This is Day 176 of the Green in 365 series! Growing up, nothing said summer like an ICEE from 7-11. We’d ride our bikes down and get a cup full of dye and corn syrup. Well, I don’t know about you, but that is something I am not willing to have be a part of my kids' summer experience. I still want them to have a fun and full summer with our own traditions. So this summer we will be finding all sorts of other frozen treats! One I love is slushies. Sure you could do … [Read more...]
Healthy Birthday Cake Options {Green in 365}
This is Day 174 of the Green in 365 series! Last week we talked about throwing a Green Birthday Party, and today I have some great Healthy Birthday Cake options to share with you! Healthy Cake and Birthday Treats The cake is the centerpiece of any good birthday party, isn't it? I will be honest and tell you that I have not really jumped on the healthy birthday cake train. When my oldest daughter turned one we made an applesauce cake that none of the adults wanted to eat, … [Read more...]
Grain-Free Treats: “Cookie Dough” Bites
These grain-free "cookie dough" bites are addictive! It's hard to eat just one or two! And at our house, the whole batch is gone the same day I make them, I'm lucky if I can get these to last us two days! They are an easy, healthy, and delicious grain-free snack! Grain-Free "Cookie-Dough" Bites Ingredients: 1 1/3 cup raw almonds 1 1/3 cup raw walnuts 1/4 cup flax seed meal 1/2 cup coconut flour 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp sea salt 1/3 - 1/2 cup maple syrup 1/4 -1/2 cup mini … [Read more...]
Delicious Grain-Free Banana Muffins
Our family has been moving toward eating more grain-free over the past few months, and I've been trying to replace some of our old favorite recipes with good grain-free alternatives. One of my kid's favorite things for breakfast, or a snack, is muffins and I have a healthier banana bread muffin recipe that we love. I tried one grain-free banana muffin recipe and it just didn't go over well - it tasted too much like eggs and over-ripe bananas. Not a good combo! But, we had made the grain-free … [Read more...]
Skip the Non-Stick Spray! {Green in 365: The Kitchen}
This is Day 57 of the Green in 365 series! Today is a super quick and easy kitchen tip for how to grease pans without non-stick cooking spray. First let's just talk quickly about why we should skip using non-stick cooking spray. • They use propellents like nitrous oxide which is a greenhouse gas and depletes the ozone. • They contain many unhealthy and possibly even toxic ingredients, including soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, dimethylpolysiloxane, dimethyl silicone, and … [Read more...]
Recipe: Zucchini and Ground Beef Skillet Casserole
One afternoon last week it was around four o'clock and I thought to myself, Hmmmm, what are we going to have for dinner? (I've been slacking in the meal planning department lately!) I knew I had a pound of grass-fed ground beef in the freezer, and a million-kagillion zucchinis on my counter. (Okay, maybe not quite that many, but close!) I opened up my computer thinking I would browse Pinterest for some inspiration, when I noticed that a newsletter from Food.com was in my email Inbox and the … [Read more...]
Recipe: Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen that I have ummm... a few zucchini hanging around my house. Yeah, just a few... I'll share an quick update on my garden soon, but basically, the zucchini plant has taken over. Yes, plant. Singular. All these are from one plant. It's seriously the biggest zucchini plant I have ever seen! At first it was huge and had some flowers, but wasn't really producing any zucchini. Then it started raining over the past few weeks (we had been in a … [Read more...]
Healthy Banana Bread or Muffins and Making Substitutions in Your Favorite Recipes
I've been experimenting lately with some of my favorite bread/muffins recipes, substituting healthier ingredients for the white flour and white sugar. It's been fun, and yummy, to see how easy it is to make changes to the ingredients and still come out with tasty and healthier muffins. I combined two different similar banana bread recipes to create this one. I received one from a co-worker who grew up in Hawaii and she called it Kona Banana Bread, and the other from my sister. I've just made … [Read more...]
Mexican Chicken Pasta Skillet: Quick and Easy Recipe
I was already planning to make this Mexican Chicken Pasta Skillet and post the recipe this week, and then Katie announced that she was hosting a skillet recipe "The Meals that Hamburger Helper was Trying to Imitate" carnival and I knew that this fit in perfectly. I really like that this recipe has a Mexican twist on what is traditionally an Italian type meal. Mexican Chicken Pasta Skillet Ingredients: 2 cups penne or rotini pasta (we've been using brown rice pasta) 1 lb. chicken … [Read more...]
