There are times when even I question whether or not it’s worth all the effort to eat right and exercise. Trudging down to the hot basement garage to work out every day can become tedious. Wondering if a set of weighted pull-ups is a waste of time is not the best way to crank out […]

There are times when a recipe is too good. This is one of those times. If you are the lone ranger in your house trying to eat healthy meals and everyone else snubs their noses and refuses to even try it, you need to make these blueberry cheesecake bars right away. Don’t tell them it’s […]

I recently found myself in possession of a surprise turkey. Perhaps you too have experienced this phenomenon. Someone has a giant frozen turkey for which they have no room in their freezer, so they do a sneak attack visit where they stop by to “say hello” and then suddenly your freezer is at maximum turkey […]

In my previous life, Beef Stroganoff was only possible if it came out of a box of Hamburger Helper. Looking at the ingredients, the only thing that product was helping was my waistline expanding and future medical bills to skyrocket. Ingredients Enriched Pasta (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Dairy Solids, […]

There may be some of you that read this series but don’t really buy into the why of it all. I’ve shared the before and after pics showing how I lost eighty pounds of body fat and added lean muscle by avoiding pre-packaged foods with Tolstoy length ingredient lists. I’ve written out the recipes I’ve […]

Want a chocolatey peanut buttery ice cream treat? Of course you do. Want it to be full of protein, healthy fats, and minerals? Don’t care, you say? I get it. But now you can have your ice cream and eat it too, all while fueling your lean muscle mass and reducing blood sugar impacts. How? […]

Anytime I make a dish with noodles, I think about Kung Fu Panda. I guess it’s because that movie came out when my youngest son was four years old, so I figure I have watched the first one at least one million, five hundred and seventy-five times, on a conservative estimate. It’s so ingrained in […]

It’s getting hot. The days of heavy meals are distant memories now, shaky images in the rearview mirror of culinary winter. I still need dessert, though, no matter if it feels like Venus on a bad day outside right now. It needs to be light, it needs to be refreshing, and it needs to be healthy. […]

Who doesn’t love cinnamon rolls? I wasn’t picky about them back when I ate whatever crossed my path. It could be homemade and fresh baked, or a stale gas station special wrapped in cellophane. I devoured them all. In my high school years, I worked the summers and weekends with a landscaping crew. It was hard labor. […]