back to basics | cook from scratch
Cook from scratch?!? But that’s so much work…. Last week, we kicked off the “Back to Basics” series by talking about whole foods and how as a health coach, I…
i’ll start january 1st….
It’s almost January 1st, 2023! Have you ever set a goal and thought, “I’ll start [tomorrow/next week/next month/next year]?” Well, here’s a true test of this approach. This coming Sunday…
baby steps | meal plan
Quick! What comes to mind when you hear me say, “meal plan?” If your mind immediately goes to a carefully laid-out grid showing a week’s worth of breakfasts, lunches, dinners,…
a healthy lifestyle in 2022
[W]e’ve lost ground in other [health] areas, and a lot of them are a function of the fact that we don’t have a very healthy lifestyle in our nation. Particularly…
thanksgiving in the kitchen (and a coupon for you!)
It’s Thanksgiving month! And I think because Thanksgiving falls in November, it’s a time when you can see a lot of posting about “gratitude month” on social media. I like…
eat your dark green leafies
When the cat’s away, the mice … eat dark green leafies? This past week, I experienced a sort of preview of coming attractions: being an empty nester. With my daughter…
decision fatigue
The Cycle out of S-T-R-E-S-S eating challenge started May 1, and already, I’ve gotten some interesting emails from participants about their experience of the first week’s activity—one of which touched…
winter is coming—and so is delicious winter squash!
Yeah, yeah. I know: it’s pumpkin spice season. Pumpkin everything season: seriously, when did Halloween decorations start appearing before the first day of school?!? But I’d like to put in…
3 tips for easily cooking from scratch more often
“Uggghhh. I know cooking from scratch is better for me, but it’s just so hard!” When I ask people why they don’t get back to the kitchen and cook from…
coming soon!
“Coming soon to a theater near you!” Wonder when we’ll hear that again? One thing the pandemic has made me realize is how much I miss going to the movie…
7 basic kitchen formulas + 1 fantastically simple recipe
Ever tried to make up a recipe—only to have it fail completely? (I swear this is where bad 70s hippie food came from: people making stuff up without any background…
12 tips for grocery shopping safely during the pandemic
What has the pandemic made possible? was the question I raised in last week’s blog post, and this week I’ve been paying attention to just that—from the halls of government…
meal planning for the pandemic
feel like you’re chained to the stove just now? Struggling to make mealtimes feel more manageable, especially now that you’re cooking at home more often? Get help this week with…
fl!p your k!tchen® | group coaching now available!
does your kitchen feel overwhelming? Looking to improve your health this year? Feel like you need to shift your eating style? Not sure what and how you “should” be eating?…
Happy 2020!
I’m on vacation this week, trying to practice what I preach and keep boundaries around my family time, so no musings for you this week! Instead, just a quick reminder…
Am I in climate change denial?
To everything there is a season…. Some of you might know where in the Bible that line comes from. And I know at least half of you went there: turn,…
Confessions of a picky eater
Thanks to a long, cool, wet Spring, this year’s peak produce season is about two weeks behind schedule, and the sense that the long-awaited tomato season is probably going to…
Greatest hits | What’s for dinner, Mom?
As summer winds down, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the recent changes in our family life are playing out in the kitchen. My daughter spent her first summer…
Greatest hits | Absence makes the self care fonder
How is it possible that it’s been more than four years since I wrote this week’s flashback post, Absence makes the self care fonder?!? I’m now measuring time in BDL…
So much new + good!
how do you eat an elephant? As we plunge into the second half of 2019 (whattt? how is that possible?), I find myself reflecting on the first two quarters of…
Back to the kitchen
When my husband took his job at University of Michigan, we had just bought a house in Southern California—and I mean that literally: the morning of the day he found…
Oooh! Aaah! Fabulous prizes!
In scrolling through my calendar recently, I came across a few dates of note: May 2 is the 4th anniversary of when I officially established my practice although it’s been…
#eatmorekale
Spring is here—which in Michigan means the temperature still dips below 40ºF and yet the upper limits (in the 60s) are starting to show up more often than the dips….
Vitamin P(ee)
One of the principles of Integrative Nutrition® is the idea of bioindividuality: what is healthy for one person may be toxic to another, whether we’re talking about secondary foods (what…
Spring into health
Spring has sprung, the grass is riz…. My father used to recite the poem every year around this time. In Michigan, it’s still blustery, and the the grass is not…
Life without roads
I recently had a conversation with some much younger friends who were talking about what they see as one of the problems their generation faces: too many choices. Yes, this…
What’s for dinner, Mom?
what’s for dinner, mom? For a working woman, that one innocent question at the end of the day can cause a lot of stress. (Yes, yes, I know men cook,…
