animal animal Comfy Belly | healthy recipes & treats {gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, allergy-friendly, Paleo, SCD/GAPS} Just Enjoy Food 20 Kitchen Hacks: The Natural Mama's Guide to Saving Time in the Kitchen - Mama Natural One of the biggest questions I get – besides how to save money buying real food – is how to save time preparing it. Well, here’s another comprehensive and creative post from Mindy Wood! Mindy writes about simple living over at PurposefullySimple.com, and you can also catch her on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.Enjoy! Enter Mindy Home cooked meals are much healthier than packaged alternatives, right? 1. Creating a shopping list (and remembering to bring it to the store!) 2. We all know that meal planning is helpful to save money and time in the kitchen but it’s hard to find time every week to create one. Print and glue all of your favorite go-to recipes on magnets. 3. I must confess, I’m guilty of not doing this. 4. Gotta love those slow-cookers! 5. You’re already making a meal anyway, right? 6. While you’re at it, why not make another batch and freeze it for a dinner next week? 7. Choose recipes that have 6 ingredients or less, or adapt them to have fewer ingredients. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Too Many Jars in My Kitchen! | Regaining health through traditional foods With Food + Love Lavender Lemonade Against All Grain Spring is in full bloom here in California. Our hills are brown, which is always terribly backwards, but the flowers and trees are lush and boast vibrant leaves and flower buds. My herb garden started to perk back up about a month ago and I was able to pick my first few leaves for a salad dressing just yesterday. We don’t have the largest backyard so my husband found an idea on Pinterest last Mother’s Day and built me this sweet little fence herb garden. We celebrated my good friend’s birthday a couple of weeks back, and her affinity with lavender helped inspire the menu. The lovely pink tint comes from the infusing the lavender leaves in hot water, but if you do not like lavender or simply cannot locate it, you may chose to use thyme, rosemary, or possibly another edible flower.
recipes Two recipes actually got posted in one week?! Whaaaat? That might be a record for me. But these were just too good to not share as soon as I possibly could. Not sure what my deal is this week but I have been on this (way more than normal) crazy baking and cooking streak. These strawberry cheesecake bites might just be my favorite dessert made to date! These might seem complicated because of all the steps but I promise they are so easy to make. What you will need for the crust: 2 cups of almonds1 cup of pitted dates1/2 cup of shredded unsweetened coconut Juice from 1/2 of a lemon What you will need for the filling: 3 cups of raw cashews3/4 cup of lemon juice (fresh is best)1/2 cup of honey3/4 cup of coconut oil1tbs of vanilla* Filling adapted from here. What you will need for the topping: 8-9 medium to large strawberries1/4 cup of coconut oil 1 tbs honey Directions: Place all of the ingredients for the crust in a food processor. If you make these please come back and let me know what you think!