Goodbye Nourishing Traditions: The WAPF Diet in Retrospect
We stopped eating a Weston A. Price diet (WAPF) and switched to whole foods plant-based. Here’s my review of the WAPF diet and why we started eating WFPB instead! In…
The Way We Eat Now: Our Plant-Based Switch, Part 1
Although we thought we were pretty healthy eaters before, we’ve made some big changes to our diet in the last couple of years! This is our family’s story of switching…
7 Kitchen Resolutions for the New Year
Set kitchen resolutions for the year ahead to help you be intentional in this area of your home! These are my kitchen resolutions for 2019 (and beyond). It’s my hope…
Recovering the Lost Art of Cooking from Scratch (the non-trendy way)
With takeout options galore and grocery store convenience food, it seems that our culture is fast losing the art of cooking from scratch. Here’s how (and why) homemakers can recover…
Eat Simply: How to Declutter Your Diet and Dine Like a French Woman
French women know that food is meant to be relished and enjoyed! I’ve decided to ditch dieting and eat like a French woman instead, following a few simple principles that…
Let’s Stop Picking Apart Our Food
Have you noticed? The way we talk about food has changed. Everywhere I look in newspapers, blogs, magazines, even cookbooks–food is packaged with buzzwords: “protein,” “low fat,” “heart healthy,” “antioxidants,”…
Undress Your Food
Fact: I like Coke. Also fact: My body doesn’t. How in the world do I reconcile these two? There’s that taste…that spicy sweetness. And the memories. Poking a Coke float…
Smithsonian Food Exhibit Inspires Questions
Eric and I spent last week in Washington D.C. My brother, formerly a guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, was doing his last walk before transferring jobs. Neither Eric…
Eating for Pleasure: The Beauty of Balance in "French Women Don’t Get Fat"
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Mireille Guiliano’s French Women Don’t Get Fat made quite a splash a few years ago. I remember hearing about it, but never pursued reading it….
In Defense of Sugar
Why try not to eat much white sugar, but we do keep it in our pantry! Here’s why we’ve chosen to keep this ingredient, and our balanced approach to using…
A Recipe for Real Food
Head over to The Humbled Homemaker for my thoughts on getting started with “real food!”
Manifesto, or A Developing Approach to Healthy Eating
It takes time to develop your personal approach to real food! Here’s my manifesto for healthy eating, plus how I’m progressing on my real food journey. When I was little…