• Health,  Recipes

    The Best Foods To Eat When You’re Stressed

    What we eat directly impacts how our minds work. The neurons (major cells of the brain) are specifically affected with what foods you consume. When you have a lot of unhealthy foods in your diet like fats and sugars, it creates inflammation of the neurons which also hinders the creation of new neurons. Our gut and brain and connected and communicated constantly back to one another. If you’re feeling STRESSED, moody, or craving a particular food… you can connect on a deeper level by changing up what you’re eating! If you want to help your body change and adapt, you need to focus on eating brain foods. Check out these…

  • Health,  Recipes

    How to shop for produce at the grocery store

    Would anyone like help shopping healthy at the grocery store? I remember when I first decided to eat better and was walking the aisles of the grocery store. My mind was spinning, I was so confused, and I couldn’t even make choices to put in my cart. I was seriously considering backing out of this health change. Thankfully, I bucked up and made it through… but not without lots and lots of mistakes. Those mistakes helped me learn and gain confidence in my diet. Over time, I’ve learned so much about foods and what they really do in our bodies. While I do always recommend shopping organic, I know that…

  • Recipes

    Frozen Blueberry Snacks

    Happy Monday ya’ll! I hope ya’ll are choosing to view this as a FRESH START and you can make this week a great one by staying positive and healthy! A lot of ya’ll have been asking me to bring back my food blogs and now that I’m mostly over my morning sickness, I’m here to tell you, there will be LOTS and LOTS of food posts coming up! Please check out all of previous food posts via my “RECIPES” tab at the top of my blog! Today I am sharing one of our favorite snacks (mine and the kids). It’s really important when you have littles to make them healthy…

  • Health,  Kids

    Be still my heart!

    Valentine’s Day is almost here y’all! Who else is getting pumped about all the hearts and candy? Nolan loves any excuse to celebrate, and ever since we walked into Target a few weeks ago and he saw the décor everywhere, the questions have come back-to-back! I love hearing the excitement he builds up about celebrating, and once I explained that he can give out Valentine’s to his friends, he’s been all about this holiday. When I was a kid I used to LOVE the chalky candy hearts with messages written on them, but I have since learned those little candies and others are packed with processed sugars and other yucky ingredients. Like Halloween, Easter, and Christmas, a sugar…