The Gracious Pantry – More Clean Eating Recipes

I don’t know about anyone else, but sometimes it’s hard for me to find clean eating recipes, even in regular “light cooking” magazines.  Yes, there’s Clean Eating Magazine, and I am a subscriber, and all of Tosca’s books, which I have (except for the one just released), but I really need to have more options [...]

How to Make a Healthy Pizza

In this house, we LOVE pizza, so I make it often, probably two to three times per month.   Over the years, I think I’ve perfected one of the best healthy pizzas that doesn’t really taste all that healthy.   I mean isn’t that the best feeling – eating something you know is good for you, but [...]

Soda Alternatives

Once upon a time, I had a soda addiction.  My addiction was bad.  I would drink at a minimum 4 20-oz. Mt. Dews a day, most times 5, for about 5 years.  I don’t think it was the caffeine because I can get caffeine anywhere (coffee, for instance).  It could’ve been the sugar, but then [...]

Study Shows Diet Soda May Reduce Risk of Kidney Stones?

A new study finds that diet soda may reduce the risk of developing kidney stones.  Of course experts aren’t suggesting to trade water for diet soda, but these same experts, in all of the articles I’ve read so far, do not bother to mention the other harmful effects of drinking diet soda.  So let’s trade [...]

How to Eat Clean on a Budget

One of the common misconceptions about eating clean is that it’s too expensive.  Last year I laid out a cost comparison in regards to buying healthy foods versus buying junk food in which I compared a clean dinner versus buying candy bars.  Although buying clean foods while on a budget can seem overwhelming, here are [...]

Container Gardening for Beginners – Resources

My husband and I are expanding our garden this year and it’s going to be so much bigger than last year!  I will post pics as we progress, but in the meantime, we are going to do a little container gardening.  Not by my choice, mind you (because I figure what is the point?), but [...]

More Tips to Get Started Eating Clean

It’s a new year and at the beginning of the year, people are looking to not only lose weight and/or gain better health, but to meet their resolutions or goals in a healthy way and want a long-term solution.  Sometimes, though, we are so overloaded with information that we don’t know where to start or [...]

Don’t Let Stress Get in the Way of Eating Clean

Studies show that when we are stressed, only 33% of us make healthy food choices.  Only 33%.  Stress was one of the biggest issues I had to overcome during my eating clean journey.  Some people prefer chocolate or some type of sweets when they’re stressed, but I used to reach for a bag of Doritos [...]

My Typical Clean Eating Day

When I first started eating clean, I found it very helpful to see what others were doing and follow their example. I’m an Oxygen Magazine reader and would scour the pages for sample menus provided by the fitness models. Now, I rely a lot on Tosca Reno’s Eat-Clean Diet books and Clean Eating Magazine. I [...]

Eating Clean Sample Day

It’s always helpful to have a guideline to go by when changing our eating habits. Of course the best source of information on what to eat during the day when eating clean is Tosca’s book, The Eat-Clean Diet, but I thought I would share what I eat in a typical day, too, just to give [...]

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