The Five-Recipe Fix: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes to Change Your Life
Thai Vegetable Egg-Drop Soup with Ginger-Cilantro Turkey Meatballs
We like to call it "Thai Meatball Soup" for short, since any dish with such a long name sounds more complicated and intimidating than this one is. This super-clean, low calorie, ultra-flavorful brothy soup is chock-full of beneficial ingredients like cilantro, ginger,...
Slow Cooker Challenge Recipe
Thai Chicken and Broccoli Two days ago, we asked our accountability group members to list three things: a protein, a vegetable and a style of cuisine. She said, "chicken, broccoli, Thai." Assuming most people don't have a plethora of ethnic spices and fresh herbs at...
A 20% Treat for Trying Times
A 20% Treat for Trying Times Or, How to make your kids smile when they're sick of social distancing and virtual-learning... and you. Oh boy(s). Yesterday was A DAY in our house. No one wanted to get up. The school programs crashed. The fridge broke. It rained so much...
Housekeeping to Burn Calories
Making lemonade from your family's crumbs and dust! Tired of your virtual workouts via Zoom? Inclement weather keeping you from your daily bike ride? Is your house a complete pigpen with everyone home and underfoot? Can't let your cleaning people in the house due to...
The Simplest Slow-Cooker Chicken Soup
You can totally make this for lunch! Even when you're healthy, chicken soup just screams comfort food. We make this version in the slow cooker; extra pots and pans are unnecessary. (Here's to fewer dishes while we're self-isolating, virtual-schooling, and serving 3+...
Easy Family Dinners: Garlicky Ginger Beef with Green Beans
With evening activities curtailed, there's more time to spend in the kitchen. Here's a healthy version of an easy crowd pleaser. If you're not much of a cook, your family will be really impressed with this uncomplicated but flavorful Asian dish. Serves 4-6...
Healthy Habits During Social Distancing
Before you go full hibernation mode, let's think ahead a bit. You're home from work. Your family is home from school. All after-school activities are canceled. Everyone is sitting around, staring at each other. Might as well make some brownies? Well, yes. And...
Shopping and Cooking in the Coronavirus World
Let's think ahead and be productive! There is so much regurgitated info in the media about COVID-19, the coronavirus, and the death toll, the growing number of people infected, threats of quarantine, yet there is not very much that feels productive. This post focuses...
A-CHOO! Get Well Soon-er!
If you’re sick with a cold, the flu, or have flu-like symptoms, these 10 tips can help you feel more comfortable, complement medical care, and help to reduce your recovery time. (Note: They don't take the place of advice from your medical provider, though. If your...
Cooking with Essential Oils
We put doTERRA Essential Oils to the test in a special Eighty Test Kitchen! We are big fans of doTERRA's essential oils for personal and home use. doTERRA provides high quality, pure essential oils and is the gold standard for CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade®...