Beef · Dinners · Healthy and Delicious

“Lazy” Lo-Carb Spinach Lasagna

Several of my friends have had weight loss luck with a program called Trim Healthy Mama.  While I haven’t personally checked it out, I have seen some recipes and ideas floating around on Facebook that intrigued me.  This lasagna in particular. Loved the idea of using spinach in place of noodles! I almost never make… Continue reading “Lazy” Lo-Carb Spinach Lasagna

chicken · Dinners · Healthy and Delicious · Side Dishes & Salads

Chrissy Teigen’s Chinese Chicken Salad

I will start out by saying that this is one of the best salads I have ever eaten in my entire life.  And I have had a lot of good salads.  It was like “pour the entire thing into a giant mixing bowl and eat until you feel sick” good. Lets just say I have… Continue reading Chrissy Teigen’s Chinese Chicken Salad

candy · chocolate · Desserts · Healthy and Delicious · whole 30 paleo

5 Ingredient, 5 Minute: Primal Fudge

As I have mentioned previously, my husband and I recently completed the Whole30 challenge.  Basically we went for 30 days eating only whole, unprocessed foods.  No sugar, no dairy, no grains, no legumes, no alcohol (gasp!) In other words: 30 days of torture. That said, we had amazing results in our health and our waistlines,… Continue reading 5 Ingredient, 5 Minute: Primal Fudge

banana recipes · cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Wow, the title of this recipe is quite a mouthful, huh?  I wasn’t sure what else to call them though. These delicious cookies have no added sugar, no flour, no butter, no oil, and still by some miracle manage to be absolutely delicious. Now, you may be asking yourself if I have been kidnapped and… Continue reading Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Dinners · Healthy and Delicious

Zucchini, Black Bean, and Rice Skillet

This was a quick, healthy, and delicious dinner!  It all cooked in one pot, and even my kids ate it. You could play around with it quite a bit.  I added some diced onions, some fresh minced garlic, and a cup of leftover ground turkey taco meat to mine, and it was excellent. I had… Continue reading Zucchini, Black Bean, and Rice Skillet

Breads · Breakfast · Fall (Halloween & Thanksgiving) · Uncategorized

Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake

You know the old cartoons where somebody like Daffy Duck would be thinking about his next move, and he’d have a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other shoulder, each telling him what to do? I have those too, but not a devil and an angel.  My life is a… Continue reading Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake