Those of you who’ve read my blog for a long time will have noticed that my dessert recipes are few and far between. That’s for the simple reason that, beginning several years ago, our family made a conscious effort to cut down on the amount of sugar in our diets. This includes making healthier desserts…. [read more]
How to Make Healthier Desserts – Learn How to Adapt Your Favorite Recipes!
10 Essential Home Safety & Maintenance Tasks to Do Before Spring
Here’s a quick and essential look at home repairs every homeowner should review and accomplish before Spring has sprung, to enhance home safety and comfort as the warmer months arrive. This Southern California girl making her home in Utah is ready for spring! After the snows and storms of winter, it’s always a relief to… [read more]
How a Sensory Processing Disorder Diet Drastically Reduced Our Son’s Symptoms
Our journey to discovering a sensory processing disorder diet that helped us manage our son’s sensory processing disorder… Disclosure: My husband is a psychologist. I, however, am not a doctor nor a dietitian. I am merely sharing with you what I have learned and what has worked for our particular child. It was the screaming… [read more]
3 Tips for a Happy, Healthier Family
The foundation to a happy and healthy family starts at home, and it starts with you, the parent. Creating good habits at home when your children are young will help them carry those values throughout their lives and lead them to acting as a positive influence on other people. Creating a healthy environment is easily implemented… [read more]
Harvest Berry Salad with Rubbermaid FreshWorks Produce Savers
I’ve partnered with Rubbermaid to talk about their new FreshWorks Produce Saver containers. I totally get it. At times, eating healthy can seem like an uphill battle. If you’re just starting your new healthy lifestyle, it can be difficult to get family members on board. Depending on where you live and the current growing season,… [read more]
Easy Tips to Reduce Toxins and Create a Healthy, Kid-Friendly Home
,Several hidden dangers can lurk in a typical home, including toxic chemicals, mold, and bacteria. Even dust and dirt can lower your indoor air quality and make allergy and asthma symptoms worse for kids and adults. Here are a few simple ways to reduce toxins and make your home a Healthy, Kid-Friendly Home. Use natural alternatives… [read more]
Insanely Easy Sheet Pan Dinner – Veggie, Sweet Potato, and Sausage Sheet Pan Dinner
Recently, Easy Sheet Pan Dinners caught my eye while making their rounds on Pinterest. If you haven’t tried making an easy sheet pan dinner yet, my Sausage and Veggie Sheet Pan Dinner is the perfect place to start! Sometimes I just want to take the night off from cooking. Yeah, I know you feel that way too…. [read more]
The Best Home Air Purifier for Asthma, Allergies, and the Dreaded Utah Inversion
Pretty much everyone in my house has allergies of one sort or another. My husband has fairly severe seasonal allergies, and I blame him for passing on the allergy genes to our sons. Our middle son is allergic to almost every plant known to man. We also found out just a few months ago that… [read more]
How to Make Fruit Leather + Grape Fruit Leather Recipe!
I’ve hit a new epoch in my life. I’m domestic! If you’ve never made fruit leather before, stick around and I’ll show you how to make fruit leather (it’s easier than you think!). If you’re are an experienced fruit leather maker, make sure you check out my grape fruit leather recipe below! This post contains… [read more]
The Quantum Vac 6-in-1 Vacuum Cleaner | This thing is AMAZING!
I have to admit that I was intrigued when I received an email in my inbox a bit ago asking me if I’d review the 6-in-1 Quantum Vacuum Cleaner (yeah, that does say “6-in-1”. I’ll touch on that in a sec). It reminded me of the water-based filtration vacuum my mother-in-law used for 25 years and still,… [read more]
Fix Bad Posture With The Lumo Lift – Review | Wearable Posture Coach!
Thank you to Lumo BodyTech for providing a unit for this Lumo Lift review. This post contains affiliate links. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own. Even as a young teen my mom would comment on my terrible posture. I didn’t mean to have bad posture. All I knew is that… [read more]
20 Tasty Low Carb Lunch Recipes!
Back to school time always seems like a great time to start things fresh. With the recent health issues I’ve been having, it has become even more important that I eat well. While I think in general my diet is pretty good–I don’t eat very much in the way of processed food and I cook… [read more]
Empowering Kids by Teaching Them to Make their Own School Lunch
Thank you to Sprout’s and Box Tops for sponsoring this conversation! Happy New School Year! We have had such an amazing summer! I’m not sure I’ve ever packed so much fun into two months before. But..(you knew it was coming, right?) I need some rest. I started summer completely burned out. Now, I’m looking forward… [read more]
Creamy Berry Probiotic Kefir Pops Recipe!
A big thank you to Smucker’s for sponsoring today’s Probiotic Kefir Pops recipe! My boys have been eating these like crazy this summer! I started making milk kefir for my family a couple years ago. Kefir is a fairly unique probiotic drink. Made from milk, it contains an almost unparalleled amount of beneficial bacteria. (Yes, some… [read more]