Have you ever gone to the store and wanted to buy some fruit roll-ups or fruit leather but have declined because of the sugar content or other non-natural ingredients? I got you! This fruit leather is SO easy to make, delicious, and only made from real fruit! Fruit Leather Recipe Ingredients: 3 cups strawberries 2…

This recipe came to be because of the ingredients I had on hand. I bought some mini sweet peppers this weekend because they looked SO yummy but I have a bad habit of wasting produce. As I am on the adventure to save more and waste less I decided I had to come up with…

I forgot how much I loved this muffin recipe until I had some extra ripe bananas I needed to do something with today. Do you ever have bananas get too ripe and then think it’s either banana bread or trash? I didn’t want to waste the bananas but I also didn’t want to make sugar…

Summer mode is now fully on! It usually takes me a week or so to get the house cleaned, organized, and be able to shut off my brain from work mode. My goal for these next 6 or so weeks is to try 2 new recipes a week. One of my new favorite recipes is…

Have you ever tried Starbucks egg bites? I LOVE them but am not a fan of the price! Not in my budget to get these all the time so was determined I needed to make my own. I first tried making egg muffins. Sure, they were good but a little on the dry side and…

I get asked a lot what my daily routine looks like. Between my nutrition and my workouts… It has taken me a long time to figure out what works best for my body, what makes me happy, and what is maintainable. In 2014 I competed in a body building show and it created an extremely…

I don’t know why today was such a long Monday…the countdown to summer break is real. Not only do the kids feel it but us teachers are feeling it big time. The motivation is low and the energy (about anything other than math right now) is high….this hasn’t stopped our learning. I keep teaching until…

Sundays are food prep days in the Nelson house… This used to be a HUGE task for me because I would prep all my meals and husbands meals for the week. Since I started drinking shakes for lunch (thank God!), I now only have to prep my hubby’s lunches. I tried out a recipe for…

As Lizzy enters the wonderful toddler years trying to get her to eat vegetables is becoming challenging. Luckily for me, I’ve been hiding veggies in my husbands food for years so I already had a few ideas of how to tackle this one. I decided to make some ground chicken zucchini bites which were not…

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