For our family, summer is about eating the freshest foods and being outside as much as possible. When adidas asked us to write a post about healthy foods and fitness, it was a no-brainer. For those of you who are a bit more advanced, you can always perform each routine more than once. Small changes […]
Courses Archives: Snack
Lemon Pepper Jicama Chips Recipe
You probably know jicama for its use in salads or as crudite, but of the most overlooked and yet tasty things you can do with jicama is to make jicama chips. Yes – jicama chips! They’re light and crunchy with just the tiniest yet tantalizing amount of sweetness. First things first, for the uninitiated: Jicama […]
One-Ingredient Apple Chips
These apple chips have so few ingredients, if they had any fewer ingredients, they would not exist. That’s a back-handed way of saying that there’s only one ingredient in these apple chips: apples. Last weekend, we had a chance to head out to a farm (Riley’s at Los Rios Rancho). We picked a whole bunch […]
Watermelon Bacon – A Tasty Vegan Snack
Summertime means lots of watermelon, and a need for healthy snacks like watermelon bacon. Watermelon…bacon?!?!? Yes – That’s dehydrated and spiced watermelon, cooked low and slow until crispy. It’s a purely vegan snack that tastes kind of like a salty/spicy fruit leather, or possibly fruit jerky. If your summer is anything like ours, your kids […]
Teenagers, TV, and Comfort Food
The care and feeding of teenagers is a tricky proposition. Yes, they want more food, but not *that* food. Yes, they want to talk, but not really about *that.* Yes, they want you to be there for them, but not *that* much. How do you get close enough and involved enough with your teen without […]
Fig Bars to Make with Your Kids
One of our kids has become obsessed with fig bars, and he’s been carrying one to school every day for snack. After several weeks of bringing in pre-packaged, store-bought fig bars – and after seeing fresh figs at the farmers’ market – he decided that we should make our own. Make Your Own Fig Bars […]