This homemade peppermint hot chocolate recipe is made with crushed candy canes and dark chocolate chips. Yesterday was our first real snowstorm. It has snowed a few times this year, but it has always been a small amount that quickly melted. Yesterday when we woke there was already 6 inches on the ground and itRead More
Mocha Cookie Crumble Latte
To say we love coffee drinks is an understatement, and this Mocha Cookie Crumble Latte is a great choice for any cool day. A homemade version of your favorite coffee shop latte is much easier than you think. Grab a few simple ingredients you already have in your home, and then create a yummy drink.Read More
Pumpkin Spiced Chai Latte
This pumpkin spice chai latte recipe combines the flavors of pumpkin spice lattes and chai lattes for a delicious fall treat. It wouldn’t be fall without a Pumpkin Spice Chai latte or two or three! Pumpkin spice is one of my favorite things about fall and I enjoy Chai Lattes year-round, so I had toRead More
Pumpkin, Blueberry, and Date Smoothie
In an attempt to live and eat better we try a lot of things. We exercise, sweat, and experience pain. The likes of which can be purely torturous. We even subject ourselves to odd foods and ignore cravings the body craves like an addiction. We’ll even have a measure of success, and we feel asRead More
How to Make Sun Tea with Kids
I remember my mom filling a large glass jar with water, and several tea bags to sit in the sun. Hours later it would be sweetened with sugar and transferred to the refrigerator making our family’s favorite beverage: sun tea. It was especially refreshing to drink in the hot summer days. Do you have fond memories fromRead More
20 Tasty Juice Recipes
Juicing has become one of the most popular ways to lose weight, get healthier and of course increase your vitamin intake with ease. These 20 Tasty Juice Recipes are some of our favorites. Not only are these full of great nutritional benefits for things like better skin, anti-aging antioxidants and overall health boosting vitamins, theseRead More
Easy Homemade Hazelnut Coffee Creamer
Make this easy, homemade Hazelnut Coffee Creamer recipe so you can make your favorite coffee-house beverage at home! Every hostess has their weaknesses and their strengths. My weakness is that my game plan usually falls apart somewhere between dinner and dessert and coffee. I make dessert ahead of time and I even have the coffeeRead More
Dairy-Free Hot Chocolate Recipe with 4 Variations
You don’t have to skip hot cocoa just because you can’t have dairy. Here is a Dairy-Free Hot Chocolate recipe with 4 delicious variations. Oh, the mommy guilt of trying to sneak a cup of hot chocolate so your dairy-intolerant child doesn’t see you enjoying something he can’t drink! This year I was determined to createRead More
Dairy-Free Pumpkin Spice Latte
After discovering that my oldest son could not have dairy, it took us a while to discover Silk Vanilla Almondmilk, but once we did, my kids and I fell in love with the flavor. Even those of us who can have milk, prefer Silk Almondmilk over traditional dairy milk. We could easily become a dairy-freeRead More
Post-Workout Smoothie Recipe to Cleanse and Detox
You know that feeling right after you finish a workout, like you can take on the world? Sure your muscles might be taxed, but the gratification you feel for pushing yourself, for having a great yoga session, for beating your bestie at tennis — whatever it is — can’t be bottled. But you can fillRead More
How to Set Up a Hot Cocoa Bar + 10 Hot Chocolate Recipes
When I was a kid, we would get together with friends and go caroling and then finish the evening with hot chocolate and cookies. Having friends over for cookies and hot cocoa is a frugal way to host a party during the holidays. It also happens to be a fun, delicious, and low-stress way toRead More
Red Clover Tea Recipe
You can use clover flowers to make this red clover tea recipe. My husband would prefer a weed-free lawn, but indulges my desire to allow the dandelions and clover to coexist with the grass. We do not put chemicals on our lawn, so that we may enjoy our weeds. 🙂 Red clover is a sourceRead More
How to Make Simple Syrup
Have you passed on making a recipe because it called for simple syrup and you didn’t feel like running to the specialty store and paying four – five bucks for a small bottle of sugar water? Well, pull out those recipes because you can make simple syrup yourself easily and inexpensively! How to Make Simple SyrupRead More
Homemade French Vanilla Creamer
This quick and easy French Vanilla Coffee Creamer recipe can be made at home with only 3 ingredients. Even better? It only takes 2 minutes! Keep reading if you want to know why we drink lots of coffee with French Vanilla Creamer. Instead of telling you about Mother’s Day, I thought I would tell youRead More
