You can make the Best Dinner Salads by following this customizable template. I learned about making salads in my Holistic Chef Program and how to compose them with balanced nutrition. When it comes to salads, if you are stuck in a rut (making the same …

Learning knife skills was a major part of the first few lessons in my Holistic Chef program. After years of being an untrained home cook, I picked up some bad habits. Therefore, I was excited to learn the proper way to execute classic cuts. I …

Learning Our A, B, Cs All Over Again Most people know they should eat healthy. Whether we want to admit it or not, we feel better and have more energy when we eat healthy. Alternatively, we’ve all experienced the opposite. We’ve eaten too much on …

Perhaps you are suffering from gastro-intestinal issues. Maybe your doctors just told you that your sugar levels are in a pre-diabetic range, or that you need to watch your cholesterol. Or maybe you are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Whatever the reason, …

Congratulations! If you are reading this article, you are taking the first step to becoming a nutrivore! You are gathering information about how to adapt a real-food, whole-food lifestyle. If you are ready to jump in, then read “The First 30 Days.” If you want …

Getting ready for a 30-day elimination diet The first step is to choose the protocol you want to follow. The two most popular elimination diets are the “Whole30” and “Paleo” diets. They are very similar, and I would recommend either one. Anyone with severe gut …

Simply put, a nutrivore mindfully eats towards maximizing the amount of nutrients per calorie based on their needs. When we fuel our bodies with a wide variety of high-nutrient foods, we eat a better mix of vitamins and minerals—not to mention creating and maintaining a …

My New Year’s resolution is to blog more consistently.  It is sad to go through my blog reader and click through the list of blogs I like to find that somebody stopped blogging.  I’m sure that in some cases it was for very good reasons. …

First, I’m sorry that I haven’t posted in a while. Here’s why. My husband graduated from Westminster Seminary California in May, sustained his candidacy exam in June, we planned his parents 50th wedding anniversary in July, flew back to Michigan for the party in August …

So, I was sitting at the Edgewater Grill in San Diego last Saturday morning enjoying a delicious vegetarian omelette with spinach, onions, mushrooms, tomato, and goat cheese reading Julie & Julia and thought to myself, “I should record my culinary diary.” As I was looking …