Tag: clean eating

Honey Garlic Pork Chops

Ok, I have to admit, I’ve always claimed to hate pork chops….I know, I know, yet here I am making a recipe for them. Turns out you CAN get tired of eating chicken 91823 times 129387 different ways. Truth is, I hate any kind of meat with bones because I hate cutting around them, and …

Blueberry Bliss Power Pancakes

Is there anything better than the smell of fresh pancakes filling your home on Saturday or Sunday mornings? Maybe if they’re pretty much guilt free, and for Valentine’s Day….which these gems are! As a clean-ish eating mama who lives by my own slogan of “eating clean for dirty dessert,” I try to keep most of …

Southwest Mexi Burgers…ayy yiiii yiiii

I’m so excited to have my sister guest blogging this recipe tonight! We have a joke in my family about our favorite foods and pregnancies…when my mom was pregnant with me, she craved Italian and ate it constantly. When she was pregnant with my sister, she craved and ate hamburgers. I love Italian and Sarah …

Banana Zucchini Muffins with Apple + Blackberries

Based on the ingredients of these muffins, they’re basically power muffins…good for anytime of the day; breakfast, mid-day snack, a side with lunch, or even a healthy dessert. Totally guilt free and toddler-approved, which means whole family approved; what could be better?! I made these on Sunday to prep my little guys’ breakfast & snacks for …

Clean Chocolate Chip Cookies

    If you don’t love chocolate chip cookies, I may have a hard time accepting you’re in fact, a real life human being. Being a dessert lover, I’m always on the hunt to find or create clean recipes, so I can indulge in my favorite things guilt-free. Is there anything like a warm, gooey …

Ten Day Trim, Week 2

Hiii! Woah. Today has been SO BUSY. My phone has been dead like 90% of the day, and I really wouldn’t trade that for the world. I had the best hands-on day with my little munchkin EVER and it was because I was UNPLUGGED. When’s the last time you unplugged for nearly an entire day? …

Clean Cornbread

I have been searching for a clean cornbread recipe, and haven’t found one I’m totally over the moon about yet. So when I don’t find something, I make it. I literally can’t stop daydreaming about pairing this with my chicken tortilla soup. I’m adapting Taste of Home’s “Buttery Corn Bread Recipe” into a clean version….because I’m …

Crockpot Tortilla Soup

My sister, Sarah, and I LOVE a good crock pot meal. And we’re also kinddddd of obsessed with Mexican food. Another meal making its debut to week 2 of the Ten Day Trim is our favorite – homemade, clean chicken tortilla soup. There’s nothing better than a crockpot meal when it comes to meal prep. …

Spinach Meatloaf

Meatloaf is just one of those things that totally grosses me out unless it’s my mom’s recipe or I make it myself. There’s just something about picturing someone else’s hands mooshing it all together that…I can’t. even. deal with. But the beauty of homemade meatloaf is you can sneak SO many veggies into it [all my …

Surprising Sources of Antioxidants

“When it comes to brain protection, there is nothing quite like blueberries,” according to James Joseph, PhD, lead scientist in the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. “Call the blueberry the brain berry,” says Dr. Joseph. NEW FINDINGS ON BLUEBERRIES We all hear blueberries are a …