5 Quick Ways to Shrink Your Grocery Budget

Navigating the grocery store in this day and age feels like tiptoeing around a minefield. With everything we’re hearing about GMOs, hormones, and chemicals in our foods, it makes you wonder if it’s safe to eat anything anymore. In a perfect world, we would all be able to buy everything fair trade, organic, and grass-fed, […]

Our healthy Costco shopping list

I’ve been supporting local farmers’ markets since before it was the trendy thing to do. For years, I’ve been recommending that folks make more of an effort to eat what’s in season, locally. And where you can, it’s always preferred to eat organic. But that being said, it’s unreasonable to think that everyone (especially those […]

How to impress your guests with a
backyard BBQ birthday party

It’s very hard to beat a simple backyard bbq. If you have a birthday in your family this summer, why not host a bbq party? The following fail-proof plan walks you through the steps you need, so you can elevate an ordinary cookout into an event to remember. Color scheme. This will set the tone […]

Dinner Diva: How to Make Great Summer Cocktails that Aren’t Bad For You

Healtier Summer Cocktails

What’s better on a hot summer night than a cold drink? Most of our favorite “adult” summertime drinks are, unfortunately, full of sugar and chemicals, and nasty artificial ingredients. But don’t worry! I’m not going to tell you that you have to live the rest of your life without cocktails. I’m just going to tell […]

8 Tips For Dining Outdoors

Summer is upon us and that means it’s the season for eating outside! Eating in the out of doors is such a romantic notion. But more often than not, the wind comes up and blows your plastic drinkware off the table, a fly lands in the salad, or wasps invade the party. There are also […]

Just for the dill of it

Just for the Dill of it

Fresh dill is one of my very favorite herbs. It just tastes like summer to me. Maybe that goes back to the taste of a dill pickle sliced onto a grilled hamburger! I love the look of dill’s wispy green leaves and its sweet soft taste. I chop dill into salads and dressings and over […]

5 Restaurant Worthy Summer Dips

Some foods just plain taste better at certain times of the year. For instance, I bet you don’t think much about making beef stew on a hot summer day. One thing that tends to scream summer is a cold dip. And I’m not talking swimming pools here, people! Some fresh crisp veggies and a nice […]