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Dairy Free Strawberry Orange Green Smoothie

March 25, 2020 by Jen Leave a Comment

A dairy free strawberry orange green smoothie perfect for breakfast on the go or a sneaky veggie infused side dish for kids at meal time.

If your kids are like mine, they turn their noses up at vegetables. Every chance I get, I sneak veggies to them without their knowledge. My favorite, most liked way to do that is with a smoothie. This strawberry orange smoothie recipe (much like all smoothie recipes on this site) came to me during hot dog dinner night. I needed something as a quick side dish that would be received with happiness….

Butternut Squash Cheese Sauce

October 21, 2019 by Jen Leave a Comment

This vegan paleo butternut squash cheese sauce is nightshade free and made with a few simple ingredients so it comes together quickly and can be used throughout the week.

Cheese has stolen the hearts of many. Most people can’t fathom a life without cheese. This butternut squash cheese sauce was created for two reasons. 1. For a dairy free cheeseburger macaroni (recipe coming soon!) and 2. As a cheesy sauce to slather on things. Turns out, I also really like to add it to some rice pasta with some roasted broccoli (upgraded mac and cheese) or mix with some shredded chicken and add to a vegan cauliflower tortilla for a quick snack….

Dairy Free Blueberry Pineapple Green Smoothie

August 1, 2018 by Jen Leave a Comment

There’s put together moms and there’s me-unshowered, tired mom. Generally my day job has me frazzled and by dinner time, and a lot of times I don’t have a dinner plan. But I always have a back up meal as well as a stockpile of frozen fruit in the freezer for smoothies.

We drink a lot of smoothies around here and I try to keep all kinds of fruit on hand to switch it up often….

Creamy Strawberry Ginger Green Smoothie

July 18, 2018 by Jen Leave a Comment

I’ve been on a ginger kick lately. I’m recovering from a gluten/sugar bender that has sent my body into full autoimmune flare mode. I have been doing all the things to try to recover as fast as possible, including drinking ginger tea-despite the 110 degree temperature outside.

Not being one to waste some perfectly good ginger pieces used in tea, I have been adding them to smoothies. I think I have discovered a new family favorite around here.

Ginger + strawberry = <3…

5 Ingredient Dairy Free Green Mango Smoothie

July 8, 2018 by Jen 2 Comments

A couple of days ago, I was solo with the heathen children for dinner. I was running late with work and deadlines and needed something quick to make the kids for dinner. I didn’t have any meat thawed and we already had my go to chicken tacos twice that week.

What’s a frantic mom to do?…

Paleo Blender Blueberry Muffins

July 4, 2018 by Jen Leave a Comment

When I was in high school, my favorite breakfast was blueberry muffins. My parents used to buy a giant tray of muffins from Costco every couple of months. The tray had blueberry, banana nut and chocolate chip muffins. Blueberry was always my breakfast of choice. This tray of muffins was delicious because it was as close to fresh-baked muffins as we got in our house.

It always felt like a special morning treat to have a fresh blueberry muffin for breakfast….

7 Worst Baby Products

September 9, 2017 by Jen Leave a Comment

So you have endless lists about what you need when you have a baby, but what are the worst baby products? What should you avoid the like the plague? Didn’t we used to live in caves and survive? How is it that if you read through all of the baby must haves on Pinterest, you will discover you need EVERYTHING? When I was first pregnant with my oldest, Ryder, I was so overwhelmed with all the baby products out there. I wish I had seen mom thoughts on the worst baby products they have encountered. Now that I feel like a seasoned pro, I wanted to do that for my readers….

Talking About Baby Food

November 10, 2015 by Jen Leave a Comment

Discussing the way I feed my son with other parents is tough for me. It’s something I try to avoid at all costs. But with Ryder’s “different” style of eating, it just can’t be avoided sometimes. Today, when I dropped Ryder off at daycare, I had a mommy stop me to ask me about the foods I feed him. Her son is exactly one month younger than Ryder and she heard that I bring all of Ryder’s 300 (it’s actually six, but feels like 300) containers of healthy snacks to school every day and she wanted to know what I pack so she can start introducing her son to healthy finger foods. …

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