Smoothies are fast, easy and pretty much fool-proof. I love smoothies because you just toss ingredients in a blender, whir them up and BANG – delicious! For me, I like smoothies creamy. And an easy way to do that without adding fat, is to use ice, or frozen fruit. Generally, in my smoothies, I pick [...]

I have heard your pleas for snack ideas! One of the things people ask me about most often is healthy snack ideas. So, I’ve started this handy-dandy Wednesday blog series: Jenn’s Snack of the Week. Check here on Wednesdays for some healthy snack ideas. And please, feel free to share your own! Trail Mix = [...]

It’s 3:00 PM do you know where your appetite is? If you’re anything like me, right around this time you’re starving. And you’re craving something… sometimes, something not-s0-good. I usually crave salty snacks. Here are a few of my favorite ways to put the kibosh on the craving without killing my nutrition for the day. [...]

One of my favorite lunches is lettuce wraps. They’re easy – and so flexible. You can put anything you want in ‘em. Instructions: Get a nice, big head of Romaine lettuce. Take off a few leaves and wash them out. Now, chop up any and all veggies that you’d like. Some typical veggies I use [...]

Spinach gets a bad rap. Really. I mean, how many times as a kid were you forced to choke it down? And I don’t know how much good Popeye did to help us kids change our minds about it. Watching him eat a can and then become super human just didn’t do enough to make [...]