Healthy recipes & lifestyle tips for busy moms & their families
   
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This year, we experienced a bountiful harvest from our backyard apple tree. We think it’s a Macintosh – at least that’s what the apples taste like to me. When I asked my husband, Paul, what type of tree he planted, he said, “The nursery told me it as a miniature apple tree.” I have to [...]
You may be familiar with Food Network’s Claire Robinson and her show 5 Ingredient Fix on Food Network. She’s just come out with a new book called, what else, 5 Ingredient Fix: Easy, Elegant, and Irresistible Recipes. While it’s not a healthy cookbook per se, I’m intrigued by anything that makes cooking from scratch convenient [...]
Today’s guest post from Holly Clegg is chocked full of healthy Halloween recipe ideas for the whole family and some suggestions to get your kids cooking in the kitchen. Best of all her German Chocolate Cream Cheese Bars are only 2 Weight Watchers POINTS, while the rest of her recipes are 3 or 4 POINTS [...]
Hooray, the canned pumpkin shortage is over according to the Associated Press. So now you have no excuse to indulge in some healthy pumpkin recipes this fall. Pumpkins are high in beta-carotene, an antioxidant, as well as potassium and magnesium. Dieters love pumpkin because it’s high in fiber and perfect to add flavor, moisture and [...]
Today, I’m off to Boulder to meet Holly Clegg, cookbook author and occasional guest poster here at This Mama Cooks! She’s doing several book signings here in Colorado to support her new women’s lifestyle cookbook: Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secret To Sizzle At Any Age. Check out her blog, The Healthy Cooking Blog and [...]
Simply Suppers: Comfort Food You Can Get on the Table in No Time Flat is the latest cookbook from Jennifer Chandler. It is one of the best cookbooks I’ve seen recently for busy moms and families. Thirty of the over 100 easy recipes can be prepared in about 30 minutes. There are 10 leftover chicken [...]
Today’s guest post is from Lisa Cain, Ph.D. who writes about healthy snacks on Snack-Girl.com. She’s a published author, mother of two, and avid healthy snacker. Healthy snacking tips What is the best way to snack healthily? This age old question has been answered by many health experts and nutritionists, but Snack Girl has her [...]
Yes, that’s right. Cook then peel a beet. For years I’ve cooked beets like a carrot or potato, painstakingly peeling the darn things and then roasting them with other vegetables in the oven. However, when I came across Francis Lam’s recipe for roasted beets at Salon.com, I finally saw the light. Now I can easily [...]
At the time I was a charter school founder, I hoped creating the school would provide my community with a place where kids could be mentored by adults, whether it was moms leading a Girl Scouts troop or kids working on Odyssey of the Mind projects with their teachers. When I worked as a Usborne [...]
While I’m at the BlogHer Food conference, Michele at Fit Foodista steps into This Mama’s kitchen to guest post. Today she’s sharing a healthy breakfast recipe that is sure to appeal to kids of all ages. C is for cookie? No, it’s a breakfast food My kids are teenagers. Gone are the days when the [...]
As a expert panel member for the Global Stevia Institute, I’m interested in learning about products that contain stevia like Zevia, a natural diet soda sweetened with stevia and erythritol, a natural sugar alcohol found in fruits and vegetables. The mixed stevia soda sampler six-pack I received contained all the flavors that Zevia makes with [...]
Welcome this month’s healthy food carnival where I feature links to everything from healthy recipes to dieting tips. Remember, if you see a person’s name at the beginning of a listing, it’s probably from an authentic personal blog or a legitimate website. The other links are interesting and of some value, but are from what [...]
It’s been over a year since I first reviewed Healthy Choice All Natural Entrees. My son Nathan still loves heating up one for breakfast (!) or a snack. Yet, not all Healthy Choice meals are equal. I wasn’t crazy about Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers, so when I tried the new Healthy Choice Steaming Entrees at [...]
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