It seems like the minute Halloween ended, the Christmas season began, with the stores in my neighborhood decked out with trees and stockings in their windows, and my inbox full of gift guides!The 2019 Gimme the Good Stuff gift guide is in the works, but first can we talk about the other holiday? The one in November that we all celebrate?Here are some of the ways you can make this year's
Recipes & Healthy Eating
Finding the Good Stuff/Healthy Food at Disney World
For Felix’s tenth birthday, we surprised him with 4-day trip to Disney World with his cousins (who are his favorite people on this planet—he was actually more excited to see them than he was to be at Disney World, if that’s possible!).My husband and I are not theme-park people, but we can appreciate the magic of Disney, and decided that we had one trip in us before the kids were too old to
Healthy Cereal Guide
Overall Best Healthy CerealFood for Life Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Crunchy Cereal packs the most nutritional bang per spoonful. (Read more about this brand under Good Stuff below.)[amazon asin=B000LKTMLM&template=Add To Cart]As a child of the 50’s, I ate cold cereal for breakfast on most mornings. We could help ourselves and my mom was free to do other chores.My father
Baby Food Pouches
Soon after Felix turned one, he finally started enjoying foods other than breast milk.Unfortunately, by this point I was pretty burned out from preparing and then throwing away homemade pureed fruits and veggies that he refused to eat. With Wolfie I was way chiller and basically did baby-led weaning.But back to 2010, when I discovered squeezy fruit/veggie baby food pouches sold
Easy Cleanse for Busy Moms
If you follow me on Instagram, you've probably gotten sick of my stories about my Sakara meals. (Sakara is a plant-based, organic meal-delivery service). They are so delicious and obviously very healthful, that I find myself wanting to snap a picture of every one.I've done a bunch of different versions of Sakara: four-week programs, three-day programs, a ten-day DIY program, and,
The Problem with Organic Frozen Waffles (and an Easy Sprouted Waffle Recipe)
Children seem to move through “food kicks." They'll eat a particular food for a while and then a week later they suddenly stop liking it. Or sometimes they’ll hone in on a particular food and will eat only that.My grandsons Felix and Theo both go through stages where they want only waffles for breakfast, and their parents try to find the healthiest frozen organic waffles on hand for busy
The Healthiest Organic Wine We’ve Found
My mom and I are into wine, whereas my dad and husband are the beer guys. And because we research everything we are into, we of course wanted to find the healthiest organic wine to justify our habit!(During my mom’s research for the healthiest wine, she came across info about a company in California that scours the globe for the very best organic wine--more on them below.) What’s Wrong with
Meep’s Healthy Cranberry Sauce with Maple Syrup & Chia Seeds
Growing up, my mom did most of the cooking in our exceedingly health-conscious kitchen.At Thanksgiving, she delegated a share of the labor--grate this daikon radish, rinse these aduki beans, scrub this large hubbard squash that will serve as our turkey, roll out this cardboard-like pie crust made of sprouted spelt and ghee--but most of the recipes were her own.One exception, and one of my
Thanksgiving Maple Yams Recipe
By Suzanne ("Nana")Thanksgiving is one of my favorites holidays.What better way to spend a day than cooking and eating with loved ones?Full disclosure: I always buy one bottle of expensive French champagne, which makes the day all the more enjoyable!For many years, our Thanksgiving meals did not include turkey. My vegetarian phase during the ‘80s and ‘90s inspired us to create
Essential Nutrients During Pregnancy
All medical experts emphasize that humans, including pregnant and lactating women, are best able to obtain our essential nutrients through our diets.So before even thinking about which prenatal vitamins are the best, women should familiarize themselves with which foods provide the highest levels of the most essential pregnancy nutrients. What Are the Most Essential Pregnancy Nutrients? I’ve
