Category: General
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New Babies and Chocolate Banana Bread
Chocolate banana bread Welcome to the world little Larson Alexander Glenn! I just had my 3rd sweet little baby and he’s adorable. I have been enjoying more of a break from cooking in the week since his birth, but since I’m nursing I have been HUNGRY. Like, really really hungry. And oddly after having a […]
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Meal Plan Menu Week of September 7-13, 2014
Meal Plan Menu Sept 7-13 I had to post this particular meal plan menu, because it’s a celebration of something I love: traditional Italian tomato sauce! I didn’t always love tomato sauce, but when I started making it myself (and especially when my Italian husband started to make it in large batches) I really began […]
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Eat Happy Book Sneak Peak Recipe: Homemade Granola
Homemade Granola My new book (available this Fall), Eat Happy: Transform Your Health with Food You Love features my all-time favorite recipes, including this homemade granola. Starting your day with a delicious and nutrient-dense meal is so do-able with this homemade granola! It takes just 10 minutes to toss together the ingredients, 15-20 minutes […]
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Pizza vs. Real Food, Round 1
Summer veggies saute Let me set the stage: it’s 4pm and I”m madly rushing to finish chapters on the manuscript of my first book, which I’m so excited about. If I get it done in the next week I’ll have an awesome opportunity to present and advertise my book at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition Conference […]
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Fresh Blueberry Cobbler with Cornmeal Crust
Blueberry Cobbler with Cornmeal Crust What better way to celebrate the weekend and the end of blueberry season than with this Fresh Blueberry Cobbler with Cornmeal Crust? It’s really delicious, and tastes like summer. I took the girls blueberry picking a couple of weeks ago and it was so fun. It was the most hands-off […]
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Meal Plan Menu for Week of August 10, 2014
Eat Happy Meal Plan Menu and Shopping List Week of Aug 10, 2014 When I don’t follow my meal plan menus, I’m as lost as anyone else when it comes to dinner. I end up making the same old thing, deciding last-minute, and ending up with something less tasty after a more stressful process. Not […]
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Sneak Peak: Meal Plan Menu for Week of Aug 3, 2014
This Eat Happy Meal Plan menu can transform your relationship with dinner, if you let it! This is the meal plan menu for next week, August 3-9th. Can you believe it’s August already! This summertime menu highlights summer produce and makes cooking times as minimal as possible. No one wants to slave over the stove when […]
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The Organic Debate: Organic Produce is Higher in Antioxidants
Another fascinating study has been published, revealing that organic produce is higher in antioxidants than conventional produce. A large meta-analysis of 340 peer-reviewed international studies concluded that organic foods have several health advantages. Among them, that organics are higher in antioxidants, have fewer pesticide residues, and are lower in toxic metal content than conventional counterparts. I’ve been reading […]
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Chocolate Oat Muffins
Chocolate Oat Muffins How about a weekend treat with these Chocolate Oat Muffins for breakfast? They’re verrry chocolatey! But, not too sweet – chocolate cake this is not. Rather these muffins are a little more dense, tangy, and filling. What I love most about these muffins is that they’re a treat, but a treat that […]
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Chia Breakfast Pudding with Purple Rice
Chia and Purple Rice Breakfast Pudding with Berries I am very excited to share this Chia Breakfast Pudding with Purple Rice recipe, because it really helped me break my breakfast rut and is perfect for summer. It takes so little active time to prepare at night, then no time at all in the morning to […]