New Year's eve food

Today was a fun day. Our 4 and 8-year old friends, accompanied by their father, spent the afternoon and evening with us. And I got to prep...

Eat to Live

I recently received my copy of the new edition of Eat to Live . I'm looking forward to reading it. I started with Chapter 8, to remind...

Yesterday's and Today's food

Yesterday I had more ice cream for breakfast/lunch. In one serving I added mangos to the bananas and walnuts. The other was just pure ban...

Slaying the sugar beast

This is a great post on diseaseproof . The sugar beast is definitely on my back this holiday season. I've avoided it so far, but have ...

mmm, cashew pistachio date cream

I got some cashews, pistachios and dates for housemate's smoothies, and I decided to mix them up ahead of time and enjoy some of the res...

Hemp milk

Ingredients: 1/8 - 1/4 cup hemp seeds 1 cup water 1-2 dates and/or other dried fruit (optional) 1/4 tsp vanilla (optional) Blend in a blende...

Easiest and best banana walnut ice cream

This is my all-time favorite ice cream. Ingredients: frozen banana pieces (to freeze, peel ripe bananas, break into small pieces, seal in a ...

Today's meals

Since I have a cold, I'm working from home this week and have more time to play in the kitchen, so I'm enjoying healthy comfort food...

I'm back

Well, I guess I was over-confident heading off this weekend. Eating healthy was harder than I thought. Aunt Margie's cookie balls were...

today's lunch and dinner

...and tomorrow, and Sunday. See yesterday's post for more description. It's repititive, but easy, yummy, and even looks Christma...

My weekend trip

Okay, it's Christmas this weekend. My situation is not normal. I will be visiting family and will bring my own food--they are used to ...

this week's food

This week got hectic so meals took a backseat. Fortunately or unfortunately I had a fair amount of bananas, soy milk, and walnuts, so I co...

tomorrow's food

Tomorrow's food will be a repeat of today: breakfast: ice cream. Lunch: fall micro salad . this is the last one of the season, I thin...

Tomorrow's food

I think I bought the last 5 pomegranates of the season yesterday. Today there were none at the store. I'm glad I got them! So I will ...

winter bean & veggie soup

I decided to add more veggies to my beans so it's a real soup instead of just beans. You can add whatever veggies you want in whatever...

Desserts!

Well, you can see from the next 4 posts, I've been making a lot of desserts lately. Looking at all those treats I can't eat at the ...

apricot oat balls

Dr. Fuhrman is running this " Holiday Challenge " and he sends us a recipe a day. I decided to try Friday's recipe, the ...

"cake", berries, & "cream"

Ingredients for 2 servings: 2 essene buds or 2 slices of manna bread (optional) 1/2 cup cashews 1 ripe banana or 2-4 dates 1/4 cup soy, a...

My favorite ice cream

Wow, I loved this. It's not super sweet. I'm realizing I don't like the really sweet stuff. But it's easy to sweeten to t...

berry-banana ice cream

Ingredients: 1 banana 2 cups frozen berries (today I used strawberries and raspberries) 1/4 cup raw cashews + 1/4 cup water 1/4 tsp vanilla ...