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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, […]
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Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cookies
If you’re like me, you haven’t finished your Christmas baking yet! It’s not too late to make some delicious and healthful gingerbread men with your kids or grandkids. Below is my own recipe, which I adapted from one in Real Simple. Good Stuff: Blackstrap Molasses Organic, unsulphured, blackstrap molasses is the healthiest molasses, which is […]
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Squash (or Pumpkin) Cranberry Muffins
If you’re a regular reader, you know I dabble with a Paleo diet. While I am not a big meat eater, I do like Paleo baking recipes because they don’t include wheat flour or other grains, so they are good for many of my clients who are avoiding these ingredients. Paleo recipes also don’t include […]
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Zucchini Oatmeal Chip Cookies with Sprouted Flour
My CSA delivered another boatload of zucchini this week, so I had to come up with a way to get my kids to eat them. Here’s what did the trick, and it included no white sugar and some sprouted flour to boot! This recipe will make a bunch of cookies (50ish). I took half the […]
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Chicken Pot Pie with Sprouted Flour—and a Vegan Variation
My son and his wife just added another grandson to our family (bringing the total to 4, with nary a girl in sight!). I wanted to cook something for their little family the day they brought baby Lincoln home, so I looked for something comforting and filling that I could easily transport and that would […]
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Spring Baking with Children & Theo’s Classic Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
One of my favorite parts of being a grandmother is baking with my grandsons. Children love to cook, and I love to see their faces when they can share the food that they have made with others—and especially when that food is cookies! Even better is when the cookies are nutritious. (I can never cook […]
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Rediscovering Carob
-By Suzanne (“Nana”) Ah, the joys of chocolate. I indulge more frequently now that chocolate (the dark kind, of course) has risen to health-food status. When I first discovered healthy eating (more than 35 years ago), chocolate was a major no-no, and carob was the chosen food for baking desserts. While carob and chocolate have […]
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Sprouted Carrot Cake with Lemon Maple Icing
The trick to this cake is tons and tons of cream cheese icing. Sprouted flour can be a bit dry, and the thick and tart icing is the perfect pairing. It is even better when topped with a large scoop of homemade ice cream!
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Essential Eating in Action
I enjoy the process of these new health kicks, but often find my motivation waning after a week or so and want to just eat whatever! Generally, I’m really strict for a time and then slowly come to a place of moderation, incorporating some important aspects of the new diet and abandoning those aspects that feel too restrictive.
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Muffins Without the Muffin Top
Over my many years of dietary permutations, I discovered through experimentation that bread and flour products were compromising my health and my waistline, especially once I reached middle age. So imagine my excitement when—a few years ago—I discovered a new food movement called Essential Eating.