This week’s Vegetarian Teen Tuesday recipe is Veggie Pad Thai. This is another one of my daughter’s favourite dinners as she loves anything with noodles almost as much as she enjoys Mexican inspired food! This dish is very simple to make and … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Teen Tuesday, Taco Salad!
This week for Vegetarian Teen Tuesday my daughter helped to make a veggie taco salad (her favorite meal) with black beans and sweet potato. The rest of the family had the same salad base but added grilled organic chicken fillet on top and opted out … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Teen Tuesday
I decided to start a blog on what I feed my teen vegetarian as I often struggle with what to feed the one vegetarian in our family. I want our teen to eat nutritious whole food meals that do not vary greatly from what the rest of the family is … [Read more...]
Really Healthy Pasta Buckwheat & Flaxseed (Product Review)
I was fortunate to receive a sample of Really Healthy Pasta Buckwheat & Golden Flaxseed Penne. I was excited to try this organic and gluten free, high fibre product as I love pasta salad and have been reducing white pasta from my diet. As a … [Read more...]
Quinoa Greek Salad Recipe
Greek salads are one of my favourite foods to enjoy any time of the year. I love the crunch of the cucumbers, combined with the freshness of the goat cheese feta and the earthiness of Kalamata olives. Greek salads are usually a side to a main meal … [Read more...]
Italian-Inspired Salad Dressing Recipe
Like this homemade, Italian-inspired dressing recipe, I like to make all of my own salad dressings rather then buy them. Homemade dressing contains only the fresh ingredients I decide to put in it, not all the preservatives and other undesirable … [Read more...]
Healthy, Homemade Fudgesicles!
It's that time of the year again...time for delicious, homemade fudgesicles! Cold, healthy snacks (and homemade popsicles in particular) have once again become popular in my house as summer approaches. Our family loves frozen treats—ice cream, … [Read more...]
Delicious Tomatillo Salsa Recipe
Tomatillo and green salsa. Yummy!! Fresh tomatillos are extremely hard to find in markets like the UK and are only available about once a year. When I can get my hands on them I like to make a green salsa that we put on top of all of our … [Read more...]
Berkey Water Filter Review
Our family finally invested in a Berkey water filter! We have wanted a water filter for some time due to the nasty things that can be found in both tap water and bottled water. I had given up drinking tap water long ago and had exclusively been … [Read more...]
Protein Power Smoothie
I struggle daily with how to get nutrients into my super fussy 12 year old son who is a competitive athlete. He dives platform and springboard for a team near where we currently live in the UK and he trains 5-6 days a week, including after school … [Read more...]
