Today is Dr. Suess’ birthday so I got the BRILLIANT and FUN idea to surprise my kids with green eggs and french toast (we try not to eat pork) for dinner. Who doesn’t love breakfast for dinner! Green eggs and additives. I skipped around my kitchen imagining shrieks of glee when the boys walked in to the […]

Sometimes it’s hard to choose to eat healthy.  ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR HUSBAND MAKES WHITE PANCAKES ON SATURDAY MORNING!!!!!  So to feel like I wasn’t totally being deprived I made this french toast.  It doens’t tastes like WHITE PANCAKES but it is yummy and feels like a treat while still keeping my blood sugar stable and my […]

Most of my food is what people would consider “clean”. I consider it nourishing and tasty. I’m not one for eating things I don’t like that are nourishing like liver but I’m also not one for eating foods I like but aren’t nourishing, like Cheetos. Except for sometimes. All the recipes are my own unless […]

A few years ago, Jennifer was a smoker, barely making more than minimum wage despite being college educated, and was more than 50 pounds overweight. But then…. Jennifer quit smoking, lost 50 pounds,  got a master’s degree in counseling and psychology and became a therapist. She recently got married and moved to New York with her […]

Like a lot of you, Friday night I watched Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.   (If you didn’t see it you can watch it online at ABC.)  I very much like his philosophy. It’s simple and doable for everyone.  He also gets points for not being pretentious. I’ll spare you my rambling thoughts about the FDA guidelines […]

Saturday I spent the day at the beach nurturing my latest obsession…kettlebells!  A friend had mentioned she had been reading my blog and wanted to try kettlebells out for herself.  Eager to find someone who wanted to listen to me ramble on about how much fun they are, I offered to help her and her […]

The other day my family and I went into a little gelato shop after visiting our alma mater Westmont College.  Over the past year and a half, I’ve learned to deal with these little occurrences without much grief but for some reason this particular trip was different.  The flavors of gelato lined up in the […]