I love making making flavored iced tea of all kinds (even though peppermint iced tea is still my favorite!), and I’m a big fan of separating out the flavors for individual batches, BUT I often find myself with little bits of different kinds of fruit in my refrigerator, and in that case, making Keep Reading
Healthy Smoothie Recipes
Who doesn't love smoothies? I think I fell in love with them after I realized that you could freeze or partially freeze the fruit and use smoothie recipes to make healthy soft-serve ice cream.I also broke my (cheap) blender doing that. But that's neither here nor there. I made a batch of healthy Keep Reading
Strawberry Iced Tea Recipe
I am loving making as many fun fruity flavored iced tea recipes as I can this summer! It keeps me interested, and keeps the kids happy. Win-win, right? One of the kids favorite flavors ever is strawberry. We occasionally go down to Sonic and get milkshakes as a treat, and every single time, since Keep Reading
Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate Recipe
What could be more perfect on a chilly fall morning than pumpkin spice hot chocolate? Pumpkin latte recipes abound on Pinterest right now, but what about the rest of us? The ones who don’t drink coffee? What could be more perfect on a chilly fall morning than pumpkin spice hot chocolate? Pumpkin 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
Herbal Tea Recipe
While you're here, make sure you check out our flavored iced tea recipes page! Do you take advantage of all the nutrition that herbal tea recipes have to offer? Our modern diets are so sadly nutrient deficient, that we need to do our best to pack as much nutrient dense food into ourselves as we Keep Reading
Agua De Jamaica Fresco (Hibiscus Tea) Recipe
While you're here, make sure you check out our flavored iced tea recipes page! We went shopping at our little local grocery store a few days ago and found hibiscus flowers in the Mexican section. That isn’t always the case, so I happily picked some up. I was first introduced to iced hibiscus Keep Reading
Chocolate Mint Tea
I'm all about flavored iced tea recipes, but when I first heard about chocolate mint tea, I thought whoah, that sounds amazing. But what in the world is chocolate tea? Answer: it’s tea with cocoa powder in it, plain and simple. Peppermint iced tea is my all time favorite summer drink, with a tie Keep Reading
Water Kefir
My husband is a heavy drinker. Tea drinker that is. and coffee. During the winter he doesn’t drink a whole lot, but this time of year? My goodness, if I can make it fast enough, he’d drink two gallons of tea every day plus coffee. Last year we brewed a lot of kombucha tea, which made us both feel Keep Reading
Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix
Sometimes, there’s just nothing that hits the spot on a cold morning like a steaming mug of hot chocolate. My usual policy is to not drink my calories, but I make an exception for a good cup of hot cocoa. Hot chocolate with a homemade marshmallow? Yes please! I wrote a while back about some of Keep Reading
