This salad is a favorite of mine during the fall and winter months because it’s so easy to throw together. I love bringing it to holiday potlucks as a nutrient-dense option to balance out the sweets and desserts.

If tolerated, you can top it off with crumbled goat cheese!

The addition of the chickpeas is a great way to add crunch and protein into this recipe.

I'm a sucker for salads, and I keep them interesting by using lots of different veggies, fruits and textures. For example, using a cheese grater to shred apples, carrots and beets is a real pro move of mine.

One afternoon I was shredding apples and carrots to put on top of a green salad for lunch and I realized that I had the start to a morning glory muffin (my all time fave muffin)...so since I had all the ingredients on hand, I just kept going with it.

This salad is so good it requires no dressing. And bonus points, my kiddo LOVES it.

This grain-free apple crumble is easy to put together, delicious, AND it makes your house smell amazing.

I’ve shared a grain-free apple crisp recipe before, but this one doesn’t require a food processor, with all the same love from the family.

If you’re looking for a crowd pleasing and healthy treat to bring, then look no further than this Peppermint Chocolate Bark recipe. Bring a batch of this to your next holiday party and it won’t disappoint!

You can omit the peppermint extract to make this bark year round with a variety of toppings.

I used my favorite Hu Kitchen chocolate chips to make this recipe low in sugar!

This carrot & sweet potato soup checks all the boxes: it’s thick, creamy, and ready in less than 45 minutes.

The sweet potatoes are packed with Vitamin C, an antioxidant essential for immune system function. Keeping the skins on both the carrots and potatoes for adds fiber, and using bone broth is a great way to incorporate protein into this recipe.

This creamy pumpkin sauce is a great way to get into the Fall mood and use that pumpkin purée you have sitting around your pantry.

I've been making a daily matcha latte elixir to support my immune health and stress response. This is the exact recipe for the Iced Matcha Latte I’ve been sipping every afternoon. You can also make it hot if you prefer! Either way, it’s a cup full of powerful Food-As-Medicine goodies. Drink up!

I originally made this immune-boosting soup when my family came down with the flu. My goal was to load up a soup with all the immune-supportive, anti-viral, gut-supportive* foods I could. The result was delicious, comforting and relatively easy to throw together—exactly what I was looking for while down and out. I’ve made it a few times since, and will continue to keep it on heavy rotation for the “cold and flu season”.

I posted these high protein, sugar free pancakes to my Instagram stories this morning and was asked several times over for the recipe. So here we are!

By far, my favorite way to eat corn is shaved right off the cob - raw. I’ve been making a version of this salad for well over a decade now (it’s a throwback to my raw food days), and realized it has never made it to the blog. So here we go!

I made these no-bake cheesecake bites for 4th of July this year, but you can make this healthy, cold, and creamy dessert all year long!

I originally created this recipe for another blog several years ago. By request, I dug it out of the archives to repost it here. Perfect for summer BBQs!

Herbalist and Lyme expert Stephen Buhner recommends using astragalus root to optimize immune function. He recommends taking 1,000mg every day, and up to 3000mg during Lyme season. I take encapsulated herb or tincture.

Since my daughter is only 5, I work astragalus powder into her foods. like this cold and creamy milkshake. For other ways I bolster my family’s immune system, check out all the resources mentioned in Episode 62 of The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast.

Last week I had a client talk about food overwhelm. As in having so much information about what constitutes healthy food that it overwhelms her. Her ultimate goal is to eat perfectly paleo. But instead of taking baby steps toward that (maybe-too-lofty-for-her) goal, she throws her hands up and stays stuck.

It’s a classic case of letting perfect be the enemy of good, and most of us know it all too well. In our strive for perfection, we inevitably fall short of our ideals.

I literally have no idea how I came up with this Creamy Seafood Chowder recipe, but it’s in my top 5 recipes I’ve ever created, no doubt. This chowder recipe uses a fair amount of grass-fed ghee. That, blended up with cauliflower is what creates the creaminess. Since ghee is made from butter, I didn’t label it as dairy free. But many of us who are dairy free can still consume casein and lactose-free ghee.

Moms are always writing me to ask for holistic home remedies, so I figured I would share the hot beverage we’ve been sippin’ in my household. This immune boosting hot chocolate recipe includes the immune supportive herb astragalus, the medicinal mushroom reishi, plus the fat soluble vitamins A, D and E which are necessary for natural cold and flu prevention. Even better—it's super rich and delicious—a treat your whole family will love!

We hosted a Griswold family Christmas this year and I purchased roughly 764 pounds of food for the festivities but forgot ice. When I was fishing around the freezer for something to chill the vodka, I came up with several bags of organic frozen cranberries (I keep them on hand to throw in smoothies and baked apple dishes and such). Combined with other random dribs and drabs around the house, and we had the perfect festive house cocktail!

These hearty banana-sweetened cookies are perfect for a lazy Saturday morning, post-workout snack or lunchbox treat for your kiddo.

The perfect hearty and cozy soup for fall. And it couldn’t be easier to make!

When I’m an Anxious Annie, one of my self-soothing practices is to make baked goods and eat them. AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES ABOUT THIS, TO BE CLEAR. The cool thing is you get to benefit from my anxiety. Enjoy these brownies - they’ve got a surprise ingredient in them!