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Chinese Chicken Salad

Chinese Chicken Salad | Eat Life Whole

I love Chinese Chicken Salad, and I have to say that this cliche all-American Chinese dish sits right up there with the rest of the western classics – like the good ol’ ceasar or the hearty cobb.  What I love most about the salad is the texture It’s all about the thinly chopped, watery Iceberg lettuce, sprinkles of fried noodles, [...]

5 Tips to Help Your Parents
Live Healthy Too

5 Tips to Encourage Your Parents to Live Healthy Too

If you are reading this blog, then you must have some interest to live healthy, eat healthy, cook healthy or even lose weight, right? Perhaps you may even be interested in simply finding healthy cooking inspiration to feed your fam? Well, on a recent call home to my workaholic momma, I started to think that we’ve never really talked about [...]

Are you a Stress-Eater?
Here’s a Solution.

Are You a Stress-Eater?

Are you a stress-eater? I am. I can honestly and openly admit that I eat when I am stressed. I like dark chocolate. Super dark. Sometimes 99% dark. And I know it’s not about the sweet and I know there’s a chemical reaction going on when I finally “get my fix,” but I hate it. I hate that I’ve developed [...]

How to Make a Piña Colada (Healthy)

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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and beyond… Cheers to celebration – to cool projects, to new babies in the family, to graduation, to folded laundry, to love, to that new flower that sprouted up in your garden. This coming weekend, marks a very special day in my neighborhood. On top of launching our new eBook, Eat Real Essentials, I’ve been collaborating [...]

30 Reasons Why We Make Healthy Eating Easy (and fun)

Eat Real Essentials - Video - Take a Look

Just last week, Springer and I threw on a favorite Pandora music playlist (“Classic Indie Radio” to be exact), cracked open the refrigerator, and cooked a mini feast from our latest eBook, Eat Real Essentials. The real climax of the story is, we taped the whole thing…ON VIDEO! Fun times. To be quite honest, we haven’t had a full-on Springer [...]

Healthy Brunch Recipes for Easter

Healthy Easter Brunch Recipes

Who needs a few brunch recipes for this easter weekend? Special savory egg dishes, sweet waffles, or how about a french-inspired side salad for your friends and family? Easter is here and boy does it remind me to embrace more TRADITION in my life. Going back to my “little girl days” back in Seattle, I remember wearing a new dress for [...]

5 Ways to Reduce Stress
this Spring

5 Ways to Reduce Stress this Spring

It’s now officially spring (yay) and we’re here to share some of our favorite ways to reduce your stress and celebrate the beginning to a very special season. As you wrap up the new year grind, perhaps Q1 deadlines, parent/teacher conferences (if you have kids), and even your taxes, you may be feeling a bit run down. Not to worry, [...]

New eBook. New Format.
New Launch Date!

Eat Life Whole | Update from Springer & Steph

It’s time for an update! Hi everyone. Springer and I have been hard at work, putting together an amazing NEW eBook for all of you healthy, on-the-go eaters out there. What started out as a minor refresh of our seasonal hit, (the EAT REAL Challenge: Spring/Summer Edition), has turned into something much BIGGER…and shall we say quite “bad a$$”! In [...]

Dark Chocolate Maca Fruit Bites

Eat Life Whole | Dark Chocolate Maca Fruit Bites

Ah, it’s love week – the week where red roses and heart-shaped chocolates come out to greet you at the grocery store. Well, if you are living anything close to the lives of Springer and myself (enthusiastically busy with exciting projects, deadlines, and family events), then you might be thinking that some genuine TLC (tender lovin’ care) may be the [...]

Maca Root – A Natural Energy and Libido Booster

Eat Life Whole | What is maca?

This week, we’re featuring a special ingredient called Maca powder – just in time to celebrate love week and Valentines Day. It is derived from a root that grows in the high altitudes of the Peruvian Andes and is known to be “Nature’s Viagra,” as well as a natural energy booster. On top of improving libido, Maca root is also [...]