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Cake Batter Blondies (Dairy Free Recipe)
I love cake batter cookies, but with the warm weather I waned to find an oven free option. I mixed up my cake batter cookie recipe like I normally do, but poured the whole thing into a square baking...
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Honey & Citrus Pasta Salad (Dairy Free Recipe)
I love summer salads full of fresh vegetables! While I like the taste of traditional pasta salads made with mayonaise, they are often full of calories and quickly go bad when taken to an outdoor...
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Pineapple & Pudding Fruit Salad
Since going dairy free, I’ve really missed pudding. Especially instant pudding. This recipe combines pineapple juice and instant pudding mix to make a quick, tropical desert. The sauce for this...
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Green Olive Potato Salad (Dairy Free Recipe)
I’ve made a lot of potato salads and I usually follow a traditional recipe with pickle relish and hard boiled eggs. I got ready to make potato salad for a picnic a few weeks ago and didn’t have all...
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Summer Berry and Spinach Salad (Dairy Free Recipe)
It’s berry season in our part of the country and I love how a few berries can really dress up a salad. This is a simple salad that can be served on its own as a side dish. You also could add white...
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Barley Salad with Kale and Sun Dried Tomatoes (Dairy Free Recipe)
During the hot summer months, we eat salads almost every night. I like to vary my salads by sometimes using barley or brown rice in place of traditional pasta. This salad combines some of my...
View ArticleDay 4 – What is a Whole Food?
What is a whole food? I have a pretty simple definition: Whole foods are foods that you consume in their whole form. Take an apple for example. You can eat a whole apple: skin, seeds and all. That...
View ArticleDay 5 – I’m Finally NOT Hungry
The hardest part about changing the way you eat is feeling hungry. All. The. Time. When I first started a dairy free diet two and a half year ago, I had no idea how to cook anything without butter,...
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The Importance of Snacks (Whole Food Family Challenge Day 6)
The hardest part of a changing diet is the feeling hungry. As I said on Day 1, Jared and I tried the Maker’s Diet once before and quit early. We quit in part due to the diet being so expensive and in...
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Adjusting The Plan {Whole Food Family Challenge Day 7}
Our Whole Food Family Challenge started with two main goals, both centered on bad habits on the part of the parents. I needed to break my sugar addiction and both Jared and I wanted to change our...
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Whole Food Cooking: 4 Tips to Save Time in the Kitchen
Whole food cooking is VERY time consuming! I know whole food cooking means cooking mostly from scratch, and I know that cooking from scratch means extra time in the kitchen and planning ahead. But I...
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Buying Whole Food Ingredients: My WalMart Rule
During my homemaking journey, we’ve had a tight food budget. I have learned to use simple, readily available whole food ingredients to cook frugal meals. Over time my cooking skills have improved along...
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Homemade Chickpea Flour using a NutriBullet
I am almost a month into gluten free cooking and baking as part of our wheat free whole food family challenge. At first I really struggled with finding recipes I can cook with locally available...
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#31Days Wrap Up – Is the Challenge Over?
For the month of October we chose to eat a wheat and sugar free diet in addition to our well established dairy free diet. It was hard! When we started this, I planned to write and post something every...
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The Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle Sale!
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of previewing Weeding out Wheat by Luke and Trisha from Intoxicated on Life. The book changed the way I think about wheat and sparked our whole food family...
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Pumpkin Pie Cookie Recipe
I’ve been experimenting with recipes to create healthy and portable snacks, especially things Doodad can eat. The boys helped me create these pumpkin pie inspired cookies and they are a definite...
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Allergy Friendly Whole Food Meal Plan for December
I have planned meals monthly for the last year or so, but rarely do I actually stick to the plan! We bought a chest freezer last month, and I really want to learn how to freezer cook effectively....
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Allergy Friendly Whole Food Meal Plan for January
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase products after using one of my links, I will receive a small commission. Thanks for your support! Soups We plan to eat each soup at least twice....
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Nacho Not-Cheese Sauce {Dairy Free Recipe}
The hardest part of a dairy free diet is not having cheese. Especially in tex-mex food, which is a big favorite around our house. For a long time, I just left cheese off my nachos, tacos, and...
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Homemade Cough Syrup
Over the holidays, we all got a nasty cold. It was the runny nose and never ending cough kind of cold. And now that the weather is really cold and really dry, at least one of the boys wakes up...
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