10 Healthy Passover Short Cuts! Just for you!

If you’re looking for Passover shortcuts, read this blog post! I take pride in the fact that my guests leave my house full, but not sick to their stomachs. Passover should be no different! I’m in full recipe gathering mode. This time of year I’m less inclined to work on developing my own recipes. It’s …

New Recipes and Succot Prep Extravaganza!

Here are a few recipes and ideas we’ve been working on over here at the Healthy Family, Healthy You house!
Use them to make your Succot easier or any other holiday or week yummier and healthier. All recipes are vegan. Almost all (I’m looking at you, cookie dough!) are super healthy.
For more healthy holiday ideas, read my recent blog on the topic! It’s not too late! If you’re worried about weight gain, read this recent post!

The Recipe for Preventing (& Reversing) Holiday Weight Gain

Preventing Holiday Weight Gain! You can do it!
3 mistakes and 3 solutions
Last week I wrote about staying healthy during Rosh Hashanah. Those tips apply to all holiday, high, low, Jewish or not.

Special 9 Days Dinner Menu and Recipes!

Special Nine (9) Days Vegetarian, Vegan, Non-Dairy Dinner Menu and Recipes! For my peeps who abstain from eating meat for the 9 days before Tisha B’Av (Jewish holiday commemorating the destruction of the ancient Temples), here’s an easy menu! You may want to save this for this coming Sunday evening. This would also make a …

The Mexican Menu + New Recipes

A Mexican Feast. Here is the complete menu, for your copying pleasure, along with the recipes, resources and shortcuts that I used. The point is healthy and delicious, not to kill yourself in the kitchen. Even with shortcuts, there is already plenty of that around here! New Jicama salad recipe.

Healthy Spanish Rice & Fajitas for the Family!

Healthy Spanish Rice Recipe & Fajitas for the Family! I don’t know about you, but I love meals where everyone can choose what they want to add to their own dish. Last week I saw a recipe for “Anything Goes Fajitas” on www.JewishFoodExperience.com and decided that was the feast I was going to make for …

Celebrate Passover like Mayim Bialik! + Healthy Tips

Oh, Mayim Bialik, you are responsible for my downfall! The Chocolate Truffle Pie that I linked to in my Healthy Passover post was total crack!

Healthy Passover Recipes? Yes!

I look at the week as a great opportunity to do a few things that I try to do the rest of the year (maybe I’ll do a little better though…):
1. Stay away from processed vegan foods (like the sour cream, cream cheese, and fake meats)
2. Be adventurous with vegetables!

2 Recipes: Vegan Hamantaschen and a Bonus Dessert!

Vegan Purim Success! As I start thinking about my first Passover as a vegan (and not just vegetarian), I’m happy to report a successful first vegan Purim. I can’t eat most of the candy (good for me!) and had to make my own to get vegan hamantaschen (I hear there is one brand that is …