It’s not every day you spend twelve plus hours driving the highway with two kids under the age of five, but when you do, you’re gonna need snacks. Snacks help keep the kids happy. Trust me. Knowing that we were going to be headed up to Tennessee in the middle of May for my younger brother’s Keep Reading
Appetizers/Snacks
Appetizers/Snacks are a great way to stay full through out the day and in between meals or before meals. However snacks are usually other overly sweet or super salty based on what you can pick up at the store, however these recipes can introduce some snacks and appetizers that are sure to please. Cookies, ice cream bars and fruit snacks can be chocked full of sugar and added preservatives when they are store bought, but if you use these recipes, you an have some easy no-bake cookies, smoothie bars and fruit leather that is all natural and better than store bought. These appetizers are enough to get your palate going and ready for the next portion of the meal, so kale dip and gluten free mozzarella sticks can be healthy alternatives to what you can order when eating out. You can eat healthy and cost friendly with these recipes and have these throughout the day.
Semi-Healthy, Corn Syrup-Free Caramel Corn
I love, love, love caramel corn! And unfortunately for them, I've inadvertently taught my kids to love it too. I mean, it's not like I had to put a lot of effort into that one. ;) Problem is, all the recipes I could find use corn syrup, which is something I don’t keep in my pantry. There’s a good Keep Reading
Homemade Marshmallows – Without Corn Syrup!
Seeing all the marshmallows and s’mores makin’s on display all over our local grocery store is killing me! Or I mean, it was until I finally decided it had been way too long since I made homemade marshmallows. Now the kids and I are on a marshmallow high. I’d forgotten how easy these things are Keep Reading
Gluten-Free Buckwheat Cookie Recipe
This gluten-free buckwheat cookie recipe is an original creation - one our whole family loves! Gluten-free recipes for cookies, are not my favorite, but these are amazing! Be cool. Make conversation starter cookies. Buckwheat cookies? What’s a buckwheat cookie? where do you even get buckwheat? Keep Reading
How To Dry Bananas
This tutorial for how to dry bananas may seem super simple, but there's one simple trick to making sure they're actually chewable. I mentioned the other day how much I was enjoying using my mom’s old Food Dehydrator lately. It is a great way to make things like flax crackers and fruit leather Keep Reading
Blueberry-Banana Fruit Leather Recipe
This blueberry-banana fruit leather recipe is the perfect healthy fruit snack. No sugar added thanks to the sweetness of ripe bananas! One of our favorite gluten-free recipes for snacks! I borrowed my mom’s old Food Dehydrator a little while ago, and I’ve just kind of been going to town with it Keep Reading
Dehydrated Flax Cracker Recipe
There are so many things I could say about this dehydrated flax cracker recipe. Who doesn't love a good gluten-free recipe? They’re absolutley the easiest cracker you’ll ever make, gluten-free or otherwise! No heating up the oven, mixing, rolling, cutting, poking with a fork… none of that. The prep Keep Reading
Gluten Free Chocolate Mug Cake
I never cease to be amazed by Gluten-free recipes, and this one is no exception! Sometimes life calls for chocolate, and when it does, it’s usually an I-need-it-right-now-but-don’t-want-to-make-an-entire-pan kind of thing. That’s why God made coffee mugs (I’m pretty sure he didn’t intend for them Keep Reading
Healthy Kid Snack Recipes
If you're looking for gluten-free recipes for kids snacks, these are perfect! Do your kids constantly beg you for snacks? Or are mine the only ones? I have a tendency to get in a rut with making the same snack over and over again. To combat that, I’ve compiled a list of 27 healthy kid Keep Reading
Healthy Blender Drinks
Hi all! Today I’m excited to bring you a recipe from Deborah of Journey to Natural Living. Deborah has been a friend of my family’s for many, many years, and while my blender gets used mostly for Easy Blender Mayonnaise, she takes blender recipes to a whole new level in her book Naturally Sweet Keep Reading