What’s Most Important About Holiday Meals? MEALS SHOULD: be fun be delicious nourish your body & soul not be focused on nutrition content (keep conversation away from how "healthy" or "not healthy" the food is. Just eat and enjoy!!) Here’s the truth: YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO OVEREAT SOMETIMES! Our bodies are made to go through feast as well as famine. We should feast (“eat too much”) sometimes. Holidays being the perfect example!There will be times that we eat … [Read more...]
Julie’s Holiday Recipes and Thoughts on Holiday Eating During a Pandemic
Well 2020 turned out to be a pretty weird/challenging/devastating/testing year. All of us have been affected in one way or another. And our holidays are likely not looking like any others in memory. For some of you, the behavior that a pandemic requires of you brings back memories of being in treatment and avoiding large gatherings and sick people, or wearing masks to protect yourself. For some of you, like me, this year has tested our resolve to find something positive in … [Read more...]
Julie’s Delicious and Nutritious Holiday Cooking Class Recipes!
A little over a week ago I taught my last Cook to Thrive! Survivorship cooking class for 2019. It’s part of our programs at Cancer Services, the non-profit I work for. Cook to Thrive! was a series of 4 classes that I taught once a month since August. It was a lot of work, but so worth it! If you missed the recipes from some of my past classes, you can check them out here: More Salad in a Jar Recipes! Thai Chicken Salad, Greek Chickpea Salad and Pesto Salad! Taco … [Read more...]
Garlic & Chives Mashed Potatoes – Delicious Even With Skin On!
Garlic & Chive Mashed Potatoes with SKIN ON for extra nutrition! This recipe really is from my Aunt Donna! I changed it a little bit, just adding extra garlic and extra chives and I do like to leave the skin on my potatoes, people seem to like them just as well that way. You will need to make sure to scrub them really well with a vegetable brush and cut off any bad spots before cooking them. The other change I made was to use Greek cream cheese, because it increases the … [Read more...]
DIY Chai Tea Latte Mix with No Added Sugar!
Chai Tea Latte Mix Recipe If you're like me, you don't want a lot of sugar in your drinks. When it comes to Chai Tea, the mixes, or the drinks you buy at the coffee shop already have a lot of added sugar, and you can't take it out! Here's your solution! Make your own Chai Tea mix with no added sugar. Then, if you have guests that want some sweet, they can add it themselves with whatever sweetener they prefer. NOTE that this recipe makes a LOT of mix. It could probably make … [Read more...]
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