Why You Should Learn to Love Your Symptoms
What?! I should love my symptoms? Are you reading this because the title sounds crazy? Are you wondering if I have lost my mind? Or maybe this is a post about being grateful for what you have. Although it is always beneficial to be grateful for what you have, no! I...
Homeopathy: What It Is and How it Changed my Life
Although many people have grabbed a tube of homeopathic remedies from their local vitamin store, Sprouts, or Whole Foods, often, they don't really know what they are taking, nor why it works. My first experience with homeopathy was in high school with the little...
Blueberry Muffins (Gluten-free, Grain-free, No Refined Sugar)
These gluten-free blueberry muffins are delicious and come together in just a few minutes! They also have no refined sugar! For these blueberry muffins, I generally use small, wild, dried blueberries that I rehydrate in blueberry juice. Although I don't let my kids...
Perfect Instant Pot Black Beans (Soaked)
Perfect Instant Pot black beans are a snap to make with the Instant Pot! These beans are excellent in tacos, on nachos, in a taco bowl, or anywhere else you would use beans. The Instant Pot can make beans from dry to done in about an hour! I still like to soak my...
Buckwheat Dutch Baby (Gluten-free)
This Buckwheat Dutch Baby is gluten-free and nutritious! It is one of the most simple and easy ways to have a hot breakfast ready quickly as well. It doesn't puff and curl in quite the same way as it's gluten containing brethren, but it does not disappoint in the...
Food Sensitivity Testing and Elimination Diets: What You Need to Know
If you hav been reading this series, you may realized that many of your symptoms are caused or exacerbated by food sensitivities. Now you just need to figure out WHICH foods are causing you problems! How do you do it? Well, there are a few ways to go about this. As...
Food Sensitivities and Your Immune System: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Symptoms!
This is the third post in my series about Food Sensitivities. Many of us have dismissed our symptoms thinking things like, "I can handle a little bloating for some bread" or "If I eat this cheese, I think it will make me break out a bit, but it's ok." Or maybe, you...
How to Avoid Getting Food Sensitivities
Are you wondering if developing food sensitivities is inevitable? Even though you may have noticed many of your friends and family members explaining how they can't eat this or that anymore, it isn't inevitable. Food sensitivities are now extremely common in our...
Food Sensitivities, Food Allergies, and Food Intolerance: What’s the difference?
If you have ever wondered what the difference is between food sensitivity, a food intolerance, and a food allergy, this post is for you! Learning if you have a food sensitivity, a food intolerance, or a food allergy is certainly interesting information, but more...
Probiotic Chocolate Bars
These chocolate bars are my way of getting spore-based probiotics into the kids regularly since they can't swallow capsules yet. I use my all time favorite probiotic, MegaSpore, for these chocolate bars for a few reasons: It is spore based so it actually alters the...