Here’s another one of my recipes from my Cook to Thrive! Cooking class with the theme of Salads: More Than Just Lettuce! I showed participants how to make 4 different salads and make them ahead in a jar so that they can eat them for lunch, or dinner, on multiple days. Great for bringing to work or having ready for when you get home! For this pesto salad, you can't really get the order wrong, but I did find the pesto sauce would stick on the bottom of the jar, so I liked to … [Read more...]

If you follow me on social media (you should because I post a lot more there than I do here on the blog!), you know that I've been doing survivor cooking classes once a month called Cook to Thrive! The most recent class we did is Salads: More Than Just Lettuce! I showed participants how to make 4 different salads and make them ahead in a jar so that they can eat them for lunch, or dinner, on multiple days. Great for bringing to work or having ready for when you get home! If … [Read more...]

Here's my super simple and totally delicious way of making "chia pudding", which is actually what I like to eat for breakfast, or snack. Believe it or not, my 8 year old loves it too! I think i was one of the first bloggers on the face of the planet to blog about chia. Long before you could buy it at Costco! Want the evidence? Here's my 2012 post on it: https://www.cancerdietitian.com/2012/02/is-chia-a-superfood-can-it-prevent-cancer-or-diabetes.html Chia is considered … [Read more...]

I don't know about you, but I love an egg and cheese sandwich in the morning. However, the time to cook the egg and clean the pan often prevent me from having it. I have a solution for you! Enter the "make ahead" breakfast sandwich! There are a few options for making the eggs/cheese. I have been making them on a muffin top pan. I realize this was invented in the Seinfeld days, so they probably don't exist anymore! You can make them in a regular muffin tin, although they … [Read more...]