Prepping your kitchen is an essential step towards supporting a nutrient-rich lifestyle. Clean out and organize, stock up on fresh and frozen produce, healthy fats and proteins, beans and whole grains to set yourself up for success in nourishing your body.
These beautiful, delicious, nutritious dips are rich in brain essential nutrients: minerals, vitamins, phytochemicals and fiber oh my!
Make a weekly batch through the holiday season to use as an
appetizer or side dish for holiday meals, for an easy nourishing lunch or yummy, healthy snack .
This menu is inspired in the joy of Easter, its gift of love and the promise of life. Anchored on nature’s foods of the season, it celebrates spring bringing asparagus, snap peas, carrots and strawberries to the table with another dozen vegetables, fruits, nuts and herbs for a meal good for body and soul.
This nutrient dense, delicious recipe is also good brain food.
Salmon is rich in Omega-3 essential fatty acids that
Nuts have a mix of protein, healthy fats and slow-burning carbohydrates. They’re also rich in fiber, zinc, iron and essential vitamins.
You can add veggies tossed with olive oil, sea salt and minced garlic to roast with the salmon. Some of my favorites are:
Leftovers make a filling second meal.
This Easter menu brings together the magnificence of spring foods celebrating nature’s bounty — roasted asparagus with lemon zest zing, bright green sugar snap peas with mint & purple potatoes, roasted , a salad harmoniously balancing piquant arugula and luscious strawberries. A glorious finale of Carrot Cake Cupcakes crowned by Whipped Orange Cream.
Pumpkin Granola Parfaits with cranberry orange sauce, smoked salmon frittata and pineapple pomegranate with mint make a pretty, delicious, and healthy brunch table. A celebration of 10+ plant foods!
Celebrating nature’s bounty and the season of giving thanks with a whole-foods, nutrient-dense RESTART friendly meal. Fourteen plant foods and a delicious bacon-wrapped turkey breast support your long-term strategy to make smart nutritional choices. Choosing to eat consciously, and enjoying it thoroughly.
How to make a Thanksgiving meal for two, or for a family of four, without creating massive amounts of food that cannot be eaten?
This nutrient-dense, gourmet menu is a delicious celebration of fall harvest and traditional dishes in measured way: turkey, cornbread and sausage stuffing, butternut squash, and cranberries.
Brimming with colors and flavors, this Thanksgiving menu is a delightful healthy feast bringing together fifteen vegetables and fruits (cranberries, blueberries and apple), whole grains, four herbs and three different nuts.
My intention was to celebrate nature’s bounty; the end result is dairy-free, mostly gluten-free with plenty of vegan food.
Memorial Day kicks off summer, pool time and picnics and barbecues, but we seem to have lost its real meaning.
Planning my menu for a Memorial Day with family and friends, I look also for ways to learn together about this special day and to honor the fallen heroes who died fighting for our freedom and safety.
