Facebook post but I thought I’d go into more detail here. What is a Whole 30? In the very basic […]

Healthy Candy Corn Jello

Healthy Candy Corn Jello

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that like candy corn and those that don’t. I’m definitely one that does not like actual candy corn. If you are a person who does like it (what is wrong with you???)  please enlighten me, what […]

Green Tomato Pie

Green Tomato Pie

Have you ever had Green Tomato Pie?? I had never had green tomato anything until this year. But this year we grew a large garden and at the end of the season we had quite a few small green tomatoes that wouldn’t be turning. So […]

Salted Peanut Butter Apple Granola (Paleo Friendly, Grain Free, Vegan)

Salted Peanut Butter Apple Granola (Paleo Friendly, Grain Free, Vegan)

Hi, my name is Ashley and I’m a recovering cereal addict. Phew! That feels better already. But no, really. I seriously LOVED cereal in my pre-healthy days. I would eat it three times a day some days.  I’d eat if for breakfast or dessert.  Lunch, […]

Sourdough Fish and Chips

Sourdough Fish and Chips

If you would have asked a younger me to eat fish and chips I would have said no-way Jose.  Unless of course you were talking about the kind that came from a box in the freezer. You know, the kind that sort of resembles fish […]

CSA’s: The What, Why, and Value

CSA’s: The What, Why, and Value

Real food is important to our family.  Real food with high quality is even more important. We buy strictly organic and only stuff with ingredients that I can pronounce. But what about that produce labeled as “organic” at the local grocery store? Is it reeeallly […]

Vitamin D and The Flu- A Natural Remedy

Vitamin D and The Flu- A Natural Remedy

The dreaded Flu Season. Ah. The time of the year when everyone becomes paranoid about germs.  The days when people hole themselves up and greet visitors with a hefty spray of Lysol. They encourage others to stay home. And of course get vaccinated. But! What […]

4 Basic Skills To Master (To Make Cooking From Scratch Easier)

4 Basic Skills To Master (To Make Cooking From Scratch Easier)

My mom, bless her heart, was not a from scratch cook.  We had a lot of boxed or frozen meals. Thankfully not too many TV dinners but she definitely didn’t make gravies or stocks or bread from scratch. please note there may be affiliate links, […]