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8 Common Diet Mistakes That You May Be Making
Even with your best intentions of eating healthy, you may be making diet mistakes without even knowing it. What diet mistakes are you making with your "healthy" eating? Regardless of the diet or eating pattern you follow, there are some diet mistakes that can happen....
16 Ways to Stay Healthy All Year Round
Looking for ways to stay healthy this year? While January is traditionally the month of "resolutions" and getting healthy, we want to help you embrace wellness and being healthy year round. Staying healthy can be a challenge sometimes, but we have some easy steps to...
How to Diet: Stop the Cycle and Make this your Last Diet Ever
“You didn’t fail the diet, but the diet failed you.” The holidays are behind us and it's the time that the "New Year" mentality starts to take hold. You feel like you "blew it" and derailed from the diet. You couldn't stick to [insert diet here] through the holidays...
Instapot Recipes for Beginners and Busy People To Make Dinner a Breeze
Its dinnertime and you just got home from work, and you are faced with the 6 pm dinnertime frenzy of how to feed your family quickly and easily. An instapot (short for instant cooking) may not take away all the mealtime stress, but it can hopefully take some of the...
Enjoy This Holiday Season with Diabetic Christmas Treats and Recipes
Worried about how to manage your diabetes while enjoying diabetic Christmas treats? You may be wondering about how to fit Christmas treats into your holidays. The holidays are here, and if you have diabetes, managing your blood sugars may seem like a daunting task....
Healthy DIY Jar Gifts for the Holidays
How would you like to avoid the shopping mall for this Christmas season? Giving unique food gifts this holiday season can be a fun creative outlet. Unique food gifts can range from a secret family recipe to roasted nuts, to a crowd-pleasing seasoning mix. Homemade...
10 Essential Kitchen Tools and Gadgets with Recipes
What essential kitchen tools and gadgets do you need to set up your kitchen or step up your cooking game? I've always been told, "a cook's most valuable tool in the kitchen is their hands." This is 100% correct. Sometimes, even the fanciest kitchen gadget can't...
3 Reasons To Eat More Cranberries and Cranberry Recipes
What are the health benefits of cranberries? When was the last time you tried new cranberry recipes? I love cranberries, especially cranberry sauce (even if you don’t, keep reading and I might be able to convince you to start liking cranberries). I don't eat this...
8 Dietitian Approved Easy Thanksgiving Recipes For Your Holiday Table
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I love hearing about the different traditions that everyone has, as well as all the different dishes that make it to the table. Coming from a Croatian family, we always have a few more traditional Croatian dishes that make...
How to Cook a Delicious Turkey Breast in 5 Steps
How to Cook a Turkey Breast in 5 Steps Have you ever thought about how to cook turkey breast for Thanksgiving? You may feel like cooking a whole turkey is a little daunting! Or maybe you're cooking for a smaller crowd, and don't need to make the full bird. So why not...
8 Diabetes Friendly Holiday Dishes for a Low Carb Thanksgiving
Do I need to eat low carb on Thanksgiving? Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. This means I earn a percentage of any sales made through those links, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate links are identified with an asterisk (*). Is a low carb Thanksgiving...
Road Trip Food Ideas and Tips for Eating Outside the Home
Getting ready for your next road trip and feeling overwhelmed with road trip food ideas? When the holidays have you on the road and on the run, nourishing yourself and your family can sometimes get left behind, Kevin McAllister style. We understand how stressful it...