Celebrating Cinco de Mayo Satisfying your food cravings is nothing that you should avoid or deny. In fact, it should be something that you embrace and experiment with as you continue the path to eat foods that support a healthy body. This week, we are paying homage to the “Americanized” holiday, Cinco de Mayo. Filled with mexican AND not-so-mexican traditions, [...]
Fool-Proof Formula for Making a Fabulous Chopped Salad
When in doubt, chop – a strategy that I use often when planning the weekday lunches. For this household, that often means a chopped salad. I love chopped salads. For starters, they are easy to prepare and can be prepped in advance. They make good use of leftovers and produce in need of a plan. And with the right [...]
Kale, Sesame and Ginger Salad
If you’ve ever been to the Whole Foods salad bar, you’ve probably seen their cold, asian-style kale salad. If you haven’t, you aren’t missing out on much because you can EASILY make it yourself in about 5 minutes. With GREENS being a pretty solid staple in the EAT LIFE WHOLE philosophy, we continue to share “feel good, easy, and delicious” [...]
How-to Select, Store and Prepare Ginger {video}
Last week, Springer and I realized that we sometimes take our food and cooking knowledge for granted and expect our readers to understand what the heck we’re talking about. Inspired by Agnes, a dear friend of Springer’s who is doing the 21-Day Eat Real Challenge, we learned that “1 tablespoon ginger, finely grated” may be 100% intimidating to someone who [...]
12 Healing Spices and 8 Flavor Combos
Spices add more than flavor. They can do things like sooth your belly, stimulate circulation, or even help regulate your blood sugar. But how do you use them and how many do you really need? While you can definitely serve-up some pretty delicious meals with just salt, pepper, and a lemon, you may have a desire to cook an ethnic [...]
Enjoy a Healthy Cup of Tea
Tea rarely comes to mind when we think of superfoods. But its long list of health benefits definitely puts it squarely in the same category as other powerhouse foods like blueberries, quinoa, salmon and sweet potatoes. And yet, most of us still know little about it. TEA 101 All types of tea come from the Camellia sinensis plant and [...]
Lemony Red Lentil Soup
How often do you catch yourself standing in front of your open fridge or pantry, hoping that if you stare at it just long enough, the perfect dinner solution will magically present itself? I do it more often that I would like to admit (this coming from a hyper meal planner), usually in response to my kid’s inevitable line of [...]
Springer & Steph Kick-Off their “21-Day Eat Real Challenge”
You DO know that Springer and myself are human right? People often wonder if “experts” ever need support within their own field. Do doctors need doctors? Or lawyers need lawyers? Or teachers need teachers? Absolutely. Springer and myself are in the field of nutrition, wellness, and food blogging, but YOU BETTER BELIEVE that we need support too. Running a business, raising [...]
3 Springtime Smoothies
There is something inherently frantic about weekday mornings. No matter what hour I get up, there always seems to be that mad dash out the door. I am still a long ways away from figuring out the secret to no-stress mornings. But I have made some changes along the way that have dialed down the chaos a bit. The easiest [...]
Cleansing Foods of Spring
Earlier today, we released the Eat Life Whole 21-Day Eat Real Challenge – a three-week, self-guided program designed to help even the busiest people rethink some of their less-than-healthy eating habits and move towards a diet full of nutritious whole foods. Taking full advantage of the shift in season, we were able create meal plans and recipes using the fresh, [...]


















