Here I am again. After last week’s juice fast, I’ve rediscovered how much my body needs clean food. The other stuff, the processed junk I often eat and tell myself is healthy-ish, isn’t working. I didn’t realize how tired, how spacey and irritable I felt until I cut all that out of my diet. Now I’m...Continue Reading
So far, 2015 hasn’t been a great year for discipline, especially health discipline. I’ve slipped from eating paleo to paleo-ish to whatever is left on the kids’ plates. My spiritual life has become more reactionary than structured–i.e. desperate, quick prayers instead of any real time with God. I’ve never fasted before, and when I saw Snap Kitchen...Continue Reading
If you have kids, you probably eat a lot of pancakes. Our kids love pancakes in different shapes and sizes (silver dollar to big-as-your-head). They like guessing the mystery ingredient in a batch of pancakes (banana? Maple syrup in the batter?) Most of all, our kids like not eating eggs for breakfast every single morning....Continue Reading
For our family, the end of February has always meant Galveston Mardi Gras. Every one of us laissez les bons temps in a different way: I love huge parades with high-stepping marching bands, Mike likes the beer and soul food, we all enjoy seeing old friends and the eclectic crowds. Nate and Sam come for the...Continue Reading
For all the cooks who nourish their families, who make three meals a day, who buy all the groceries, who do the sinkfuls of dishes, who freeze and reserve the leftovers, who think about what to make for breakfast while drifting to sleep…this is for you. For the cooks who cook eggs benedict for their...Continue Reading
For the past couple years, ever since Chronic Fatigue flattened my life into a pattern of sleeping and more sleeping, I’ve tried to eat healthier. To understand what that means, I’ve read a bunch of books about where our food comes from, about the typical American diet, and about how to prevent cancer, autoimmune diseases,...Continue Reading
For just about the first decade of raising kids, I had a wonderful relationship with 100-calorie snack packs. Or, really, any portable food. Who wouldn’t adore pre-packaged energy for hypoglycemic, grumpy toddlers and kids? The right snack in those bright, little packages (Oreos come to mind), could bribe kids into their car seats, halt temper...Continue Reading
I just finished reading Animal Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. I didn’t totally love the book, but I did agree with one point the author reiterates over and over again: cook with your kids. Kingsolver makes a solid case for how important it is for the next generation to learn how their way around the...Continue Reading
Two years of eating Paleo(ish) has taught me a few lessons: 1. Condiments are never Paleo friendly. Paleo sauces are either weird consistencies, expensive, or tricky to make. 2. Eating out is mostly Paleo-friendly. Perhaps this is where the (ish) part of my diet is obvious. Eating out might be hard for someone following an...Continue Reading
I’m asking myself Fraudulently Asked Questions today. Which, I know, what the heck? What is this horrific trifecta of referring to myself in the third person, asking fake questions, and then answering them? I don’t know, friends. What I do know is that we are two months into summer, so we are officially to the...Continue Reading
