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.
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.
St. Patrick’s March celebrations create opportunities to bring nature’s green food into our meals. Here’s it’s a fun way to eat more real food greens at breakfast — pineapple-mint smoothie, green pancakes, an arugula frittata with a bell pepper “shamrock” and fruit wands.
Celebrate Valentine’s with nature’s red foods! Watermelon, grapes and beets are the stars of the show for this playdate. So many ways to celebrate love and friendship through special food, decorations and activities without fructose corn syrup and excess sugar.
