• 50% off Gluten-Free Food Plus Free Shipping!

    There is a GREAT deal today over at Living Social on gluten-free foods!   For $25, you will get a voucher for $50 worth of gluten-free foods!  Plus, shipping is free for orders over $50! Gluten Freely has a wide selection of items, at good prices! Here’s how to get the deal: 1.  Sign up at Living Social, if you haven’t already. 2. Go to this Living Social page to view the Gluten Freely deal 3. Pay $25 for a $50 voucher. 4.  Within a day, the voucher should be added to your account, and you can use it at Gluten Freely! Enjoy! Thanks, Surviving the Stores!

  • Simple & Delicious Meatloaf

    Photo credit: Taste Inspired I made meatloaf for dinner last night, we had meatloaf sandwiches for lunch, and we liked it so much we’re having it again for dinner tonight!  I’m also making dinner for a friend-of-a-friend who just had a new baby, so she’s getting meatloaf too!  Hope she likes it as much as we do. With an easy recipe that good, I thought I’d share and give you a fresh dinner idea. Meatloaf Recipe 1 lb organic ground beef 2 eggs (preferably organic free-range) 1/2 t Italian seasoning bread crumbs (preferably fresh – just make some crumbs from a few pieces of bread.  Otherwise, Whole Foods is the…

  • Free box of Organic Nature’s Path Granola Bars!

    Yay, free organic food! Nature’s Path is giving away free sample boxes of their granola bars, just for voting for your favorite flavor!   You can choose from Chococonut, Pumpkin-N-Spice, Lotta Apricotta, and Berry Strawberry. Enter the Nature’s Path Sweepstakes via the EllendD show to win a $500 Whole Foods Gift Card by voting and completing their little form to get your free box.  It does say at the bottom of the form that you have to confirm your email to be entered, so make sure to do that!  

  • “Natural” Cereal that’s easy on the bank account!

    Breakfast is definitely the most challenging time of day for me.   Ideally, I would leap out of bed in the morning and whip up a breakfast of fresh fruit, oatmeal, homemade pancakes, or the like for my kids.  In reality, that almost never happens.  Honestly, I can’t remember the last time that did happen.   When I do make a breakfast meal, we usually have ‘breakfast’ around, oh, 11am. 11 am  breakfast doesn’t fly with my kids.  The littlest one especially wakes up ravenous.  I’m thankful to have found an easy breakfast alternative for them that’s not laden with artificial ingredients, hydrogenated oils, and high fructose syrup.  Equally important…

  • Great Organic Printable Coupons – Get ’em while they’re Hot!

    I have never seen this many organic/natural coupons on coupons.com before!   Some of these won’t be around long, so nab them while they’re hot!    Use zip 90210. 75¢/1 Cascadian Farms (organic cereals) $1/4 Larabars 40¢/1 Diamond Crystal Sea Salt $1/1 Maranatha Nut Butters $1/2 Simply Organic Spices or Vanilla $1/1 Zarbee’s Cough Syrup $1/1 Nature’s Bounty Vitamins 75¢/1 Muir Glen Sauces Happy Saving!

  • Perfect Pumpkin Pancakes! (Tasty Tuesday)

    We have a love for all things pumpkin (as you’ve probably picked up on by now), and had been on the search for a good pumpkin pancake recipe.  We finally found one that passed muster (with flying colors!) and has become a family favorite.   Enjoy! Pumpkin Pancakes Ingredients 2 c all-purpose flour (substitute your flour of choice) 2 tsp aluminum-free baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp ground allspice 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger 3 tbs organic brown sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 c raw milk 1 c fresh pumpkin puree 1 organic free-range egg 2 tbs grapeseed oil 2 tbs vinegar Combine flour, baking…

  • Baylor Shout-out: Healthy Food Choices

    At a recent stop at our alma-mater to catch up with some college friends and visit the bears, we grabbed lunch in the SUB (student union building) and I was actually impressed with the food choices!  I expected to quickly walk through with the kids and then head off campus to find quasi-healthy munchies elsewhere.  A quick perusal told me we’d be just fine in the Baylor cafe. Our array of choices included Naked Juice, Odwalla, Odwalla bars, fruit cups, Chick-fil-a, and Mooyah burgers with avocados and mushrooms!   (I really enjoyed the burger. 🙂  )  Mooyah even had a fancy computer system where you used a touchscreen to order…

  • Fruits & Veggies to Buy Non-Organic (Frugal Fridays)

    We talked last week about the fruits and veggies that are important to buy organic (because they contain 47-67 different pesticides per serving!!).  This week’s post features a nicer topic, produce that’s safe to buy the conventional version. The Clean 15 (thanks to the Environmental Working Group) Onions Avocados Sweet corn Pineapples Mango Sweet peas Asparagus Kiwi fruit Cabbage Eggplant Cantaloupe Watermelon Grapefruit Sweet potatoes Sweet onions Some of these have a strong outer layer that makes them more resistant to pesticide contamination.  I’ve also read that bananas are safe to buy conventionally.  

  • Free Sample of Emergen-C!

    I love free samples!   Emergen-C is giving away free samples of their vitamin drink mixes, just for the asking!   Visit the Emergen-C website to request yours! Thanks, Dealicious Finds!