From the category archives:

Healthy Makeovers

Homemade Taco Sauce

November 12, 2009

My family loves the Mexican Pizzas that I make. Since they are a copycat type recipe, I have been buying and using the taco sauce you buy in a jar at the store. We liked the famous fast food restaurant brand best, so that is what I was buying, and it worked well. Every time [...]

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Gluten Free Melt Down

September 10, 2009

Yesterday I had a major meltdown, seriously I stood with my pantry door open looking at all the food I could not eat and cried. This gluten free diet is more challenging than I thought it would be. Temporary or not this is hard. I feel like I am learning to cook and eat all over [...]

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A Glimpse Into Real Life

September 7, 2009

There is no menu plan this week. I needed a break from menu planning to step back and figure out a few things. Last week’s plan did not go at all as planned and to be honest I am not sure what this week’s meals will look like. The name of my site is “Lynn’s [...]

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Easy Homemade Berry Yogurt

August 31, 2009

I have been eating homemade yogurt since I was a kid. I was a very sickly child. I had a lot of health problems and allergies,that are to long to describe in this post, but because of this my mom made almost all of our food from scratch. She made the majority of her baked goods [...]

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Homemade Vanilla Update

August 11, 2009

Back in March, I posted about making homemade vanilla extract. I know several many people thought this was a strange idea. I am pretty sure my sisters thought I was a bit crazy for making it. But I really want to make most of our food from scratch and making homemade vanilla is so simple to [...]

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Eating Healthy

July 25, 2009

Do you agree that it is so much easier to eat healthy during the summer?

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Whole Wheat Pasta

June 27, 2009

My family is finally getting used to whole wheat pasta. It only took about a year, until the complaining stopped. So either they got used to it or they decided that I was not going to stop serving it. What I have found though is that they like it mixed. I mix it about half [...]

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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Cookies

May 19, 2009

My son loves cinnamon, anything cinnamon. He loves cinnamon toast, cinnamon bread, cinnamon rolls. You get the idea. He enjoys snickerdoodle cookies. I enjoy them too, but I wanted something a little different. So I tweaked my favorite snickerdoodle recipe to come up something a little healthier. This recipe uses whole wheat flour and incorporates [...]

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Soy Sauce

March 27, 2009

In my effort to avoid a lot of processed foods, I have been reading a lot of labels. This has made me aware of things like vanilla that contain things like corn syrup. One of the labels I never thought to check though was soy sauce. I mean it is soy sauce right? No, it [...]