Getting Healthy, Saving Money, and Living Well
Today, Lauren from Oatmeal With a Fork brings you a wonderful eggplant pasta made with vegetable noodles.
Lauren has a great collection of recipes that I know you will all love. I’ve shared a number of them on my Facebook page so some of you know her work. Here is her story followed by a fabulous recipe.
With the price of everything going up…up…and up….(you’ve noticed, right?)
Frugal is really in style now.
I know I, for one, have been watching our food budget got up and it’s gotten me thinking about ways to save more money in that category.
Join me over at The Balanced Platter today where I am sharing some of my favorite tips for making frugal meals.
And I’m also doing a recap of my recipe for Indian Lentils.
This dish a real “go to” for us when you’re looking for a
I look forward to hearing about your frugal meals tips too. I’m sure all of mine and the Balanced Platter’s readers would appreciate any and every tip that is shared.
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Today’s post is from Tessa of Tessa the Domestic Diva. Tessa is another hostess and founder of Allergy Free Wednesdays.
I love Tessa’s selection of healthy, attractive, and special diet friendly recipes (she’s got a beautiful site as well.) We are kindred spirits in the sense that we have seen great things happen in our families as we have moved to more healthful, whole foods diets. I hope you enjoy this post by Tessa as she shares with us some quick, easy, and healthful options for getting dinner on the table—FAST! I’m sure at least one of these will make it onto our table soon! Now….here’s Tessa. [Read more...]
Getting your kids to eat healthy can be like tough.
Especially when their barraged by commercials touting the:
Well, I’m hoping to give you a little oasis in the middle of your desert of food prep for your hungry munchkins.
And of course, these all are yummy enough to be enjoyed by adults too!
So pull up a cuppa something. (Maybe my Delicious and Healthy Coffee Substitute?) and hop on over to The Balanced Platter where I am sharing a roundup of great Healthy Meals Your Kids Will Love to Eat.
You’ll save money at the grocery store, have some fun, and get some smiles too. Sounds good? Just click here to join me and read more.
Comfort Food.
What do those words conjure up for you?
Visions of mashed potatoes? Spaghetti and Meatballs? Chocolate Brownies? Rocky Road Ice Cream?
OK – Enough temptation, right?
We all have foods that evoke feelings of nostalgia, memories of the past – or that just plain taste great.
Join me today over at The Balanced Platter where I am sharing an abundance of “Whole New Comfort Foods” (a play on my blog’s name – get it 
?)
And pictured above is my family’s favorite of them all. If you’ve been around here for awhile, you know what it is.
And if not, you need to know…..
Click here to continue reading “Whole New Comfort Foods” and My Most Requested Recipe.
We just love this chicken recipe! It’s a super easy recipe that you can put together in almost no time flat that will make your family feel like you really went out of your way for them.
Recently we’ve been so busy that our meals have gotten a bit blase. Meat, eggs, or beans, a grain and a veggie. Good, but a bit boring. I guess a highlight for my kids would be when I served them healthy no-nitrate, no antibiotic hot dogs .
But the other night I pulled out some thawed chicken breast out of the fridge and served up this great chicken recipe for yummy chicken chunks and well, you should have seen the smiles on my kids’ (and my husband’s) faces.
You know by now that my criteria for a great recipe is one that is:
then this just might be the best chicken recipe ever.
This is my most requested recipe. Hands down.
Think you don’t like recipes for curry? Think your kids won’t eat it? Think you don’t like international fare? Think again.
My kids were literally jumping up and down when they saw that I made this last night!
This is one of my stand-by company meals and it is also the one that I like to take to new moms or those who are sick. Almost without fail, I get a request for the recipe. And it’s great that the main ingredient is ground beef (though you can make it vegan as well) so it is a fairly frugal meal as well.
Now everyone can enjoy this recipe – though I must confess that I’m a bit hesitant to share – I kinda want to keep the secret all to myself . It’s really fun to bless others with something nice, isn’t it?
I am always on the lookout for easy recipes that I can throw together quickly, but they have to be good. This recipe for chicken fits the bill. Fast and Yummy!
As promised, this is the Chicken and Sun-dried Tomato Pasta that I promised in my post on Super Fast “Pasta~Your Way” – a great solution to the “What Am I Going to Make For Dinner” blues. I sing them often, do you?
Well, here is one great solution for you. Following is a simply great combination of some of my favorite flavors – sun-dried tomatoes, feta, and chicken. If you are lacking any of these ingredients, just look at my “throw it together with whatever you’ve got” method in Super Fast “Pasta~Your Way, for some great ideas for substitutions that you can mix and match for a great dish. Either way, you’ve got a family-pleasing, easy dinner solution.
Need an easy recipe for a last minute meal? Here is a great recipe using leftovers that you can put together in a flash.
Perfect for those”What am I going to have for dinner?!” moments. I’m not the only one who has them, right?
Well, one of the best kitchen time-savers is — flexibility. Making do with what you have and substituting where necessary.
This recipe gives you just that.
Mix and match ingredients, with no exact measurements needed. Just use what-cha got, throw it together, and you’ve got a great meal!
The inspiration for this dish came from my friend, Sarah. My boys and I were blessed to have lunch with her and her boys one afternoon, and she served up a wonderful gluten-free pasta dish for us.
My oldest even ate the broccoli . (Don’t you love it when they’ll eat something at someone else’s house that they won’t eat at yours?)
Anyhow, my kids kept begging me to make a similar dish, and so the next time we were in Chicago we went to Trader Joe’s and literally loaded up our cart (a little kiddie-sized one) with their unbelievably low-priced organic brown rice pasta (it tastes great too !), and I was prepared!
But here’s the point. I didn’t need to call my friend for the recipe. I just took the basics from her meal, made some substitutions and made it work with what I had.
And now you can do the same thing.
Our family loves curry. Anything curry. In fact, though we like experimenting with cuisine from all cultures, I would say that Indian is one of our favorites.
Now, before I go on, let me say that this dish isn’t really curry – so don’t run away if you are not a curry fan.
And soon I hope to post a dish that DOES feature curry seasoning. And it is for sure my most requested recipe EVER.
Most Indian food, however, can be quite time consuming. So when I can get the taste of Indian spices in a fast, one pot meal, then I have the best of both worlds. ‘Cause these days, who has a lot of time to spend in the kitchen on elaborate steps? I have other things that need to be done. Like photo albums (please don’t ask how many years behind I am. I need to start a support group for moms with empty photo albums .)
This recipe is adapted from a dish simply called “Red Lentils” by Southern Living. Blah name for a great dish.
It’s quick on its own, but really lickety-split in my pressure cooker. If you don’t have one of these yet, put it on your Christmas list now. I know, I should get better at planning meals, but it sure is nice to not have any idea what you are going to have for dinner at 5:30 and have dinner on the table at 6:15.
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