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.

Every full moon is a chance to take stock of what’s going on in your life and release the things that aren’t working...the things that no longer serve you. Oftentimes—if you pay attention—the week (or weeks) leading up to the full moon presents you opportunities to understand what these things are. This week was no exception for me. Over on Instagram, I had a quite few combative comments and direct messages. Unfortunately, with an audience of over 11K, these types of things are not uncommon. This week, however, there was a significant uptick.

If you’ve been here for a minute, you know I love talking about blood sugar. Listen to Episode 55: How to Tell if Your Blood Sugar is a Problem for a deep dive into all that.

It’s damn near impossible for anything to work well in your body if your blood sugar regulation is a mess. (That includes your hormones, friends.) Because I love this stuff so much, I did a 2 1/2 month experiment with NutriSense’s Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). (Insert pic of Erin wearing CGM?) I got so many questions about it on Instagram that figured I’d answer all your Qs in blog format!

Exercise is a hormetic activity, which means that exercise itself is a stressor. The right amount is healthy, but going over amount can become unhealthy. When you’re exercising too much, there’s very little opportunity for the body to recover.

When we combine over-exercising with other life stressors, such as a busy lifestyle, lack of rest and recovery, and under-eating, it can become a major contributor to adrenal issues.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Kid-feeding is hard. Parents are just trying to do their best. What infuriates me, as both a mom and nutritionist, is seeing well-meaning parents and consumers get taken advantage of. Parents are purchasing Isagenix Isakids Super Smoothie, thinking they’re giving their kids a top-notch quality food, when in reality they are being duped by healthwashing.

Today I will break down some of the ingredients in the Isagenix Isakids Super Smoothie to showcase at best it’s a cheap product and at worst an unhealthy one.

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’ve been talking A LOT about all the ways we can support our immune system—one of the best ways to do this is by down-regulating our stress response. These are uncertain times. Uncertainty can create a lot of anxiety.

What I hope to do with this meditation is give you a resource to come back to during these uncertain times, to calm down your own system, to relax yourself, to understand that you are safe and you have a modality for healing. This is a tool that I have used for my own healing (mental, emotional and physical) and I am happy to share it with you.

I’ve been talking about immune support for Coronavirus for the past couple of months. Long before it was en vogue...when the media was still being blamed for the virus, when the prez was still referring to the pandemic as a “hoax” and when I was being accused of fear-mongering.

No matter. I’m still here fighting for all y’all’s health and creating free helpful content like it matters (cuz it does). I’ve created lots of resources in lots of different places, so I’m combining them all here today for your convenience (and so you have ONE blog to share, instead of trying to point people in all sorts of directions).

If you want ALL THE INFO, I recommend spending some time clicking on the links below. If you want the Cliff’s Notes, this blog’s for you.

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!

A healthy sex drive is mark of vitality and health. So if your libido is low, that could be an indication that something is going on with your mental or physical health, most often hormonal imbalance. Despite how common low libido and hormonal imbalance is, people still feel pretty embarrassed about it. But there is no shame in your low sex drive game! In today’s podcast and blog, I answer a listener question: What’s up with my low sex drive?! to get to the bottom of why your libido might be low.

An autoimmune flare up is a temporary worsening and intensification of symptoms. There is usually something that triggers a flare. I would say the most common ones are a period of stress - an emotional event, a significant trauma, or a period of being overworked and/or under-rested.

Symptoms can get severe and intense — fatigue, pain, difficulty getting out of bed, brain fog & difficulty thinking, difficulty doing daily tasks are all common. Today I’m going to discuss what to do if you’re experiencing a flare.

So you’ve got an autoimmune disease. Now what?

Getting answers to our health concerns isn’t easy. It can take years, many physicians, many dismissals and many misdiagnoses before we end up with an autoimmune diagnosis. If you are one of the “lucky ones” to actually get a diagnosis, it can feel like validation. Unfortunately, the diagnosis itself doesn’t actually provide any answers. It’s really just the beginning. The next step is to figure out what caused the immune system to over-respond in the first place.

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!