Healthier Alternatives for White Flour

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Do you enjoy baking? It’s one of my favorite things to do, either for my family, for loved ones, friends, or for myself. I find it to be calming and I do enjoy baking from scratch whenever I can. Of course, I’m not above using a few shortcuts here and there but I also know that baking from scratch gives me more control over the ingredients. Recently, I’ve started looking into healthier alternatives for white flour for when I bake. Partially because we’re still looking into making some gluten free friendly changes to our overall diet and partially because it’s part of our overall steps towards a healthier lifestyle. I’ll also be the first to admit, one of the biggest obstacles that we continually face…

9 Easy Ways to Start Cooking Healthier

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One of the ways that we can start living a healthier lifestyle is by evaluating what we eat on a daily basis. You can do this easily by keeping a food journal. Also factoring into evaluating what we eat is by cooking at home. This can not only save you money but you can also eat healthier. But if you’re not sure as to where to start, here are 9 easy ways to start cooking healthierat home. Kyle and I try to cook from scratch whenever possible and at the very least, we always try to cook at home. For one, it saves us from ordering take-out and more importantly, we know exactly what’s going into our food. Cooking is something that we very much…

30 Healthy Cooking Tips to Live a Healthier Lifestyle

30 Healthy Cooking Tips to Live a Healthier Lifestyle

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We used to make a lot of unhealthy eating choices when my ex and I were still together. But that’s mostly in the past now. Kyle and I have always enjoyed cooking together and we prepare 95% of our meals, the exceptions being when his boys are here on the weekends. But we still try to cook from scratch as often as possible. I like knowing what’s going into my meals and here are some healthy cooking tips that I’d love to share with you. Making healthier food choices can go a long way when it comes to living a healthier lifestyle and healthy cooking can save you time too. Be sure to check out my health and wellness tips for moms for more healthy…

Is Sugar Really Bad For You?

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Though we’ve briefly touched about reducing your sugar intake, we haven’t really gotten into why you should do it. Or at least not in depth. So is sugar really bad for you? Or is it more about quality over quantity? Today we’re going to look into just that and also see why reducing your sugar intake can help you lead a healthier lifestyle. What is sugar? Sugar is the generalized name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates that are often used in food.  These carbohydrates are made up of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon.  There are many different types of sugars, derived  from different sources.  There are simple sugars, including galactose, fructose, and glucose (also known as dextrose), and more complex sugars known as disaccharides. The sugar…

Heart Healthy Foods

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The old saying goes, you are what you eat. So if that’s the case, why do so many of us continue to neglect a proper diet? Especially when it comes to how our diet affects our health. Eating heart healthy foods, for example, is just one way that you can protect your health and eat properly at the same time. But what are heart healthy foods? Is one better than the other? What if you just don’t like the flavor of a particular heart healthy food? There are several heart healthy foods out there and there’s sure to be one or two that you and your whole family will enjoy. Ten Types of Heart Healthy Foods #1 – Seeds and Grains Seeds and grains work…

3 Sources of Fitness Fuel

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While we’ve talked a bit about fitness and starting fitness at home, today I want to talk about nutrition and why it’s important. March is National Nutrition month so I think this is the perfect time to talk about 3 sources of fitness fuel. But don’t just think of this as fitness fuel- think of this as every day life fuel. We want to put the optimal foods into our bodies to keep us going throughout the day. There is much discussion today about basic nutrition.  This is because there is an obesity epidemic on the rise, not just in the United States, but around the world.  People are gaining weight for a number of reasons, including less time exercising  and poorer eating habits.  The…