5 Tips & a 1 ingredient recipe for a Sane and Healthy Passover!

If you read this blog, you’re probably looking for ways to eat well during Passover (or anytime!). Vegan or not (and let me tell you – it ain’t easy for Passover!), we all want fresh food with plenty of vitamins and fiber that won’t weigh us down like all the heavy matza and meat!
I’ve got the answer for you. How to have a healthy Pesach: eat raw food. Lucky for you and me, I have an amazing new resource that I

How to feel lighter after a two-day holiday (+Recipe)

Is it possible to feel lighter after a 2-day holiday? Yes! It is. Here’s how I did it.

Simple and Tasty! 10 ideas for your Healthy Memorial Day Menu

Hey, Healthy Mama! Whether you are hosting your own shindig or contributing to another one, the Healthy Family, Healthy You blog has all the healthy Memorial Day ideas you need. Many of these can be used in a couple of different categories, so see where I’ve noted this. Also, many of these recipes are from …

A Spring without Zombies!

I’m not one to tell my kids to go outside and play. Why? I don’t like to play outside! If they’re out there, I have to be too. However, I recently realized that I had to do something to combat the slow screen-addicted zombie-ification of myself and my family. Discovering a sense of wonder (missing in the Google age) for something other than new toy videos on YouTube is definitely a healthy habit for children AND adults. I decided to force that discovery and took advantage of a once a year phenomena to get us out there.

Your best hostess gift (and way to get kids to eat veggies!) yet!

Many of you know it is my mission to change how we think we have to feed one another. Our friends and family, 95% of the time, will be thrilled when we don’t over-stuff them or give them tempting foods they’d rather avoid. As an example of this, here are the results of my healthy Purim efforts, which are also healthy snack and hostess gift ideas to inspire you, regardless of whether you ever celebrate Purim. And if you do-to help you all year round, not just on Purim. Keep reading!

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 …

Tips & Tricks from a Foodie turned Food Editor!

Shifra Klein, Editor-in-Chief, for Joy of Kosher Magazine This past Sunday I had the pleasure of attending Shifra Klein’s presentation for my Chabad Women’s Circle. Shifra is the Editor-in-Chief for Joy of Kosher magazine. She started out as a foodie, then created Bitayavon magazine with her husband, before joining forces with cookbook author Jamie Geller’s Joy of …

The Kitchen Sink/Garden

I’m once again in danger of having my blogger status taken away. But definitely not my mother, worker, be all things to all people totally overwhelmed typical female persona…status. J I had such baby brain the other day and was trying to go fast to get so much done I did something really hysterical and …