YOU GUYS. This is a big day for me. I’ve been talking about how I’ve been wanting to start to maybe try to begin to attempt a podcast for like, oh I don’t know 28 years. Yeah, I think I wanted a podcast when I was a toddler suckin’ on my mama’s boob. I mean,…
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Watch: How to Perfectly Slice Tomatoes in 5 Seconds (with no mess!)
[VIDEO TUESDAY: Every week, I’ll be sharing a fun or interesting video related to food and/or natural health that I’ve found milling about on the interwebz. I figured it was about time I did something useful with all the hours I waste browsing YouTube—actually share the cool stuff I find with you guys! Enjoy.] How…
How to Raise Kids to be Life-Long Healthy Eaters
What’s the secret to raising healthy kids? Turn them into NINJAS!! Ha. Okay. I guess I should explain. My friend and bestselling author, Matt Stone, has coined a new term that I really think is one of the most important things parents need to learn in order to raise healthy kids—Food Ninja! What’s a ‘Food…
Q&A: How Can You Tell if Stainless Steel is Good Quality? (Try this test!)
It’s Q&A Thursday! This week, we’re taking a look at stainless steel cookware. Stainless is supposed to be one of the best and safest forms of cookware, but as I’ve said before, quality matters. So how do you know if one type of stainless steel is better than another? Is there a way to test…
Q&A: How to Eat Real Food with No Access to Raw Milk or Grass-Fed Meat?
I’ve got some news: we’re bringing back weekly Q&A! I was getting a little overwhelmed with all the questions for a while there, and so I’ve been mostly handing them off to all our Facebook friends to help answer them. Which is great—I love the team effort! But I thought for ones which I really…
10 Coolest Kitchen Gadgets Found on Pinterest
Are you on the Pinterest yet? If not, be prepared to waste precisely 100% of your free-and-not-so-free-time for a while. It’s bad. Real bad. Deliciously, addictively, aweseomely bad. One of the things I love most when procrastinating on the Pin is discovering crazy new kitchen gadgets. Who doesn’t LOVE kitchen gadgets?! I mean, sure, there’s a…
How to Pick Out a Safe Set of Cookware for Less Money
Being into the whole real food thing is tough. You gotta dissect labels for toxic ingredients, trudge off to an actual farm to get food, spend hours slaving away in the kitchen every week, and you don’t have the luxury of picking up an easy frozen meal at a normal grocery store and firing it…
Too Busy to Cook? Try the New Real Food Meal Plans!
I am not a planner. I pack for a vacation the morning of the trip. I never remember to put important dates, birthdays, or appointments on my calendar. And I’m super, extra, embarrassingly-horrible at meal planning. Do you know that that’s a thing, by the way — meal planning? Yeah, that’s where people who actually…
10 Easy Steps to Turn Any Recipe Into a Real Food Recipe
I had an epiphany the other day. Ever since I started eating real food, I’ve stayed far away from where my meal inspiration used to come from (if not picked up straight from the freezer aisle) — recipes from magazines, websites, and TV shows with eye-rollingly-typical “healthy” fare. Ingredients like, “Bouillon cubes,” and “Heart-healthy canola…
How to Make Your Own Date Sugar
Date sugar is a marvelous alternative sweetener. It’s not even really a “sugar” in the sense that it was derived from something and processed into concentrated sweetness. Wanna know what it actually is? Cooked and ground-up dates! Really, that’s it. And dates are just an all-around awesome food. High in carbohydrates, they’re a great thing…