Store bought dips…there’s a million of them.  You might be tempted to grab one for taco night, due to the convenience and different flavors to choose from, but this is another heavily processed food that is just as easy and quick to make at home.  You also get to leave out the bits the food […]

  Since I dropped all my extra weight years ago, a common misconception I get is that I don’t eat very much. I’ll have people tell me all the time in full confidence that they know I’m either starving, or that I eat very little compared to the average person. The truth is I am […]

  If you are familiar with this feature, you know my main point is to avoid processed foods as much as possible in your daily life.  Anything you can do yourself instead of trusting to a large corporation is always going to be beneficial both in taste and nutrition.   It just makes sense, because why you […]

  Everyone has those major events in their life that becomes a marker where one phase of their life stopped and a new phase started.  The first of those bookmarks, if you will, in my memory is the first time I felt like an adult on an equal level with my parents.  This was when […]

  Bolognese is one of those “heavy belly” dishes.  You know the kind, it’s hearty and tastes great, and you overeat and then it feels like you have a bag of Quickkrete setting up in your stomach for the next hour or two.  It wasn’t a dish that was even on my healthy lifestyle radar, […]

  I’ve been seeing more and more commercials for breakfast sandwiches from the big three fast food joints.  They all claim it’s a great way to start the day, and that even though you might have the ingredients at home to make one yourself, it never tastes as good as their version.  Of course, that’s […]

A warm brownie is the ultimate comfort dessert.  It’s a dense little chocolate cake you can hold in your hand, what’s not to love about that?  Back in my previous life, I was known to nuke one of those Little Debbie cosmic brownies in the microwave for 10 seconds, dump a giant scoop of vanilla […]

If you’ve ever made a casserole of any kind, at some point you will need the ingredient of cream of mushroom soup.  It’s almost in everything, especially those corporation created recipes designed to get you to purchase pre-made ingredients like soups or sauces.  And why not?  Cream of mushroom soup is…well…creamy, and it’s delicious.  Let me […]