Pinterest is a great place to discover your inner creativity, isn’t it?! I used a tip I saw on there for Valentine’s Day today to make heart-shaped cupcakes. Of course, cupcakes at our house are healthy enough to eat for breakfast or lunch, so that’s what we did! If you’ve never learned about the benefits
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I’ll never forget the look on the poor girl’s face (and her mom’s!) when we said we don’t eat sugar and respectfully declined her Girl Scout cookies. And I didn’t even get to the part about them containing the even more dangerous trans fats! We’re not much for even natural sweets around here (give me
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Finding and eating healthy snacks can be one of the biggest obstacles to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We all know that store-bought snacks are nothing but processed, dead matter marketed as “food,” so I won’t beat a dead horse listing facts we all already know. Instead, I’ll just offer HFFG’s Master List of Healthy, Whole
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When our family began transitioning our lifestyle to whole foods over five years ago, cutting out sugar was not something I thought was necessary. Instead, I purchased organic sugars and foods made with organic sugars. I thought I was making the healthy choice! Can anybody relate?! The more I researched, however, the more I saw
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Everyone remembers the video of the toddler smoking cigarettes. “How could parents do that to their child?” everyone thought. Feeding our children half a pound of sugar a day is no different; it is proven in numerous studies to cause obesity, diabetes, and cancer, all of which have rates that are climbing substantially each year
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Delicious Breakfasts for Our Challengers! Hmmm, breakfast. What to do for this 30-day no-refined-sugar challenge? There’s lots you can do! The most simple is: oatmeal. And it doesn’t have to be just plain ol’ oatmeal. In addition to adding honey, pure maple syrup, and/or molasses, you can puree up fresh, ripe pears (oooo, this was one of
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Now Let’s Talk About What We CAN Have! Okay. The discussions have focused enough on what we can’t have and what’s bad. Now let’s discuss what we can have and what’s good! I’ll start by going through the natural sweeteners allowed for this challenge. Pure Maple Syrup First off, I have to be obvious and state that this is NOT pancake
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Hidden Sources of Sugar–Watch these sneaky items. . . Sugar shows up in the most unexpected places. When we say, “It’s in everything,” we ain’t kidding! For our No-Sugar Challenge, here are some things to watch out for that may be on your grocery list. I’ve included recipes and links for many of them to
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For our sugar-free challenges, I thought I’d provide you with some additional information on why I’m doing this, and to show you that this information is based on thorough research. Sugar’s Addictiveness To begin, how do we make the statement that sugar is four times more addictive than cocaine? I mean, how do they even
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Teflon-free bread machines:
