Fighting Boredom with Healthy Food + Creative Living
This festive chocolate combines winter fruit favs in a colorful citrus packed candy. Also, by choosing local fruits, you are cutting back on foods that require long travel and storage. This simple dessert features in-season pomegranate and oranges. Yum! Serves: 8 people
I love a nice dessert to finish off a meal, but I don’t care for overly sweet treats. When given the choice, I tend to gravitate towards the cheese and fruit platter for dessert. I’ve created this easy sweet and creamy low-sugar Holiday Cranberry Brie Bite recipe…
I attend many natural product expos and events and receive herbal or homeopathic remedies to try. It’s nice because I can personally test out different products and make recommendations based on my own real experience. Interestingly enough, when my friends and readers ask about different natural supplements to take, sleep aids and probiotics are the top two supplements of interest. Pain and anti-aging products are a close third. However, it’s no wonder we all want and need great sleep. Exhaustion can make a day seem endlessly miserable, full of mistakes, or worse accident prone. (more…)
It’s football bowl season, so that means finger food for entertaining! Here’s a healthy vegetarian taco eggroll using JSL Vegan wrappers that is easy to whip up prior to the big game.
I’d like to think I’m a White Elephant expert as my items are ALWAYS highly sought after – heck, even fist-fight worthy! I jest, but really the point about having a White Elephant party is to have a mix of REALLY COOL USEFUL items blended…
It’s hard to get away from CBD at the moment – it’s a common topic in the media, and you most likely have a friend that thinks it’s the best thing since sliced bread. And to be fair, they have a point! Cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabinoid science in general is unlocking secrets about our health which have always been mysterious if not unknown. (more…)
This is the perfect craft for those who love to read AND for those who hate to read! Transform a book that is old, damaged, or just plain horrible, into a super cute book pumpkin.
This post was sponsored by Influence Central as part of an Influencer Activation and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. You may have heard or read about Loperamide in the news recently, but one drug warning can blend into another, so it’s…
I’ve been getting a variety of squash in my weekly produce box delivered to my house, so the quandary has been what to do with all that squashy goodness? I love flavorful food that is easy to prepare, so I was excited to make my own homemade gyoza. Gyoza, or potstickers, are moon-shaped dumplings that are typically filled with a meat and vegetable filling. As I love heart-healthy vegetarian menus, I have created a vegan version that is perfect for Fall’s squash bounty. (more…)
“This post is sponsored by Tyson Foods, Inc, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own.” As the leaves change into fiery oranges and golds, I get so excited to decorate my home with similar nature-inspired colors. My pumpkin decor comes out and…
This post is sponsored by Jigsaw Puzzle but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. I eat a healthy diet and exercise but have found that in my down-time I was aimlessly surfing social media and watching cat videos. As I was filling…
I first enjoyed lilikoi also known as passionfruit when my family and I stayed on the tiny island of Rarotonga for a summer. There was a passionfruit vine outside our ‘hut and my young daughter would go out daily and shake the vine to see if a tart treat would fall down. (more…)
