Functional Nutrition

Roasted Beet and Plum Salad with Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

Roasted Beet and Plum Salad with Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

This Roasted Beet and Plum Salad with Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette recipe is sure to enhance your vibrational energy because of all the many, beautiful, life sustaining colors and phytonutrients from the earth.

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad Recipe and how too! A fresh, easy, fragrant and nutritious choice inspired by Little Roots Ranch Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) harvest.

Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

The Elimination Diet is the gold standard for determining food sensitivities, food intolerances and food triggers. It’s a fascinating process filled with some challenges, but mostly triumphs!, like feeling 150% better than before doing it.

I’ve helped hundreds of clients through this process with my 5 step RENEW! Elimination Food Plan, and have come up with some ‘Survival Tips’ to make the process easier.

Is an Elimination Diet for You?

Is an Elimination Diet for You?

You’ve heard the term Elimination Diet, but aren’t sure if it’s for you. After coaching hundreds of people through the Elimination Diet process, we’ve created a list of common themes that describe why our awesome clients decided to change their life by discovering how food really affects them!

We bet some of these client’s thoughts, questions and comments have crossed your mind too. Read on to learn more. And when you are ready to take action, join our next online Group Elimination Food Plan, that starts soon!

Three Easy Tips to Clean up your Pantry for Brain Health

Three Easy Tips to Clean up your Pantry for Brain Health

Cleaning up your pantry for brain health is one simple and actionable thing you can do to nourish your brain and body. Plus, your ability to make nourishing food choices is one of the most effective Lifestyle Strategies you have.

You make multiple food choices throughout your day- breakfast, lunch and supper come to mind. These important choices can lead you to a life filled with vitality, clarity and a powerfully functioning brain, or lead you to a life filled with fatigue, brain fog, and an overall lack-luster appearance and mood.

Cleaning up your pantry for brain health in this way will help you reduce toxins and inflammation at your cellular level and keep your cells functioning with clarity and strength!

Alright, let’s clean up!

Eat from the Rainbow to Build Brain Health

Eat from the Rainbow to Build Brain Health

When you eat from the rainbow of powerful plant foods, you make a choice to build your brain health, and when you take care of your brain, you take care of your whole body! Here, we showcase plants alongside the colors of the rainbow, plus science & tips to make eating plants easier and fun.

When in Doubt, Make Soup

When in Doubt, Make Soup

Here is my quick and easy, yummy, flavorful and nourishing Easy Roasted Vegetable Soup for you!

ps. I am not a famous cook, or food photographer- just a gal who likes to share yummy-ness with my friends (YOU!).

Here’s how to make this soup (and you can print the recipe if you scroll all the way through- but leave a comment)!

Plant Power

Plant Power

Phyto means ‘plant’. Phytonutrients (or phytochemicals) include all plant foods, like vegetables, fruits, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, teas, spices and whole grains.  If it grows in nature it has phytonutrients.  The goodies that make up plants are essential for health and living well, and plants are the FOUNDATION for disease prevention and treatment.

Here are some tips how to get more Plant Power!

Food Labels. What About Ingredients?

Food Labels.  What About Ingredients?

While it’s great to use the big, white label to see how many carbohydrates, fats, protein etc. are in the foods you eat, all that information (while helpful) can be overwhelming! The deal is, when a thing seems overwhelming, we tend to ignore it; no matter how valuable it is.

So let’s make reading labels simple!

Phyto-WHAT?

Phyto-WHAT?

The value of plants far exceeds vitamins and nutrients.  Phytonutrients tell our bodies what to do and how to do it at the cellular level.  So when mom said, "eat your veggies, they're good for you", she was right!  

Food is Connection

Food is Connection

Food is Connection.  A bond between ourselves and those we choose to share it with.  What kinds of things do you want infused into your nourishment?   How can we re-frame rushed, irritated and apathetic feelings into calm, joy and love as we prepare foods. 

The Choice is Yours...

The Choice is Yours...

Everything we do involves choice.  What color shoes and socks we put on, whether we decide to stop completely at the red light, whether we eat a whole donut because everyone else is, or whether we choose to take the stairs, eat a salad, or pick a new veggie to try for dinner.  The choice is yours.  

Lifestyle choices can prevent illness.  Make the choice!