A few weeks back I introduced my friend and favorite running partner (we did ten miles today by the way) Casey to my amazingly simple and clean pizza recipe! Since that introduction, she has taken it home, served them for friends, family, and for her kids. Recently, she sent me some pictures of her older…
Category: eating clean
Clean Kid-Friendly Cooking!
This weekend has been ground zero of clean eating in my house! With nearly non-stop snow, we’ve had to really have some fun indoors and the kitchen is a great place to do it! In my house cooking is a family affair and we had some big things we wanted to make! My kiddos are…
Party Pleaser
I am a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan and this weekend they are playing for the NFC Championship. I am going to a friend’s house and want to bring something clean but classic football Sunday! I have a new take on an old classic that will delight even the biggest guys in the group! Mexican…
My Lunch Today!
Turkey Panini’s with Sun-Dried Tomatoes I love a good ol’ fashioned sandwich, and today I had a craving for sun dried tomatoes and turkey so I decided to make this favorite of mine from Clean Eating Magazine. This recipe make for a delicious, clean quick-fix meal. If you are like me and don’t have a…
Clean Comfort Food
One of the great things about cooking and eating clean is all the things you can start to make when you let your creative juices flow. It started snowing outside again and the bitter cold weather made me long for a warm, comfort food kind of meal. I decided to throw together a breakfast casserole…
Peanut Butter and Jelly Time! The Clean Version!
Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches are a favorite in my house…when you are eating on the run and need protein, healthy fats, and carbohydrates this is the PERFECT and DELICIOUS way to do it for you and your hungry kiddos! This is the version I serve up to my girls. Sometimes, I’ll add a little…
Spotlight Super food: Quinoa!
One of my favorite foods in the whole grains family is Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah). I use it in lots of recipes because not only is it high in protein, fiber, and amino acids (vegans pay attention) but it’s quite delicious as well! As a rice or noodle substitute and even as a substitute for oatmeal…
Transforming your body…
One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV I am asked questions all the time. Friends, family, emails from blog readers, and at the gym when I train. I was even stopped by an elderly woman in the locker room at a gym yesterday about arm workouts when we were in…
Table for One!
Okay, so at the sake of totally calling myself out, even when I cook for my family I am also a single mom and regularly cook single meals for myself as well. The problem is, I don’t want a ton of leftovers in my fridge and I never want to throw anything away or waste…
Muscle Vs. Fat
Do you obsess over a number on the scale? Do you think that getting to a certain point on the scale will make you happy? The numbers game we play with ourselves is something I encourage people to move away from… if you want to follow a number, get your body fat percentage measured and…
Leaving a Path 