Carne Asada

It’s late January and my kids decided today that they wanted to watch a Christmas movie?! So what better recipe to post than what we had for dinner over the holidays, to be honest I don’t remember which one it was, Christmas or New Years? They were kind of a blur. Anyway, the meat in this recipe turned out amazing!! We had them with tortillas, but they could easily be a Paleo friendly meal; just use romaine lettuce for a wrap, or blanch a cabbage leaf, or you can add lettuce or cabbage and make a Carne Asada salad. I will be making this recipe again! Continue reading

Grain Free Paleo Banana Bread

Grain Free Chocolate Banana Bread

I love banana bread. Of course it’s tough making “bread” without wheat or some other kind of flour, but this recipe will satisfy that desire for a yummy sweet bread, just without the “bread” and a bunch of sugar! Next time I make this I’m going to make a couple changes, I’m going to add some chopped nuts, and I’m going to leave the chocolate chips whole instead of melting them on top (but both are optional). Continue reading

Grain Free Brownies

Grain Free Brownies

One thing that is hard about making big changes in your diet is eliminating some or many of the things you’ve grown to love. One of those loves in my life have been sugar, namely chocolate. I love desserts, I love to read about them, see pictures of them, and even more, I love to plan and bake and yes, I love to EAT them. So that has been a bit of a downer about taking on the paleo lifestyle. Sugar is a bit of a no-no. Part of me has felt a little deflated, until this past week when I discovered a paleo recipe blog called Health-Bent. A husband and wife team who love cooking, and she was formerly a pastry chef, yeah! They’ve got a ton of great recipes, and what I was even more excited about, they’ve got quite a few delicious paleo friendly real dessert recipes! I’ve already tried two of their recipes and I’m impressed, even the kids loved them, although maybe that’s not such a good thing? ;) Here we go… Continue reading

Grain-Free, Egg Pancakes

I don’t think I’ve ever been quite as excited about a new recipe as I am about this one. I am smiling inside and I can’t wait to share this one with my friends. I don’t know about you but I’ve started our family out with lots of things I’m trying to “un-do” like, lots of bread, toast, sugar, processed Mac ‘n’ Cheese, and the list goes on. And guess what, my kids like all those things. The hardest part about this journey of becoming more healthy has been finding recipes that my kids get excited about, and that is why I LOVE this recipe!

Grain Free Egg Pancakes

Every time I have made pancakes, my kids love them, they are homemade and tasty, full of butter and pure maple syrup, but eventually these ingredients will catch up with my kids. I really desire to help my kids form good habits, healthy habits. So that it’s not so hard to eat healthy when they are adults living on their own. I’m not talking about completely removing all forms of grain, carbs, sweets, and processed foods from their diet. But I want them to be the exception and not daily consumption. Continue reading

Simple Baked Rockfish

We try to eat fish at least once or twice a week in our home. Sometimes the kids love it, and sometimes (a few of the kids) not so much. This fish turned out great, it was light and flaky, and we made our own tartar sauce to eat with it and it was superb! Hope you enjoy it too!

Simple Baked Rockfish

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Sauteed Garlic Brussels Sprouts

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When I was a little girl I hated disliked brussel sprouts. (Okay, so did you know that they are not actually called “brussel sprouts” they are called “Brussels Sprouts.” After the city of Brussels in Belgium where they were discovered, I didn’t know that until today :) But as an adult I started making them myself, and I have found that I really like them now. My mom informed me last night that she always made them from frozen sprouts, maybe that is why I disliked them? Well, these Brussels Sprouts were delicious, and even most of the kids liked them! And that is always a plus when it comes to cooked vegetables! Delish!

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Back from…being gone.

Well as you may have noticed I’d left this blog alone since early October, a couple weeks after I discovered we are expecting baby number 7. I didn’t just leave the blog alone, I’ve pretty much left all fruits and veggies and all things healthy alone for a time. I had even been listening to a daily podcast about the Paleo diet and couldn’t stand to listen to that for fear they might talk about the one thing I didn’t want to think about, food.

Peppers

So thankful that season is over. I can smell coffee without feeling like I might vomit. Continue reading

Aspiring Chef in the Making

Familiarizing (is that a word?) herself the ingredients in the frig :)

Just thought it would be fitting to share this adorable picture of our littlest aspiring chef, getting familiar with her ingredients! If I don’t want a similar situation to transpire, I have to get what I need quickly these days or I might have to fish the “goods” out of the frig before I shut the door. Isn’t she just adorable? :)

Baked Sweet Potato Fries

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So, most of my kids prefer plain old “potato fries”. Actually, if you gave them the choice, I’m almost positive they would pass right by mama’s homemade fries for the enemy fries, greasy McDonald. Isn’t that just wrong? Anyway, today while the kids were watching me slave away chopping all of the sweet potatoes meticulously by hand, Eamon pointed out, “that must be hard!” Then someone asked, I think it was Guenna, “are you ever going to make REAL fries mommy?” Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that. Probably not ;) But you never know, I just might if you ask me really nice.

In the meantime, lets work up an appetite for these tasty little homemade, “not quite real fries”, shall we? Okay, we are all a work process, including me. Even though some of the kids are still getting used to the idea of sweet potatoes over regular potatoes, there weren’t really any of these tasty buggers left when dinner was cleared off the table, so not so bad after all! I’m still working on tweaking the recipe to tantalize their taste buds, I got the inspiration from my Everyday Paleo book, you should buy it if you’re a mom and you’re interested in the Paleo Diet! Continue reading

Kids LOVE Meatloaf, at least mine do…now.

Paleo Meatloaf and Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Since Chris and I have started eating “Paleo about a month and a half ago, we have slowly brought the kids one board. For the most part their lunches are the same most days, but they don’t eat box cereal any more and they eat a lot more eggs/pancakes (I know, pancakes aren’t paleo, we’re getting there:). But because I don’t plan to make two meals for the kids/mom/Chris and I, we ALL eat paleo friendly meals for dinner. So for the most part we leave the bread/carbs off the dinner table. And the kids have been adjusting pretty well, there have been a few complaints, but they complained sometimes before so we’re not doing to bad. Continue reading