Tomorrow morning marks the official start of 2019 “work” for us – school and activities start! Back to the routine. Our morning commute will be increasing by 5 minutes next month and we are going to be working on getting out the door a little earlier with the help of “car breakfast.” I know. Food in the car. UGGG. The kids have these car trays that we use for snacking and activities and they do an amazzing job of catching crumbs. Typically, I just shake them out when we get to our destination. We’ll be using these for the days we eat in the car. This week we have grapes,…
Cranberry Oat Breakfast Bars
Recently I attended a yoga retreat with my friend Misty who brought these amazing bars along as a snack. Misty is an incredible woman who helps at our school a LOT (she’s my work wife, we joke), so I knew her treats would be as amazing. And they were! The Cranberry Oat Breakfast Bars are the perfect treat – not too sweet and super healthy. And since Craisins (dried cranberries) are a safe, PN/TN free food, I thought this would be a perfect recipe to add to our mix of healthy snacking. Also, kids approved today when we made this recipe for breakfast – crumbles well over yogurt if you’re…
Rhubarb Compote & Overnight Oats
Today is so exciting! The summer slimdown 2018 food challenge starts and I’m already off to a great start thanks to food prepping in advance. This morning consisted of drinking 16oz water and taking vitamin C and probiotic. Then I made my usual CCN mango mint lime smoothie (from 2 food challenges ago) and had my morning cup of coffee, sans sugar and dairy. The picture above is my morning snack. easy. Rhubarb Compote 4 cups chopped rhubarb 1/4 cup maple syrup 2 cups cherries (I used strawberries) Preheat oven to 350 Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil Add your ingredients to the pan and mix around to combine…
Healthy Pancakes
Sounds like an oxymoron, right? As we were shopping this week, we stumbled upon these pancakes, which are made in a peanut/tree nut free facility. They also offer gluten free pancake mixes. Hodgson Mill Buttermilk Multi Grain Pancake Mix is worth it! The kids cleared their plates and didn’t grumble about Mom’s “Healthy pancakes” hahaha. These pancakes contain: Stone ground whole wheat four oat bran whole grain yellow corn meal flax seed buttermilk cane sugar baking soda salt We made the first batch, then used this recipe to thicken it up: 3/4 cup pancake mix Use 1/3 cup milk 1 egg 1 tbsp oil 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp…
Dr. Keehn's Sunday French Toast
“Take two and call me in the morning.” — Dr. Keehn, last Sunday after making brunch. As a healthcare provider, it’s my husbands calling to help make people feel better. Sometimes it isn’t always easy, especially the field he has chosen. His creative outlet is cooking. He says that one of the ways that you can ALWAYS make someone feel better is by making them something delicious to eat and I think that’s why my he likes cooking so much. Even when the medicine part doesn’t go as planned, a good meal always does! And we are grateful for that! One of my personal favorite breakfast items is French Toast,…
Blueberry Breakfast Muffins
One of my kids is staring at the back of my head from the top of our stairs as I type this, and I refuse to turn around to see what they need….it’s been a looooong weekend, a preview of what summer will be like, perhaps, and I’m just a wee bit annoyed. I need some down time. A mommy break here. I’m blogging, something I enjoy, for me. And I need it. I need to take time for me to be a better person to help you. You being kids. It’s a cycle. Anyway, typing. Typing. Typing. Blueberry Oat Flax Seed Breakfast Muffins…MMMMMMMMMMMM. We had a huge container of…
Creamy Breakfast Smoothie
Creamy Berry Smoothie 1/2 frozen banana (remove the peel before freezing bananas, I learned the hard way, that was rough) 1/2 c frozen berries 1 stalk celery handful of greens, spinach, kale, etc. 1 tbsp. cashew butter (I substituted this with sunbutter/soynut butter) 1 tbsp. hemp hearts (no idea what this is, didn’t use it.) 1 tbsp. maca powder (no idea, didn’t use it) 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 uncooked rolled oats (couldn’t find nut-free, so used quick oats. the difference is the processing, quick oats are more processed than a whole/rolled oat) 8 oz of unsweetened coconut milk ice Mix it all up – drink it. If you follow…
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