living a better life
Articles strictly about all things cooking and food, including healthier options and substitutions.
In the whirlwind of stay-at-home motherhood, mornings carry a unique power to shape the entire day. As fellow moms navigating the beautiful chaos, we understand the quest for that perfect morning routine—one that sets a positive tone, balances priorities, and brings a touch of magic …
One of the biggest complaints that I hear from other moms when talking about eating healthier, is how expensive it is. Organic meat costs more, fresh produce is more expensive, and healthier dry options, like cereal and granola bars, have a bigger price tag than …
So, as we are making our big move across the country in just a couple more weeks, our friends here in Colorado agreed to one more big family dinner before everything was packed. We cooked a huge turkey, made my corn casserole and yellow squash …
I know that this isn’t exactly the right time of the year for pumpkin spice, but we’re currently trying to clean out our freezers, and I just happened to have three bags of homemade pureed pumpkin that needed to be used. The first things I …
So we’ve been busy packing and selling for our big move across the country this month. The house is wreck, but things are selling fast and the house is starting to look cleaner and cleaner by the day. Getting rid of all of our stuff …
So my house is half packed, and the rest of it is up for sale. I feel like life is turned upside down right now. Thank goodness there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and in a few weeks we’re off to our …
We tend to get stuck in a breakfast rut fairly often in our home. It’s so easy, what with waking up running with two small children. I’ve already changed 2-3 diapers by 7:30 in the morning, got myself and the kids dressed, gone to the …
We love cinnamon rolls in our house. Before our children came along, about a decade ago, my husband and I would buy those wrapped packages of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls by the case and eat them just about every morning. Boy they were delicious! There’s just …
Cream gravy is just one of those irresistible items that just about everyone loves. It such a versatile ingredient that it can be used with so many different meals. We love putting it on our homemade biscuits, on toast, on chicken fried steak, on my …
We have been on this crazy journey for the last couple of months, well, it’s been a lot longer than that. But this particular journey has been going now just since the beginning of the year. First we found out we were pregnant again only …