How to Make Homemade Salad Dressing

By: Leanne Ely Today, in the video above, I teach you how to make homemade salad dressing! If there’s one thing that irritates me, it’s salad dressing from the store!  Salad dressing at the store is overpriced, in tiny little containers and typically made with poor-quality oils. And I’m sorry, for a dressing to be […]

21 Gluten Free Finger Foods!

Today, we’re going to look at what sorts of finger foods you might consider serving at your next party to please everyone in the crowd from the Celiacs and Paleoistas to good old Uncle Jim who thinks that everyone that eats organic is a hippy! The following finger foods are either paleo and/or gluten-free and […]

9 Reasons Fat is Good for You

Sometimes in life, we must end relationships that are unhealthy for us. Unfortunately, for a number of years, mainstream “nutritional” information has had us avoiding fat like the plague. We’ve heard that saturated fat will make us gain weight, clog our arteries and give us heart disease. This information has misled scores of North Americans […]

Did you know gelatin is good for you?

You know those jellied salads your mother and grandmothers used to put on the potluck table? As it turns out, the gelatin that makes those molded salads stand up like they do is extremely healthy for us. Well, without all the sugar that Great Aunt Martha used to add in there of course! Gelatin is […]

Why you do not need grains

Whole grains, organic grains, gluten-free grains . . . there’s so much talk about grains these days and whether they’re good for you or not. I’m definitely in the camp of “grains are not good for you” when it comes to grains of all kinds. I’ve spoken about grains and their damaging lectins many times […]

3 Ways To Make Your Menu Planning A Success

You know that old saying “Failure to plan is planning to fail?” This old adage holds true in our businesses, our homes, and every aspect of our lives. Flying by the seat of your pants only leads to stress, and mistakes, and often costs you more time and money than you want. By doing things […]

How To Chop an Onion

Alright. One of the things that you’re going to notice with a lot of my recipes and anybody else’s for that matter is, if you want flavor, you’re going to have to learn how to chop an onion.  Onions are fantastic and give you tons and tons of flavor but one thing that people really stumble […]

My Top 4 Ways To Reduce Inflammation In Your Body

When most people think of inflammation, they think about swollen joints and arthritis. That said, limiting the amount of inflammation in your body might not be on your radar screen at all, especially if you don’t have joint problems. But inflammation is way more than arthritis and reducing the amount of inflammation your body encounters […]

Could you have an autoimmune problem?

Dear Friends– Today my dear friend, Dr. Terry Wahls is our guest columnist with some important information about autoimmune diseases. (If you don’t know who Terry Wahls, MD is, I strongly suggest you watch her TED video where she shares her journey of healing from MS and out of a tilt recline wheelchair! Absolutely one […]